Author: Catherine McNamara
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909357099
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 208

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Author: James Van Pelt
Publisher: Fairwood Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780974657356
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Van Pelt's first collection, "Strangers and Beggars," was voted one of the Best Books of 2003 by the American Library Association. This new collection continues to explore the ever-changing boundaries of science fiction, fantasy and horror.

Author: James Van Pelt
Publisher: Fairwood Press, Inc
ISBN: 9780966818451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222

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Contains seventeen science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories by James van Pelt.

Author: James Van Pelt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974657387
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Set in Denver, Colorado, and the western foothills, Van Pelt's first novel is both a coming-of-age tale as 15-year-old Eric searches for his father, and a story of Eric's search 60 years later for hope in the midst of disaster in a world of blood bandits, feral children, and an insane militia.

Author: K G Anderson
Publisher: B Cubed Press
ISBN: 9781949476224
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238

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I'm coming for you is a bad movie line. For Death it is a promise. We tend to like to avoid the concept of death, but it keeps finding us. So we put together a book. But what to call it. We were sick of death coming in and taking friends and family, giving no regard for us except to leer from the darkness. The answer came, in a callout to Steven Colbert: we opted for Deathiness. Death didn't like that. I believe it was her fault (oh hell yes, death is a woman) that I found myself being carried out of the house with a couple of pulmonary embolisms and realizing that most people who were in my condition met the grim reaper. So I resolved to change my life, be a nicer person, give up cheese products and... Nah, I decided to invite the B Cubed family on board to talk about it and maybe have a laugh at Death's expense. So Death, be warned: We're Coming for You! And we're doing it with these great stories: In "The Bodies We Carry" K.G. Anderson, one of the great up and comers writing about how to make death more real. In "The Miracle Man" Jim Wright gives another chilling look into the world he created for the Best Selling Alternative Apocalypse. In "Instructions for My Executors" Clare Marsh treats us with a poetic look at death and what the family should do. In "Rule 49" (perhaps my favorite) has Maureen McGuirk looking at death as a real entity and shows us their many faces. In "Spoons", Jay Wilburn dips into a well of thought and sensitivity as he makes death into a gentle journey that is not taken alone. And "Gallows Humor?" Michael Mansaray takes a unique look at the inevitability of death that must be read to appreciate. "For What is a Man" is David Foster's quest for an answer to the question with no real unswer. "Mudpaws and the Tall Thing" Frances Rowat is a touching story reminiscent of the work Mike Resnick that sees the worlds end from the perspective of a lovely dog. "A Comedian's Valediction Forbidding Mourning" is the wonderful Larry Lefkowitz's reminder to laugh. "The Thing Underneath" is a wee bit of horror by James Van Pelt. "Have You Ever Been Experienced?" is an old theme made fresh by Paula Hammond, as she shows the power of being addicted to death. "Death's Scout" is Mark O. Decker thoughtful poem that I'll let you read rather than read about. It's that good. "Papercut" by Larry Hinkle will make you throw this book out the window in disgust and horror, only to stop the car and retrieve the book to read it again. "Death's Doorway" is Diana Hauer's incredible story of those who walk beside us through that final gate. "Missing" by Robin Pond is that story that makes you want to read a hundred more just like it. In "Final Questions," Chris Kuriata, adds to the duties of death to in this thoughtful look at unanswered questions of the dead. "The Borrower", by Katie Sakanai speaks to the value of the human spirit across space and time. "Three O'Clock" is Lamont Turner's nicely done story on making the best out of a bad situation. "To Do Right", by Cory Swanson, shows us a better way to die. A good end to life is not to be underestimated. "Old Forgotten Grave" by Bill Camp is a familiar but comfortable reminder that all of us will be forgotten. "Ashes," by my dear friend Lizzy Shannon is a touching look at the end of life. "The Devil's Backbone," by Larry Hodges, brings his trademark humor to what happens when the Devil takes on the Good Humor man. "Written in Stone," by Lauren Stoker. "Death," by Robert Armstrong The Four Horsemen (and Women) of the Apocalypse by Sarina Dorie "Deathventures, Inc." by Robinne Weiss "Rest In Virtual" by Tommy Blanchard Loving Death in New York, is poet Alicia Hilton's look at death on the streets of the Big Apple. Life Long Love by the inspired you man, Sirrus James. Not old enought to drink, but old enough to understand love.

