The Perseids And Other Stories

Author : Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429958004

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The Perseids and Other Stories by Robert Charles Wilson Pdf

Robert Charles Wilson's time has come. His first novel from Tor, Darwinia, was a finalist for science fiction's Hugo award, and a #1 Locus bestseller in paperback. His next novel, Bios, is a critical and commercial success. Now Wilson's brilliant short science fiction is available in book form for the first time. Beginning with "The Perseids," winner of Canada's national SF award, this collection showcases Wilson's suppleness and strength: bravura ideas, scientific rigor, and living, breathing human beings facing choices that matter. Also included among the several stories herein are the acclaimed Hugo Award finalist "Divided by Infinity" and three new stories written specifically for this collection. "Beautifully observed, skillfully worked out: stories that flow subtly, almost imperceptably, from the prosaic to the preternatural."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review) At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Jack Vance
Publisher : Spatterlight Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781619470002

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The World-Thinker and Other Stories by Jack Vance Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Short stories
ISBN : UOM:39015057946439

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Short Story Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Teresa Dovalpage
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781641294058

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Death under the Perseids by Teresa Dovalpage Pdf

There’s no such thing as a free cruise in Cuban American author Teresa Dovalpage's addictively clever new Havana mystery. Cuban-born Mercedes Spivey and her American husband, Nolan, win a five-day cruise to Cuba. Although the circumstances surrounding the prize seem a little suspicious to Mercedes, Nolan’s current unemployment and their need to spice up their marriage make the decision a no-brainer. Once aboard, Mercedes is surprised to see two people she met through her ex-boyfriend Lorenzo: former University of Havana professor Selfa Segarra and down-on-his-luck Spanish writer Javier Jurado. Even stranger: they also received a free cruise. When Selfa disappears on their first day at sea, Mercedes and Javier begin to wonder if their presence on the cruise is more than coincidence. Mercedes confides her worries to her husband, but he convinces her that it’s all in her head. However, when Javier dies under mysterious circumstances after disembarking in Havana, and Nolan is nowhere to be found, Mercedes scrambles through the city looking for him, fearing her suspicions were correct all along.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429916158

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fourth Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

The twenty-eight stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: * Cory Doctorow * Robert Charles Wilson * Michael Swanwick * Ian McDonald * Benjamin Rosenbaum * Kage Baker * Bruce McAllister * Alastair Reynolds * Jay Lake * Ruth Nestvold * Gregory Benford * Justin Stanchfield * Walter Jon Williams * Greg Van Eekhout * Robert Reed * David D. Levine * Paul J. McAuley * Mary Rosenblum * Daryl Gregory * Jack Skillingstead * Paolo Bacigalupi * Greg Egan * Elizabeth Bear * Sarah Monette * Ken MacLeod * Stephen Baxter * Carolyn Ives Gilman * John Barnes * A.M. Dellamonica Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.

Author : Robert Charles Wilson
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429956543

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Julian Comstock by Robert Charles Wilson Pdf

From Robert Charles Wilson, the Hugo Award-winning author of Spin, comes Julian Comstock, an exuberant adventure in a post-climate-change America. In the reign of President Deklan Comstock, a reborn United States is struggling back to prosperity. Over a century after the Efflorescence of Oil, after the Fall of the Cities, after the False Tribulation, after the days of the Pious Presidents, the sixty stars and thirteen stripes wave from the plains of Athabaska to the national capital in New York. In Colorado Springs, the Dominion sees to the nation's spiritual needs. In Labrador, the Army wages war on the Dutch. America, unified, is rising once again. Then out of Labrador come tales of the war hero "Captain Commongold." The masses follow his adventures in the popular press. The Army adores him. The President is...troubled. Especially when the dashing Captain turns out to be his nephew Julian, son of the President's late brother Bryce—a popular general who challenged the President's power, and paid the ultimate price. As Julian ascends to the pinnacle of power, his admiration for the works of the Secular Ancients sets him at fatal odds with the Dominion. Treachery and intrigue will dog him as he closes in on the accomplishment of his lifelong ambition: to make a film about the life of Charles Darwin. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597802574

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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year by Jonathan Strahan Pdf

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes with every passing year. The two dozen stories chosen for this book by award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution, giving readers a captivating and always-entertaining look at the very best the genre has to offer.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250296214

