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Carbide Tipped Pens

Ben Bova,Eric Choi
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Author : Ben Bova,Eric Choi
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466810198

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Seventeen hard science fiction tales by today's top authors Hard science fiction is the literature of change, rigorously examining the impact-both beneficial and dangerous-of science and technology on humanity, the future, and the cosmos. As science advances, expanding our knowledge of the universe, astounding new frontiers in storytelling open up as well. In Carbide Tipped Pens, over a dozen of today's most creative imaginations explore these frontiers, carrying on the grand tradition of such legendary masters as Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, and John W. Campbell, while bringing hard science fiction into the 21st century by extrapolating from the latest scientific developments and discoveries. Ranging from ancient China to the outer reaches of the solar system, this outstanding collection of original stories, written by an international roster of authors, finds wonder, terror, and gripping human drama in topics as diverse as space exploration, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate change, alternate history, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, interplanetary war, and even the future of baseball. From tattoos that treat allergies to hazardous missions to Mars and beyond, from the end of the world to the farthest limits of human invention, Carbide Tipped Pens turns startling new ideas into state-of-the art science fiction. Includes short stories by Ben Bova, Gregory Benford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, Jack McDevitt, Howard Hendrix, Daniel H. Wilson, and many others! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection

Gardner Dozois
The Year s Best Science Fiction Thirty Second Annual Collection Book PDF

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466870482

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Other Covenants

Harry Turtledove,Robert Silverberg,Lavie Tidhar,Esther Alter,Gwynne Garfinkle,Elana Gomel,Rivqa Rafael,Jack Dann
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Author : Harry Turtledove,Robert Silverberg,Lavie Tidhar,Esther Alter,Gwynne Garfinkle,Elana Gomel,Rivqa Rafael,Jack Dann
Publisher : Ben Yehuda Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781953829818

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Other Covenants by Harry Turtledove,Robert Silverberg,Lavie Tidhar,Esther Alter,Gwynne Garfinkle,Elana Gomel,Rivqa Rafael,Jack Dann Pdf

What if there are other timelines, other histories, other Jews? Would they still have a covenant with the one God, or would they know strange gods? Would they have survived banishment, pogrom and Holocaust? What if the Holocaust had not occurred? Or what if it had succeeded beyond Hitler's darkest dreams? Some of the world's greatest speculative fiction authors explore these roads not taken, and many others, in Other Covenants: Alternate Histories of the Jewish People, the first-ever anthology of Jewish alternate history fiction.

Uranus

Ben Bova
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Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250296559

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Ben Bova, author of Earth, continues his exploration of the future of a human-settled Solar System with the science fiction action adventure Uranus, the first of his Outer Planets trilogy. On a privately financed orbital habitat above the planet Uranus, political idealism conflicts with pragmatic, and illegal, methods of financing. Add a scientist who has funding to launch a probe deep into Uranus‘s ocean depths to search for signs of life, and you have a three-way struggle for control. Humans can’t live on the gas giants, making instead a life in orbit. Kyle Umber, a religious idealist, has built Haven, a sanctuary above the distant planet Uranus. He invites ”the tired, the sick, the poor“ of Earth to his orbital retreat where men and women can find spiritual peace and refuge from the world. The billionaire who financed Haven, however, has his own designs: beyond the reach of the laws of the inner planets Haven could become the center for an interplanetary web of narcotics, prostitution, even hunting human prey. Meanwhile a scientist has gotten funding from the Inner Planets to drop remote probes into the “oceans” of Uranus, in search of life. He brings money and prestige, but he also brings journalists and government oversight to Haven. And they can’t have that. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Neptune

Ben Bova
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Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250296641

