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MUTINY IN SPACE began as a novella entitled "Valentine's Planet,"
which appeared in the August 1964 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow. "To
space opera of the time, the character of the captain was as
important as that of the king was to Shakespeare. He (the captain
was always a "he," even when the author was female) was the model
and exemplar for society, the man with the right stuff, he who made
the tough decisions and enforced discipline?
A fantasy masterpiece from a five-time Hugo Award winner
A war-dragon of Babel crashes in the idyllic fields of a
post-industrialized Faerie and, dragging himself into the nearest
village, declares himself king and makes young Will his lieutenant.
Nightly, he crawls inside the young fey's brain to get a measure of
what his subjects think. Forced out of his village, Will travels
with female centaur soldiers, witnesses the violent clash of
giants, and acquires a surrogate daughter, Esme, who has no
knowledge of the past and may be immortal.
Evacuated to the Tower of Babel--infinitely high, infinitely
vulgar, very much like New York City--Will meets the confidence
trickster Nat Whilk. Inside the Dread Tower, Will becomes a hero to
the homeless living in the tunnels under the city, rises as an
underling to a haint politician, meets his one true love-a
high-elven woman he dare not aspire to.
You've heard of hard SF: This is hard fantasy from a master of
the form.
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Devil's Ways (Paperback)
Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, J. M. Sidorova
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R520
Discovery Miles 5 200
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Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy
magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic
works), articles, interviews and art.
Our April 2014 issue contains: Original Fiction by Michael
Swanwick ("Passage of Earth"), Benjanun Sriduangkaew
("Autodidact"), Kali Wallace ("Water in Springtime") and Sean
Williams ("The Cuckoo"). Classic stories by Susan Palwick ("Going
After Bobo") and Dominic Green ("Shining Armor"). Non-fiction by
Julie Novakova ("Realms of Dark, Deep and Cold"), an interview with
Ben Tanzer, an Another Word column by Daniel Abraham, and an
editorial by Neil Clarke
"Very simply, Tom Purdom IS science fiction. His ever-inventive
stories are cut from the cloth of it and sewn with the skill of a
master." --Gregory Frost
"Tom Purdom made his first professional sale all the way back in
1957. It's hard to think of any other member of his generation
whose current work is frequently mentioned in the same breath with
that of writers such as Charles Stross, Greg Egan, and Alastair
Reynolds, many of whom were not even born when Tom started his
professional career, but Tom's is. In fact, for sweep and audacity
of imagination and a wealth of new ideas and dazzling
conceptualization, Tom Purdom not only holds his own with the New
Young Turks of the '90s and the Oughts, he sometimes surpasses
them. And unlike some of today's Hot New Writers, Tom's work never
fails to ALSO feature fascinating and psychologically complex
characters, and intrepid investigation into the human heart."
--Gardner Dozois
"Tom Purdom is the most underrated science fiction writer I know
of. His short fiction delivers again and again with great plots,
characters, and an imagination both cosmic and delicately complex."
--Jeffrey Ford
"Purdom has created a major body of work. Thoughtful, humane,
intelligent, extrapolative, involving, his stories are exactly the
sort of thing our genre exists to make possible. If you don't like
Tom Purdom, you don't like science fiction. Period." --Michael
Swanwick
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Mutiny in Space (Paperback)
Avram Davidson; Introduction by Michael Swanwick
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R369
R327
Discovery Miles 3 270
Save R42 (11%)
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MUTINY IN SPACE began as a novella entitled "Valentine's Planet,"
which appeared in the August 1964 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow. "To
space opera of the time, the character of the captain was as
important as that of the king was to Shakespeare. He (the captain
was always a "he," even when the author was female) was the model
and exemplar for society, the man with the right stuff, he who made
the tough decisions and enforced discipline?
In the bundle was the corpse of his friend Aubrey Darger. In the
distant future, Surplus descends from the mountains into China,
seeking the Infallible Physician for a cure. The old high-tech
world has long since collapsed, and the artificial intelligences
that ran it are outlawed and destroyed. Or so it seems. Berger and
Surplus, a human and a genetically engineered, intelligent,
anthropomorphic dog, are a pair of con men who travel to what was
once China, where they pretend to be immortals. They convince the
ambitious, mysterious, and conquest driven Hidden Emperor to once
again reunite China under one ruler with their aid, of course and
find his elusive Phoenix Bride. Against all odds, and much to their
puzzled surprise, the scheme begins to succeed.
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