The Sunspacers Trilogy

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497635012
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book The Sunspacers Trilogy written by George Zebrowski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunspacers Trilogy is a trio of novels of an alternate, earth-based civilization. In Sunspacer, young and idealistic philosophy student Joe Sorby must come to terms with adulthood while negotiating the gross injustices of interplanetary commerce. In Stars Will Speak, an alien signal is broadcast from the farthest reaches of the known galaxy . . . but will the scientists of earth decipher its warning in time? In Behind the Stars, young Max Sorby returns to Earth after spending all of his life on a mobile space habitat, fearing that the only home he has ever known will be lost to him forever.

Sunspacer

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Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780060268503
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book Sunspacer written by George Zebrowski and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel, set on Mercury, concerns a boy attending college there.

The Omega Point Trilogy

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497611628
Total Pages : 287 pages
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Download or read book The Omega Point Trilogy written by George Zebrowski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic space opera trilogy from the John W. Campbell Memorial Award–winning writer, “one of SF’s most visionary authors” (Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine). First published between 1977 and 1983, the novels Ashes and Stars, The Omega Point, and Mirror of Minds formed a trilogy that stands as “one of the highpoints of that era in our genre . . . dazzling” (Paul Di Filippo, Locus). Now in one volume, The Omega Point Trilogy shares George Zebrowski’s mind-blowing prescience with a new generation of fans. 6599 A. D. The war between the Earth Federation and the Herculean Empire has been over for more than three centuries. The planet in the Hercules Globular Cluster is a cinder, and the few descendants of the surviving Herculeans live half a galaxy away on Myraa’s World in what seems to be a religious commune. But on an unnamed planet, deep within the Hercules Cluster, two survivors, father and son, gather their resources and plan a reign of terror against Federation worlds. The woman Myraa has a different vision though—one which excludes empires and warring armies. Subtly, she strives to shape events toward a different end. Rising to one of the most unusual climaxes in recent fantastic literature, this trilogy of chase and vengeance depicts a colorful, poetic future struggling to overcome its past. Filled with striking twists and vivid ideas, this is space opera at its most modern. “An impressive achievement . . . an exciting story which also shows that man’s future control of the environment, even of his own body and mind, will scarcely bring control of himself.” —Poul Anderson

Heart Of The Sun

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471107094
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Heart Of The Sun written by George Zebrowski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an abandoned space habitat is found within a distant asteroid belt, the Starship Enterprise is sent to investigate. Captain Kirk and his crew discover an artificial world full of technological marvels -- and unexpected dangers. But wonder and curiosity give way to fear when the habitat's shifting orbit sends it on a collision course with an inhabited planet within the same solar system. Now Kirk and Spock must find a way to save the planet without destroying a treasure trove of alien science, and time is running out...

Heart Of The Sun Star Trek 83

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743454006
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Heart Of The Sun Star Trek 83 written by George Zebrowski and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-01-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When an abandoned space habitat is found within a distant asteroid belt, the Starship Enterprise is sent to investigate. Captain Kirk and his crew discover an artificial world full of technological marvels -- and unexpected dangers. But wonder and curiosity give way to fear when the habitat's shifting orbit sends it on a collision course with an inhabited planet within the same solar system. Now Kirk and Spock must find a way to save the planet without destroying a treasure trove of alien science, and time is running out...

Macrolife

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497634172
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Macrolife written by George Zebrowski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitled “A Mobile Utopia,” this pioneering novel about the meaning of space habitats for human history, presents spacefaring as no work did in its time, and since. A utopian novel like no other, presenting a dynamic utopian civilization that transcends the failures of our history. Epic in scope, Macrolife opens in the year 2021. The Bulero family owns one of Earth’s richest corporations. As the Buleros gather for a reunion at the family mansion, an industrial accident plunges the corporation into a crisis, which eventually brings the world around them to the brink of disaster. Vilified, the Buleros flee to a space colony where young Richard Bulero gradually realizes that the only hope for humanity lies in macrolife—mobile, self-reproducing space habitats. A millennium later, these mobile communities have left our sunspace and multiplied. Conflicts with natural planets arise. John Bulero, a cloned descendant of the twenty-first century Bulero clan, falls in love with a woman from a natural world and experiences the harshness of her way of life. He rediscovers his roots when his mobile returns to the solar system, and a tense confrontation of three civilizations takes place. One hundred billion years later, macrolife, now as numerous as the stars, faces the impending death of nature. Regaining his individuality by falling away from a highly evolved macrolife, a strangely changed John Bulero struggles to see beyond a collapse of the universe into a giant black hole. Inspired by the possibilities of space settlements, projections of biology and cosmology, and basic human longings, Macrolife is a visionary speculation on the long-term future of human and natural history. Filled with haunting images and memorable characters, this is a vivid and brilliant work.