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Hugo Award winner Ben Bova continues his grand tour of the human settled solar system with a fan-pleasing look at life in the Outer Planets, among the moons of Neptune. In the future, humanity has spread throughout the solar system, on planets and moons once visited only by robots or explored at a distance by far-voyaging spacecraft. No matter how hostile or welcoming the environment, mankind has forged a path and found a home. In the far reaches of the solar system, the outer planets—billions of miles from Earth, unknown for millennia—are being settled. Neptune, the ice giant, is swathed in clouds of hydrogen, helium, and methane and circled by rings of rock and dust. Three years ago, Ilona Magyr’s father, Miklos, disappeared while exploring the seas of Neptune. Everyone believes he is dead—crushed, frozen, or boiled alive in Neptune’s turbulent seas. With legendary space explorer Derek Humbolt piloting her ship and planetary scientist Jan Meitner guiding the search, Ilona Magyr knows she will find her father—alive—on Neptune. Her plans are irrevocably altered when she and her team discover the wreckage of an alien ship deep in Neptune’s ocean, a discovery which changes humanity’s understanding of its future...and its past. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Apes and Angels

Ben Bova
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Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466868755

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Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in Apes and Angels, the second book of the Star Quest Trilogy which began with Death Wave. Humankind headed out to the stars not for conquest, nor exploration, nor even for curiosity. Humans went to the stars in a desperate crusade to save intelligent life wherever they found it. A wave of death is spreading through the Milky Way galaxy, an expanding sphere of lethal gamma radiation that erupted from the galaxy's core twenty-eight thousand years ago and now is approaching Earth's vicinity at the speed of light. Every world it touched was wiped clean of all life. But it’s possible to protect a planet from gamma radiation. Earth is safe. Now, guided by the ancient intelligent machines called the Predecessors, men and women from Earth seek out those precious, rare worlds that harbor intelligent species, determined to save them from the doom that is hurtling toward them. The crew of the Odysseus has arrived at Mithra Gamma, the third planet of the star Mithra, to protect the stone-age inhabitants from the Death Wave. But they’ll also have to protect themselves. The Star Quest Trilogy #1 Death Wave #2 Apes and Angels At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Invisible 2

Diana M. Pho,Sarah Chorn,Merc Rustad,Ambelin Kwaymullina,John Hartness
Invisible 2 Book PDF

Author : Diana M. Pho,Sarah Chorn,Merc Rustad,Ambelin Kwaymullina,John Hartness
Publisher : Jim C. Hines
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-13
Category : Criticism & Theory
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Invisible 2 by Diana M. Pho,Sarah Chorn,Merc Rustad,Ambelin Kwaymullina,John Hartness Pdf

19 essays on the importance of representation in science fiction and fantasy, with an introduction by author Aliette de Bodard. Proceeds from the sale of this collection go to the Carl Brandon Society to support Con or Bust. Full table of contents: Introduction, by Aliette de Bodard "Breaking Mirrors," by Diana M. Pho "I'm Not Broken," by Annalee Flower Horne "Next Year in Jerusalem," by Gabrielle Harbowy "I am Not Hispanic, I am Puerto Rican," by Isabel Schechter "No More Dried Up Spinsters," by Nancy Jane Moore "False Expectations," by Matthew Thyer "Text, Subtext, and Pieced-Together Lives," by Angelia Sparrow "Parenting as a Fan of Color," by Kat Tanaka Okopnik "Alien of Extraordinary Ability? by Bogi Takács "Accidental Representation," by Chrysoula Tzavelas "Discovering the Other," by John Hartness "Lost in the Margins," by Sarah Chorn "Too Niche," by Lauren Jankowski "Fat Chicks in SFF," by Alis Franklin "Not Your Mystical Indian," by Jessica McDonald "Exponentially Hoping," by Merc Rustad "Colonialism, Land, and Speculative Fiction: An Indigenous Perspective," by Ambelin Kwaymullina "Nobody's Sidekick: Intersectionality in Protagonists," by SL Huang "The Danger of the False Narrative," by LaShawn Wanak Afterword, by Jim C. Hines Reading List

Science Fiction by Scientists

Michael Brotherton
Science Fiction by Scientists Book PDF

Author : Michael Brotherton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319411026

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This anthology contains fourteen intriguing stories by active research scientists and other writers trained in science. Science is at the heart of real science fiction, which is more than just westerns with ray guns or fantasy with spaceships. The people who do science and love science best are scientists. Scientists like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Fred Hoyle wrote some of the legendary tales of golden age science fiction. Today there is a new generation of scientists writing science fiction informed with the expertise of their fields, from astrophysics to computer science, biochemistry to rocket science, quantum physics to genetics, speculating about what is possible in our universe. Here lies the sense of wonder only science can deliver. All the stories in this volume are supplemented by afterwords commenting on the science underlying each story.

