The Best Science Fiction of the Year

The Best Science Fiction of the Year
Author: Neil Clarke
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
Total Pages: 838
Release: 2019-07-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 159780620X

From Hugo Award-winning editor Neil Clarke, the best science fiction stories of the year are collected in a single paperback volume. Keeping up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more―a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy Award–winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year’s writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome “sensawunda” that the genre has to offer.

Internet Babylon

Internet Babylon
Author: Greg Holden
Publisher: Apress
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2004-04-05
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1430206845

* Looks at the Internet from a morbid, sordid, entertaining perspective rather than a technical how-to perspective * Makes the Internet fun, fascinating, and non-intimidating for casual users. * Focuses on well-known actors, politicians, performing artists, and other public figures and how they have been treated online.

Immortal Temptress

Immortal Temptress
Author: Ari Thatcher
Publisher: Aspendawn Press
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2022-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Enya’s job is to escort the dying on their final journey, to make sure their souls get to heaven before a demon can steal their bodies. For centuries she has done this without emotion, until the body in question belongs to Kane Sullivan. Not only does she desire his rock-hard body, she can't bear the thought of him dying. But she’s not supposed to become emotionally involved in a death. Kane's sudden run of near-fatal accidents always happen when Enya is present. She might be hot, but he's not willing to die to get to know her. Then he discovers she’s fighting for his soul. That damned immortal temptress might be the death of him.

My Eternal Lover

My Eternal Lover
Author: Ari Thatcher
Publisher: Aspendawn Press
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Strange things go on in the D’Ark. This collection of the first three stories in the Devil’s Promenade series features vampires, ghosts, demons and shapeshifters, and a whole lot of sizzling sex scenes! IMMORTAL TEMPTRESS Kane's sudden run of near-fatal accidents always happen when Enya is present. She might be hot, but he's not willing to die to get to know her. Then he discovers she’s fighting for his soul. That damned immortal temptress might be the death of him. RENEGADE WOLF When Stephanie shifts into wolf form for the first time on live TV, she flees to the one man who can protect her from were-hunters, Micah Salway. As attracted as she’d been to him four years ago when they’d met, she’d run scared at the changes he awakened in her after just one kiss. Was it possible he’d turned her into a werewolf? BEWITCHED FAMILIAR Possessed by a demon. Rescued by a sizzlingly hot vampire. And that’s just her first week in town.

ArkWorld

ArkWorld
Author: Josh Blaylock
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2020-11-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781934692875

More is revealed about Earth's true, mysterious past, and the advanced civilization that once ruled it, and where our protagonists Cleito, Seth and others play into it. How did it civilization fall, and who, today, is aware of this truth? How are they using the lost knowledge to their advantage? Mixing real ancient mysteries and evidence with fiction, ArkWorld is a the beginning of a new "archeopunk" genre all its own.

Rombert

Rombert
Author: Henry Edward Van Winkle
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 1835
Genre: North Carolina
ISBN:

Research in Computer and Robot Vision

Research in Computer and Robot Vision
Author: Colin Archibald
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 434
Release: 1995
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9810221347

Research in Computer and Robot Vision is directed toward researchers and graduate students in the field of computer vision. A broad spectrum of recent research is presented including sensing and navigation for mobile robots, the extraction of lines, curves, surfaces, and skeletons from intensity images and range images, human motion, and feature extraction. Three applied research projects are presented on the topics of handwriting recognition, automatic understanding of technical drawings, and the collection and interpretation of 3-D images for use in dentistry. These papers dramatically illustrate the breadth of implications of the use of computer vision in industrial, social, and even medical arenas.

Renegade Wolf

Renegade Wolf
Author: Ari Thatcher
Publisher: Aspendawn Press
Total Pages: 107
Release: 2022-02-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When Stephanie shifts into wolf form for the first time on live TV, she flees to the one man who can protect her from were-hunters, Micah Salway. As attracted as she’d been to him four years ago when they’d met, she’d run scared at the changes he awakened in her after just one kiss. Was it possible he’d turned her into a werewolf? Micah can hide Stephanie in the caves known as Devil’s Promenade, but the dangers there are worse than facing down the hunter. His choices are few when faced with keeping Stephanie alive: fight the hunter alone or kiss the asses of his former pack-mates and ask for help. His wolf had claimed her the night they met. There was no way he would lose her again.