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The Worlds of Clifford Simak
by Clifford D. SimakSome of the worlds of Clifford Simak are located on Earth now; some are at the ends of the galaxy. Others are in the far future, and some turn the corner into a universe of more than four dimensions. In all there is that sense of wonder and imagination that is the hallmark of the best of science fiction.<P> You need no M.I.T. degree to understand and enjoy a Simak story. It is always the people who hold the center of the story, not the scientific gadgets. Even the Interplanetary Exploratory Rocket with the electronic mind, who is the heroine of "Lulu," is not merely a cold, calculating circuit; she is a pushover for poetry and she falls in love. There is humor in many of Simak's stories and occasionally, when you least expect it, a sudden lightning flash that freezes the blood. In all the stories there are imaginative, thought-provoking ideas. "Honorable Opponent," a story of a battle between the galaxies, suggests a new and sensible way to wage war. "Death Scene" hints that the ability to predict what will happen twenty-four hours in advance may not be as pleasant a prospect as you might think. "Dusty Zebra" describes the predicament of a man who found out that caveat emptor can be a dangerous policy when trading with a mysterious, unseen inhabitant of another-dimensional world.<P> Don't expect any bug-eyed monsters here, but keep a sharp eye out for extra-terrestrial aliens who turn up living quietly on the farm just down the road. Beware the little man who has a brand-new gimmick for selling real estate, and look with suspicion even on the small, friendly, four-footed woodland creatures, one of whom is here capable of thinking rings around the whole U. S. Air Force. Warning! Brace yourselves for the final, unexpected, sometimes chilling endings that are a Simak specialty.
Worlds of Deep Space Nine: The Dominion and Ferenginar (Star Trek #3)
by Keith R. DeCandido David R. George IIITHE DOMINION: Odo continues his efforts - begun on DS9 - to understand his shape-shifting people, The Founders, and why they felt driven to conquer the Federation. His quest leads him unexpectedly to questions about the gods and their creations … and what those creations do when they believe that those gods have forsaken them. FERENGINAR: Political turmoil threatens to unseat Rom from the leadership of the Ferengi Alliance. A scandal involving criminal charges against Rom's former wife uncovers secrets which could not only bring him down but could undermine all the well-meaning changes his regime has introduced. Worse still, hardcore capitalist Quark has been enlisted by Rom's political adversaries to join forces with them against him, with promises of all the wealth and success Quark has ever dreamed of … as long as he helps them to overthow his brother.
Worlds of Deep Space Nine: Trill and Bajor (Star Trek #2)
by Michael A. Martin Andy Mangels J. Noah KymTRILL. The Trill are a combination of a symbiont and a host. The symbiont lives for hundreds of years in one host after another: each body is different, each personality is different, each life is different - but all of them are one. The symbiont accumulates experiences, relationships, memories … Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin have set their story on this most multi-layered and extraordinary of worlds. When Trill involvement in the assassination of an allied world leader comes to light, the reason lies in the terrifying and tragic origins of the Trill - and the answers reveal unsuspected links to other regions of the Star Trek universe. BAJOR. Political intrigue and interpersonal conflict in the style of The West Wing dominate on Deep Space Nine's core world of Bajor. The future of Bajor and the new role of long-missing Captain Benjamin Sisko are linked as this tale lays the groundwork for a major new storyline in further Deep Space Nine novels.
Worlds of Deep Space Nine: Cardassia and Andor (Star Trek #1)
by Una McCormack Heather JarmanCARDASSIA. Ravaged by the Dominion War which its leaders helped to begin, this once proud and xenophobic planet is the last place Miles and Keiko O'Brien thought they would build a life. But Cardassia's struggle to make itself anew and to throw off the legacy of its imperial past is hampered by those who prefer the old traditions. Una McCormick weaves a tale which brilliantly captures a world of contradictions: the need to atone and the steely darkness that share the Cardassian soul. ANDOR. From one of the best-known worlds in the Star Trek universe to one of the least. Heather Jarman brings the exotic Andor suberbly to life, with its four sexes, its complex social dilemmas and its ancient, mysterious past.
