Author: Meg Elison
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers. The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 400 pages of fiction by writers around the world. From magical couches to impossible radio broadcasts, from robotic uprisings to rogue artist AIs, from gigantic alien telepaths to elaborate death trials held on a deadly stage. There is something here for everyone. The following stories are in the anthology: "For Lack of a Bed" by John Wiswell "The Cold Calculations" by Aimee Ogden "Laughter Among the Trees" by Suzan Palumbo "The Revolution Will Not Be Served With Fries" by Meg Elison "If the Martians Have Magic" by P. Djèlí Clark "Let All the Children Boogie" by Sam J. Miller "Crazy Beautiful" by Cat Rambo "Things From Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship" by Marie Vibbert "Before, After, and the Space Between" by Kel Coleman "Orumai's Choice" by Gautam Bhatia "Questions Asked in the Belly of the World" by A.T. Greenblatt "Mulberry and Owl" by Aliette de Bodard "The General's Turn" by Premee Mohamed "The Music of the Siphorophenes" by C.L. Polk "Just Enough Rain" by P H Lee "Ina's Spark" by Mary Robinette Kowal "The Red Mother" by Elizabeth Bear "Small Monsters" by E. Lily Yu "Tombs of the Universe" by Han Song, translated by Xueting C. Ni "(emet)" by Lauren Ring "Submergence" by Arula Ratnakar
The Long List Anthology Volume 8
Author: Meg Elison
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers. The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 400 pages of fiction by writers around the world. From magical couches to impossible radio broadcasts, from robotic uprisings to rogue artist AIs, from gigantic alien telepaths to elaborate death trials held on a deadly stage. There is something here for everyone. The following stories are in the anthology: "For Lack of a Bed" by John Wiswell "The Cold Calculations" by Aimee Ogden "Laughter Among the Trees" by Suzan Palumbo "The Revolution Will Not Be Served With Fries" by Meg Elison "If the Martians Have Magic" by P. Djèlí Clark "Let All the Children Boogie" by Sam J. Miller "Crazy Beautiful" by Cat Rambo "Things From Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship" by Marie Vibbert "Before, After, and the Space Between" by Kel Coleman "Orumai's Choice" by Gautam Bhatia "Questions Asked in the Belly of the World" by A.T. Greenblatt "Mulberry and Owl" by Aliette de Bodard "The General's Turn" by Premee Mohamed "The Music of the Siphorophenes" by C.L. Polk "Just Enough Rain" by P H Lee "Ina's Spark" by Mary Robinette Kowal "The Red Mother" by Elizabeth Bear "Small Monsters" by E. Lily Yu "Tombs of the Universe" by Han Song, translated by Xueting C. Ni "(emet)" by Lauren Ring "Submergence" by Arula Ratnakar
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is the eighth annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the selected year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. This is an anthology collecting more of the stories from that nomination list to reach more readers. The Long List Anthology volume 8 collects 21 science fiction, fantasy, and horror stories from that nomination list, totaling over 400 pages of fiction by writers around the world. From magical couches to impossible radio broadcasts, from robotic uprisings to rogue artist AIs, from gigantic alien telepaths to elaborate death trials held on a deadly stage. There is something here for everyone. The following stories are in the anthology: "For Lack of a Bed" by John Wiswell "The Cold Calculations" by Aimee Ogden "Laughter Among the Trees" by Suzan Palumbo "The Revolution Will Not Be Served With Fries" by Meg Elison "If the Martians Have Magic" by P. Djèlí Clark "Let All the Children Boogie" by Sam J. Miller "Crazy Beautiful" by Cat Rambo "Things From Our Kitchen Junk Drawer That Could Save This Spaceship" by Marie Vibbert "Before, After, and the Space Between" by Kel Coleman "Orumai's Choice" by Gautam Bhatia "Questions Asked in the Belly of the World" by A.T. Greenblatt "Mulberry and Owl" by Aliette de Bodard "The General's Turn" by Premee Mohamed "The Music of the Siphorophenes" by C.L. Polk "Just Enough Rain" by P H Lee "Ina's Spark" by Mary Robinette Kowal "The Red Mother" by Elizabeth Bear "Small Monsters" by E. Lily Yu "Tombs of the Universe" by Han Song, translated by Xueting C. Ni "(emet)" by Lauren Ring "Submergence" by Arula Ratnakar
