Jonathan Strahan
Author
Pub. Date
2023/08/01
Language
English
Description
With a breathtaking array of original stories from around the world, P. Djèlí Clark, Amal El Mohtar, Garth Nix, Darcie Little Badger, Sheree Renée Thomas, and two dozen other fantasy and science fiction geniuses bring a new and exciting twist to one of the most beloved figures in fiction, witches, in never-before-seen works written exclusively for The Book of Witches, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan and illustrated by award-nominated...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light—and, with it, the enormity of the universe—realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that
...3) Eclipse 1
Author
Publisher
Start Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
An eclipse is a rare and unusual event, when the world is transformed and the sky becomes a dark eldritch thing. It's a time when anything could happen, when any kind of story just might be true. That sense of the strange and wonderful guides Eclipse: New Science Fiction and Fantasy, the first volume in an exciting new annual anthology series edited by acclaimed anthologist Jonathan Strahan.
Set to become a major event on the science fiction...
Set to become a major event on the science fiction...
Author
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
389 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Adventurers, scientists, artists, workers, and visionaries--these are the men and women you will encounter in the short fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson. In settings ranging from the sunken ruins of Venice to the upper reaches of the Himalayas to the terraformed surfaces of Mars itself, and though themes of environmental sustainability, social justice, personal responsibility, sports, adventure and fun, Robinson's protagonists explore a world which...
Author
Series
Fractured fables volume 2
Publisher
Tordotcom, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
130 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Zinnia Gray, professional fairy-tale fixer and lapsed Sleeping Beauty is over rescuing snoring princesses. Once you've rescued a dozen damsels and burned fifty spindles, once you've gotten drunk with twenty good fairies and made out with one too many members of the royal family, you start to wish some of these girls would just get a grip and try solving their own narrative issues. Just when Zinnia's beginning to think she can't handle one more princess,...
Author
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
618 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of twenty-seven short science fiction stories that were written over a period of thirty-five years, including "Neutron Star," "The Magic Goes Away," and "The Borderland of Sol."
Author
Publisher
Tor Essentials
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed as one of the most original voices in modern literature, a winner of the World Fantasy Award for lifetime achievement, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was an American original, a teller of acute, indescribably loopy tall tales whose work has been compared to that of Avram Davidson, Flannery O'Connor, Flann O'Brien, and Gene Wolfe. The Best of R. A. Lafferty presents 22 of his best flights of offbeat imagination, ranging from classics...
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First Saga Press trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 569 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A must-have collection of the best short science fiction and speculative fiction of 2019, showcasing brilliant talent and examining the cultural moment we live in, compiled by award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. With short works from some of the most lauded science fiction authors, as well as rising stars, this collection displays the top talent and the cutting-edge cultural moments that affect our lives, dreams, and stories. Authors include past...
Publisher
Solaris, an imprint of Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Time-travel is a way for writers to play with history and imagine different futures - for better, or worse. When romance is thrown into the mix, time-travel becomes a passionate tool, or heart-breaking weapon. A time agent in the 22nd century puts their whole mission at risk when they fall in love with the wrong person. No matter which part of history a man visits, he cannot not escape his ex. A woman is desperately in love with the time-space continuum,...
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
517 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Collection of previously unpublished epic science fiction pieces includes contributions by top genre authors as well as up-and-coming writers, including such names as Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, and Nancy Kress.
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 558 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From China to Europe, Africa to North America, dragons have long captured our imagination in myth and legend. Whether they are rampaging beasts awaiting a brave hero to slay or benevolent sages who have much to teach humanity, dragons are intrinsically connected to stories of creation, adventure, and struggle beloved for generations. Bringing together nearly thirty stories and poems from some of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers working...
19) Selected stories
Author
Publisher
Diamond [distributor]
Pub. Date
©2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Smoke Ghost places a classic ghost story in a modern urban setting, while the dread in Coming Attraction reflects the uneasiness of the cold war. The powerful Gonna Roll the Bones explores mans compulsion toward self-destruction, while a different archetype is revealed in The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, which reveals the vampiric seduction of modern consumerism. There are three tales of adventurous rogues Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, including the Nebula...
Author
Publisher
ibooks, Inc
Language
English
Description
A collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2003, by some of the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of science fiction's most respected editors. Continuing ibooks' series of popularly-priced "Best of the Year" books edited and designed to appeal to science fiction fans whose budgets may be taxed by more expensive "Best of the Year" collections.