The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015

John Joseph Adams
The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 Book PDF

Author : John Joseph Adams
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544449770

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A collection of the best American science fiction and fantasy stories published during 2014.

Game On!

Ed Greenwood,Aliette de Bodard,Jennifer R. Povey,Cory Swanson,David Hankins,Cat Rambo,Wulf Moon,Jo Miles,James Alan Gardner,Karen Aria Lin,Mike Rimar,Eric Choi,Tris Lawrence,Mark Silcox,Melissa Yi,Michael Picco,Sean Williams
Game On Book PDF

Author : Ed Greenwood,Aliette de Bodard,Jennifer R. Povey,Cory Swanson,David Hankins,Cat Rambo,Wulf Moon,Jo Miles,James Alan Gardner,Karen Aria Lin,Mike Rimar,Eric Choi,Tris Lawrence,Mark Silcox,Melissa Yi,Michael Picco,Sean Williams
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781940709598

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Game On! by Ed Greenwood,Aliette de Bodard,Jennifer R. Povey,Cory Swanson,David Hankins,Cat Rambo,Wulf Moon,Jo Miles,James Alan Gardner,Karen Aria Lin,Mike Rimar,Eric Choi,Tris Lawrence,Mark Silcox,Melissa Yi,Michael Picco,Sean Williams Pdf

What if future criminals played games of skill for their freedom? Would spellcasters dare use magic to skew chance in their favor? What if aliens judged us based on the games we play? Can a dying woman literally cheat Death? Games are about more than winning and losing. They’re about risk and reward, strategy and blind fortune, our need to win and our fear of being outplayed. And when magic and science infuse a game, the stakes can be of cosmic importance. Each move could decide life or death. Are you ready to play? In this anthology, seventeen of today’s leading fantasy and science fiction authors explore the role games play in worlds both seen and unseen. Join Aliette de Bodard, Jennifer R Povey, Ed Greenwood, Cory Swanson, David Hankins, Cat Rambo, Wulf Moon, Jo Miles, James Alan Gardner, Karen Aria Lin, Mike Rimar, Eric Choi, Tris Lawrence, Mark Silcox, Melissa Yi, Michael Picco, and Sean Williams as they share with us games played for unimaginable stakes. The board is set, the cards are dealt—now it’s GAME ON!

The Best of Bova

Ben Bova
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Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625794819

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VOLUME 1 IN A STERLING COLLECTION OF STORIES FROM LEGENDARY HARD SCIENCE FICTION MASTER BEN BOVA. Selected stories from Bova's amazing career at the center of science fiction and space advocacy. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling Grand Tour science fiction series, a six time Hugo award winner, and past president of the National Space Society. Volume #1 of 3 of the very best of Ben Bova, a grand master of science fiction storytelling. These stories span the five decades of Bova's incandescent career. Here are tales of star-faring adventure, peril, and drama. Here are journeys into the mind-bending landscapes of virtual worlds and alternate realities. Here you'll also find stories of humanity's astounding future on Earth, on Mars, and in the Solar System beyondÊstories that always get the science right. And Bova's gathering of deeply realized, totally human characters are the heroic, brave, tricky, sometimes dastardly engineers, astronauts, corporate magnates, politicians, and scientists who will make these futures possibleÊand those who often find that the problems of tomorrow are always linked to human values, and human failings, that are as timeless as the stars. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About the award-winning stories and novels of Ben Bova: _Technically accurate and absorbing. . .îÊKirkus _[Bova is] the science fiction author who will have the greatest effect on the world.îÊRay Bradbury _A masterful storytellerîÊVector _Gives a good read while turning your eyes to what might be in the not so distant future, just like Clarke and Asimov used to do so well.îÊSFX About Mars, Inc., by Ben Bova.: _. . .perfectly enjoyable as an SF book (could Bova write anything that wasnt enjoyable?), Mars, Inc. has that torn-from-the-headline vibe thats obviously intended for a larger audience. . . . the bottom line? Mars, Inc. has inspiration, excitement, thrills, romance, a dash of satireÊand is a good, fun read . . . .îÊAnalog "The Hugo winner returns to his most popular subject: the quest for Mars."ÊPublishers Weekly ". . . escapist fantasy for rocket scientists and space engineers, those dreaming of these kinds of missions. Yet Bovas story is rigorously realistic. . . . a fun read showing you do not need car chases or shootouts to deliver a fast-paced and exciting story."ÊDaily News of Galveston County

