Author: Mark Clifton
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486843343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
One of the most literary and innovative science-fiction writers of the early 1950s, Mark Clifton introduced sophisticated psychological insights into the characters who populated his tales of alien encounters, expanding technology, revolution against political theocracy, and space colonization. The title tale, centering on a psychologist who uncovers a hidden colony of otherworldly invaders and craftily orchestrates their doom, is accompanied by nine other perceptive and witty stories.
What Have I Done?
Author: Mark Clifton
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486843343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
One of the most literary and innovative science-fiction writers of the early 1950s, Mark Clifton introduced sophisticated psychological insights into the characters who populated his tales of alien encounters, expanding technology, revolution against political theocracy, and space colonization. The title tale, centering on a psychologist who uncovers a hidden colony of otherworldly invaders and craftily orchestrates their doom, is accompanied by nine other perceptive and witty stories.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486843343
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
One of the most literary and innovative science-fiction writers of the early 1950s, Mark Clifton introduced sophisticated psychological insights into the characters who populated his tales of alien encounters, expanding technology, revolution against political theocracy, and space colonization. The title tale, centering on a psychologist who uncovers a hidden colony of otherworldly invaders and craftily orchestrates their doom, is accompanied by nine other perceptive and witty stories.
The Science Fiction of Mark Clifton
Author: Mark Clifton
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809309856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This collection of the best short stories of Mark Clifton makes these fine tales readily available for the first time in two decades. Winner with Frank Riley of the 1955 Hugo Award for They’d Rather Be Right, Clifton has for a variety of reasons unrelated to the quality of his writing all but disappeared from the awareness of today’s science fiction audience. Never a prolific writer he had published only about twenty-five short stories before his death in 1963. But with those stories and his three novels he irrevocably altered the course of contemporary science fiction. Almost single-handedly he introduced the full range of psychological insights to the commonly occurring themes of the genre—alien invasion, expanding technology, revolution against political theocracy, and space exploration and colonization—to ever more truthfully portray how humanity would react to a future that could be either mindless or intellectually stunning. With his first published story, “What Have I Done?” Clifton initiated the theme of a starkly realistic world in which, at its best, humanity is inalterably vile—a theme that became an inextricable part of all his subsequent works. In his later works Clifton occasionally clothed his bitter indictment in the garb of comedy. The stories collected here include “What Have I Done?” “Star, Bright,” “Crazy Joey,” “What Thin Partitions,” “Sense from Thought Divide,” “How Allied,” “Remembrance and Reflection,” “Hide! Hide! Witch!” “Clerical Error,” “What Now, Little Man?” and “Hang Head, Vandal!”
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809309856
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
This collection of the best short stories of Mark Clifton makes these fine tales readily available for the first time in two decades. Winner with Frank Riley of the 1955 Hugo Award for They’d Rather Be Right, Clifton has for a variety of reasons unrelated to the quality of his writing all but disappeared from the awareness of today’s science fiction audience. Never a prolific writer he had published only about twenty-five short stories before his death in 1963. But with those stories and his three novels he irrevocably altered the course of contemporary science fiction. Almost single-handedly he introduced the full range of psychological insights to the commonly occurring themes of the genre—alien invasion, expanding technology, revolution against political theocracy, and space exploration and colonization—to ever more truthfully portray how humanity would react to a future that could be either mindless or intellectually stunning. With his first published story, “What Have I Done?” Clifton initiated the theme of a starkly realistic world in which, at its best, humanity is inalterably vile—a theme that became an inextricable part of all his subsequent works. In his later works Clifton occasionally clothed his bitter indictment in the garb of comedy. The stories collected here include “What Have I Done?” “Star, Bright,” “Crazy Joey,” “What Thin Partitions,” “Sense from Thought Divide,” “How Allied,” “Remembrance and Reflection,” “Hide! Hide! Witch!” “Clerical Error,” “What Now, Little Man?” and “Hang Head, Vandal!”
We're Civilized
Author: Mark Clifton
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612102530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Naturally, the superior race should win... but superior by which standards.. and who?
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612102530
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 10
Book Description
Naturally, the superior race should win... but superior by which standards.. and who?
Passiontide
Author: Monique Roffey
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593802489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, after a string of similar deaths, outraged local women take matters into their own hands. The quiet calm of Ash Wednesday morning. Carnival is over. Everyone on the small island of St. Colibri is sleeping peacefully. Everyone except Sora Tanaka, a young pan player lying under the cannonball tree. Sora, a professional musician, had been visiting St. Colibri to take part in the island’s famous steel pan competition. But Sora isn’t asleep; she’s dead: brutally murdered, and still in her costume. And as the women of this island know all too well, Sora is far from the first woman to be killed, and she probably won’t be the last, either. In fact, the problem of women being killed on the island is so bad, there’s even a dedicated unit within the police department: OMWEN, the Office for Murdered Women, headed by Inspector Cuthbert Loveday. In this powerful new rewriting of the detective novel, Sora’s death is the last straw and the beginning of something much larger, a "revolution" some are calling it. The event draws together four women who have never before seen each other as allies: a friend of the victim, the organizer of a sex workers’ collective, a local activist, and the prime minister’s wife. Tenderly, sometimes hilariously, Passiontide chronicles how these women join forces and find new ways to help one another.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0593802489
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
When a female musician is found murdered on a small tropical island, after a string of similar deaths, outraged local women take matters into their own hands. The quiet calm of Ash Wednesday morning. Carnival is over. Everyone on the small island of St. Colibri is sleeping peacefully. Everyone except Sora Tanaka, a young pan player lying under the cannonball tree. Sora, a professional musician, had been visiting St. Colibri to take part in the island’s famous steel pan competition. But Sora isn’t asleep; she’s dead: brutally murdered, and still in her costume. And as the women of this island know all too well, Sora is far from the first woman to be killed, and she probably won’t be the last, either. In fact, the problem of women being killed on the island is so bad, there’s even a dedicated unit within the police department: OMWEN, the Office for Murdered Women, headed by Inspector Cuthbert Loveday. In this powerful new rewriting of the detective novel, Sora’s death is the last straw and the beginning of something much larger, a "revolution" some are calling it. The event draws together four women who have never before seen each other as allies: a friend of the victim, the organizer of a sex workers’ collective, a local activist, and the prime minister’s wife. Tenderly, sometimes hilariously, Passiontide chronicles how these women join forces and find new ways to help one another.
