The Best of Alastair Reynolds

The Best of Alastair Reynolds

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  • Author: Alastair Reynolds
  • Publisher: Gollancz
  • ISBN: 9781473216365
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 784

This is an amazing collection of some of the best short fiction ever written in the SF genre, by an author acclaimed as 'the mastersinger of space opera' THE TIMES. With an introduction by noted SF critic Johnathan Strahan, this collection of twenty short stories, novellettes and novellas includes MINLA'S FLOWERS, SIGNAL TO NOISE, TROIKA, and seven previous uncollected stories, including TRAUMA POD, THE WATER THIEF and IN BABELSBERG. Alastair Reynolds has won the Sidewise Award and been nominated for The Hugo Awards for his short fiction. One of the most thought-provoking and accomplished short-fiction writers of our time, this collection is a delight for all SF readers


Sci-Fi Shorts: A Collection of 13 Short Science Fiction Stories Vol. II

Sci-Fi Shorts: A Collection of 13 Short Science Fiction Stories Vol. II

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  • Author: Genalin Jimenez
  • Publisher: Genalin Jimenez
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Art
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 97

"SciFi Shorts: A Collection of 13 Short Science Fiction Stories" transports readers into the far reaches of the imagination with its diverse and captivating tales. From the depths of outer space to the inner workings of the human mind, this anthology offers a thrilling journey through the boundless realms of science fiction. Within these pages, readers will encounter a myriad of futuristic worlds, each with its own unique set of challenges, wonders, and mysteries waiting to be explored. Whether delving into the complexities of artificial intelligence, confronting the ethical dilemmas of advanced technology, or venturing into uncharted galaxies teeming with extraterrestrial life, each story in this collection offers a thought-provoking glimpse into the possibilities of the future. Written by a talented ensemble of authors, "SciFi Shorts" showcases the limitless creativity and ingenuity of the science fiction genre. With each story expertly crafted to both entertain and provoke reflection, readers will find themselves drawn into tales of adventure, discovery, and the boundless potential of human imagination. From pulse-pounding action to poignant meditations on the nature of existence, "SciFi Shorts" offers something for every fan of speculative fiction. Whether you're a seasoned aficionado or new to the genre, this collection promises to ignite your imagination and leave you eagerly anticipating the next frontier of exploration in the vast cosmos of science fiction.


A PAIL OF AIR

A PAIL OF AIR

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  • Author: FRITZ LEIBER
  • Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 18

Pretty soon I was feeling my familiar way through the thirty or so blankets and rugs Pa has got hung around to slow down the escape of air from the Nest, and I wasn't quite so scared. I began to hear the tick-ticking of the clocks in the Nest and knew I was getting back into air, because there's no sound outside in the vacuum, of course. But my mind was still crawly and uneasy as I pushed through the last blankets — ..FROM THE BOOK..


A Matter of Matter (Stories from the Golden Age)

A Matter of Matter (Stories from the Golden Age)

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  • Author: L. Ron Hubbard
  • Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
  • ISBN: 1459629426
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 158

Chuck Lambert is taken advantage of by an unsavory real estate swindler of a galactic economy that sells unwary customers like him a planet where they can't sit down, because there's something the matter with its matter. But even though swindled, Chuck may just end up getting the last laugh....


Blindsight

Blindsight

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  • Author: Peter Watts
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 1429955198
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 388

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies

The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies

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  • Author: Bob McCabe
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 332

This guide discusses laughter in the cinema, from "Airplane!" to "Withnail and I" and from John Belushi to Billy Wilder.


Gold

Gold

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  • Author: Isaac Asimov
  • Publisher: Harper Collins
  • ISBN: 0061802700
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 418

The final collection of fiction and essays by the most celebrated science fiction author of all time—including the Hugo Award–winning story “Gold.” Isaac Asimov is widely considered both the inventor of science fiction as well as the genre’s greatest practitioner. This wide-ranging collection is the final and crowning achievement of his fifty-year career as a writer. It includes an introduction by the renowned science fiction author Orson Scott Card. The first section contains stories that range from the humorous to the profound, at the heart of which is the title story, “Gold,” a moving and revealing drama about a writer who gambles everything on a chance at immortality: a gamble Asimov himself made—and won. The second section contains the grand master’s ruminations on the SF genre itself. And the final section is comprised of Asimov’s thoughts on the craft and writing of science fiction.


Fleet of Worlds

Fleet of Worlds

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  • Author: Larry Niven
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9780765357830
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 324

A brand-new novel set in Niven's Known Space, two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld.


The Kite Maker

The Kite Maker

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  • Author: Brenda Peynado
  • Publisher: Tor Books
  • ISBN: 1250312493
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 29

The Kite Maker is Brenda Peynado's science fiction novelette of how humans cope with alien contact. After aliens arrive on earth, humans do the unthinkable out of fear. When an alien walks into a human kite maker's store, coveting her kites, the human struggles with her guilt over her part in the alien massacres, while neo-Nazis draw a violent line between alien and human. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


The Day The Martians Came

The Day The Martians Came

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  • Author: Frederik Pohl
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • ISBN: 9780312917814
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 260

Henry Steegman is hardly "Mr. Personality" aboard the Mars-bound Algonquin 9. Yet it is he who bungles upon the spectacular Macy's-like city beneath the Red Planet's crust. For better or worse, the name Steegman will be immortalized by a discovery that will transform millions of lives. For a struggling screenwriter, the Martian beings could mean a big story, big bucks, headlines...and more women than any many his size has ever known... For an exhiled Russian rocket man, the are a possible route to America's space program, and the land of opportunity... For a flying-saucer faker of flickering fame, the possibilities are out of this world. In a brilliant near-future look at the human condition, Frederick Pohl has honed his satire-sharp science fiction to a steely new edge.