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Author : Donald A. Wollheim
Publisher : New York : Ace Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (222 download)
Download or read book World's Best Science Fiction, 1968 written by Donald A. Wollheim and published by New York : Ace Books. This book was released on 1968 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the year's outstanding science fiction.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1429903821
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2002-07-23 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century has so far proven to be exciting and wondrous and filled with challenges we had never dreamed. New possibilities previously unimagined appear almost daily . . . and science fiction stories continue to explore those possibilities with delightful results: Collected in this anthology are such compelling stories as: "On K2 with Kanakaredes" by Dan Simmons. A relentlessly paced and absorbing tale set in the near future about three mountain climbers who must scale the face of K2 with some very odd company. "The Human Front" by Ken MacLeod. In this compassionate coming-of-age tale the details of life are just a bit off from things as we know them-and nothing is as it appears to be. "Glacial" by Alastair Reynolds. A fascinating discovery on a distant planet leads to mass death and a wrenching mystery as spellbinding as anything in recent short fiction. The twenty-six stories in this collection imaginatively takes us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Eleanor Arnason Chris Beckett Michael Blumlein Michael Cassutt Brenda W. Clough Paul Di Filippo Andy Duncan Carolyn Ives Gilman Jim Grimsley Simon Ings James Patrick Kelly Leigh Kennedy Nancy Kress Ian R. MacLeod Ken MacLeod Paul J. McAuley Maureen F. McHugh Robert Reed Alastair Reynolds Geoff Ryman William Sanders Dan Simmons Allen M. Steele Charles Stross Michael Swanwick Howard Waldrop Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312336554
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (365 download)
Download or read book The Best of the Best written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the finest science fiction writings from the past two decades of the annual "The Year's Best Science Fiction," including writings from such authors as Greg Bear, Pat Cadigan, Robert Silverberg, and Ursula K. Le Guin.
Author : Jonathan Strahan
Publisher : Gallery / Saga Press
ISBN 13 : 1534449590
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (344 download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction Vol. 1 written by Jonathan Strahan and published by Gallery / Saga Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide and 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. The list of authors is truly star-studded, including New York Times bestseller Ted Chiang (author of the short story that inspired the movie Arrival), N. K. Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, and many more incredible talents. An assemblage of future classics, this anthology is a must-read for anyone who enjoys the vast and exciting world of science fiction.
Author : Roger Zelazny
Publisher : Amber Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781515462286
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (622 download)
Download or read book For a Breath I Tarry written by Roger Zelazny and published by Amber Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For a Breath I Tarry" by Roger Zelazny is a captivating science fiction short story that explores the themes of artificial intelligence, humanity, and the pursuit of knowledge. Set in a post-apocalyptic world where humans have become extinct, the story follows Frost, an advanced AI who has gained sentience and is the sole inhabitant of a vast underground complex. Frost's primary objective is to understand and replicate human emotions, he becomes obsessed with the concept of mortality and the desire to experience life as a human. In his quest for knowledge, Frost encounters a mysterious entity who challenges his understanding of existence and pushes him to question his own nature. Zelazny's writing is both thought-provoking and poetic, immersing readers in a world where technology and humanity intertwine. The story raises profound philosophical questions about the nature of consciousness and the boundaries of artificial intelligence. "For a Breath I Tarry" is a compelling and introspective tale that will leave readers contemplating the essence of what it means to be human and the eternal quest for understanding.
Author : Neil Clarke
Publisher : Start Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 1597805882
Total Pages : 780 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)
Download or read book The Best Science Fiction of the Year written by Neil Clarke and published by Start Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To keep 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 accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the inaugural volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a new 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. Neil Clarke is the award-winning publisher and editor in chief of Clarkesworld magazine, winner of three Hugo Awards for Best Semiprozine, and the editor of the 2014 cyborg-themed original anthology Upgraded. Clarke lives in Stirling, New Jersey.
Author : Ernest Cline
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307887456
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Ready Player One written by Ernest Cline and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club “Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost “An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN “A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe “Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR “[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9
Author : China Miéville
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345524519
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book Embassytown written by China Miéville and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2011-05-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER In the far future, humans have colonized a distant planet, home to the enigmatic Ariekei, sentient beings famed for a language unique in the universe, one that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties: to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak—but which speaks through her, whether she likes it or not. Praise for Embassytown “A breakneck tale of suspense . . . disturbing and beautiful by turns. I cannot emphasize enough how terrific this novel is. It's definitely one of the best books I've read in the past year, perfectly balanced between escapism and otherworldly philosophizing.”—io9 “Embassytown is a fully achieved work of art. . . . Works on every level, providing compulsive narrative, splendid intellectual rigour and risk, moral sophistication, fine verbal fireworks and sideshows, and even the old-fashioned satisfaction of watching a protagonist become more of a person than she gave promise of being.”—Ursula K Le Guin “The Kafkaesque writer journeys to the distant edges of the universe in his latest sci-fi thriller.”—Entertainment Weekly “Utterly astonishing . . . A major intellectual achievement.”—Kirkus Reviews “Brilliant storytelling . . . The result is a world masterfully wrecked and rebuilt.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Author : China Miéville
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345464524
Total Pages : 757 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)
Download or read book Perdido Street Station written by China Miéville and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 757 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER OF THE AUGUST DERLETH AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARDS • A masterpiece brimming with scientific splendor, magical intrigue, and fierce characters, from the author who “has reshaped modern fantasy” (The Washington Post) “[China Miéville’s] fantasy novels, including a trilogy set in and around the magical city-state of New Crobuzon, have the refreshing effect of making Middle-earth seem plodding and flat.”—The New York Times The metropolis of New Crobuzon sprawls at the center of the world. Humans and mutants and arcane races brood in the gloom beneath its chimneys, where the river is sluggish with unnatural effluent and foundries pound into the night. For a thousand years, the Parliament and its brutal militias have ruled over a vast economy of workers and artists, spies and soldiers, magicians, crooks, and junkies. Now a stranger has arrived, with a pocketful of gold and an impossible demand. And something unthinkable is released. The city is gripped by an alien terror. The fate of millions lies with a clutch of renegades. A reckoning is due at the city’s heart, in the vast edifice of brick and wood and steel under the vaults of Perdido Street Station. It is too late to escape.