Invisible Planets

Ken Liu
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Author : Ken Liu
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765384188

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Invisible Planets, edited by multi award-winning writer Ken Liu--translator of the bestselling and Hugo Award-winning novel The Three Body Problem by acclaimed Chinese author Cixin Liu--is his second thought-provoking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. Invisible Planets is a groundbreaking anthology of Chinese short speculative fiction. The thirteen stories in this collection, including two by Cixin Liu and the Hugo and Sturgeon award-nominated “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang, add up to a strong and diverse representation of Chinese SF. Some have won awards, some have garnered serioius critical acclaim, some have been selected for Year’s Best anthologies, and some are simply Ken Liu’s personal favorites. To round out the collection, there are several essays from Chinese scholars and authors, plus an illuminating introduction by Ken Liu. Anyone with an interest in international science fiction will find Invisible Planets an indispensable addition to their collection. For more Chinese SF in translation, check out Broken Stars. Stories: “The Year of the Rat” by Chen Qiufan “The Fist of Lijian” by Chen Qiufan “The Flower of Shazui” by Chen Qiufan “A Hundred Ghosts Parade Tonight” by Xia Jia “Tongtong’s Summer” by Xia Jia “Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse” by Xia jia “The City of Silence” by Ma Boyong “Invisible Planets” by Hao Jingfang “Folding Beijing” by Hao Jingfang “Call Girl” by Tang Fei “Grave of the Fireflies” by Cheng Jingbo “The Circle” by Liu Cixin “Taking Care of God” by Liu Cixin Essays: “The Worst of All Possible Universes and the Best of All Possible Earths: Three-Body and Chinese Science Fiction” by Liu Cixin and Ken Liu “The Torn Generation” Chinese Science Fiction in a Culture in Transition” by Chen Qiufan and Ken Liu “What Makes Chinese Science Fiction Chinese?” by Xia Jia and Ken Liu At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Invisible, Volumes 1-3

Jim C. Hines and Mary Anne Mohanraj
Invisible Volumes 1 3 Book PDF

Author : Jim C. Hines and Mary Anne Mohanraj
Publisher : Jim C. Hines
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Invisible, Volumes 1-3 by Jim C. Hines and Mary Anne Mohanraj Pdf

Essays and poems on the importance of representation in science fiction and fantasy. Collects all three volumes of the Invisible series. Proceeds from the sale of this collection go to benefit the Carl Brandon Society.

Survival

Ben Bova
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Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466868762

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Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for December—io9 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read This December—The Verge Best SFF of December—Unbound Worlds In Surivival, a human team sent to scout a few hundred lightyears in front of the death wave encounters a civilization far in advance of our own, a civilization of machine intelligences. These sentient, intelligent machines have existed for eons, and have survived earlier “death waves,” gamma ray bursts from the core of the galaxy. They are totally self-sufficient, completely certain that the death wave cannot harm them, and utterly uninterested in helping to save other civilizations, organic or machine. But now that the humans have discovered them, they refuse to allow them to leave their planet, reasoning that other humans will inevitably follow if they learn of their existence. The Star Quest Trilogy #1 Death Wave #2 Apes and Angels #3 Survival At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Power Failure

Ben Bova
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Author : Ben Bova
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765388056

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Award-winning writer Ben Bova returns with Power Failure, another tense political thriller starring Jake Ross, science advisor to Senator Frank Tomlinson, as they continue their complex power maneuvers in this near future science fiction novel. Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he’s learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, riding in the wake of Frank Tomlinson. But now Tomlinson has decided to shoot for the moon. If they win, they get it all. If they lose, the game is over for Jake Ross. In the Power trilogy, Bova's vision of a future powered by solar satellite transmission is tantalizingly within reach. Jake Ross Series #1 Power Play #2 Power Surge #3 Power Failure At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.