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Fearsome Journeys (Paperback)
Jonathan Strahan; Kate Eliot, Trudi Canavan, Daniel Abraham, Saladin Ahmed, …
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How do you encompass all the worlds of the imagination? Within
fantasy's scope lies every possible impossibility, from dragons to
spirits, from magic to gods, and from the unliving to the undying.
In Fearsome Journeys, master anthologist Jonathan Strahan sets out
on a quest to find the very limits of the unlimited, collecting
twelve brand new stories by some of the most popular and exciting
names in epic fantasy from around the world. With original fiction
from Scott Lynch, Saladin Ahmed, Trudi Canavan, K J Parker, Kate
Elliott, Jeffrey Ford, Robert V S Redick, Ellen Klages, Glen Cook,
Elizabeth Bear, Ellen Kushner, Ysabeau S. Wilce and Daniel Abraham,
Fearsome Journeys explores the whole range of the fantastic.
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Edge of Infinity (Paperback)
Jonathan Strahan; Peter F. Hamilton, Alastair Reynolds, Hannu Rajaniemi, Elizabeth Bear, …
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Featuring the original The Expanse story "Drive" by James S. A.
Corey, the basis for Season 2, Episode 6, "Paradigm Shift" and Pat
Cadigan's Hugo-winning "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi". One
Giant Leap For Mankind Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words
when he became the first human being to step onto another world.
All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer
Earthbound. Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology
that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our
home world out into the Solar System. From the eerie
transformations in Pat Cadigan's Hugo Award-winning "The Girl-Thing
Who Went Out for Sushi" to the frontier spirit of Sandra McDonald
and Stephen D. Covey's "The Road to NPS," and from the grandiose
vision of Alastair Reynolds' "Vainglory" to the workaday
familiarity of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Safety Tests," the
thirteen stories in this anthology span the whole of the human
condition in their race to colonise Earth's nearest neighbours.
Featuring stories by Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, James S.
A. Corey, John Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch,
Elizabeth Bear, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Paul McAuley, Sandra
McDonald, Stephen D. Covey, An Owomoyela, and Bruce Sterling,Edge
of Infinity is hard SF adventure at its best and most exhilarating.
Meet Doctor Jens. She hasn't had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen
years. The first part of her job involves jumping out of perfectly
good space-ships. The second part requires developing emergency
treatments for sick aliens of species she's never seen before. She
loves it. But her latest emergency is also proving a mystery: Two
ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a dangerous embrace. A
mysterious crew suffering from an even more mysterious ailment. A
shipmind trapped in an inadequate body, much of her memory pared
away. A murderous virus from out of time. Unfortunately, Dr. Jens
can't resist a mystery. Which is why she's about to discover that
everything she's dedicated her life to . . . is a lie. Praise for
Elizabeth Bear 'Like the best of speculative fiction, Bear has
created a fascinating and complete universe that blends high-tech
gadgetry with Old World adventure and political collusion'
Publishers Weekly 'This is certainly the best science fiction novel
I've read in 2019 so far and I look forward to see how Bear
develops the characters and her impressively rich universe'
(POPULAR SCIENCE) 'Elizabeth Bear is just as comfortable writing
steampunk and fantasy as she is hard science fiction, and Ancestral
Night, first half of a duology, brims with heady concepts and sleek
far-future hardware. There is a mordant wit at work' (FINANCIAL
TIMES) 'Awesome, awe-inspiring space opera. Fittingly, it shifts
from weighty themes to lighter humour with dexterity, grace and
crackling dialogue' (Daily Mail) 'Bear has constructed a
fascinating, absorbing universe populated with compelling and
intelligent characters who conform to neither cliches nor
stereotypes. It's sci-fi of the top order' (popmatters.com)
Science fiction and fantasy has never been more diverse or vibrant,
and 2014 has provided a bountiful crop of extraordinary stories.
These stories are about the future, worlds beyond our own, the
realms of our imaginations and dreams but, more importantly, they
are the stories of ourselves. Featuring best-selling writers and
emerging talents, here are some of the most exciting genre writers
working today. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan once
again brings you the best stories from the past year. Within you
will find twenty-eight amazing tales from authors across the globe,
displaying why science fiction and fantasy are genres increasingly
relevant to our turbulent world. Featuring Kelly Link * Holly Black
* Ken Liu * Usman T. Malik * Lauren Beukes * Paolo Bacigalupi * Joe
Abercrombie * Genevieve Valentine * Nicola Griffith * Caitlin R.