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions (S.F. MASTERWORKS #186)
by Ursula K. Le GuinFrom the multi-award-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea sequence comes this single-volume omnibus of the first three Hainish novels.Intergalactic war reaches Fomalhaut II in Rocannon's World.Born out of season, a precocious young girl visits the alien city of the farborns and the false-men in Planet of Exile.In City of Illusions a stranger wandering in the forest people's woods is found and his health restored; now the fate of two worlds rests in this stranger's hands . . . The three novels contained in this volume are the books that launched Ursula K. Le Guin's glittering career, and are set in the same universe as her Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classics The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed.
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Three Complete Novels Of The Hainish Series In One Volume--rocannon's World; Planet Of Exile; City Of Illusions (The\hainish Ser. #2)
by Ursula K. Le GuinFrom the multi-award-winning author of The Left Hand of Darkness and the Earthsea sequence comes this single-volume omnibus of the first three Hainish novels.
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World, Planet Of Exile, City Of Illusions (The\hainish Ser. #296)
by Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin is one of the greatest science fiction writers and many times the winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Her career as a novelist was launched by the three novels contained in Worlds of Exile and Illusion. These novels, Rocannon's world, Planet of Exile, and City of Illusions, are set in the same universe as Le Guin's groundbreaking classic, The Left Hand of Darkness.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Worlds of Exile and Illusion: Rocannon's World, Planet of Exile, City of Illusions (Hainish #1, #2, #3)
by Ursula K. Le GuinThe first three books in the Hainish Cycle, a series of science fiction novels by the acclaimed author Ursula K. Le Guin. It is set in an alternate history in which civilizations of human beings on planets orbiting a number of nearby stars, including Terra (Earth), are contacting each other for the first time and establishing diplomatic relations, setting up a confederacy under the guidance of the oldest of the human worlds, peaceful Hain. In this history, human beings did not evolve on Earth but were the result of interstellar colonies planted by Hain long ago, which was followed by a long period when interstellar travel ceased. Some of the races have new genetic traits, a result of ancient Hainish experiments in genetic engineering, including people who can dream while awake, and a world of androgynous people who only come into active sexuality once a month, and their gender can change. In keeping with Le Guin's style, she uses varied social and environmental settings to explore the anthropological and sociological outcomes of human evolution in those diverse environments.
Worlds of Honor (Worlds of Honor #2)
by David WeberContains 5 short stories set in Honor Harrington's universe. The Stray, by Linda Evans What Price Dreams?, by David Weber Queen's Gambit, by Jane Lindskold The Hard Way Home, by David Weber Deck Load Strike, by Roland J. Green IT'S A PARTY! In Honor's Honor, David Weber and Other Top Science Fiction Writers pay a Visit to Honor Harrington's Universe- David Weber has shot to the forefront of science fiction. The core of his work is Honor Harrington, the toughest, smartest starship captain in the galaxy. David Weber himself is on board with two never-before-published excursions into Honor's universe. First, he tells how young Honor Harrington first demonstrated the heroic stuff she was made of when she and her treecat Nimitz face the impossible task of rescuing the victims of an avalanche in a sub-zero blizzard. Weber returns with a chapter in the history of the telepathic treecats, who are far more intelligent than humans realize, and with whom the right human can form a close telepathic bond that can be severed only by death. But in this case, the young human who bonded with a treecat was a Very Important Person. Specifically, she was the Manticoran crown princess and heir to the throne of the empire. Roland Green, author of the "Starcruiser Shenandoah" series and the "Peace Company" series, is on board with a hard-hitting account of what happened when Manticore and the People's Republic of Haven went eyeball-to-eyeball over a strategically vital planet. Linda Evans, "Time Scout" co-author, looks at life among the treecats, before Honor. Jane Lindskold, author of the highly-praised fantasy Brother to Dragons, Companion to Owls, tells how Honor's monarch, Elizabeth III, had to learn the hard way what monarchy is all about.
