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Author : James Tiptree (Jr.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:496055971
Author : Sharyn November,Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780142414385
A collection of sixteen science fiction short stories includes contributions by Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Garth Nix, and Scott Westerfeld, and covers such topics as space exploration, corporate politics, and cloning.
Author : James Tiptree, Jr.
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473203204
These are the heroes of the Starry Rift, a dark river of night that flows between the arms of our galaxy: a headstrong teenaged runaway who makes first contact with a strange alien race; a young officer on a deep-space salvage mission who discovers an exact double of a woman he thought he'd lost; and the crew of an exploration ship who must plead for the human race to avert an interstellar war.
Author : James Tiptree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036876563
Author : Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1322841225
Author : James Tiptree
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0312930976
The arrival of an odd assortment of suspicious tourists on the planet Damiem parallels the final moves in a twenty-year-old interplanetary war that ends in the destruction of a star
Author : Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-14
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101513842
Mars! The Red Planet! For generations, people have wondered what it would be like to travel to and live there. That curiosity has inspired some of the most durable science fiction, including Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles and the work of Isaac Asimov. Now the award-winning anthologist Jonathan Strahan has brought together thirteen original stories to explore the possibilities. After reading Life on Mars, readers will never look at the fourth planet from the sun the same way again.
Author : Eugene Thacker
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781782798903
Could it be that the more we know about the world, the less we understand it? Could it be that, while everything has been explained, nothing has meaning? Extending the ideas presented in his book In The Dust of This Planet, Eugene Thacker explores these and other issues in Starry Speculative Corpse. But instead of using philosophy to define or to explain the horror genre, Thacker reads works of philosophy as if they were horror stories themselves, revealing a rift between human beings and the unhuman world of which they are part. Along the way we see philosophers grappling with demons, struggling with doubt, and wrestling with an indifferent cosmos. At the center of it all is the philosophical drama of the human being confronting its own limits. Not a philosophy of horror, but a horror of philosophy. Thought that stumbles over itself, as if at the edge of an abyss. Starry Speculative Corpse is the second volume of the "Horror of Philosophy" trilogy, together with the first volume, In The Dust of This Planet, and the third volume, Tentacles Longer Than Night.
Author : James Tiptree, Jr.
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473203228
A race of octopoid aliens visits earth to restore man's dying beliefs, with spaceships containing the very Gods themselves. In the future the rich are allowed a four week holiday - into their own futures. A soldier wounded at the front finds his memories too terrifying to live with once his government-approved drugs are withdrawn. A young girl is convinced that mother-earth is male and dedicates her life to consummating her love for him. God is dead and the Devil makes an offer for the real estate of heaven... These dark visions of the future by James Tiptree Jr. are a vivid, sometimes frightening foretelling of what may happen.
Author : Ann Halam
Publisher : Laurel Leaf
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780307433763
When Sloe was tiny, her Papa disappeared and she and her mama went to live in a prison camp in the snowy north, in a time and place when there are no more wild animals. Mama’s crime: teaching science, and her dedication to the hope that the lost animal species can be reborn. To Sloe, Mama’s secret work is magic, as enchanting as Mama’s tales of a bright city across the ice where they will be free. Years later, Sloe is sent to a prison school, and Mama disappears. At 13, Sloe escapes, pursued by a mysterious man. With only hope to keep her going, Sloe sets out on a solitary 1000-mile journey. But she is not truly alone for Mama left Sloe a gift: the seeds of five missing species and the knowledge to bring them to life.