Kiernan * Greg Egan * K. J. Parker * Rachel Swirsky * Alice Sola
Kim * Garth Nix * Karl Schroeder * Ellen Klages * Kai Ashante
Wilson * Michael Swanwick * Eleanor Arnason * James Patrick Kelly *
Ian Mcdonald * Amal El-Mohtar * Tim Maughan * Elizabeth Bear *
Theodora Goss * Peter Watts
The travels of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the space age, who
encounters faulty time machines, intelligent washing machines,
suicidal potatoes, and other puzzling phenomena. Memoirs of a Space
Traveler follows the adventures of Ijon Tichy, a Gulliver of the
space age, who leads readers through strange experiments involving,
among other puzzling phenomena, faulty time machines, intelligent
washing machines, and suicidal potatoes. The scientists Tichy
encounters make plans that are grandiose, and strike bargains that
are Faustian. They pursue humanity's greatest and most ancient
obsessions: immortality, artificial intelligence, and
top-of-the-line consumer items. By turns satirical, philosophical,
and absurd, these stories express the most starkly original and
prescient notions of a master of speculative fiction.
At last the generation ship Jacob's Ladder has arrived at its
destination: the planet they have come to call Grail. But this
habitable jewel just happens to be populated already: by humans who
call their home Fortune. And they are wary of sharing Fortune -
especially people who have genetically engineered themselves to
such an extent that it is a matter of debate whether they are even
human anymore. To make matters worse, a shocking murder aboard the
Jacob's Ladder has alerted Captain Perceval and the Angel Nova that
formidable enemies remain hidden somewhere among the new crew. On
Grail - or Fortune, rather - Premier Danilaw views the approach of
the Jacob's Ladder with dread. Behind the diplomatic niceties of
first-contact protocol, he knows that the deadly game being played
is likely to erupt into full-blown war - even civil war. For as he
strives to chard a peaceful and prosperous path forward for his
people, internal threats emerge to take control by any means
necessary. Originally published in 2011 as Grail.
Temur, grandson of the Great Khan, is walking from a battlefield
where he was left for dead. All around lie the fallen armies of his
cousin and his brother who made war to rule the Khaganate. Temur is
now the legitimate heir by blood to his grandfather's throne, but
he is not the strongest. Going into exile is the only way to
survive his ruthless cousin. Once-Princess Samarkar is climbing the
thousand steps of the Citadel of the Wizards of Tsarepheth. She was
heir to the Rasan Empire until her father got a son on a new wife.
Then she was sent to be the wife of a Prince in Song, but that
marriage ended in battle and blood. Now she has renounced her
worldly power to seek the magical power of the wizards. These two
will come together to stand against the hidden cult that has so
carefully brought all the empires of the Celadon Highway to strife
and civil war through guile and deceit and sorcerous power.
Sometimes the greatest sin is survival. The generation ship Jacob's
Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now,
riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny,
the damaged ship - the only world its inhabitants have ever known -
remains a war zone. Even as Perceval, the new captain, struggled to
come to terms with the traumas of her past, the remnants of
rebellion aboard the ship still threaten the crew's survival. Yet
as Perceval's relatives Tristen and Benedick play a deadly game of
cat and mouse in pursuit of a traitor through a cast ship that is
renewing itself in strange and dangerous ways, an even more
insidious threat is building in a place no one ever thought to
look. And this implacable enemy could change the face of the ship
forever if a ragtag band of heroes cannot stop it. Originally
published in 2010 as Chill.
A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime
that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space
opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear. Haimey Dz
thinks she knows what she wants. She thinks she knows who she is.
She is wrong. A routine salvage mission uncovers evidence of a
terrible crime and relics of a powerful ancient technology, just as
Haimey and her small crew run afoul of pirates at the outer limits
of the Milky Way and find themselves both on the run, and in
possession of ancient, universe-changing technology. When the
authorities prove corrupt, it becomes clear that Haimey is the only
one who can protect her galaxy-spanning civilisation from its
potential power - and from the revolutionaries who want to use it
to seed terror and war. But doing so will take her from the event
horizon of the super-massive black hole at the galaxy's core to the
infinite, empty spaces at its edge. Along the way, she'll have to
uncover the secrets of ancient intelligences lost to time as well
as her own lost secrets, which she will wish had remained hidden
from her forever . . . Energetic and electrifying, Ancestral Night
is a dazzling new space opera, sure to delight fans of Alastair
Reynolds, Iain M. Banks, and Peter F. Hamilton. Praise for
Elizabeth Bear 'Gripping, perfectly balanced, and highly
recommended' Kirkus 'Like the best of speculative fiction, Bear has
created a fascinating and complete universe that blends high-tech
gadgetry with Old World adventure and political collusion'
Publishers Weekly
Meet Doctor Jens. She hasn't had a decent cup of coffee in fifteen
years. The first part of her job involves jumping out of perfectly