Author: Daryl Gregory
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933846309
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The short stories in this first collection by critically acclaimed writer Daryl Gregory run the gamut from science fiction to contemporary fantasy, with a few stories that defy easy classification. His characters may be neuroscientists, superhero sidekicks, middle-aged heroes of children's stories, or fantatics spreading a virus-borne religion, but they are all convincingly human. - Includes two never-before published short stories - Introduction by Nancy Kress

Author: Annabelle Kim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780997609004
Category : Comfort women
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Finalist Kirkus Reviews' Best Books Gold Nautilus Book Award "[An] expansive and impressive historical fiction debut...Unfolding against a sprawling canvas, an absorbing tale of characters shedding their identities and reinventing themselves, despite being battered by war." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

Author: Marytza K. Rubio
Publisher: Liveright Publishing
ISBN: 1324090553
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Conjuring entrancing tales of Mexican American mystics and misfits, Marytza K. Rubio shatters the boundaries of reality with this fiercely imaginative debut. “The first witch of the waters was born in Destruction. The moon named her Maria.” Set against the tropics and megacities of the Americas, Maria, Maria takes inspiration from wild creatures, tarot, and the porous borders between life and death. Motivated by love and its inverse, grief, the characters who inhabit these stories negotiate boldly with nature to cast their desired ends. As the enigmatic community college professor in “Brujería for Beginners” reminds us: “There’s always a price for conjuring in darkness. You won’t always know what it is until payment is due.” This commitment drives the disturbingly faithful widow in “Tijuca,” who promises to bury her husband’s head in the rich dirt of the jungle, and the sisters in “Moksha,” who are tempted by a sleek obsidian dagger once held by a vampiric idol. But magic isn’t limited to the women who wield it. As Rubio so brilliantly elucidates, animals are powerful magicians too. Subversive pigeons and hungry jaguars are called upon in “Tunnels,” and a lonely little girl runs free with a resurrected saber-toothed tiger in “Burial.” A colorful catalog of gallery exhibits from animals in therapy is featured in “Art Show,” including the Almost Philandering Fox, who longs after the red pelt of another, and the recently rehabilitated Paranoid Peacocks. Brimming with sharp wit and ferocious female intuition, these stories bubble over into the titular novella, “Maria, Maria”—a tropigoth family drama set in a reimagined California rainforest that explores the legacies of three Marias, and possibly all Marias. Writing in prose so lush it threatens to creep off the page, Rubio emerges as an ineffable new voice in contemporary short fiction.

Author: Julian Rubinstein
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316028282
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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An award-wining and "outrageously entertaining" true crime story (San Francisco Chronicle) about the professional hockey player-turned-bank robber whose bizarre and audacious crime spree galvanized Hungary in the decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain. During the 1990s, while playing for the biggest hockey team in Budapest, Attila Ambrus took up bank robbery to make ends meet. Arrayed against him was perhaps the most incompetent team of crime investigators the Eastern Bloc had ever seen: a robbery chief who had learned how to be a detective by watching dubbed Columbo episodes; a forensics man who wore top hat and tails on the job; and a driver so inept he was known only by a Hungarian word that translates to Mound of Ass-Head. Ballad of the Whiskey Robber is the completely bizarre and hysterical story of the crime spree that made a nobody into a somebody, and told a forlorn nation that sometimes the brightest stars come from the blackest holes. Like The Professor and the Madman and The Orchid Thief, Julian Rubinstein's bizarre crime story is so odd and so wicked that it is completely irresistible. "A whiz-bang read...Hilarious and oddly touching...Rubinstein writes in a guns-ablazing style that perfectly fits the whiskey robber's tale." --Salon

Author: Michel van Pelt
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0387765565
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 219

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Michel van Pelt explains for the first time the principle of space tethers: what they are and how they can be used in space. He introduces non-technical space enthusiasts to the various possibilities and feasibility of space tethers including the technological challenges and potential benefits. He illustrates how, because of their inherent simplicity, space tethers have the potential to make space travel much cheaper, while ongoing advances in tether material technology may make even seemingly far-fetched ideas a reality in the not too distant future.