The Worlds of If
by Stanley Grauman WeinbaumWeinbaum introduces another short story featuring the characters of Haskel van Manderpootz and Dixon Wells. Dixon Wells has become infamous for his tardiness and in "The Worlds of If", Wells explores the world of of if's, time travel, and missed opportunities.
The Worlds of Joe Shannon
by Frank M. RobinsonStrumming a harp while floating on a white cloud might be Paradise for some people, but it would bore others stiff. Given an unlimited chance to choose your ideal world, what would you specify—palaces or log cabins?
The Worlds of Science Fiction
by Robert P. MillsRobert P. Mills's Introduction: A large proportion of the freshest, most stimulating fiction of our times is being done in the taboo-free field of science fantasy, and this anthology's purpose is to offer prime examples of that statement. The selections come from the pens of a clutch of distinguished writers who have occasionally or often investigated the vistas which are opened up when the fences of reality are levelled. As a bonus-each story is a favorite, on one count or another, of its author, and the author in each instance has attached a note explaining why. And the epilogue, from Alfred Bester, looks into the problems of an author asked to name his favorites among his own works ... in the course of which he tells a multitude of stories. The stories here are not exclusively pure science fiction, though there are some examples present-the intention is to offer a wide variety of stories which will be intriguing and intelligible to the general reader as well as to the fan of science fiction (which last, in its more specialized forms, requires, for understanding, a scientific bent and some knowledge of what has been done in the field). The range in time is from the distant past to the far future, and in setting, from this world to outer space. There are familiar social backgrounds, and new ones that man may come to one day, or strive toward, or strive to avoid; there are aliens and robots and the people who live next door; there is man as he was, as he is, and as he may be. There is space travel, and mind travel and time travel and stasis; there is hope, and there is despair. There is one constant-man. And what all these stories attempt to do in one way or another is find a new vantage point from which to look at that curious beast in his endlessly various, noble and ignoble aspects.
Worlds of Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Worlds Of Deep Space Nine (Star Trek #3)
by David R. George III Keith R. DeCandidoWithin every federation and every empire, behind every hero and every villain, there are the worlds that define them. In the aftermath of Unity and in the daring tradition of Spock's World, The Final Reflection, and A Stitch in Time, the civilizations most closely tied to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine can now be experienced as never before...in tales both sweeping and intimate, reflective and prophetic, eerily familiar and utterly alien. FERENGINAR: Quark's profit-driven homeworld is rocked with scandal as shocking allegations involving his brother's first wife, the mother of Nog, threaten to overthrow Rom as Grand Nagus of the Ferengi Alliance. Making matters worse, Quark has been recruited by Rom's political adversaries to join their coup d'état, with guarantees of all Quark ever dreamed if they succeed in taking his brother down. While Ferenginar's future teeters on the edge, the pregnancy of Rom's current wife, Leeta, takes a difficult turn for both mother and child. THE DOMINION: Since its defeat in the war for the Alpha Quadrant, the Great Link -- the living totality of the shape-shifting Founders -- has struggled with questions. At its moment of greatest doubt, its fate, and that of the Dominion itself, is tied to Odo's investigation of his kind's true motives for sending a hundred infant changelings out into the galaxy. As Odo searches for answers and takes a hard look at his past choices, Taran'atar reaches a turning point in his own quest for clarity...one from which there may be no going back.
Worlds of the Imperium
by Keith LaumerAmerican diplomat Brion Bayard is on assignment in Stockholm when he notices he's being shadowed. Before he can escape, Bayard is kidnapped and transported to a parallel universe: the Imperium, where history has taken a different turn and the British Empire and its allies rule the world. Yet another parallel world exists, and the Imperium has a task there for their reluctant visitor: the impersonation and assassination of a global dictator who happens to be Bayard's otherworldly double.This adventurous, action-packed novel is the work of award-winning author Keith Laumer, creator of the Bolo and Reteif stories. Science-fiction enthusiasts, especially those who enjoy alternate histories, will savor the twists and turns of this imaginative thriller.