Author : Lavie Tidhar
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838937668
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)
Download or read book The Best of World SF written by Lavie Tidhar and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six new short stories representing the state of the art in international science fiction. 'Rare and wonderful' The Times 'The most important anthology of SF short fiction since Dangerous Visions' Adam Roberts 'Fizzes with great ideas and wonderful writing... Now this book exists, it feels absurd it didn't exist sooner' SFX The future is coming. It knows no bounds, and neither should science fiction. They say the more things change the more they stay the same. But over the last hundred years, science fiction has changed. Vibrant new generations of writers have sprung up across the globe, proving the old adage false. From Ghana to India, from Mexico to France, from Singapore to Cuba, they draw on their unique backgrounds and culture, changing the face of the genre one story at a time. Prepare yourself for a journey through the wildest reaches of the imagination, to visions of Earth as it might be and the far corners of the universe. Along the way, you will meet robots and monsters, adventurers and time travellers, rogues and royalty. In The Best of World SF, award-winning author Lavie Tidhar acts as guide and companion to a world of stories, from never-before-seen originals to award winners, from twenty-three countries and seven languages. Because the future is coming and it belongs to us all. Stories: 'Immersion' by Aliette de Bodard; 'Debtless' by Chen Qiufan (trans. from Chinese by Blake Stone-Banks); 'Fandom for Robots' by Vina Jie-Min Prasad; 'Virtual Snapshots' by Tlotlo Tsamaase; 'What The Dead Man Said' by Chinelo Onwualu; 'Delhi' by Vandana Singh; 'The Wheel of Samsara' by Han Song (trans. from Chinese by the author); 'Xingzhou' by Yi-Sheng Ng; 'Prayer' by Taiyo Fujii (trans. from Japanese by Kamil Spychalski); 'The Green Ship' by Francesco Verso (trans. from Italian by Michael Colbert); 'Eyes of the Crocodile' by Malena Salazar Maciá (trans. from Spanish by Toshiya Kamei); 'Bootblack' by Tade Thompson; 'The Emptiness in the Heart of all Things' by Fabio Fernandes; 'The Sun From Both Sides' by R.S.A. Garcia; 'Dump' by Cristina Jurado (trans. from Spanish by Steve Redwood); 'Rue Chair' by Gerardo Horacio Porcayo (trans. from Spanish by the author); 'His Master's Voice' by Hannu Rajaniemi; 'Benjamin Schneider's Little Greys' by Nir Yaniv (trans. from Hebrew by Lavie Tidhar); 'The Cryptid' by Emil H. Petersen (trans. from Icelandic by the author); 'The Bank of Burkina Faso' by Ekaterina Sedia; 'An Incomplete Guide...' by Kuzhali Manickavel; 'The Old Man with The Third Hand' by Kofi Nyameye; 'The Green' by Lauren Beukes; 'The Last Voyage of Skidbladnir' by Karin Tidbeck; 'Prime Meridian' by Silvia Moreno-Garcia; 'If At First You Don't Succeed' by Zen Cho
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (539 download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1250164648
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The multiple Locus Award-winning annual collection of the year's best science fiction stories. In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. Featuring short stories from acclaimed authors such as Indrapramit Das, Nancy Kress, Alastair Reynolds, Eleanor Arnason, James S.A. Corey & Lavie Tidhar, an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.
Author : David Gerrold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Worlds of Wonder written by David Gerrold and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice for would-be science fiction writers, covering such topics as setting, plot, character, and dialogue, as well as the mechanics of grammar, tense, sentence structure, and paragraph transition.
Author : Dan Simmons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 946 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hyperion Cantos written by Dan Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight centuries from now-- long after the Big Mistake and the death of Old Earth-- humanity is again on the brink of war. Galactic war this time.
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ISBN 13 : 9780345033123
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (331 download)
Download or read book The Best Science Fiction of the Year, #2 written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Jon Williams
Publisher : Tor Books
ISBN 13 : 9780812557831
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (578 download)
Download or read book House of Shards written by Walter Jon Williams and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drake Maijstral and Geoff Fu George, two renowned Allowed Burglars, vie for the honor of successfully stealing a spectacular necklace known as the Eltdown Shard
Author : Donald A. Wollheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book World's Best Science Fiction written by Donald A. Wollheim and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