Running Wild Novella Anthology Volume 8
Author: Stephen J. Kimber
Publisher: Running Wild, LLC
ISBN: 1960018264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Tragic Plight of E.G.: A Clinical Case Report“ The Tragic Plight of E.G.: A Clinical Case Report” is a day-by-day account of an ill-fated patient who is hospitalized for a mysterious illness. He finds himself in the care of a team of top-notch doctors, nurses, social workers, and therapists. Even so, the patient' s condition continues to deteriorate, forcing this modern medical establishment to grapple with what it really means to “ do no harm.” The Liberation of Jacob Novak a NovellaThe Liberation of Jacob Novak tells the story of a lonely, aimless young man, trapped in a virtual world. He causes a fatal accident and must pay the price. In prison, Jacob feels valued, gains self-confidence, even falls in love. After serving time, he finds his own way in the world. At last, he is free. Sgt Katrina Dunn, a.k.a. Angela Parker & the Games They PlayAngela Parker, who isn' t your average 17 year old, but who is?, has her run of Alien Quest hijacked by a man who looks, curiously, like her Uncle Reggie. The Uncle Reggie clone invites Ange to play an innovative and sensorily immersive kind of game, one that involves adopting an avatar role where you become someone frighteningly like yourself in a world that rapidly goes crazy. As Ashlie Sweet, Angela Parker finds herself fighting villains that look uncommonly like today' s politicians in a small U.S. town. Everything apparently normal in this small town rapidly goes belly up: there are race riots, detention-centres, murder, and that's just in the first week. What' s more &– with her game based boyfriend Norman Mené &– she discovers they're in a game within a game and that they (their real theys back in Nottingham U.K. and Sydney, Australia and all the other places where the game players come from) are being data mined. The stakes aren' t just in winning or losing a game. Maybe the fate of the free world hangs in the balance.Talk about doing a girl' s head in.
Publisher: Running Wild, LLC
ISBN: 1960018264
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Tragic Plight of E.G.: A Clinical Case Report“ The Tragic Plight of E.G.: A Clinical Case Report” is a day-by-day account of an ill-fated patient who is hospitalized for a mysterious illness. He finds himself in the care of a team of top-notch doctors, nurses, social workers, and therapists. Even so, the patient' s condition continues to deteriorate, forcing this modern medical establishment to grapple with what it really means to “ do no harm.” The Liberation of Jacob Novak a NovellaThe Liberation of Jacob Novak tells the story of a lonely, aimless young man, trapped in a virtual world. He causes a fatal accident and must pay the price. In prison, Jacob feels valued, gains self-confidence, even falls in love. After serving time, he finds his own way in the world. At last, he is free. Sgt Katrina Dunn, a.k.a. Angela Parker & the Games They PlayAngela Parker, who isn' t your average 17 year old, but who is?, has her run of Alien Quest hijacked by a man who looks, curiously, like her Uncle Reggie. The Uncle Reggie clone invites Ange to play an innovative and sensorily immersive kind of game, one that involves adopting an avatar role where you become someone frighteningly like yourself in a world that rapidly goes crazy. As Ashlie Sweet, Angela Parker finds herself fighting villains that look uncommonly like today' s politicians in a small U.S. town. Everything apparently normal in this small town rapidly goes belly up: there are race riots, detention-centres, murder, and that's just in the first week. What' s more &– with her game based boyfriend Norman Mené &– she discovers they're in a game within a game and that they (their real theys back in Nottingham U.K. and Sydney, Australia and all the other places where the game players come from) are being data mined. The stakes aren' t just in winning or losing a game. Maybe the fate of the free world hangs in the balance.Talk about doing a girl' s head in.