Author : Nancy Horan
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345538826
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST AND ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH From the New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank comes a much-anticipated second novel, which tells the improbable love story of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson and his tempestuous American wife, Fanny. At the age of thirty-five, Fanny Van de Grift Osbourne has left her philandering husband in San Francisco to set sail for Belgium—with her three children and nanny in tow—to study art. It is a chance for this adventurous woman to start over, to make a better life for all of them, and to pursue her own desires. Not long after her arrival, however, tragedy strikes, and Fanny and her children repair to a quiet artists’ colony in France where she can recuperate. Emerging from a deep sorrow, she meets a lively Scot, Robert Louis Stevenson, ten years her junior, who falls instantly in love with the earthy, independent, and opinionated “belle Americaine.” Fanny does not immediately take to the slender young lawyer who longs to devote his life to writing—and who would eventually pen such classics as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In time, though, she succumbs to Stevenson’s charms, and the two begin a fierce love affair—marked by intense joy and harrowing darkness—that spans the decades and the globe. The shared life of these two strong-willed individuals unfolds into an adventure as impassioned and unpredictable as any of Stevenson’s own unforgettable tales. Praise for Under the Wide and Starry Sky “A richly imagined [novel] of love, laughter, pain and sacrifice . . . Under the Wide and Starry Sky is a dual portrait, with Louis and Fanny sharing the limelight in the best spirit of teamwork—a romantic partnership.”—USA Today “Powerful . . . flawless . . . a perfect example of what a man and a woman will do for love, and what they can accomplish when it’s meant to be.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Horan’s prose is gorgeous enough to keep a reader transfixed, even if the story itself weren’t so compelling. I kept re-reading passages just to savor the exquisite wordplay. . . . Few writers are as masterful as she is at blending carefully researched history with the novelist’s art.”—The Dallas Morning News “A classic artistic bildungsroman and a retort to the genre, a novel that shows how love and marriage can simultaneously offer inspiration and encumbrance.”—The New York Times Book Review
Author : Skip Brittenham
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780698411029
Immersive augmented reality brings this action-packed fantasy to life. The town of Eden Grove has a legend: In the center of a pine forest there is an aspen grove, and in the center of the aspen grove is an ancient, magnificent tree. A tree that grants wishes. Mayberry and Marshall have heard the stories about the Wishing Tree, but they know nothing like that could really exist near their dreary town. Misunderstood and restless, the teenagers wish for a lot of things, including being on another planet altogether. Somewhere with magic and adventure—someplace where they can be heroes. And then the unlikeliest thing happens: On a hike through the forest, they find the Wishing Tree. The pair make their wish, fall asleep . . . and wake up on Nith, a world that is exactly what they asked for. The alien landscape is beautiful, but it’s also full of dangerous and fantastic creatures, and almost without exception, the creatures are hungry. Soon Mayberry and Marshall learn two very important facts about their wish: First, that magic comes at a very steep cost; second, that they can only be heroes if they can survive. The journey that follows will test the limits of their courage and strength . . . and change them in ways they haven’t begun to imagine. This epic work brings fantasy to life, first by inviting readers into another world, then by using cutting-edge augmented reality technology to bring the world alive in interactive 3D. Experience BETWEEN WORLDS in Augmented Reality now: http://www.experienceanomaly.com/between-worlds/demo
Author : Sharyn November
Publisher : Paw Prints
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1442065664
Offers young adults an intriguing collection of science fiction short stories from an array of notable authors, including Kelly Link, Garth Nix, and Scott Westerfeld, covering topics such as space exploration, corporate politics, and cloning. 10,000 first printing. Reprint.
Author : James Tiptree
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497611412
They have gathered now on Damien and are about to witness the last rising of a man-made nova. They are sixteen humans in a distant world about to be enveloped by an eruption of violence—horror and murder, oddly complemented by a bizarre, unforgiving love. But justice is not all that they’re about to find. Judgment is coming, and the sixteen unsuspecting ones are on the threshold of the murdered star.
Author : James Tiptree, Jr.
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473203211
During the late 1970s, Tiptree lived for months on the eerie windswept shore of the Yucatan, and the true protagonist of this book is neither the Tiptree narrator nor the manifestations of ancient Maya civilization, but rather the Quintana Roo itself as a living, pulsating entity that envelops the reader within a uniquely alien ambience. Following Tiptree's introduction are these unforgettable nouvelles of weird fantasy: "What Came Ashore at Lirios, " "The Boy Who Waterskied to Forever, " and "Beyond the Dead Reef.