Beneath the Floating City


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Beneath the Floating City, SF short story collection. Shortlisted for a 2017 Aurealis Award for collected work! The Australian Aurealis Awards are the top speculative fiction awards. A collection of seven science fiction tales by Donna Maree Hanson. Featuring, Beneath the Floating City, Green, Green Grass of Homeworld, Night of Masks and Spears, Warning Buoy, Lake Absence, Other and Abandoned Time.










Floating City


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Seeking to destroy the Torch, an evil tool used for wanton destruction by the bloodthirsty leader of Vietnam's Floating City, Nicholas Linnear must confront his own personal demons in order to reach his target.




Midnight, Water City


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Hawai‘i author Chris McKinney’s first entry in a brilliant new sci-fi noir trilogy explores the sordid past of a murdered scientist, deified in death, through the eyes of a man who once committed unspeakable crimes for her. Year 2142: Earth is forty years past a near-collision with the asteroid Sessho-seki. Akira Kimura, the scientist responsible for eliminating the threat, has reached heights of celebrity approaching deification. But now, Akira feels her safety is under threat, so after years without contact, she reaches out to her former head of security, who has since become a police detective. When he arrives at her deep-sea home and finds Akira methodically dismembered, this detective will risk everything—his career, his family, even his own life—and delve back into his shared past with Akira to find her killer. With a rich, cinematic voice and burning cynicism, Midnight, Water City is both a thrilling neo-noir procedural and a stunning exploration of research, class, climate change, the cult of personality, and the dark sacrifices we are willing to make in the name of progress.




Floating City


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From the prize-winning author of The Electrical Field comes Citizen Kane reimagined: a novel about ambition and the relentless desire to belong. Shortlisted for the Toronto Book Awards. Frankie Hanesaka isn't afraid of a little hard work. An industrious boy, if haunted by the mysterious figures of his mother's past in Japan, he grows up in a floating house in the harbour of Port Alberni, BC. With all the Japanese bachelors passing through town to work in the logging camps and lumber mills, maybe he could build a hotel on the water, too. Make a few dollars. But then the war comes, and Frankie finds himself in a mountai n internment camp, his small dreams of success dashed by the great tides of history. After the war, Frankie tries his luck in Toronto, where possibility awaits in the form of a patron who teaches him how to turn effort into money, and a starry-eyed architect who teaches Frankie something harder to come by: the ability to dream big. Buckminster Fuller's role as Frankie's outsized spiritual mentor is one of just many real-life touchstones and extraordinary points of colour in this fairytale-like story about family, ambition and the costs of turning our backs on history and home.




Revelation


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After the earth is devastated by nuclear war, several new societies are developed, two of which are suspended in the atmosphere segregated from each other. Their citizens are controlled by Committees who feel they know what is best for their residents. The remnants that exist in these atmospheric communities are unaware of the control and power of their authoritative superiors until two members of one social order are curious enough to look for answers. The answers they find are disturbing and unbelievable How did this Committee obtain total control over their subjects? How do they keep their nation unaware of their circumstances? And why don't their comrades really care? This sci-fi adventure takes off with Joe, a pilot for the Air Force defense, and Derek, a computer genius, questioning the development and historic rule of their so-called perfect society. As their time to be chosen arrives, they are called to promote their society. As a duty required by the Committee, they are called to mate with Pam and Dawn, citizens of a similar civilization who work in the same profession. They are brought together void of emotions, to create the perfect child, who will then be given to qualified Protectorates and taught to live and die to further their society. But something happens that is forbidden by their culture. Their experience takes you through an exciting undertaking full of friendship, romance, and courage fighting a battle between good and evil, love and hate, freedom, and total control. Read their exciting tale to see how their determination and will triumphs over control and deception.




Floating City


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Anne Pierson Wiese's first collection of poems illuminates the everyday and the lessons to be learned amid life's routines. The poems in Floating City might be called poetry of place. Many are set in New York City, but they simultaneously inhabit a realm in which a mundane physical location or daily exchange can be seen to have human significance beyond the immediate. When one dismisses from one's mind the idea that going to the park, doing the laundry, buying a sandwich, and riding the subway are familiar experiences, one makes room for the actual to ally with the hypothetical by means of the emotions. The result, Wiese eloquently shows, is a form of truth that is silently generated whenever human beings earnestly endeavor to absorb the world.




The Floating Islands


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The adventures of two teenaged cousins who live in a place called the Floating Islands, one of whom is studying to become a mage and the other one of the legendary island flyers.




Through These Eyes


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Through These Eyes Have you ever wondered what is real? Are everyday things just as they seem or is there a secret world just beyond our perception? One that bends and shifts as it hides from our sight? Eleven tales of speculative fiction from Australian author, Donna Maree Hanson