Return to Nevèrÿon
| Author | : Samuel R. Delany |
| Publisher | : Open Road Media |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 2014-01-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1480461768 |
DIVDIVSlavery is outlawed, Nevèrÿon is free, and Gorgik the Liberator must revisit the mines for a final struggle where he himself was once a slave/divDIV Alone in a deserted castle in the Nevèrÿon countryside, a great warrior and a young barbarian meet at midnight to tell each other tales from their intersecting lives. But are they really alone? And, if they aren’t, what will it mean for Nevèrÿon . . . ?/divDIV The three stories in this volume end Samuel R. Delany’s Return to Nevèrÿon saga and cycle. But they are also its beginning—taking us back to the start of Gorgik’s epic—although, from what we’ve learned from the others, even that has become an entirely new story, though not a word in it has been changed . . ./divDIV This ebook features an illustrated biography of Samuel R. Delany including rare images from his early career./divDIV/div/div
Redshift
| Author | : Al Sarrantonio |
| Publisher | : Roc |
| Total Pages | : 692 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780451459046 |
Thirty works of speculative fiction, including hard and soft science fiction, fantasy, horror, and experimental and conventional literary fiction. These recognized "authors have shaped the evolution of science fiction and will continue to influence the genre for years to come."
Writing in Overdrive
| Author | : Jim Denney |
| Publisher | : CreateSpace |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2013-08-28 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 9781492262190 |
Jim Denney is a veteran of both traditional and indie publishing. He has more than 100 published books to his credit, including the Timebenders science-fantasy series for young readers. In WRITING IN OVERDRIVE, he shows you how to:• Write so fast you'll have no time for self-doubt.• Organize your time and workspace to be more productive.• Set ambitious yet attainable productivity goals.• Overcome self-defeating habits and inner resistance to writing daily.• Tap into the power of writing "in the zone" whenever you choose.• Use powerful "writing rituals" to prepare yourself to write.• Be aware and focused yet relaxed as you write.• Become undistractible—even when surrounded by distractions.• Leverage the motivational energy of NaNoWriMo.• Eliminate writer's block.• and much MORE.You'll acquire skills you can road-test immediately on your current work-in-progress. Each principle is powerfully illustrated by stories from the author's own experience and from the lives of such prolific, successful writers as Ray Bradbury, Stephen King, John Steinbeck, Agatha Christie, Michael Moorcock, Ed McBain, Jack Kerouac, Raymond Chandler, and many more. You'll see how to apply these life-changing principles in real-life writing situations, and learn to write with phenomenal speed, confidence, and mastery, whether in traditional publishing or the indie publishing world.Praise for Jim Denney's previous books:QUIT YOUR DAY JOB! Sleep Late, Do What You Enjoy, and Make a Ton of Money as a Writer (A Writer's Digest Book Club Selection) — "Follow Jim Denney's suggestions and you will be well on your way to making the dream a reality." —Novelist JAMES SCOTT BELL (author, The Art of War for Writers). "Jim Denney has written a book that every writer and every aspiring writer should own." —Novelist DEBORAH RANEY (author, The Face of the Earth). "Read Jim Denney's book and save yourself much anguish." —Novelist JIM FREY (author, How to Write a Damn Good Novel). "If you think the writer's life is for you, you must read this book." —Novelist ANGELA HUNT, (author, The Offering).ANSWERS TO SATISFY THE SOUL by Jim Denney was hailed by Nebula-winning science fiction writer ROBERT J. SAWYER as a "brisk and enjoyable" book that "challenges, informs, enlightens, and yes, satisfies;" by leadership guru JOHN C. MAXWELL ("if you are on a quest for success, happiness, love, meaning, or God, this book is for you"); by psychologist and author Muriel James ("wisdom clothed in a lively, contemporary, conversational writing style ... thought-provoking concepts").THE MAGIC OF TEAMWORK by Pat Williams with Jim Denney garnered praise from novelist JAMES A. MICHENER ("a wise and needed book"), L.A. Lakers head coach PHIL JACKSON ("an outline for success in any business"), and television host LARRY KING ("a classic, one-of-a-kind ... four stars!").