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The Very Best of the Best by Gardner Dozois Pdf

For the first time in a decade, a compilation of the very best in science fiction, from a world authority on the genre. For decades, the Year's Best Science Fiction has been the most widely read short science fiction anthology of its kind. Now, after thirty-five annual collections comes the ultimate in science fiction anthologies. In The Very Best of the Best, legendary editor Gardner Dozois selects the finest short stories for this landmark collection, including short fiction from authors such as Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Greg Egan, Stephen Baxter, Pat Cadigan, and many many more.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429905695

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Seventh Annual Collection by Gardner Dozois Pdf

The thirty-two stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: John Barnes, Elizabeth Bear, Damien Broderick, Karl Bunker, Paul Cornell, Albert E. Cowdrey, Ian Creasey, Steven Gould, Dominic Green, Nicola Griffith, Alexander Irvine, John Kessel, Ted Kosmatka, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Rand B. Lee, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen F. McHugh, Sarah Monette, Michael Poore, Robert Reed, Adam Roberts, Chris Roberson, Mary Rosenblum, Geoff Ryman, Vandana Singh, Bruce Sterling, Lavie Tidhar, James Van Pelt, Jo Walton, Peter Watts, Robert Charles Wilson, and John C. Wright. Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250028044

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The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth 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: Thirtieth Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world through their short stories. 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. The multiple Locus Award-winning annual compilation of the year's best science fiction stories

Author : Andrew Darlington
Publisher : Headpress
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1900486172

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I was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love-child & Other Stories of Rock'n'roll Excess by Andrew Darlington Pdf

Unexpurgated interviews with legendary rock muscicians and bands including Peter Green, Grace Slick, Kraftwerk, The Kinks, Robert Plant and Siouxie Sioux, plus the full text of Gene Clark's last interview. Complete with discographies and illustrated profusely throughout.

Author : Justin D. Edwards,Douglas Ivison
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802086686

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Downtown Canada by Justin D. Edwards,Douglas Ivison Pdf

Downtown Canada is a collection of essays that addresses Canada as an urban place. The contributors focus their attention on the writing of Canada's cities and call attention to the centrality of the city in Canadian literature.

Author : Gardner Dozois,Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061891502

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The New Space Opera 2 by Gardner Dozois,Jonathan Strahan Pdf

Some of the most beloved names in science fiction spin all-new tales of interstellar adventure and wonder Neal Asher John Barnes Cory Doctorow John Kessel Jay Lake John Meaney Elizabeth Moon Garth Nix Mike Resnick Justina Robson Kristine Kathryn Rusch John Scalzi Bruce Sterling Peter Watts Sean Williams Tad Williams Bill Willingham Robert Charles Wilson John C. Wright

Author : George Mann
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781780337043

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The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by George Mann Pdf

This encyclopedia is the most up-to-date, concise, clear and affordable guide to all aspects of science fiction, from its background to generic themes and devices, from authors (established and new) to films. Science fiction has evolved into one of the most popular, cutting-edge and exciting fiction geners, with a proliferation of modern and classic authors, themes and ideas, movies, TV series and awards. Arranged in an A-Z format, and featuring a comprehensive index and cross-referencing system, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is also the most accessible and easy to use encyclopedia of its kind currently available.

Author : Jennifer VanderBurgh
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228019855

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What Television Remembers by Jennifer VanderBurgh Pdf

Television in Canada has been undervalued as a cultural form. Despite being publicly funded, Canadian television programs are also notoriously difficult to access once they go off the air, which has compounded the problem. In What Television Remembers Jennifer VanderBurgh intervenes in the story of the medium in Canada by exploring the long relationship between TV and the city of Toronto. From the first demonstration of television at the Canadian National Exhibition in 1939 and the mass viewing of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation broadcast in 1953 to the late-century installation of TV screens in public spaces around the city, television has shaped Toronto’s collective imagination and affirmed viewers in their multiple identities as local residents, national citizens, and transnational consumers. In a close reading of Toronto-based CBC dramas from the 1960s to 2010, VanderBurgh explains how the city has functioned as a strategic location in CBC programming, reflecting dramatically changing ideas about Canadian identity, community, and citizenship. At a time when many are suggesting that the era of television is over, What Television Remembers sounds the alarm that we are in danger of forgetting TV in Canada without appreciating the complexities of its contributions and legacy.