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The Moons of Barsk

Lawrence M. Schoen
The Moons of Barsk Book PDF

Author : Lawrence M. Schoen
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765394644

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The Moons of Barsk by Lawrence M. Schoen Pdf

High-concept science fiction, deeply human characters, and a weirdly wonderful story drive The Moons of Barsk, the sequel to the award-winning Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard Pizlo, the lonely young outcast and physically-challenged Fant, is now a teenager. He still believes he hears voices from the planet’s moons, imparting secret knowledge to him alone. And so embarks on a dangerous voyage to learn the truth behind the messages. His quest will catapult him offworld for second time in his short life, and reveal things the galaxy isn’t yet ready to know. Elsewhere, Barsk's Senator Jorl, who can speak with the dead, navigates galactic politics as Barsk's unwelcome representative, and digs even deeper into the past than ever before to discover new truths of his own. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard

Lawrence M. Schoen
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Author : Lawrence M. Schoen
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781466853393

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Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard by Lawrence M. Schoen Pdf

The Sixth Sense meets Planet of the Apes in a moving science fiction novel set so far in the future, humanity is gone and forgotten in Lawrence M. Schoen's Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard An historian who speaks with the dead is ensnared by the past. A child who feels no pain and who should not exist sees the future. Between them are truths that will shake worlds. In a distant future, no remnants of human beings remain, but their successors thrive throughout the galaxy. These are the offspring of humanity's genius-animals uplifted into walking, talking, sentient beings. The Fant are one such species: anthropomorphic elephants ostracized by other races, and long ago exiled to the rainy ghetto world of Barsk. There, they develop medicines upon which all species now depend. The most coveted of these drugs is koph, which allows a small number of users to interact with the recently deceased and learn their secrets. To break the Fant's control of koph, an offworld shadow group attempts to force the Fant to surrender their knowledge. Jorl, a Fant Speaker with the dead, is compelled to question his deceased best friend, who years ago mysteriously committed suicide. In so doing, Jorl unearths a secret the powers that be would prefer to keep buried forever. Meanwhile, his dead friend's son, a physically challenged young Fant named Pizlo, is driven by disturbing visions to take his first unsteady steps toward an uncertain future. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress

Robert A. Heinlein
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Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312863551

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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

Science fiction-roman.

Soup of the Moment

Lawrence M. Schoen
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Author : Lawrence M. Schoen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-06
Category : Life on other planets
ISBN : 1951391357

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? Return to the award-winning world of Barsk: The Elephants' Graveyard and The Moons of Barsk in this prequel that reveals the true story behind the classic bedtime story of Pholo, the Fant who could fly! ?In the distant future, the galaxy is filled with the descendants of raised mammals created by the long-forgotten human race. Nearly all of these anthropomorphic peoples are furred, except for the Fant - furless beings with enormous ears and bizarre prehensile trunks - who because of their differences were rounded up centuries ago and relocated to Barsk, a wet world no one else wanted.But the Fant have adapted and prospered in their isolation, having grown accustomed to the near constant rainfall and making the island rainforests of Barsk their home.On one of these islands lives Pholo, a young scientist with a radical theory: what if you could harness the power of the storms and use it fly?To test her theory she has built a prototype, a transduction engine that appears to work, albeit with a sizable radioactive side effect.Pholo believes she's solved the problems of flying suit but her lovers - a poet named Bindle and a physician named Gavi - are worried about radiation.Her great great grandmother is concerned she's making a mistake, and is offering her the family soup business if Pholo will just put all this science foolishness aside.And her therapist fears that Pholo's obsession with flight is blinding her to the importance of the people in her life who truly love her.Is Pholo's theory right? Can she succeed in flying? And if so, at what cost?

Furry Tales

Fred Patten
Furry Tales Book PDF

Author : Fred Patten
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476675985

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Furry Tales by Fred Patten Pdf

Tales featuring anthropomorphic animals have been around as long as there have been storytellers to spin them, from Aesop's Fables to Reynard the Fox to Alice in Wonderland. The genre really took off following the explosion of furry fandom in the 21st century, with talking animals featuring in everything from science fiction to fantasy to LGBTQ coming-out stories. In his lifetime, Fred Patten (1940-2018)--one of the founders of furry fandom and a scholar of anthropomorphic animal literature--authored hundreds of book reviews that comprise a comprehensive critical survey of the genre. This selected compilation provides an overview from 1784 through the 2010s, covering such popular novels as Watership Down and Redwall, along with forgotten gems like The Stray Lamb and Where the Blue Begins, and science fiction works like Sundiver and Decision at Doona.

Moon of Three Rings

Andre Norton
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Author : Andre Norton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Life on other planets
ISBN : UOM:39015024090261

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Moon of Three Rings by Andre Norton Pdf

Krip, the Free Trader, is changed into an animal by the strange Moon Singer maiden in an effort to save him from the evil power seekers; but now he faces a more serious danger - that of not being able to return to his human form.

Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis

Sune Borkfelt,Matthias Stephan
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Author : Sune Borkfelt,Matthias Stephan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031110207

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Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis by Sune Borkfelt,Matthias Stephan Pdf

Literary Animal Studies and the Climate Crisis connects insights from the field of literary animal studies with the urgent issues of climate change and environmental degradation, and features considerations of new interventions by literature in relation to these pressing questions and debates. This volume informs academic debates in terms of how nonhuman animals figure in our cultural imagination of topics such as climate change, extinction, animal otherness, the posthuman, and environmental crises. Using a diverse set of methodologies, each chapter presents relevant cases which discuss the various aspects of these interstices. This volume is an intersection between literary animal studies and climate fiction intended as an interdisciplinary intervention that speaks to the global climate debate and is thus relevant across the environmental humanities.

The Sol Majestic

Ferrett Steinmetz
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Author : Ferrett Steinmetz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250168184

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The Sol Majestic by Ferrett Steinmetz Pdf

The Sol Majestic is a big-hearted and delightful intergalactic hopepunk adventure for fans of Becky Chambers and The Good Place "A feast of a book.”—Hugo Award-winning author Seanan McGuire Kenna, an aspirational teen guru, wanders destitute across the stars as he tries to achieve his parents' ambition to advise the celestial elite. Everything changes when Kenna wins a free dinner at The Sol Majestic, the galaxy's most renowned restaurant, giving him access to the cosmos's one-percent. His dream is jeopardized, however, when he learns his highly-publicized "free meal" risks putting The Sol Majestic into financial ruin. Kenna and a motley gang of newfound friends—including a teleporting celebrity chef, a trust-fund adrenaline junkie, an inept apprentice, and a brilliant mistress of disguise—must concoct an extravagant scheme to save everything they cherish. In doing so, Kenna may sacrifice his ideals—or learn even greater lessons about wisdom, friendship, and love. Utterly charming and out of this world, Ferrett Steinmetz's The Sol Majestic will satisfy the appetites of sci-fi aficionados and newcomers alike. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Fall

Tracy Townsend
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Author : Tracy Townsend
Publisher : Pyr
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781633884991

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The Fall by Tracy Townsend Pdf

An apothecary clerk and her ex-mercenary allies travel across the world to discover a computing engine that leads to secrets she wasn't meant to know--secrets that could destroy humanity. Eight months ago, Rowena Downshire was a half-starved black market courier darting through the shadows of Corma's underside. Today, she's a (mostly) respectable clerk in the Alchemist's infamous apothecary shop, the Stone Scales, and certainly the last girl one would think qualified to carry the weight of the world on her shoulders a second time. Looks can be deceiving. When Anselm Meteron and the Alchemist receive an invitation to an old acquaintance's ball--the Greatduke who financed their final, disastrous mercenary mission fourteen years earlier--they're expecting blackmail, graft, or veiled threats related to the plot to steal the secrets of the Creator's Grand Experiment. They aren't expecting a job offer they can't refuse or a trip halfway across the world to rendezvous with the scholar whose research threw their lives into tumult: the Reverend Doctor Phillip Chalmers. Escorting Chalmers to the Grand Library of Nippon with her mismatched mercenary family is just a grand adventure to Rowena until she discovers a powerful algebraic engine called the Aggregator. The Aggregator leads Rowena to questions about the Grand Experiment she was never meant to ask and answers she cannot be allowed to possess. With her reunited friends, Rowena must find a way to use the truths hidden in the Grand Library to disarm those who would hunt down the nine subjects of the Creator's Grand Experiment, threatening to close the book on this world.

Automatic Reload

Ferrett Steinmetz
Automatic Reload Book PDF

Author : Ferrett Steinmetz
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250168207

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Automatic Reload by Ferrett Steinmetz Pdf

Ferrett Steinmetz’s high-octane cyberpunk romance Automatic Reload about a tortured mercenary and the genetically enginnered assassin he loves. Meet Mat, a tortured mercenary who has become the perfect shot, and Silvia, an idealistic woman genetically engineered to murder you to death. Together they run for the shadiest corporation in the world...and realize their messed-up brain chemistry cannot overpower their very real chemistry. Automatic Reload is the genre's most unexpectedly heartfelt romantic comedy with explosions, perfect for fans of both Altered Carbon and Atomic Blonde. “Shadowrun with a conscience.”—Hugo Award-winning author Jim C. Hines “LUXURIATES in the intricate beauty that is technology, exults in the mechanics of cyberpunk. And it does all this while being a ROM-COM with a lot of EXPLOSIONS.”—Cassandra Khaw, finalist for the British Fantasy and Locus Awards for Hammers on Bone At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Zones of Thought Series

Vernor Vinge
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Author : Vernor Vinge
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 1680 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765399571

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The Zones of Thought Series by Vernor Vinge Pdf