Empties

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148049478X
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Empties written by George Zebrowski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detective discovers bodies without brains—and wonders if he’s losing his mind—in this tale of nightmarish terror. What do you tell yourself when impossible things begin to happen? What can you say? You’re a police detective, but maybe you’re just not good enough and that’s what you have to admit, whether you like it or not. You see evidence of things that can’t be real, but you just don’t observe well enough to explain it in any natural way. Can you ask rational questions and still be crazy? Does it help any that you know your mind is gone? You’re trapped in a black comedy with a beautiful but fatal woman right out of an old poem by Keats, hoping to wake up from the nightmare, even if on a cold hillside—as long as you wake up sane. Detective William Benek is faced with an impossible crime: bodies are turning up without their brains and without any indication of how the organs were removed. His only lead—an attractive woman—becomes more than a lead, and then drives him into a world of terror, where his sanity is questioned and he must stop a monster he can barely comprehend. Listed as a Best Book of 2009 by Edge Boston.

Contemporary Authors

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Publisher : Contemporary Authors
ISBN 13 : 9780787645939
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (459 download)

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Book Synopsis Contemporary Authors by : Scot Peacock

Download or read book Contemporary Authors written by Scot Peacock and published by Contemporary Authors. This book was released on 2002-05 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your students and users will find biographical information on approximately 300 modern writers in this volume of Contemporary Authors(R).

Xenograffiti

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Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 0809519003
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Xenograffiti by : R. Reginald

Download or read book Xenograffiti written by R. Reginald and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new retrospective collection spanning almost forty years, Pilgrim Award- and Collector's Award-winning fantasy novelist, critic, and bibliographer Robert Reginald contributes forty-five essays on writers of fantastic literature, including such major and minor figures as: Piers Anthony, Edwin Lester Arnold, Margaret Atwood, John Kendrick Bangs, Leslie Barringer, John Bellairs, Arthur Byron Cover, Lindsey Davis, Alexander de Comeau, Daphne du Maurier, R. Lionel Fanthorpe, H. Rider Haggard, Charlotte Haldane, Edward Heron-Allen, Eleanor M. Ingram, Vernon Knowles, Katherine Kurtz, Andrew Lang, Fritz Leiber, Bruce McAllister, Ward Moore, Robert Nathan, Sir Henry Newbolt, William F. Nolan, John Norman, Keith Roberts, Michael Reaves, Brian Stableford, and George Zebrowski. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography and history of the publications of Starmont House, Inc., and FAX Collector's Editions, a selection of reviews and obituaries, a bibliography, and detailed index. This unique literary collection will prove of interest both to students and researchers alike. This second edition features fifteen new pieces, including the author's earliest published critique (1968), and a number of original autobiographical reflections on his life and career penned shortly after his heart attack in 2003.

The Sunspacers Trilogy

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Publisher : E-reads/E-rights
ISBN 13 : 9780759237568
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Sunspacers Trilogy written by George Zebrowski and published by E-reads/E-rights. This book was released on 2001-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunspacers Trilogy is a trio of novels of an alternate, earth-based civilization. Sunspacer Young and idealistic philosophy student Joe Sorby must come to terms with adulthood while negotiating the gross injustices of interplanetary commerce. In Stars Will Speak, an alien signal is broadcast from the farthest reaches of the known galaxy ... but will the scientists of earth decipher its warning in time? In Behind the Stars, young Max Sorby returns to earth after spending all of his life on a mobile space habitat, fearing that the only home he has ever known will be lost to him forever.

Brute Orbits

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497622832
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Brute Orbits written by George Zebrowski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like his previous tales of technocratically engineered futures (Macrolife; Stranger Suns; etc.), Zebrowski's latest evokes the pioneering SF of social philosopher Olaf Stapledon... In the 21st century, Earth incarcerates its undesirables in mined-out asteroids launched into new orbits for the duration of their sentences. "This use of distance as a better prison wall" is more than just an ingenious application of technology to the penal system: it's also a convenient trick for disposing of the socially misfit, since orbits are "accidentally" miscalculated to prevent their return. The narrative follows the histories of several of these "rocks" as their prisoners fight, unite and ultimately set out to create superior, self-contained cultures free of the taint of earthly ways. Individual asteroids house specific groups of offenders, ranging from hardened convicts to sexual deviants, juvenile delinquents and unwanted foreigners... Zebrowski argues his points with conviction. Publishers Weekly "A brilliant and dramatic philosophical reflection on the nature of society, technology . . . and humanity itself. Zebrowski is a deep thinker who writes about the big questions' in the grand tradition of Wells, Stapledon, and Clarke." -- Jack M. Dann, award-winning author of The Silent and The Memory Cathedral High Crimes Call for High Punishment. It is the twenty-first century. Convicts are sentenced to asteroids that move in ever-widening solar orbits, timed to return when their terms run out. But a few ambitious administrators discover that small "errors" in velocity can rid them of selected groups altogether: the hardcore violent, the mentally defective, and especially the political dissidents. Enduring the black vise of interstellar space-time, these human rejects--men and women mixed together--create their own Darwinian societies, struggling to survive. Back on Earth, a handful of sympathetic and curious scientists have not forgotten these lost citizens. When a technological breakthrough makes it possible to overtake these scattered asteroids, a courageous team sets out to go where none has willingly gone before. What they discover in these "brute orbits" is both provocative and moving--a startling vision of humanity you will never forget.