The Word for World is Forest
| Author | : Ursula K. Le Guin |
| Publisher | : Tor Books |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2010-07-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 142998354X |
The award-winning masterpiece by one of today's most honored writers, Ursula K. Le Guin! The Word for World is Forest When the inhabitants of a peaceful world are conquered by the bloodthirsty yumens, their existence is irrevocably altered. Forced into servitude, the Athsheans find themselves at the mercy of their brutal masters. Desperation causes the Athsheans, led by Selver, to retaliate against their captors, abandoning their strictures against violence. But in defending their lives, they have endangered the very foundations of their society. For every blow against the invaders is a blow to the humanity of the Athsheans. And once the killing starts, there is no turning back. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
There Are Doors
| Author | : Gene Wolfe |
| Publisher | : Orb Books |
| Total Pages | : 322 |
| Release | : 2001-10-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1466828242 |
There Are Doors is the story of a man who falls in love with a goddess from an alternate universe. She flees him, but he pursues her through doorways-interdimensional gateways-to the other place, determined to sacrifice his life, if necessary, for her love. For in her world, to be her mate . . . is to die. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
A Beautiful Place to Die
| Author | : Malla Nunn |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 387 |
| Release | : 2009-01-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1416586202 |
Screenwriter Nunn draws on her true-life experience growing up in Africa to create this darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa. Detective Emmanuel Cooper is caught up in a time and place where racial tensions and the raw hunger for power make for dangerous times.
Monkey Around
| Author | : Jadie Jang |
| Publisher | : Rebellion Publishing Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2021-08-03 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1781089612 |
San Francisco has a Monkey King - and she’s freaking out. Barista, activist, and were-monkey Maya McQueen was well on her way to figuring herself out. Well, part of the way. 25% of the way. If you squint. But now the Bay Area is being shaken up. Occupy Wall Street has come home to roost; and on the supernatural side there's disappearances, shapeshifter murders, and the city’s spirit trying to find its guardian. Maya doesn’t have a lot of time before chaos turns up at her door, and she needs to solve all of her problems. Well, most of them. The urgent ones, anyhow. But who says the solutions have to be neat? Because Monkey is always out for mischief.
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds
| Author | : Andrew Nette |
| Publisher | : PM Press |
| Total Pages | : 866 |
| Release | : 2021-10-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1629639028 |
Much has been written about the “long Sixties,” the era of the late 1950s through the early 1970s. It was a period of major social change, most graphically illustrated by the emergence of liberatory and resistance movements focused on inequalities of class, race, gender, sexuality, and beyond, whose challenge represented a major shock to the political and social status quo. With its focus on speculation, alternate worlds and the future, science fiction became an ideal vessel for this upsurge of radical protest. Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985 details, celebrates, and evaluates how science fiction novels and authors depicted, interacted with, and were inspired by these cultural and political movements in America and Great Britain. It starts with progressive authors who rose to prominence in the conservative 1950s, challenging the so-called Golden Age of science fiction and its linear narratives of technological breakthroughs and space-conquering male heroes. The book then moves through the 1960s, when writers, including those in what has been termed the New Wave, shattered existing writing conventions and incorporated contemporary themes such as modern mass media culture, corporate control, growing state surveillance, the Vietnam War, and rising currents of counterculture, ecological awareness, feminism, sexual liberation, and Black Power. The 1970s, when the genre reflected the end of various dreams of the long Sixties and the faltering of the postwar boom, is also explored along with the first half of the 1980s, which gave rise to new subgenres, such as cyberpunk. Dangerous Visions and New Worlds contains over twenty chapters written by contemporary authors and critics, and hundreds of full-color cover images, including thirteen thematically organised cover selections. New perspectives on key novels and authors, such as Octavia Butler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Philip K. Dick, John Wyndham, Samuel Delany, J.G. Ballard, John Brunner, Judith Merril, Barry Malzberg, Joanna Russ, and many others are presented alongside excavations of topics, works, and writers who have been largely forgotten or undeservedly ignored.