good space-ships. The second part requires developing emergency
treatments for sick aliens of species she's never seen before. She
loves it. But her latest emergency is also proving a mystery: Two
ships, one ancient and one new, locked in a dangerous embrace. A
mysterious crew suffering from an even more mysterious ailment. A
shipmind trapped in an inadequate body, much of her memory pared
away. A murderous virus from out of time. Unfortunately, Dr. Jens
can't resist a mystery. Which is why she's about to discover that
everything she's dedicated her life to . . . is a lie. Praise for
Elizabeth Bear 'Like the best of speculative fiction, Bear has
created a fascinating and complete universe that blends high-tech
gadgetry with Old World adventure and political collusion'
Publishers Weekly 'This is certainly the best science fiction novel
I've read in 2019 so far and I look forward to see how Bear
develops the characters and her impressively rich universe'
(POPULAR SCIENCE) 'Elizabeth Bear is just as comfortable writing
steampunk and fantasy as she is hard science fiction, and Ancestral
Night, first half of a duology, brims with heady concepts and sleek
far-future hardware. There is a mordant wit at work' (FINANCIAL
TIMES) 'Awesome, awe-inspiring space opera. Fittingly, it shifts
from weighty themes to lighter humour with dexterity, grace and
crackling dialogue' (Daily Mail) 'Bear has constructed a
fascinating, absorbing universe populated with compelling and
intelligent characters who conform to neither cliches nor
stereotypes. It's sci-fi of the top order' (popmatters.com)
Modern space adventures crafted by a new generation of Grand
Tradition science fiction writers. Smart, readable, and engaging
stories that take us back to a time when science fiction was fun
and informative, pithy and piquant-when speculative fiction
transported us from the everyday grind and left us wondrously
satisfied. Showcasing the breadth of Grand Tradition stories, from
1940s-style pulp to realistic hard SF, from noir and horror SF to
spaceships, alien uplift, and action-adventure motifs, Far Orbit's
diversity of Grand Tradition stories makes it easy for every SF fan
to find a favorite. Featuring an open letter to SF by Elizabeth
Bear and stories from Gregory Benford, Tracy Canfield, Eric Choi,
Barbara Davies, Jakob Drud, Julie Frost, David Wesley Hill, K. G.
Jewell, Sam Kepfield, Kat Otis, Jonathan Shipley, Wendy Sparrow,
and Peter Wood. "Daring adventure, protagonists who think on their
feet, and out of this world excitement Welcome to FAR ORBIT, a fine
collection of stories in the best SF tradition. Strap in and enjoy
" -Julie E. Czerneda, author of SPECIES IMPERATIVE "Successfully
captures the kinds of stories that were the gateway drugs for many
of us who have been reading science fiction for a long time. Well
done " -Tangent
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Space Opera (Paperback)
Jay Lake, Kage Baker, Elizabeth Bear, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds; Edited by …
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More than five-hundred pages, over one-quarter of a million
words... Space Opera spans a vast range of epic interstellar
adventure stories told against a limitless cosmos filled with
exotic aliens, heroic characters, and incredible settings. A truly
stellar compilation of tales from one of the defining streams of
science fiction, old and new, written by a supernova of genre
talent.
For five hundred years the immortal Children of the Light,
einherjar and valkyrie, have lived together in the North of
Valdyrgard. They were born out of the Sea, each with a shining
crystal sword in his or her hand; they are Angels of Light created
in the formation of a new world. But three have come before them,
from the death-throes of the old world, Midgard: the world-girdling
Serpent, Bearer of Burdens; the Wolf Fenris, eater of the Sun, who
now takes the form of an einherjar; and his demon sister, stealer
of souls.
The Children spend their days feasting, fighting, hunting, and
guarding their human charges. But one dreadful day a woman is
washed up from the sea, a Lady who is no mortal, though she is not
valkyrie either. Thus begins the breaking of the Children of the
Light, the tarnishing of their power, and the death of
Valdyrgard.
"By the Mountain Bound" is a prequel to Elizabeth Bear's highly
acclaimed "All the Windwracked Stars," and tells the painful tale
of love and betrayal, sorcery and battle, that led up to the day
when Muire was left alone in the snow at the end of the world.
Elizabeth Bear's near-future trilogy concludes with the fate of the
world in the palm of Jenny Casey's artificially reconstructed hand
. . . Give Canada's Master Warrant Officer Jenny Casey an inch and
she'll take a galaxy. That's just the kind of person a world on the
brink of destruction needs. The year is 2063, and Earth has been
brutalized. An asteroid flung at Toronto by the PanChinese
government has killed tens of millions and left the equivalent of a
nuclear explosion in its wake. Humanity must find another option .
. . Perched above the devastation in the starship Montreal, Jenny
is still in the thick of the fray. Plugged into the worldwire,
connected to a brilliant AI, her mind can be everywhere and
anywhere at once. But it's focused on the mysterious alien beings
right outside her ship. Are they there to help - or destroy? With
Earth a breeding ground for treason and betrayal as governments
struggle to assign blame, Jenny holds the fate of humankind in her
artificially reconstructed hand . . .
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