Garth Of Izar

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471107078
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Garth Of Izar written by Pamela Sargent and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Garth of Izar, hero of the battle of Axanar which helped secure the future of the Federation, was once a legendary Starfleet Captain whose exploits were required reading at Starfleet Academy. In the 2260s he suffered serious injuries in an incident on Antos IV. The inhabitants of Antos repaired his body by teaching him the art of cellular metamorphosis, but did not realise that his injuries had rendered him criminally insane. After ordering the destruction of Antos IV, Garth was committed to the Federation rehab colony on Elba II, where, in 2268, he overpowered his keepers, escaping with the aid of the cellular-metamorphosis process, mastery of which enabled him to take on the appearance of any person he wished. Before his eventual recapture he had proclaimed himself lord of the universe and attempted to commandeer the Starship Enterprise. Now cured of his insanity by new techniques of experimental medicine, Garth of Izar must rebuild his shattered life. The opportunity to do so is provided on a mission to solve a diplomatic crisis -- a crisis that requires Garth to return to the very planet that caused his insanity so many years ago.

Swift Thoughts

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480494763
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Swift Thoughts written by George Zebrowski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of stories showcases the work of George Zebrowski, one of science fiction’s masters and a writer Hugo and Nebula Award winner Robert J. Sawyer has called “one of the most philosophically astute writers in science fiction.” Like the writers Olaf Stapledon, Arthur C. Clarke, and Stanislaw Lem, Zebrowski explores the “big questions”—the expansion of human horizons, and the growth of power over our lives and the world in which we live. In the title story, scientists push the boundaries of human mentality to keep pace with ever-evolving AIs. In “The Eichmann Variations,” a finalist for the Nebula Award, exact copies of captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann stand trial for his crimes against humanity, while in “The Word Sweep,” all speech must be rationed because spoken words take on physical form. In “Wound the Wind,” another Nebula Award finalist, unchanged humans roam freely until captured by those who know what’s best for them, and in “Stooges,” a visiting alien hijacks the persona of Curly Howard. From hard science fiction (“Gödel’s Doom”) to alternate history (“Lenin in Odessa”) to first alien contact (“Bridge of Silence”), and with an introduction by renowned physicist/writer Gregory Benford, this collection presents one of the most distinctive voices writing in the field of science fiction today.

The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350351377
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Fiction Writer's Guide to Alternate History written by Jack Dann and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. First giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to differentiate the different forms of counterfactual fiction, Jack Dann lays out the 'tricks of the trade' such 'Heinleining', how to create recognizable 'divergent points' and how to employ paratextual elements and 'layering' to overcome readers' unfamiliarity with invented counterfactual events and cultures. Alongside this, Dann takes you step-by-step through a complete short story to demonstrate, line-by-line, how alternative history fiction works. As well as Dann's exacting methodology for writing professional quality alternate history stories, this book also features a live-on-the-page Q&A with some of the most esteemed alternate history writers working today, including Kim Stanley Robinson, John Birmingham and Lisa Goldstein among many others, who will detail their own particular hacks, theories, processes, methods and strategies. Combining extensive and deep knowledge of the field with accessible writing advice, this is the ultimate guidebook to the broad and complex sub-genre of counterfactual and alterative history fiction.

In the Distance, and Ahead in Time

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504009924
Total Pages : 209 pages
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Download or read book In the Distance, and Ahead in Time written by George Zebrowski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten stories of this collection present glimpses of our near, middle, and far futures “Heathen God,” the author’s first Nebula Award finalist, reveals the consequences of learning that our solar system may have been engineered by an alien race. “In the Distance, and Ahead in Time” and “Wayside World” depict the rediscovery of a ruined Earth’s interstellar colonies by a new culture of mobile habitats. In “Transfigured Night” and “Between the Winds,” we enter two possible destinies as we tamper with human reality and humankind mutates into vastly different offshoots.

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

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Publisher : Infobase Learning
ISBN 13 : 1438140622
Total Pages : 2098 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by : Don D'Ammassa

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Science Fiction written by Don D'Ammassa and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2015-04-22 with total page 2098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents articles on the science fiction genre of literature, including authors, themes, significant works, and awards.

A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers

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Publisher : Poets & Writers
ISBN 13 : 9780913734629
Total Pages : 590 pages
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Download or read book A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers written by Poets & Writers, Incorporated and published by Poets & Writers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference includes the names, contact information, and publication credits of over 7,400 contemporary American poets, fiction writers, and performance writers. The main listings are organized by state and country and include such information as the writers' willingness to travel and read and languages of fluency. A separate index lists writers by categories of self-identification, such as race, political interest, home, gender, and employment. The 2000-2001 edition includes more than 500 new listings and an index of literary agents. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)