Efiction July 2010

Author : Anonim
Publisher : eFiction Publishing
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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eFiction July 2010 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : eFiction Publishing
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
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eFiction June 2010 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : eFiction Publishing
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
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eFiction November 2010 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 142998306X

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Eighth 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: Twenty-Eighth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection of short stories brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Carrie Vaughn, Ian R. MacLeod and Cory Doctorow. 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.

Author : Damien Broderick,Aliette de Bodard,Yoon Ha Lee,Ian R. MacLeod,Sean McMullen,Hannu Rajaniemi,Robert Reed,Allen M. Steele,Steve Rasnic Tem,Peter Watts
Publisher : AudioText
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 3 by Damien Broderick,Aliette de Bodard,Yoon Ha Lee,Ian R. MacLeod,Sean McMullen,Hannu Rajaniemi,Robert Reed,Allen M. Steele,Steve Rasnic Tem,Peter Watts Pdf

An unabridged collection of the “best-of-the-best” science fiction stories published in 2010 by current and emerging masters of the genre. In “Under the Moons of Venus,” by Damien Broderick, a man, who has returned to a mostly deserted Earth from a terraformed Venus with Luna and Ganymede as moons, longs to go back to Venus. In “The Shipmaker,” the 2011 story winner of the British Science Fiction Association Award, by Aliette de Bodard, a maker of living spaceships has her career threatened by the birth of a sentient Mind that will come before the ship that will house it will be ready. In “Flower, Mercy, Needle, Chain” by Yoon Ha Lee, a construct meets with an assassin that is the keeper of a gun that erases a victim’s entire lineage to secure the destruction of another gun made by the same gunsmith. In “Re-Crossing the Styx,” by Ian R. MacLeod, an entertainer aboard a cruise ship falls in love with a zombie husband’s Minder and schemes to free her from her marriage. In the steampunk story “Eight Miles,” by Sean McMullen, an English lord hires a balloonist to take him and a nonhuman female to a great height in order to learn the secrets of another world. In “Elegy for a Young Elk” by Hannu Rajaniemi, the gods use a real human to retrieve something important from a city that has become sentient and surrounded by a firewall that protects against gods. In “Alone” by Robert Reed, set in the author’s Marrowuniverse, a traveler aboard the Great Ship has eschewed contact and remained alone for far longer than seems possible. In the winner of the 2010 Asimov’s Readers’ Award for best novelette “The Emperor of Mars,” by Allen M. Steele, a contract worker on Mars becomes enamored with the science fiction retrieved from NASA’s Phoenix lander that arrived on the red planet back in 2008. In “A Letter from the Emperor,” by Steve Rasnic Tem, an imperial envoy visits an outlying colony where a retiring colonel, whose memory is suspect for security reasons, claims to have fought alongside the emperor. Finally, the 2010 Shirley Jackson Award winner for best short story, “The Things,” by Peter Watts, is a retelling of John Carpenter’s classic movie, The Thing, from the perspective of the shape-shifting alien confronting a group of scientists in Antarctica.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : eFiction Publishing
Page : 61 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Baxter,Geoffrey A. Landis,David Moles,Steven Popkes,Robert Reed,Alastair Reynolds,Rick Wilber
Publisher : AudioText
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Year's Top Short SF Novels by Stephen Baxter,Geoffrey A. Landis,David Moles,Steven Popkes,Robert Reed,Alastair Reynolds,Rick Wilber Pdf

Short novels may well be the perfect length for science fiction. They are movie length tales that resonate with moxie while exploring characters, new worlds, and ideas. The stories in this unabridged collection are the best-of-the best short science fiction novels published in 2010 by current and emerging masters of this form. “Return to Titan,” by Stephen Baxter, is set in his Xeelee sequence. Michael Poole and his father search one of Saturn’s moons for sentient life that would interfere with their plans to build a gateway to the stars. In this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner for best short fiction, “The Sultan of the Clouds,” by Geoffrey A. Landis, a terraforming expert is inexplicably invited to Venus by the child who owns most of the planet’s habitable floating cities. “Seven Cities of Gold,” by David Moles, tells the story of a Japanese relief worker charged with tracking down the renegade Christian leader responsible for detonating a nuclear device in an Islam-occupied North American city. In “Jackie’s-Boy,” by Steven Popkes, an orphaned child befriends an uplifted elephant from the abandoned St. Louis Zoo as they trek south across a sparsely populated North America to find sanctuary. “A History of Terraforming,” by Robert Reed, involves a young boy’s ambition to take up his father’s work of terraforming Mars and then much of the solar system and discovers that much more than planets have been altered. In “Troika,” by Alastair Reynolds, the lone survivor of a mission that explored a massive alien object attempts to reveal what he discovered despite the wishes of the Second Soviet Union. Set in the author’s S’hdonni universe, “Several Items of Interest,” by Rick Wilber, the Earth ruling aliens ask a human collaborator to help quell a human insurrection led by the collaborator’s brother.