The Long List Anthology Volume 2
Author: Ann Leckie
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540512697
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon. The Long List Anthology Volume 2 collects 18 fiction stories from that nomination list, along with 2 essays from the book Letters to Tiptree that was also on the nomination list, totaling over 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy and horror, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from android caretakers to Lovecraftian romances, from adventures to quests and more. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are: "Damage" by David D. Levine "Pockets" by Amal El-Mohtar "Today I Am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker "The Women You Didn't See" by Nicola Griffith (a letter from Letters to Tiptree) "Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroyer" by Megan Grey "Wooden Feathers" by Ursula Vernon "Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard "Madeleine" by Amal El-Mohtar "Neat Things" by Seanan McGuire (a letter from Letters To Tiptree) "Pocosin" by Ursula Vernon "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong "So Much Cooking" by Naomi Kritzer "The Deepwater Bride" by Tamsyn Muir "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" by Elizabeth Bear "Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds" by Rose Lemberg "Another Word For World" by Ann Leckie "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" by Catherynne M. Valente "Our Lady of the Open Road" by Sarah Pinsker "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik "The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps" by Kai Ashante Wilson
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781540512697
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
This is the second annual edition of the Long List Anthology. Every year, supporting members of WorldCon nominate their favorite stories first published during the previous year to determine the top five in each category for the final Hugo Award ballot. Between the announcement of the ballot and the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon, these works often become the center of much attention (and contention) across fandom. But there are more stories loved by the Hugo voters, stories on the longer nomination list that WSFS publishes after the Hugo Award ceremony at WorldCon. The Long List Anthology Volume 2 collects 18 fiction stories from that nomination list, along with 2 essays from the book Letters to Tiptree that was also on the nomination list, totaling over 500 pages of fiction by writers from all corners of the world. Within these pages you will find a mix of science fiction and fantasy and horror, the dramatic and the lighthearted, from android caretakers to Lovecraftian romances, from adventures to quests and more. There is a wide variety of styles and types of stories here, and something for everyone. The stories included are: "Damage" by David D. Levine "Pockets" by Amal El-Mohtar "Today I Am Paul" by Martin L. Shoemaker "The Women You Didn't See" by Nicola Griffith (a letter from Letters to Tiptree) "Tuesdays With Molakesh the Destroyer" by Megan Grey "Wooden Feathers" by Ursula Vernon "Three Cups of Grief, By Starlight" by Aliette de Bodard "Madeleine" by Amal El-Mohtar "Neat Things" by Seanan McGuire (a letter from Letters To Tiptree) "Pocosin" by Ursula Vernon "Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers" by Alyssa Wong "So Much Cooking" by Naomi Kritzer "The Deepwater Bride" by Tamsyn Muir "The Heart's Filthy Lesson" by Elizabeth Bear "Grandmother-nai-Leylit's Cloth of Winds" by Rose Lemberg "Another Word For World" by Ann Leckie "The Long Goodnight of Violet Wild" by Catherynne M. Valente "Our Lady of the Open Road" by Sarah Pinsker "The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn" by Usman T. Malik "The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps" by Kai Ashante Wilson
THE JUNGLE & OTHER BOOKS (8 Titles in One Volume)
Author: Upton Sinclair
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026879457
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2221
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Jungle King Coal: A Novel The Moneychangers The Metropolis Jimmie Higgins 100%: The Story of a Patriot The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation The Brass Check Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American author who wrote books in many genres, but in all of them advocating for the moral ethics, better life style for the working people and social justice. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist. He has also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026879457
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 2221
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Jungle King Coal: A Novel The Moneychangers The Metropolis Jimmie Higgins 100%: The Story of a Patriot The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation The Brass Check Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) was an American author who wrote books in many genres, but in all of them advocating for the moral ethics, better life style for the working people and social justice. Writing during the Progressive Era, Sinclair describes the world of industrialized America from both the working man's point of view and the industrialist. He has also won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1943.
Anthology of Magazine Verse for ... and Year Book of American Poetry
Dark Lane Anthology
Author: Tim Jeffreys
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781716711169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Dark Lane anthology returns with a brand new collection of strange and eerie stories. This collection takes the reader to the banks of a lake where odd folk gather; to a small American town where people suffer disturbing mood shifts; to a house stuck on the borderland between life and death; to a ship adrift in the ocean that might just have something unimaginable on board. We travel to a far future moon where war breaks out and unknown entities occupy deep dark craters; then onwards into deep space where loneliness, heartbreak and alien Sasquatches await. Here are horrors both real and imagined. Let these writers take you by the hand, and lead you down a shadowed path. Come. Come. Featuring fiction by Sam Hicks, Williams Squirrel, Charles Wilkinson, K.W. Taylor, George Aitch, Kate Carne, Robert Pope, Jack Howling, Robert P. Kaye, Tomas Eklund, Helen Power, Matthew Chabin, Stephen McQuiggan, Edward Ahern, Damon King, Anya Penfold, J.Rosina Harlow, Joshua Storrs, Bryn Fortey, George Kearse, Tim Jeffreys, Ariel Dodson, and T.J. Miller.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781716711169
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Dark Lane anthology returns with a brand new collection of strange and eerie stories. This collection takes the reader to the banks of a lake where odd folk gather; to a small American town where people suffer disturbing mood shifts; to a house stuck on the borderland between life and death; to a ship adrift in the ocean that might just have something unimaginable on board. We travel to a far future moon where war breaks out and unknown entities occupy deep dark craters; then onwards into deep space where loneliness, heartbreak and alien Sasquatches await. Here are horrors both real and imagined. Let these writers take you by the hand, and lead you down a shadowed path. Come. Come. Featuring fiction by Sam Hicks, Williams Squirrel, Charles Wilkinson, K.W. Taylor, George Aitch, Kate Carne, Robert Pope, Jack Howling, Robert P. Kaye, Tomas Eklund, Helen Power, Matthew Chabin, Stephen McQuiggan, Edward Ahern, Damon King, Anya Penfold, J.Rosina Harlow, Joshua Storrs, Bryn Fortey, George Kearse, Tim Jeffreys, Ariel Dodson, and T.J. Miller.
