Following the rapid evolution of cyberpunk from Bruce Sterling and William Gibson into the current millennium, this vivid anthology welcomes a new generation of exciting writers to take the genre in new and unexpected directions. Cyberpunk freewheels with punk rock energy, careening between the internet, bioengineering, and international politics, ...
Fletcher offers cooks over 80 mouthwatering ways to pair pasta with peak season vegetables and lively sauces. Organized alphabetically by vegetable, the book's appealing suggestions for combining pasta with fresh produce are quick to prepare, light on meat, and rich in flavor--perfect for time-pressed cooks who want to serve wholesome meals. 24 ...
"Pride and Prometheus," a story in The Baum Plan for Financial Independence involving characters from Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is winner of the 2008 Nebula award for Best Novelette. A long-awaited collection of fourteen stories that intersect imaginatively with Pride and Prejudice, Frankenstein, The ...
Intending to establish a canon for the controversial slipstream science-fiction subgenre, the editors of this anthology have brought together a group of convention-defying tales set in vivid and disorienting dreamscapes that offer no distinction between reality and hallucination. A cross between the literary surrealism of Franz Kafka and escapist ...
Stories by several of the up-and-coming voices in science fiction, written wholly or partially at the prestigious Sycamore Hill Writer's Conference. Authors include Bruce Sterling, Carol Emshwiller, Nancy Kress, and Maureen F. McHugh.
An outstanding collection of nineteen works includes two poems, an award-winning play, and sixteen short stories--including the never-before published "Gulliver at Home"--by one of science fiction's most acclaimed authors and the winner of the Nebula, Locus, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards. Reprint.
Alexandr Davidowich Berman once sewed costumes at the Kirov Ballet in Leningrad. Now weary and in his twilight years, this Jewish tailor has the heart of a hero. And he is ever alert to anti-Semitism. When called out of retirement to repair tsarist clothing for a traveling exhibition, he makes a startling discovery. It sets him on an extensive ...
After receiving the Nebula Award in 1983 for his stunning nouvelle "Another Orphan, " John Kessel has written a group of stories that for sheer imaginative audacity defy conventional classification. In "The Pure Product" an amoral time-traveler embarks upon a harrowing joyride through the Midwest; "The Big Dream" is a 1920s hardboiled detective ...
Between one and a half to two million children under the age of sixone out of eleven American preschoolershave elevated levels of lead in their blood, a condition that can cause damage to their developing brains, resulting in learning disabilities, behavior problems, and decreased IQs. A severe problem that affects not only children from our ...
This clever mix of dry satire and broad farce is a fairly faithful SF homage to Preston Sturges's 1941 film THE LADY EVE. Genevieve Faison and her father August are con artists in the 21st century--and pretty much in every other century, too, as time travel has become a popular tourist attraction. A major part of her stock-in-trade consists of ...
"Important. Urgent. Practical. Very, very, useful". -- Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace "Lead poisoning is one of the most common and preventable pediatric health problems today". US Centers for Disease Control Between one and a half to two million children under the age of six -- one out of eleven American preschoolers -- have elevated ...
George hotly pursues a mad Alien in this discombobulated romp, described by The Philadelphia Enquirer as "a frantic paranoiac's version of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, taking potshots at everything from Zionist Fundamentalism to Southern regional literature on its way to the Second Coming".
This series seeks to publish practical, applications orientated books designed for professional chemists employed in the paints and coatings industry, and reflecting technological developments, environmental concerns and increasing demand for higher volume production in emerging markets. The books in the series should provide insights into ...
This ingeniously conceived anthology raises the intriguing question, If Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow" had won the Nebula award in 1973, would the future distinction between literary fiction and science fiction have been erased? Exploring the possibility of an alternate history of speculative fiction, this literary collection reveals that ...
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Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy
