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![]() | The Very Best of the BestPeter Watts Carrie Vaughn Stephen Baxter Pat Cadigan Elizabeth Bear Nancy Kress Michael Swanwick Ian McDonald Robert Charles Wilson Charles Stross Daryl Gregory James Patrick Kelly Alastair Reynolds Gwyneth Jones Paul McAuley Greg Egan Kage Baker John Kessel Eleanor Arnason Kathe Koja Ian R MacLeod Robert Reed Lavie Tidhar JAMES S A COREY Maureen McHugh Yoon Ha Lee Ken Liu David Moles John Barnes Adam Roberts Allen M Steele Aliette de Bodard Rich Larson Indrapramit Das R S Benedict Carter Scholz Ray Nayler Sam J Miller Gardner R Dozois Sarah Monette ISBN: 9781250296191 Year of publication: 2019 THE VERY BEST OF THE BEST 35 YEARS OF THE YEARS BEST SCIENCE FICTION Edited by Gardner Dozois Time that is intolerant Of the brave and innocent, And indifferent in a week To a beautiful physique, Worships language and forgives Everyone by whom it lives. W. H. AUDEN acknowledgments Id like to thank all the people who have helped me assemble these volumes over the years Susan Casper, Sean Swanwick, and Vaughne Lee Hanson for technical support too many authors and editors to list and thanks to my ... Keywords: |
![]() | Not One of UsTed Chiang Nancy Kress Michael Swanwick Ian McDonald Gregory Benford James Patrick Kelly Paul McAuley Steve Rasnic Tem Robert Reed Molly Tanzer Ken Liu Carolyn Ives Gilman Judith Berman Cixin Liu Kelly Robson Naomi Kritzer Caroline M Yoachim Rich Larson Neil Clarke Alaya Dawn Johnson Keffy R M Kehrli A M Dellamonica ISBN: 9781597809573 Year of publication: 2018 NOT ONE OF US STORIES OF ALIENS ON EARTH Edited by Neil Clarke If you find a bit of yourself in these stories, this book is for you. Introduction Throughout the science fiction landscape, aliens have been used to illustrate our own best and worst traits, but from a distance that makes it more palatable than a closer look in the mirror. They are portrayed as invaders, refugees, saviors, observers, outsiders, opportunists, and sometimes as beings that barely notice our existence. Yet, outside of ... Keywords: |
![]() | The Days of Solomon GurskyIan McDonald ISBN: Year of publication: 1998 The Days of Solomon Gursky by Ian McDonald Illustration by Darryl Elliott Monday Sol stripped the gear on the trail over Blood of Christ Mountain. Click-shifted down to sixth for the steep push up to the ridge, and there was no sixth. No fifth, no fourth nothing, down to zero. Elena was already up on the divide, laughing at him pushing and sweating up through the pines, muscles twisted and knotted like the trunks of the primeval bristlecones, tubes and tendons straining like bridge cable. Then ... Keywords: |
![]() | Old VenusDavid Brin Elizabeth Bear Joe Haldeman Joe R Lansdale Mike Resnick Ian McDonald Michael Cassutt Stephen Leigh Garth Nix Gwyneth Jones Allen Steele Paul McAuley Tobias S Buckell Eleanor Arnason Lavie Tidhar Matthew Hughes ISBN: Year of publication: 0 Old Venus edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois For Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger, who would love to paint the wallowing dinosaurs of swampy Venus Introduction Return to Venusport by Gardner Dozois DAWN ON VENUS: The sleek, furry heads of the web-footed amphibious Venusians break water near one of the rare archipelagos in the world-girdling ocean. Nearby, the toothy head and long, snaky neck of a Plesiosaur-like sea creature momentarily rears above the waves. Elsewhere, vast swamps ... Keywords: |
![]() | After KerryIan McDonald ISBN: Year of publication: 1997 After Kerry by Ian McDonald Illustration by Darryl Elliott November is the dying season in our family. The light fades out of us, we grow pale and cold and fall like leaves. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins accidentally killed all the dead of November. Now, my mother. Its a good month for burying, November. The low between-light of autumn-going-winter shows the bones and struts of things the land, the things growing from it, the people standing on it. Ireland is a country that looks best by ... Keywords: |
![]() | Cyberabad DaysIan McDonald ISBN: 9781591026990 Year of publication: 2009 Ian McDonald CYBERABAD DAYS Sanjeev and Robotwallah Every boy in the class ran at the cry. Robotwar robotwar The teacher called after them, Come here come here bad wicked things but she was only a Business-English aeai and by the time old Mrs Mawji hobbled in from the juniors only the girls remained, sitting primly on the floor, eyes wide in disdain and hands up to tell tales and name names. Sanjeev was not a fast runner, the other boys pulled ahead from him as he stopped among the dhal bushes ... Keywords: |
