Henry Carter Hull

In a near future Tokyo where every action-from blinking to sexual intercourse-is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees... Risen from the ashes of bankdeath, Amon Kenzaki, fallen Liquidator and Xenocyst survivor, arrives at the forest from his dreams. He has fulfilled his promise to the PhisherKing to seek truth without relent and can look upon the wonders of those green slopes with clear eyes at last. Yet now, just...

Who can save the nation of Sweden from "going to the dogs", from being led like-a lamb-to-the-slaughter; Only one, dear, getting-on but strong Granny, who could be anyone's dear Grandma - so quant and kind, but doesn't suffer fools kindly! One day, Granny is just doing her Grandmotherly-thing of washing up and then putting her feet up for a spot of knitting; but, her destiny calls her to greater exploits when a strange but good wind is blown into...

Twenty-three stories from one of science fiction's up-and-coming stars, Pushcart and Journey Prize-nominated author Rich Larson. Welcome to the Tomorrow Factory. On your left, post-human hedonists on a distant space station bring diseases back in fashion, two scavengers find a super-powered parasite under the waves of Sunk Seattle, and a terminally ill chemist orchestrates an asteroid prison break. On your right, an alien optometrist spins illusions...

An omnibus edition of his collections None So Blind and Dealing in Futures, this volume features the best of Joe Haldeman's short speculative fiction, including such gems as the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "The Hemingway Hoax," in which a forged Hemingway manuscript takes the reader on a journey through time and multiple universes; the Hugo and Locus Award-winning "None So Blind;" the World Fantasy and Nebula Award-winning "Graves;" and the Rhysling...

What may we become? How will we endure? The future is a daunting realm, filled with real and imagined perils. So enter it prepared! Here are vivid tales about possible tomorrows, from the keen eye and colorful pen of David Brin, a modern master of speculative fiction. Visit a chillingly plausible tomorrow, when prisoners may be sent to asteroidal gulags. Or might prisons vanish and felons roam, seeing only what society allows? Suppose, amid lavish...

The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award-winning Space Odyssey series. On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman's strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through the novels 2010 and 2061. But now, a thousand years after his death, Frank Poole is brought back to life-and...

Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926), the author of more than fifty books on classics, theology, history, and Shakespeare, was headmaster of the City of London School and one of the leading educators of his time. Thomas Banchoff is professor emeritus of mathematics at Brown University and author of Beyond the Third Dimension. In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical...

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost. 2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity's future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded...

"Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "The Aliens", "Morale: A Story Of The War 1941-43", and "The Vault" all by Murray Leinster."--

Voyagez dans une fresque futuriste qui traverse les siècles avec ces 13 nouvelles ! Au travers de 13 récits qui s'étalent sur des millénaires, Christian Aubin nous conte la folie des hommes dans cette fresque futuriste mêlant religion, guerres et envies de pouvoir, qui vont sceller l'avenir de l'humanité. Un récit qui nous montre une possible facette de notre planète, grâce à ce récit qui prend principalement racine dans la cité médiévale...