Poul Anderson SF Gateway Omnibus

Poul Anderson SF Gateway Omnibus
Author: Poul Anderson
Publisher: Orion Publishing Company (Digital)
Total Pages: 1008
Release: 2013
Genre: Science fiction
ISBN: 9780575106932

From The SF Gateway, the most comprehensive digital library of classic science fiction and fantasy titles ever assembled, comes an ideal sample introduction to Poul Anderson, one of the great figures in the genre. Anderson served as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America and won multiple HUGO and NEBULA AWARDs. He was named a SFWA Grand Master in 1998. This omnibus showcases some of the best of his galaxy-spanning science fiction, containing the acclaimed novels BRAIN WAVE, THE BOAT OF A MILLION YEARS and THE GUARDIANS OF TIME.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection
Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 704
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466870486

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award winning authors and masters of the field such as Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Damien Broderick, Elizabeth Bear, Paul McAuley and John Barnes. And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection

The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection
Author: Gardner Dozois
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 689
Release: 2009-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429985372

The thirty stories in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents, including: Paolo Bacigalupi, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Aliete de Bodard, James L. Cambias, Greg Egan, Charles Coleman Finlay, James Alan Gardner, Dominic Green, Daryl Gregory, Gwyneth Jones, Ted Kosmatka, Mary Robinette Kowal, Nancy Kress, Jay Lake, Paul McAuley, Ian McDonald, Maureen McHugh, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Hannu Rajaniemi, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Mary Rosenblum, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Geoff Ryman, Karl Schroeder, Gord Sellar, and Michael Swanwick. Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book both a valuable resource and the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination, and the heart.

Strange Divisions and Alien Territories

Strange Divisions and Alien Territories
Author: Keith Brooke
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-02-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0230360270

Strange Divisions and Alien Territories explores the sub-genres of science fiction from the perspectives of a range of top SF authors. Combining a critical viewpoint with the exploration of the challenges and opportunities facing authors working in the field, contributors include Michael Swanwick, Catherine Asaro and Paul di Filippo.

Big Planet

Big Planet
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2011-11-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575109505

Big Planet is Jack Vance's first major sf novel, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of SF, "provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for forty years". The huge world of the title is home to a range of colourfully detailed and imaginative human societies, which Vance explores with the zest and humour which are hallmarks of his work. All Jack Vance titles in the SFGateway use the author's preferred texts, as restored for the Vance Integral Edition (VIE), an extensive project masterminded by an international online community of Vance's admirers. In general, we also use the VIE titles, and have adopted the arrangement of short story collections to eliminate overlaps. Big Planet was cut almost in half for its first publication, but sadly the excised pages are lost.

The Dragon Masters

The Dragon Masters
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Spatterlight Press
Total Pages: 118
Release: 1965
Genre: Science fiction
ISBN: 1619470136

The Blue World

The Blue World
Author: Jack Vance
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2011-12-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0575109572

Over twelve generations the descendents of a space crash on a world completely covered in water had managed to adapt to their marine culture. Living in villages built on giant clumps of sea plants, they survived on the flora and fauna of the sea. But they have always been at the mercy of the kragen - gigantic squid-like monsters that prey on their fish flocks, and on them. The biggest of these is King Kragen, with whom the colonists can communicate, who has to be appeased. But one man has had enough of a life of slavery and sacrifice. But how can he convince his fellow men that King Kragen must be killed? And how can that be achieved in a world without weapons?

The Skylark of Space

The Skylark of Space
Author: E. E. Smith
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2018-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 802689443X

Dick Seaton accidentally discovers a workable space drive in combining pure copper with a newly discovered element "X." Having failed to re-create the effect, Seaton realizes that the missing component is a field generated by DuQuesne's particle accelerator, his arch-enemy, and thereafter sets up a business with his millionaire friend, Martin Crane, to build a spaceship...

The Coils of Time

The Coils of Time
Author: A. Bertram Chandler
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2015-11-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473215110

Dr. Henshaw had created what he thought was a time travel machine and he had sent guinea pigs through it. But now he needed a human guinea pig to test it with. Christopher Wilkinson thought the whole idea was absurd, until a book that had been sent through the machine came back with a thumb print on it, the fingerprint of Vanessa, his long lost sweetheart! So Wilkinson agreed to the experiment. He stood in the white circle facing the machine as it began to gleam and spin, pulling him down through the tortuous coils of time...