![]() | River of GodsIan McDonald ISBN: 9780575084063 Year of publication: 2006 Ian McDonald RIVER OF GODS PART ONE: GANGA MATA 1: SHIV The body turns in the stream. Where the new bridge crosses the Ganga in five concrete strides, garlands of sticks and plastic snag around the footings rafts of river flotsam. For a moment the body might join them, a dark hunch in the black stream. The smooth flow of water hauls it, spins it around, shies it feet first through the arch of steel and traffic. Overhead trucks roar across the high spans. Day and night, convoys bright with chrome ... Keywords: |
![]() | ChagaIan McDonald ISBN: 9780575060522 Year of publication: 1996 Ian McDonald CHAGA Preface Though this book shares the same setting, background and many of the same characters and situations as my 1990 novelette Towards Kilimanjaro, it is not a direct sequel to that story, but rather an expansion and refinement of its ideas. Readers of both may notice a number of seeming inconsistencies these are deliberate Towards Kilimanjaro should be read as a working prototype for this book. Thanks to CEM Computers, who saved a sizeable portion of this book from ... Keywords: |
![]() | Desolation RoadIan McDonald ISBN: 9781591028451 Year of publication: 2009 Ian McDonald DESOLATION ROAD To all the numerous people who helped raise Desolation Road from the dust, especially to Patriciaarchitect, constant supporter, and First Lady of the town. 1 For three days Dr. Alimantando had followed the greenperson across the desert. Beckoned by a finger made from articulated runner beans, he had sailed over the desert of red grit, the desert of red stone, and the desert of red sand in pursuit of it. And each night, as he sat by his fire built from scraps of ... Keywords: |
![]() | Ares ExpressIan McDonald ISBN: 9781616141974 Year of publication: 2010 Ian McDonald ARES EXPRESS 1 Here comes Sweetness Octave Glorious Honey-Bun Asiim Engineer 12th. She is eight, and this is the manner of her coming. First, you see the sand. It is red and of a particular grain type produced only by wind action. It smells electric there is much iron in it. It draws lightning out of the occasional clouds once or twice in a long year, rain. Where the lightning strikes, veins of slag-iron strike deep into the sand. This is rust-sand, strewn profligately about this ... Keywords: |
![]() | Other Worlds Than TheseCarrie Vaughn Stephen Baxter Stephen King Robert Silverberg Pat Cadigan John Joseph Adams Michael Swanwick Ian McDonald Orson Scott Card Ursula K Le Guin Gregory Benford George RR Martin Kelly Link Joyce Carol Oates Ross E Lockhart Alastair Reynolds Lev Grossman Paul McAuley Catherynne M Valente Tim Pratt Paul Melko Robert Reed Seanan McGuire John R Fultz E Catherine Tobler David Barr Kirtley Yoon Ha Lee Jeff VanderMeer Mercurio D Rivera Vandana Singh William Alexander Simon McCaffery Christie Yant ISBN: 9781597804349 Year of publication: 2012 OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE Stories of Parallel Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams Go then, there are other worlds than these. Jake Chambers, to Roland Deschain of Gilead from The Gunslinger by Stephen King FOREWORD LEV GROSSMAN When I read The Chronicles of Narnia as a child, it didnt so much introduce me to the idea that there was another world as confirm my already grave suspicions on the subject. Even at the tender age of eight I wasas I suspect you were, and are, if youre reading this bookone ... Keywords: |
![]() | The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 29Stephen Baxter Pat Cadigan Elizabeth Bear Maureen F McHugh Peter S Beagle Michael Swanwick Ian McDonald Ken MacLeod Gardner Dozois Michael F Flynn Geoff Ryman Karl Schroeder Alastair Reynolds Gwyneth Jones Kij Johnson Paul McAuley Catherynne M Valente Jay Lake Tobias S Buckell Ian R MacLeod Robert Reed Lavie Tidhar Damien Broderick Yoon Ha Lee Carolyn Ives Gilman David Moles John Barnes Paul Cornell Dave Hutchinson Tom Purdom David Klecha Jim Hawkins Alec Nevala-Lee Peter M Ball Chris Lawson ISBN: 9781250003546 Year of publication: 2012 THE YEARS BEST SCIENCE FICTION Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection Edited by Gardner Dozois Summation: 2011 Like last year, the big story in 2011 continues to be the explosion in e-book sales, which have been dramatic enough, and accrued fast enough, to make some commentators speculate that e-books will eventually drive physical print books out of existence altogether. I dont think thats going to happen anytime soon, if it ever does, but the e-book revolution has been impressive nevertheless, and ... Keywords: |
![]() | BrasylIan McDonald ISBN: 9781591025436 Year of publication: 2007 Brasyl by Ian McDonald OUR LADY OF PRODUCTION VALUES MAY 17-19, 2006 Marcelina watched them take the car on Rua Sacop It was a C-Class Mercedes, a drug dealers car, done up to the tits by the Pimp My Ride: Brasileiro design crew with wheel trim and tail and blue lighting that ran up and down the subframe. Subwoofers the size of suitcases. The design boys had done a good job it looked a fistful more than the four thousand reis Marcelina had paid at the city car pound. One time they passed it: ... Keywords: |