Worlds of the Imperium
by Keith LaumerAn American diplomat, trapped in a world he never made...At first Brion Bayard was relieved to discover that his kidnappers were very apologetic and very British. Then he learned that they were not from Earth...
Worlds of the Imperium (Imperium)
by Keith LaumerAn American diplomat, trapped in a world he never made...At first Brion Bayard was relieved to discover that his kidnappers were very apologetic and very British. Then he learned that they were not from Earth...
Worlds of Wonder
by Captain W. E. JohnsIn the penultimate book of Captain W.E. Johns' space adventures, the crew of the Tavona travel yet further and see yet more unbelievable sights!First up is the planet Krona, whose seemingly youthful inhabitants can live for centuries. What is in their food that sustains them? Is this something that could help revolutionise medicine as we know it? Of course, something so valuable will always have its hunters - and not all of them are as virtuous as the Professor.Tiger and his team will need to protect the natives of Krona, and persuade them that Earth is no threat in order to win the day!
Worlds of Wonder
by Captain W. E. JohnsIn the penultimate book of Captain W.E. Johns' space adventures, the crew of the Tavona travel yet further and see yet more unbelievable sights!First up is the planet Krona, whose seemingly youthful inhabitants can live for centuries. What is in their food that sustains them? Is this something that could help revolutionise medicine as we know it? Of course, something so valuable will always have its hunters - and not all of them are as virtuous as the Professor.Tiger and his team will need to protect the natives of Krona, and persuade them that Earth is no threat in order to win the day!
Worlds of Wonder: Readings in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
by Jean-Francois Leroux Camille R. La BossiereThis book is a long-overdue tribute to this previously ignored genre, placing these works within a general context of Canadian literature and culture.
World's Oldest Living Dragon (Dragon Slayers Academy #16)
by Kate Mcmullan Bill BassoSir Mort engineers a class trip to a home for "olde" knights. But when the lads and lasses arrive, they discover that Sir Lancelot has decided he's had enough of hacking and whacking and is ready for retirement himself. Find out how Erica (his most fervent admirer), Wiglaf, and the rest of the gang get Lancelot back in action, battling the feared Grizzlegore, the world's oldest living dragon.
Worlds Seen in Passing: Ten Years of Tor.com Short Fiction
by Jeff VanderMeer N. K. Jemisin Charlie Jane AndersWinner of the World Fantasy AwardWorlds Seen in Passing is an anthology of award-winning, eye-opening, genre-defining science fiction, fantasy, and horror from Tor.com's first ten years, edited by Irene Gallo."A fresh new story going up at Tor.com is always an Event."—Charlie Jane AndersSince it began in 2008, Tor.com has explored countless new worlds of fiction, delving into possible and impossible futures, alternate and intriguing pasts, and realms of fantasy previously unexplored. Its hundreds of remarkable stories span from science fiction to fantasy to horror, and everything in between. Now Tor.com is making some of those worlds available for the first time in print.This volume collects some of the best short stories Tor.com has to offer, with Hugo and Nebula Award-winning short stories and novelettes chosen from all ten years of the program. TABLE OF CONTENTS:“Six Months, Three Days” by Charlie Jane Anders“Damage” by David D. Levine“The Best We Can” by Carrie Vaughn“The City Born Great” by N. K. Jemisin“A Vector Alphabet of Interstellar Travel” by Yoon Ha Lee“Waiting on a Bright Moon” by JY Yang“Elephants and Corpses” by Kameron Hurley“About Fairies” by Pat Murphy“The Hanging Game” by Helen Marshall “The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere” by John Chu “A Cup of Salt Tears” by Isabel Yap “The Litany of Earth” by Ruthanna Emrys “Brimstone and Marmalade” by Aaron Corwin “Reborn” by Ken Liu “Please Undo This Hurt” by Seth Dickinson “The Language of Knives” by Haralambi Markov “The Shape of My Name” by Nino Cipri “Eros, Philia, Agape” by Rachel Swirsky“The Lady Astronaut of Mars” by Mary Robinette Kowal “Last Son of Tomorrow” by