The New Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
Author: James E. Gunn
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Viking
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
From 19th-century beginnings to the cutting edge of "Cyberpunk", science fiction has powerfully gripped the modern imagination. Gunn explores the fascinating landscape of how science fiction became what it is today. An eye-opener for every fan of the genre. 8 pages of full-color illustrations.
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Viking
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
From 19th-century beginnings to the cutting edge of "Cyberpunk", science fiction has powerfully gripped the modern imagination. Gunn explores the fascinating landscape of how science fiction became what it is today. An eye-opener for every fan of the genre. 8 pages of full-color illustrations.
Fiction Catalog
Author: H.W. Wilson Company
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Includes an abridged edition of 1908 catalog issued under title: English prose fiction ... list of about 800 title.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Includes an abridged edition of 1908 catalog issued under title: English prose fiction ... list of about 800 title.
Progress Report
Author: Mark Clifton
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612102565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Progress is relative; Senator O'Noonan's idea of it was not particularly scientific. Which would be too bad, if he had the last word!
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612102565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Progress is relative; Senator O'Noonan's idea of it was not particularly scientific. Which would be too bad, if he had the last word!
Amazing Stories
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 824
Book Description
Venom
Author: Whitney M. Westrope
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1665757760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
When seven people go missing within a month, questions and fear arise among the townsfolk of Hemlock, Virginia. When local authorities discover the body of one of the missing people in a holler close to town, it appears the victim has suffered severe tissue liquefaction. After the police find bite marks on the body’s throat, they suspect there could be an undiscovered venomous species lurking within the Blue Ridge Mountains. While the FBI and scientists unsuccessfully attempt to decode the cause of death, the locals become haunted by rumors about an insidious predator that’s roaming the mountains. Deep in the forest nearby, the alpha of the Blue Ridge Mountain clan knows that if her kind becomes an exposed entity, the humans will become hysterical, potentially leading to harmful repercussions. Although her kind has gone undetected since the beginning of time because of their physical similarities to humans, her efforts to keep her clan and species hidden are beginning to disintegrate because of the impulsive actions of two of her own and the arrival of the military. Extinction is not an option, and war is the ultimate price. What will Shadow and her clan be forced to endure to keep her kind alive?
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1665757760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
When seven people go missing within a month, questions and fear arise among the townsfolk of Hemlock, Virginia. When local authorities discover the body of one of the missing people in a holler close to town, it appears the victim has suffered severe tissue liquefaction. After the police find bite marks on the body’s throat, they suspect there could be an undiscovered venomous species lurking within the Blue Ridge Mountains. While the FBI and scientists unsuccessfully attempt to decode the cause of death, the locals become haunted by rumors about an insidious predator that’s roaming the mountains. Deep in the forest nearby, the alpha of the Blue Ridge Mountain clan knows that if her kind becomes an exposed entity, the humans will become hysterical, potentially leading to harmful repercussions. Although her kind has gone undetected since the beginning of time because of their physical similarities to humans, her efforts to keep her clan and species hidden are beginning to disintegrate because of the impulsive actions of two of her own and the arrival of the military. Extinction is not an option, and war is the ultimate price. What will Shadow and her clan be forced to endure to keep her kind alive?
Breakfast in the Ruins
Author: Barry N. Malzberg
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618245635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Barry N. Malzberg reflects back over four decades of writing science fiction, giving an insider's view of the field during that time which few can match, both for its authority and for the sharp and witty way he describes the highs and lows of one science fiction writer's career. He also writes vivid profiles of writers and editors, ranging from the titans who transformed the field, such as John W. Campbell, to once popular writers who are now all but forgotten, such as Hugo Award-winner Mark Clifton. "If there is any particular cachet to my perspective," he writes, "it comes because my career is, perhaps more than some, metaphoric." The original, shorter version of the book was widely praised, as by the San Francisco Chronicle: "Contains literary criticism ranging over the whole history of the field. . . . this is a mordant, brilliant book," and by The Washington Post Book Worl"Malzberg makes persuasively clear that the best of science fiction should be valued as literature and nothing else." Breakfast in the Ruins is an indispensable book for every science fiction reader. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
ISBN: 1618245635
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Barry N. Malzberg reflects back over four decades of writing science fiction, giving an insider's view of the field during that time which few can match, both for its authority and for the sharp and witty way he describes the highs and lows of one science fiction writer's career. He also writes vivid profiles of writers and editors, ranging from the titans who transformed the field, such as John W. Campbell, to once popular writers who are now all but forgotten, such as Hugo Award-winner Mark Clifton. "If there is any particular cachet to my perspective," he writes, "it comes because my career is, perhaps more than some, metaphoric." The original, shorter version of the book was widely praised, as by the San Francisco Chronicle: "Contains literary criticism ranging over the whole history of the field. . . . this is a mordant, brilliant book," and by The Washington Post Book Worl"Malzberg makes persuasively clear that the best of science fiction should be valued as literature and nothing else." Breakfast in the Ruins is an indispensable book for every science fiction reader. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).