This discounted ebundle includes: A Fire Upon the Deep, The Children of the Sky, A Deepness in the Sky “Vinge is one of the best visionary writers of SF today.” —David Brin Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures, and technology, can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence. A Fire Upon The Deep — Fleeing a galactic threat, Ravna crash lands on a strange world with a ship hold full of cryogenically frozen children, the only survivors. They are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. The Children of the Sky — Ten years have passed on Tines World, and Ravna and the children have survived a war. While there is peace among the Tines, there are those among them—and among the humans—who seek power...and no matter the cost, these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization that has taken root since the humans landed. A Deepness in the Sky — Thirty-thousand years before A Fire Upon the Deep, two human groups, the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds, stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Other Books by Vernor Vinge Realtime/Bobble Series The Peace War Marooned in Realtime Other Novels The Witling Tatja Grimm's World Rainbows End Collections Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge True Names At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Under the Moons of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs
Under the Moons of Mars Book PDF

Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803262086

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Under the Moons of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Pdf

Ambushed in the cold moonlight of an Arizona night, Captain John Carter is inexplicably teleported to Mars, called Barsoom by its inhabitants. Legendary Barsoom?where hostile tribes of towering green warriors roam an arid landscape of dead cities and feuding city-states; where pilgrimages are made to a river of death that conceals a terrifying secret; where lifespans are measured in centuries; and where airships speed through the thinning atmosphere while duels are fought with swords below. Stranded and fighting for his life in a dying, savage world, John Carter embarks on one of the greatest adventures of all time as his destiny and Barsoom?s become one.ø ø The first three books of Edgar Rice Burroughs?s brilliantly conceived Barsoom series?A Princess of Mars, The Gods of Mars, and The Warlord of Mars?are brought together here for the first time. The trilogy follows the saga of John Carter from his unexpected arrival on Barsoom through hair-raising adventures and startling discoveries from pole to pole of the planet.

Excerpts of Jorl Ben Tral

Lawrence M. Schoen
Excerpts of Jorl Ben Tral Book PDF

Author : Lawrence M. Schoen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1951391152

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Excerpts of Jorl Ben Tral by Lawrence M. Schoen Pdf

Jorl ben Tral is a Fant, one of the two species of anthropomorphic elephants that inhabit the island rainforests of the planet Barsk. He's also a Speaker, gifted with the ability to converse with the dead, a talent he uses in his daily life as an historian at the university.Jorl is a tenured professor of some repute.His response to the academic adage "publish or perish" has been nothing short of prolific, far too vast to include in any collection.Now, for the first time, brief excerpts from a selection of this unparalleled scholar's work have been compiled to reveal thought provoking glimpses not only into the life and culture of the Fant, but also the larger galaxy of furred sapients and their seemingly hardwired discrimination that colors both their interactions with their elephantine fellows and their everyday choices.Set in a distant future of a galaxy that no longer recalls the humanity that spawned it, the writings of Jorl ben Tral nonetheless reveal much about the human condition, as can only be told through the words of this descendant of our ownLoxodonta africana.

Clarkesworld Year Ten

Sean Wallace,Neil Clarke
Clarkesworld Year Ten Book PDF

Author : Sean Wallace,Neil Clarke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1642360201

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Clarkesworld Year Ten by Sean Wallace,Neil Clarke Pdf

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during the first half of their tenth year. Includes stories by Cixin Liu, Kij Johnson, Seth Dickinson, Tamsyn Muir, Paul McAuley, Naomi Kritzer, Rich Larson, Xia Jia, Robert Reed, and many more!

An Anthology of Concrete Poetry

Emmett Williams
An Anthology of Concrete Poetry Book PDF

Author : Emmett Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Concrete poetry
ISBN : 098513643X

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An Anthology of Concrete Poetry by Emmett Williams Pdf

First published by the legendary Something Else Press in 1967, An Anthology of Concrete Poetry was the first American anthology on the international movement of Concrete poetry. The movement itself began in the early 1950s, in Germany--through Eugen Gomringer, who borrowed the term "concrete" from the art of his mentor, Max Bill--and in Brazil, through the Noigandres group, which included the de Campos brothers and Decio Pignatari. Over the course of the 1960s it exploded across Europe, America and Japan, as other protagonists of the movement emerged, such as Dieter Roth, Öyvind Fahlström, Ernst Jandl, bpNichol, Mary Ellen Solt, Jackson Mac Low, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Bob Cobbing, Dom Sylvester Houédard, Pierre Garnier, Henri Chopin, Brion Gysin and Kitasono Katue. By the late 1960s, poet Jonathan Williams could proclaim: "If there is such a thing as a worldwide movement in the art of poetry, Concrete is it." The work of the 77 writers collected in this anthology varies greatly in its aims and forms, but all can be said to emphasize the visual dimension of language, manipulating individual letters and minimal semantic units to produce poems that are for contemplating as much as for reading. Emmett Williams, the book's editor, added explanatory commentary for the poems and biographies of their authors, making this volume--long out of print--the definitive anthology of this movement, which has so influenced artists and writers of subsequent generations.