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In Human Voices you will find stories covering the past three decades of James Gunn’s career: imaginative, entertaining speculations revealing insight-and foresight-into human nature now and in the future, which are the unmistakable hallmarks of his best fiction. James Gunn’s work is always polished, ironic, and deeply concerned about humankind. Long before I knew him, his stories and novels were a pleasure to read, and this has never changed. -George Zebrowski, Award Winning author of Macrolife and Brute Orbits These are consistently and admirably intelligent, austerely but effectively written stories . . . . -Roland Green, Booklist… More >>
HUMAN VOICES: Science Fiction Stories
21st Century and Beyond – Future Space Rockets and Breakthrough Propulsion, NASA Research, Near-term Plans, and Far-out Science Fiction Concepts from Space … Sails, Ion Electric, Antimatter, and Fusion
Posted 02 Sep 2010
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This book-on-a-disc is a comprehensive collection of NASA documents and papers on current research into future rocket designs and breakthrough propulsion concepts. NASA’s current project to develop a reusable design that could replace the Space Shuttle, the Space Launch Initiative, is covered in detail, along with a wide range of exciting “breakthrough” concepts for futuristic propulsion. Nuclear rockets, hypersonics, space elevators, solar sails, ion electric engines, antimatter engines, tethers, beamed energy and laser propulsion, plasma thrusters, scramjets, interstellar sails, helicon-wave thrusters, and nuclear fusion rockets are included, with proposals for the exploration of Mars, asteroids, the outer … More >>
21st Century and Beyond – Future Space Rockets and Breakthrough Propulsion, NASA Research, Near-term Plans, and Far-out Science Fiction Concepts from Space … Sails, Ion Electric, Antimatter, and Fusion
Fool’s Gold
Posted 02 Sep 2010
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Aliens, ancient gods, beautiful Valkyries, old-fashioned heroes, conniving nobles, betrayal, greed, incest, a magical gold horde; this story has something for everyone. Fafner, the most notorious criminal in the universe, is stranded on Earth after civilization has been ravaged by disease, war and pollution. He decides to hone his felonious skills by stealing the powerful artifacts developed by another alien, Alberich. But Alberich is determined to regain the artifacts or at least make Fafner pay for stealing them. Alberich’s devices, made for the magical Rhinegold, give the user vast powers. The Chip, allows the user to receive information instantaneously from anywhere in the universe. The second d… More >>
Fool’s Gold
The Wind over the World
Posted 02 Sep 2010
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They had a doorway into the past. But it didn’t just open up on a place on a day. There was a sort of flutter and it caused spatial drift and temporal spread. Two probes might go through together on the twenty-first century side but come out miles and years apart on the Silurian side. This story is part of the author’s Silurian Tales series. This story is nearly 72 minutes in length on one audio CD and is read by Shondra Marie. This production is part of the publisher’s Great Science Fiction Stories audio series…. More >>
The Wind over the World
Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure
Posted 01 Sep 2010
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The scientist Taldra is one of the few people on the planet Valchondria who can see in color, but a police force called “the Maintainers” won’t let colorsighted people reveal their ability to the public. Duane Simolke explores that “closet” metaphor more in this revised edition of Degranon; he also recreates three of the major characters as gay men. Taldra’s family becomes entangled with a violent religious fanatic from a war-torn planet called “Degranon.” The first edition of Degranon received a StoneWall Society Pride in the Arts Award, and Simolke’s publisher, iUniverse, named Degranon one of their Editor’s Choice books…. More >>
Degranon: A Science Fiction Adventure
The Gate of Worlds
Posted 01 Sep 2010
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In this alternate history novel, the Bubonic Plague sets the stage for a world where the West is powerless. After the Black Death has wiped out most of the European population, there is little defense against Turkish invasion and expansion, and by the 1980s, the major world powers are the Russians, the Turks, the Aztecs, the Incas, and the Japanese. However, the Turks have lost much of their territory, leaving England to self-rule in a delayed Industrial Revolution. Dan Beauchamp, a young Englishman whose heart longs for fortune and adventure, travels to industrial Mexico and discovers that he has a lot to learn. From the city of London—better known as New Istanbul—to the untamed wilderness of North Amer… More >>
The Gate of Worlds
Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Posted 01 Sep 2010
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This two-volume set consists of plot summaries and analyses of 180 major works of the classics in science fiction and fantasy literature most often taught in high school and undergraduates literature and cultural history courses. The essays examine the work of prominent science fiction writers such as Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Ursula K. Le Guin,as well as influential fantasy writers such as John Crowley,Ellen Kushner, and J.R.R. Tolkien. The entries in the book discuss individual books and series, arranged alphabetically by title.The main body of each essay consists of twosections. The first is entitled “The Story” and the second “Analysis”. “The Story” furnishes the key points of the work and identifi… More >>
Classics of Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology
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Exploring the hollow earth from the 17th century to the present…. More >>
Subterranean Worlds: A Critical Anthology
Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy – All the Gold of Ophir
Posted 31 Aug 2010
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When two of the Conglomerated Mining and Manufacturing Company employees are killed on the space station Jupiter – a “gold mine,” as wealthy as the great Biblical mines of Ophir – in what appears to be an industrial accident, Private detective Mike Flynn is hired to investigate. Discovering that key witnesses were transferred off the Station and the doctor who performed the autopsies has died from the effects of polymethyl two four dibenzolacetate (the most abused designer drug of the twenty-first century), Flynn leaps to the conclusion that Jupiter Station is earning its huge profits not from legitimate mining, but from the secret production of polymeth. With the enlisted help of company attorney Wendy Chadwi… More >>
Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy – All the Gold of Ophir
Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy – Formidable Enemy
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Roger Stimson is an emergency-room nurse in New Orleans, trying to forget his past as an intelligence and bio-chemical officer who almost single-handedly stopped an alien invasion of Earth by the Enochians. Now, eight years later, the Enochians are back, and one alien named Dingo claims that a faction of his people wants to restart the war by assassinating the U.S. President. Dingo drags Stimson into intrigue, conspiracy, and interstellar gamesmanship. Soon the two find themselves on the run, accused of murder and dodging professional killers who want them silenced. For Stimson his only way out is to follow Dingo’s lead and stop an assassination that would lead to a restart of a war that Earth would not survive… More >>
Five Star Science Fiction/Fantasy – Formidable Enemy