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Author : Xia Jia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781642360295
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Summer Beyond Your Reach written by Xia Jia and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is perhaps no voice better suited to tellthe stories of contemporary China's conflicted, layered reality. China is atonce a very young and a very old country, and as much guided by revolutionaryfervor as by the heavy memories of history. Where the techniques of literaryrealism often seem powerless before the many contradictions of the country'sheadlong plunge into uneven development, Xia Jia has discovered a way to usespeculative fiction, with its rich semantic web of fantastic metaphors, derivedfrom both the language of magic and science, to convey the psychological truthof being Chinese at this moment."-Ken Liu, from theIntroduction

Author : Nnedi Okorafor
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 0698175166
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Phoenix written by Nnedi Okorafor and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fiery spirit dances from the pages of the Great Book. She brings the aroma of scorched sand and ozone. She has a story to tell.... The Book of Phoenix is a unique work of magical futurism. A prequel to the highly acclaimed, World Fantasy Award-winning novel, Who Fears Death, it features the rise of another of Nnedi Okorafor’s powerful, memorable, superhuman women. Phoenix was grown and raised among other genetic experiments in New York’s Tower 7. She is an “accelerated woman”—only two years old but with the body and mind of an adult, Phoenix’s abilities far exceed those of a normal human. Still innocent and inexperienced in the ways of the world, she is content living in her room speed reading e-books, running on her treadmill, and basking in the love of Saeed, another biologically altered human of Tower 7. Then one evening, Saeed witnesses something so terrible that he takes his own life. Devastated by his death and Tower 7’s refusal to answer her questions, Phoenix finally begins to realize that her home is really her prison, and she becomes desperate to escape. But Phoenix’s escape, and her destruction of Tower 7, is just the beginning of her story. Before her story ends, Phoenix will travel from the United States to Africa and back, changing the entire course of humanity’s future.

Author : Neil Clarke
Publisher : Night Shade Books
ISBN 13 : 1597806579
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Best Science Fiction of the Year written by Neil Clarke and published by Night Shade Books. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Hugo Award-Winning Editor Neil Clarke, the Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Collected in a Single Paperback Volume Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more—a task that can be accomplished by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to present the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year’s writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome “sensawunda” that the genre has to offer.

Author : Sean Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781642360202
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarkesworld Year Ten written by Sean Wallace and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during the first half of their tenth year. Includes stories by Cixin Liu, Kij Johnson, Seth Dickinson, Tamsyn Muir, Paul McAuley, Naomi Kritzer, Rich Larson, Xia Jia, Robert Reed, and many more!

Author : Jay Lake
Publisher : Prime Books
ISBN 13 : 9781890464103
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realms 2 written by Jay Lake and published by Prime Books. This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected from the Hugo award-nominated Clarkesworld Magazine, Realms collects the work of twenty-five visionary writers of short fiction, including such World Fantasy, Philip K. Dick, Tiptree, Hugo, and Campbell Award winners and finalists as Jeffrey Ford, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cat Rambo, Tim Pratt, Robert Reed, Mike Resnick, and Catherynne M. Valente -- and amazing stories from up-and-comers like Karen Heuler, Paul Jessup, Yoon Ha Lee, Margaret Ronald, and many more

Author : Neil Clarke
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 159780651X
Total Pages : 857 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Not One of Us written by Neil Clarke and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mankind comes face to face with extraterrestrial life in this short fiction reprint anthology from Clarkesworld publisher Neil Clarke. They Are Strangers from Far Lands . . . Science fiction writers have been using aliens as a metaphor for the other for over one hundred years. Superman has otherworldly origins, and his struggles to blend in on our planet are a clear metaphor for immigration. Earth’s adopted son is just one example of this “Alien Among Us” narrative. There are stories of assimilation, or the failure to do so. Stories of resistance to the forces of naturalization. Stories told from the alien viewpoint. Stories that use aliens as a manifestation of the fears and worries of specific places and eras. Stories that transcend location and time, speaking to universal issues of group identity and its relationship to the Other. Nearly thirty authors in this reprint anthology grapple both the best and worst aspects of human nature, and they do so in utterly compelling and entertaining ways. Not One of Us is a collection of stories that aren’t afraid to tackle thorny and often controversial issues of race, nationalism, religion, political ideology, and other ways in which humanity divides itself.

Author : Neil Clarke
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1597806188
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More Human Than Human written by Neil Clarke and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of creating an artificial human is an old one. One of the earliest science-fictional novels, Frankenstein, concerned itself primarily with the hubris of creation, and one’s relationship to one’s creator. Later versions of this “artificial human” story (and indeed later adaptations of Frankenstein) changed the focus to more modernist questions… What is the nature of humanity? What does it mean to be human? These stories continued through the golden age of science fiction with Isaac Asimov’s I Robot story cycle, and then through post-modern iterations from new wave writers like Philip K. Dick. Today, this compelling science fiction trope persists in mass media narratives like Westworld and Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner, as well as twenty-first century science fiction novels like Charles Stross’s Saturn's Children and Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Windup Girl. The short stories in More Human than Human demonstrate the depth and breadth of artificial humanity in contemporary science fiction. Issues of passing . . . of what it is to be human . . . of autonomy and slavery and oppression, and yes, the hubris of creation; these ideas have fascinated us for at least two hundred years, and this selection of stories demonstrates why it is such an alluring and recurring conceit.

Author : Neil Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692706046
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clarkesworld written by Neil Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2016-05-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Original fiction by Cat Rambo ("Left Behind"), Robert Reed ("The Universal Museum of Sagacity"), Cassandra Khaw ("Breathe"), Rich Larson ("Jonas and the Fox"), and Luo Longxiang ("Away from Home"). Reprints from Joe Abercrombie ("Tough Times All Over") and Sunny Moraine ("A Heap of Broken Images"). Non-fiction by Andrew Liptak (Destination: Venus), an interview with James Gunn, an Another Word column by Jason Heller, and an editorial by Neil Clarke.

Author : Madeline Ashby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781890464301
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Upgraded written by Madeline Ashby and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Better . . . Stronger . . . Faster . . . The doctors rebuilt Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke and made him a cyborg. Now he has assembled this anthology of twenty-six original cyborg stories by Greg Egan, Madeline Ashby, Elizabeth Bear, Peter Watts, Ken Liu, Robert Reed, Yoon Ha Lee, and more!

Author : Nick Mamatas
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486841863
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Move Under Ground written by Nick Mamatas and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Readers will be enthralled, chilled, and astonished." -- Tom Piccirilli, author of A Choir of Ill Children. In the first of many references to H. P. Lovecraft's "The Call of Cthulhu," this thoroughly unique novel begins with the rise of the lost city of R'lyeh, portending certain doom for human existence. The witness to this deadly harbinger is Jack Kerouac, who recruits fellow beats Neal Cassady and William S. Burroughs for a cross-country road trip that will climax in a confrontation with a murderous cult.