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Stories that range all the way from high fantasy to hard sf. - Avalon shimmers in the corners of your eyes while monsters forge you into a deadly weapon. - Your immortal lover is willing to sacrifice anything to pursue a walking city on a gigantic Alderson disc. Even you and your child. - Race across the silicon highways of a computer-chip, in a car no bigger than a microbe. - Stop Lovecraft before he wakes the Old Ones in their sunken cities or climb the Tower of Babel while Saddam Hussein aims his Space Cannon.
In these twenty tales of the weird and twisted you will visit temples dedicated to the worship of dark gods spawned under the diseased light of long-dead stars; find yourself lost in damned places where truth and sanity vanish like mist in sunlight; meet strangers who make you pray that all you think you know is wrong; and discover that love is really just another gateway to unending despair. You may even find confirmation of the dreadful fact that you are what you always feared you might be. Stories included in this collection: Beneath Black Spires Put on the Mask The Turn of the Tide The Cobwebbed Bird House The Last Ones Sunday (Early Evening Ecstasy) Taking the Cure The Rolling of Old Thunder Red Walls Out of Stockl Finest Garments Repaired In the Deeps of Dream By a Scarlet Thread Side 1, Track 3 Treading the Lost Path (Descending Aklo Songs) A Meeting Beneath the Moon For the Love of Insects Late Night, Caradoc Street The Sixth Guardian Doorgrave to the Bittersea
A collection of short stories from all over the world from some of the best international writers available today. Authors in the edition are: Michaele Jordan, Mike Jansen, Richard Zwicker, Gustavo Bondoni, Purluca, Jonathan Shipley, Sergio 'ente per ente' Palumbo, Eric Del Carlo, Kain Massin, Peter Hagelslag, Floris M. Kleijne, Ville Meriläinen, Dennis Mombauer, Laurence Suhner, Bo Balder, Felice Picano, Emad El-Din Aysha, Nicola Lombardi, Marcie Franks, Tais Teng & Jaap Boekestein, Maarten Luikhoven and, Agrippina Domanski.
Future and Fantastic Worlds embodies an unusual approach to the field of bibliographic research, including over 700 annotations of every DAW book published through mid-1987, with indexes by author, artist, and title, providing a massive guide to modern SF writers and their works, with much background data. Interspersed throughout the book are numerous wry, irreverent, and amusing observations offered by the late and highly respected researcher in this extremely valuable genre tool.
All brand-new tales to get you through the long summer days and nights Featuring all-new original tales by Silas M. Adams, Matthew F. Amati, K.G. Anderson, Jamie M. Boyd, Melinda Brasher, John M. Campbell, Katie Cervenec, Vivian Chou, Emmie Christie, Richard S. Crawford, E. N. Dauvin, Bruce Golden, Kris Faatz, Steve Forti, Jon Hansen, Joachim Heijndermans, R. W. Hodgson, Andrew M. Johnson, Jonah Jones, Zoe Kaplan, Julia LaFond, H R Laurence, Xavier Martinez, Zachary Olson, Nancy Pica Renken, Keira Reynolds, Camden Rose, Alex Scott, William Shaw, Aditya Sundararajan, Ed Teja, and Tais Teng.
De verkenner 'Azoran' reist duizend lichtjaar naar een interessant zonnestelsel om daar onderzoek te doen naar het plotselinge verschijnen van een witte dwergster. Hard core science fiction over een stel onderzoekers die in aanraking komen met buitenaardse beschavingen. Een eerste contact is niet altijd even vreedzaam. Dit korte verhaal is eerder verschenen in een Babel-SF Ragnarok bundel en nu voor het eerst beschikbaar als chapbook met andere vertellingen van Mike Jansen. Lees nu ook het vervolg op dit verhaal in 'Dwerghart'
Fourth volume in Mike Ashley's acclaimed set on the history of science-fiction magazines. This volume looks at the 1980s.
East German science fiction enabled its authors to create a subversive space in another time and place. One of the country's most popular genres, it outlined futures that often went beyond the party's official version. Many utopian stories provided a corrective vision, intended to preserve and improve upon East German communism. This study is an introduction to East German science fiction. The book begins with a chapter on German science fiction before 1949. It then spans the entire existence of the country (1949-1990) and outlines key topics essential to understanding the genre: popular literature, socialist realism, censorship, fandom, and international science fiction. An in-depth discuss...
Fourth volume in Mike Ashley's acclaimed set on the history of science-fiction magazines. This volume looks at the 1980s.