Broken Stars

Broken Stars
Author: Ken Liu
Publisher: Tordotcom
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250297672

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST ANTHOLOGY Sixteen short stories from China's groundbreaking science fiction writers, edited and translated by award-winning author Ken Liu. In Hugo award-winner Liu Cixin's ‘Moonlight,’ a man is contacted by three future versions of himself, each trying to save their world from destruction. Hao Jingfang’s ‘The New Year Train’ sees 1,500 passengers go missing on a train that vanishes into space. In the title story by Tang Fei, a young girl is shown how the stars can reveal the future. In addition, three essays explore the history and rise of Chinese science fiction publishing, contemporary Chinese fandom, and how the growing interest in Chinese SF has impacted writers who had long laboured in obscurity. By turns dazzling, melancholy and thought-provoking, Broken Stars celebrates the vibrancy and diversity of SFF voices emerging from China. Stories include: “Goodnight, Melancholy” by Xia Jia “The Snow of Jinyang” by Zhang Ran “Broken Stars” by Tang Fei “Submarines” by Han Song “Salinger and the Koreans” by Han Song “Under a Dangling Sky” by Cheng Jingbo “What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear” by Baoshu “The New Year Train” by Hao Jingfang “The Robot Who Liked to Tell Tall Tales” by Fei Dao “Moonlight” by Liu Cixin “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe: Laba Porridge" by Anna Wu “The First Emperor’s Games” by Ma Boyong “Reflection” by Gu Shi “The Brain Box” by Regina Kanyu Wang “Coming of the Light” by Chen Qiufan “A History of Future Illnesses” by Chen Qiufan Essays: “A Brief Introduction to Chinese Science Fiction and Fandom,” by Regina Kanyu Wang, “A New Continent for China Scholars: Chinese Science Fiction Studies” by Mingwei Song “Science Fiction: Embarrassing No More” by Fei Dao For more Chinese SF in translation, check out Invisible Planets. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Damaged Good

Damaged Good
Author: J. E. Mac
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2014-02-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780991462513

The Damaged

The Damaged
Author: K. A. Quinn
Publisher: K. A. Quinn
Total Pages: 75
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Experimentation to cure violent tendencies goes horribly wrong. Gabriel Pullman is more than a little put out about being psychic, especially given that it keeps getting people around him killed. He was a victim of a revolutionary new medical procedure: an aggressive, preventative treatment of mental illness. Those who received the unexpected side effects of sensory hyperstimulation and even telepathic abilities call themselves the Damaged. The military recruits Gabriel to negotiate with the leader of the Damaged rebels, who are out for revenge against the society that has mistreated them, but he must also fight a dark personality within himself. Novella. ~ Gabriel jolted, willed himself flat and uninteresting as a piece of paper, held onto the imagery with all his might. Sheer professional curiosity would get him through this. He'd done his homework. Time to impress the professor. ~ Most surprisingly, there was a sudden absence of pain he hadn't known was there, pain that he'd carried, diffused through his entire body for years. It was gone. The world around him hadn't changed. Gabriel had.

Damage

Damage
Author: David D. Levine
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2015-01-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466886056

In the extremities of war, we may know what we've been, but not what we will become. "Damage" is a tale of desperate times, desperate measures, and the inner life of a fighter spacecraft. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Book of Collateral Damage

The Book of Collateral Damage
Author: Sinan Antoon
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0300244851

Sinan Antoon returns to the Iraq war in a poetic and provocative tribute to reclaiming memory Widely-celebrated author Sinan Antoon’s fourth and most sophisticated novel follows Nameer, a young Iraqi scholar earning his doctorate at Harvard, who is hired by filmmakers to help document the devastation of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. During the excursion, Nameer ventures to al-Mutanabbi street in Baghdad, famed for its bookshops, and encounters Wadood, an eccentric bookseller who is trying to catalogue everything destroyed by war, from objects, buildings, books and manuscripts, flora and fauna, to humans. Entrusted with the catalogue and obsessed with Wadood’s project, Nameer finds life in New York movingly intertwined with fragments from his homeland’s past and its present—destroyed letters, verses, epigraphs, and anecdotes—in this stylistically ambitious panorama of the wreckage of war and the power of memory.

Damaged

Damaged
Author: Syreeta Davis
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781450009621

Destiny is young, beautiful and any man's fantasy, but Destiny feels as if she is damaged. Forced into marrying a local dope boy name Black at the age of fourteen and entering a life of drugs, abuse and the mob, Destiny fears for her life. Destiny starts to secretly get her life on track behind her sadistic husband's back when she reunites with Rico a handsome confident man who helps her to escape her husband's brutality. But is Rico the man who will take her away from a life of crime? Destiny becomes involved with a mysterious detective who is shamelessly falling in love with her, but can she deny her feelings for the man who helped her escape the hands of her vicious husband or is love staring her right in the face. Destiny will soon realize both of these men are important and may be the only ones able to save her from Black in the end.

The Grace of Kings

The Grace of Kings
Author: Ken Liu
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2015-04-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1481424297

One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time Two men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Hailed as one of the best books of 2015 by NPR. Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions—two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice. Fans of intrigue, intimate plots, and action will find a new series to embrace in the Dandelion Dynasty.

Internal Damage

Internal Damage
Author: Lucas B Gerke
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07
Genre:
ISBN:

About the Book Told through the minds of the book's characters, Internal Damage is ultimately a human story about survival. Filled with action, monsters, and terror in a sci fi setting, we witness how life and tragedy can change a person and alter relationships. As the story progresses, the humanity of these characters is reflected on the reader. Author Lucas B. Gerke hopes readers connect with the characters while reading on the edge of their seats. About the Author Lucas B. Gerke's interests mostly began in film. He majored in film and minored in theatre and has been making films and shorts ever since college. His passion for reading formed toward the end of his college career. In the end, Gerke wants to create fiction in any and every form available.

Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010

Gothic Science Fiction 1980-2010
Author: Sara Wasson
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 184631707X

Gothic fiction's focus on the irrational and supernatural would seem to conflict with science fiction's rational foundations. However, as this novel collection demonstrates, the two categories often intersect in rich and revealing ways. Analyzing a range of works—including literature, film, graphic novels, and trading card games—from the past three decades through the lens of this hybrid genre, this volume examines their engagement with the era's dramatic changes in communication technology, medical science, and personal and global politics.