Author : Sheila Williams
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Science fiction, American.
ISBN : 9780517124109
This brand new collection of super (and award-winning) science fiction stories and novellas--the first to present winners of both Hugo and Nebula awards in the same volume--features works by such noted authors as Terry Bisson, John Varley, George R.R. Martin, Connie Willis, Robert Silverberg, Greg Bear, and others.
Author : Sheila Williams
Publisher :
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781892391476
Presents seventeen short stories originally published in the magazine "Asimov's science fiction" between 1977 and 2007.
Author : John Varley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 44,65 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101655828
A collection of science fiction stories from "the best writer in America" (Tom Clancy)—Hugo and Nebula award-winning author John Varley. John Varley's unique blend of startling technology and genuinely human characters has won him every major science fiction award several times over for both his novels and his short fiction. Blue Champagne collects eight thought-provoking stories from one of the genre's undisputed masters, including the Hugo Award-winner "The Pusher," and the Hugo and Nebula award-winner "Press Enter."
Author : Richard Hantula
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780836839524
Compares what writers over the centuries have written about an imaginary future with the reality revealed by time.
Author : Poul Anderson
Publisher : GuildAmerica Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 11,11 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781568652740
Author : Max Barry
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,88 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307743225
Scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident. It's not a tragedy. It's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas. To build parts. Better parts. Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on his way to becoming artificial everything. But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon. A story for the age of pervasive technology, Machine Man is a gruesomely funny unraveling of one man's quest for ultimate self-improvement.
Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 27,10 MB
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345519833
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place, with scores of time-traveling historians being sent into the past. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser into letting her go to VE-Day. Polly Churchill’s next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle of London’s Blitz. But now the time-travel lab is suddenly canceling assignments and switching around everyone’s schedules. And when Michael, Merope, and Polly finally get to World War II, things just get worse. For there they face air raids, blackouts, and dive-bombing Stukas—to say nothing of a growing feeling that not only their assignments but the war and history itself are spiraling out of control. Because suddenly the once-reliable mechanisms of time travel are showing significant glitches, and our heroes are beginning to question their most firmly held belief: that no historian can possibly change the past.
Author : Arthur Charles Clarke
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,47 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0553287893
During the twenty-second century, a space probe's investigation of a mysterious, cylindrical asteroid brings man into contact with an extra-galactic civilization
Author : David Brin
Publisher : Spectra
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2010-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030757525X
“The Uplift books are as compulsive reading as anything ever published in the genre.”—The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction In all the universe, no species has ever reached for the stars without the guidance of a patron—except perhaps mankind. Did some mysterious race begin the uplift of humanity aeons ago? And if so, why did they abandon us? Circling the sun, under the caverns of Mercury, Expedition Sundiver prepares for the most momentous voyage in our history. A journey into the boiling inferno of the sun . . . to seek our destiny in the cosmic order of life. David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War—a New York Times bestseller—together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being “uplifted” by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved. . . . “Superb”—Science Fiction Times
Author : John M. Ford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 10,72 MB
Release : 2000-09-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0743419871
A thrilling Star Trek: The Original Series adventure featuring Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise in a strange battle for dilithium crystals against the Klingons. Dilithium. In crystalline form, the most valuable mineral in the galaxy. It powers the Federation’s starships...and the Klingon Empire’s battlecruisers. Now on a small, out-of-the-way planet named Direidi, the greatest fortune in dilithium crystals ever seen has been found. Under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, the planet will go to the side best able to develop the planet and its resourses. Each side will contest the prize with the prime of its fleet. For the Federation—Captain James T. Kirk and the Starship Enterprise. For the Klingons—Captain Kaden vestai-Oparai and the Fire Blossom. Only the Direidians are writing their own script for this contest—script that propels the crew of the Starship Enterprise into their strangest adventure yet!