Author : K. C. Ball
Publisher : Hydra House
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780984830114

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Snapshots from a Black Hole & Other Oddities by K. C. Ball Pdf

Author : James Kelly
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781616146207

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Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 by James Kelly Pdf

The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Selected by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America®. The Nebula Awards Showcase volumes have been published annually since 1966, reprinting the winning and nominated stories in the Nebula Awards, voted on by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. The editors selected by SFWA's anthology committee (chaired by Mike Resnick) are John Kessel and James Patrick Kelly, both highly acclaimed not only for their own award-winning fiction but also as coeditors of three anthologies: Feeling Very Strange: The Slipstream Anthology, Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology, and The Secret History of Science Fiction. Stories and excerpts by Harlan EllisonTM, Kij Johnson, Chris Barzak, Eric James Stone, Rachel Swirsky, Geoff Landis, Shweta Narayan, Adam Troy-Castro, James Tiptree Jr., Aliette de Bodard, Amal El-Mohtar, Kendall Evans and Samantha Henderson, Howard Hendrix, Ann K. Schwader, Connie Willis, Terry Pratchett, and more. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Stephen R. Covey
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857205162

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The 3rd Alternative by Stephen R. Covey Pdf

In any conflict, the First Alternative is my way, and the Second Alternative is your way. The fight always boils down to a question of whose way is better. This book presents a new and practical, but incredibly effective and eye-opening, way to reach resolution through using the 'Third Alternative'. The Third Alternative moves beyondyour way or my way to a higher and better way - one that allows both parties to emerge from debate or even heated conflict in a far better place than either had envisioned. With the Third Alternative, nobody has to give up anything, and everyone wins. To a world of escalating strife and contention, Third Alternative thinkers like those Covey profiles in this innovativeand practical book, bring creative solutions, peace and healing. Through key examples and stories from his work as aconsultant, Covey will demonstrate that Third Alternative thinking is the supreme opportunity of our times. Readers will learn how to create new and better results instead of escalating conflict, as well as how to build strong relationships with diverse individuals based on an attitude of winning together. The Third Alternative represents a departure from material on conflict resolution, negotiation and mediation; the book represents a new way of thinking that will be embraced not only by the many fans that have flocked to Covey's prior books, but also by anyone who is seeking resolution in their professional or personal lives.

Author : Julie Anne Taddeo,Cynthia J. Miller
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810885868

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Steaming Into a Victorian Future by Julie Anne Taddeo,Cynthia J. Miller Pdf

This collection of essays explores the social and cultural aspects of steampunk, examining the various manifestations of this multi-faceted genre, in order to better understand the steampunk sub-culture and its effect on--and interrelationship with--popular culture and the wider society.

Author : Louisa Ellen Stein,Kristina Busse
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786490684

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Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom by Louisa Ellen Stein,Kristina Busse Pdf

The critically-acclaimed BBC television series Sherlock (2010- ) re-envisions Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's detective for the digital age, joining participants in the active traditions of Sherlockians/Holmesians and fans from other communities, including science fiction, media, and anime. This collection explores the cultural intersections and fan traditions that converge in Sherlock and its fandoms. Essays focus on the industrial and cultural contexts of Sherlock's release, on the text of Sherlock as adaptation and transformative work, and on Sherlock's critical and popular reception. The volume's multiple perspectives examine Sherlock Holmes as an international transmedia figure with continued cultural impact, offering insight into not only the BBC series itself, but also into its literary source, and with it, the international resonance of the Victorian detective and his sidekick. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Jane Yolen
Publisher : Tachyon Publications
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616963071

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How to Fracture a Fairy Tale by Jane Yolen Pdf

“This collection is Jane Yolen at her best. This is magic.”—Patricia C. Wrede, author of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles Fantasy icon Jane Yolen (The Devil’s Arithmetic, Briar Rose, Sister Emily’s Lightship) is adored by generations of readers of all ages. Now she triumphantly returns with this inspired gathering of fractured fairy tales and legends. Yolen breaks open the classics to reveal their crystalline secrets: a philosophical bridge that misses its troll, a spinner of straw as a falsely accused moneylender, the villainous wolf adjusting poorly to retirement. Each of these offerings features a new author note and original poem, illuminating tales that are old, new, and brilliantly refined.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : eFiction Publishing
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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eFiction October 2011 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeanne Gomoll
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781794702868

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James Tiptree, Jr. Award Cumulative List by Jeanne Gomoll Pdf