Greg van Eekhout “Ponies” by Kij Johnson “La beauté sans vertu” by Genevieve Valentine “A Fist of Permutations in Lightning and Wildflowers” by Alyssa Wong “A Kiss With Teeth” by Max Gladstone “The Last Banquet of Temporal Confections” by Tina Connolly “The End of the End of Everything” by Dale Bailey “Breaking Water” by Indrapramit Das “Your Orisons May Be Recorded” by Laurie Penny “The Tallest Doll in New York City” by Maria Dahvana Headley “The Cage” by A.M. Dellamonica “In the Sight of Akresa” by Ray Wood “Terminal” by Lavie Tidhar “The Witch of Duva” by Leigh Bardugo “Daughter of Necessity” by Marie Brennan “Among the Thorns” by Veronica Schanoes “These Deathless Bones” by Cassandra Khaw “Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch” by Kelly Barnhill “This World Is Full of Monsters” by Jeff VanderMeer “The Devil in America” by Kai Ashante Wilson“A Short History of the Twentieth Century, or, When You Wish Upon A Star” by Kathleen Ann GoonanAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Worlds That Weren't
by Harry Turtledove S. M. Stirling Mary Gentle Walter Jon WilliamsIn this collection of original novellas, four award-winning masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four brilliant excursions into what might have been by traversing Worlds That Weren't. Under the influence of the philosopher Sokrates, the Athenian general Alkibiades leads his soldiers to victory over the Spartans in New York Times bestselling author Harry Turtledove's "The Daimon." Set in the same universe as The Peshawar Lancers, "Shikari in Galveston" by national bestselling author S. M. Stirling features an Angrezi aristocrat's hunting expedition into the wilds of Texas-and his growing admiration for the natives who dwell there. In 1453, a rather different Turkish Empire raised the flag of Astarte's Bloody Crescent over Constantinople. Four years later, European mercenaries find themselves stranded on the coast of North Africa-with an embarrassing corpse-in "The Logistics of Carthage" by Mary Gentle. In Walter Jon Williams's "The Last Ride of German Freddie," a mysterious Old World figure stalks Tombstone, Arizona, as a cardsharp, trading philosophy -and lead-with the likes of Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. The past isn't what it used to be....
Worlds To Conquer
by John Russell Fearn Vargo StattenClaire Escott had ignored her father's warning against involvement with her fiancé Mark Rowland. However, she little realised the extent of the scientist's corroding ambition when he invents a method of matter transmission. And it was not long after their marriage that Rowland's ruthless pursuit of a scientific empire encompassed a horrifying murder. But that was only the start of things. Mark's scientific genius and obsessive ambition to go one step further eventually led to the conquest of space, culminating in the mass destruction of an interstellar war!
Worlds To Conquer
by John Russell Fearn Vargo StattenA classic SF title from the prolific pulp author John Russell Fearn, writing here as Vargo Statten.
The Worlds Trilogy: Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time (The Worlds Trilogy #1)
by Joe HaldemanThe acclaimed author of The Forever War imagines a future in which most of humanity has abandoned Earth for man-made habitats orbiting the troubled world. In Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time, the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author imagines a near future rife with exhilarating and terrifying possibilities, when hundreds of thousands of human beings have abandoned the Earth&’s surface to live in man-made habitats orbiting the troubled planet. Haldeman&’s science fiction saga follows Marianne O&’Hara, a young inhabitant of the World known as New New York, from her arrival on Earth as a student who becomes seduced by radical politics, through her coming of age amid the Worlds&’ war and the habitats&’ devastation, and ultimately to Marianne&’s emergence as a leader—and possibly the last hope of the human race as it heads toward the stars. Stephen King said of the first book in Haldeman&’s trilogy, &“There are scenes in Worlds I will remember forever.&” These gripping novels will enthrall anyone interested in the future—that of our planet and of the human race.