OCR Anthology for Classical Greek AS and A Level: 2024–2026
Author: Sam Baddeley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350156655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2024–26 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are: AS and A Level Groups 1&3 Herodotus, Histories, Book 1, 1–6, 8–13 and 19–22 Plato, Republic, Book 1, 327a to 332b Homer, Iliad, Book 16, lines 20–47, 644–867 Euripides, Hippolytus, 284–361, 391–524 A Level Groups 2&4 Herodotus, Histories, Book 1, 29–45 Plato, Republic, Book 1, 336b to 337a7 and 338a4 to end of 342 Plutarch, Life of Anthony, 76–86 Homer, Iliad, Book 24, lines 349–595 Euripides, Hippolytus, 601–624, 627–633, 638–662, 664–668, 682–731, 885–911, 914–1028, 1030–1035 Aristophanes, Frogs, 1–208 and 830–874 Supplementary resources are available on the Companion Website: https://www.bloomsbury.pub/OCR-editions-2024-2026.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350156655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Greek AS and A-Level set text prescriptions for 2024–26 giving full Greek text, commentary and vocabulary and a detailed introduction for each text that also covers the prescription to be read in English for A Level. The texts covered are: AS and A Level Groups 1&3 Herodotus, Histories, Book 1, 1–6, 8–13 and 19–22 Plato, Republic, Book 1, 327a to 332b Homer, Iliad, Book 16, lines 20–47, 644–867 Euripides, Hippolytus, 284–361, 391–524 A Level Groups 2&4 Herodotus, Histories, Book 1, 29–45 Plato, Republic, Book 1, 336b to 337a7 and 338a4 to end of 342 Plutarch, Life of Anthony, 76–86 Homer, Iliad, Book 24, lines 349–595 Euripides, Hippolytus, 601–624, 627–633, 638–662, 664–668, 682–731, 885–911, 914–1028, 1030–1035 Aristophanes, Frogs, 1–208 and 830–874 Supplementary resources are available on the Companion Website: https://www.bloomsbury.pub/OCR-editions-2024-2026.
Anthology of Magazine Verse and Anthology of Poems from the Seventeen Previously Published Braithwaite Anthologies
The Outlook
Nightfall
Author: Shannon Messenger
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481497421
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
A New York Times bestselling series A USA TODAY bestselling series A California Young Reader Medal–winning series Sophie and her friends face battles unlike anything they’ve seen before in this thrilling sixth book of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Sophie Foster is struggling. Grieving. Scrambling. But she knows one thing: she will not be defeated. The Neverseen have had their victories—but the battle is far from over. It’s time to change tactics. Make sacrifices. Reexamine everything. Maybe even time for Sophie to trust her enemies. All paths lead to Nightfall—an ominous door to an even more ominous place—and Sophie and her friends strike a dangerous bargain to get there. But nothing can prepare them for what they discover. The problems they’re facing stretch deep into their history. And with time running out, and mistakes catching up with them, Sophie and her allies must join forces in ways they never have before. In this spectacular sixth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities’ insidious past, before it repeats itself and changes reality.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481497421
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
A New York Times bestselling series A USA TODAY bestselling series A California Young Reader Medal–winning series Sophie and her friends face battles unlike anything they’ve seen before in this thrilling sixth book of the Keeper of the Lost Cities series. Sophie Foster is struggling. Grieving. Scrambling. But she knows one thing: she will not be defeated. The Neverseen have had their victories—but the battle is far from over. It’s time to change tactics. Make sacrifices. Reexamine everything. Maybe even time for Sophie to trust her enemies. All paths lead to Nightfall—an ominous door to an even more ominous place—and Sophie and her friends strike a dangerous bargain to get there. But nothing can prepare them for what they discover. The problems they’re facing stretch deep into their history. And with time running out, and mistakes catching up with them, Sophie and her allies must join forces in ways they never have before. In this spectacular sixth book in the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Keeper of the Lost Cities series, Sophie must uncover the truth about the Lost Cities’ insidious past, before it repeats itself and changes reality.