Family trauma, race, and the destiny of a nation corrupted by slavery, cast in the light of epic myth: "More than a saga of Black revitalization . . . Part vision, part parable, it is a story for all America." ( The New York Times Book Review ) The Snowdon family stands as a pinnacle of Black excellence in Washington, D.C.: educated, affluent, and influential. John Christopher, the patriarch, saves lives as a heart surgeon and is revered by his students at Howard University. His wife, Camille, governs an elegant house overlooking Rock Creek Park and devotes herself to reading, gardening, and raising their three daughters--Cynthia, Patricia, and Eva--to attend the very best schools and roam the world on a whim. Theirs ought to be a story of success and empowerment, but something is rotten in the house of Snowdon. Years later, when John Christopher's granddaughter Johnnie comes to seek the truth about her own parentage, she unveils a legacy of unspeakable family secrets tangled up in America's original sin. What begins as a quest for identity spirals into an apocalyptic vision of a nation on the brink of ruin. By turns a poetic epic, a ghost story, a historical saga, and a chilling dystopian fable, Thereafter Johnnie is a unique and uniquely American fusion of myth and hard-bitten reality: an erotic, horrifying, and even hopeful reckoning with centuries of injustice.

"Who is Joyleg? What is he? There are governments that want to know his secret. There is evidence that he is more than 200 years old. And indeed he does have a secret--one that will cause the history of the world to be rewritten!"--Page 4 of cover.

If you write science fiction, you'll like Science Fiction 101's witty, thought-provoking essays, revealing the secrets, the craft and the art of science fiction. If you read science fiction, you'll enjoy the thirteen classic works of modern science fiction included in Science Fiction 101. These works include wondrous stories by Alfred Bester, Philip. K. Dick, Jack Vance, Frederick Pohl and many others.

Fifty stories for fifty years! A collection-and celebration-of the work of Harry Harrison From his first sale in 1950 on, Harry Harrison has been one of the science fiction world's creative dynamos, working in every subgenre of the field, always bursting with provocative ideas. Parodic one moment, serious the next, Harrison has been called by Brian Aldiss "one of the few authors capable of carrying the old vigor of earlier days forward into a new epoch." On the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary as a professional writer, Harrison has gathered together fifty of his best stories-one for each year-along with substantial notes and introductory material. 50 in 50 is at once a memoir, a compendium of an engaging body of work, and a look at the history of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century.

These original classic adventures of Dynamo, NoMan, Menthor, and more from T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents issue #12-14 and Dynamo #4 feature artwork by Wally Wood, Steve Ditko, Gil Kane, Chic Stone, and more.

Shortlisted for the William Atheling Jr Award for Criticism or Review Fiction plays a vital role in describing history and transmitting culture. How writers understand and use history can play an equally important role in how they navigate a novel. This book explores the nature of the author's relationship with history and fiction - often using writers' own words - as well as the role history plays in fiction. Focusing on genre fiction, this study considers key issues in the relationship between history and fiction, such as how writers contextualise the history they use in their fiction and how they incorporate historical research. The book also addresses the related topic of world building using history, discussing the connections between the science fiction writers' notion of world building and the scholarly understanding of story space and explaining the mechanics of constructing the world of the novel. This book places the writing of fiction into a wider framework of history and writing and encourages dialogue between writers and historians.

The notion of a parallel universe has intrigued the human mind for millennia. This book, however, is not about science fiction; it is about real life. Indeed, Jesus Christ himself, the most "real" human being that ever existed, spoke of the "Kingdom of Heaven" almost as though it were another dimension--a parallel universe.

“The ideal science-fiction short story should amaze as well as delight,” says Robert Silverberg in the Introduction to his latest volume of short stories. And indeed that is just what America’s master of imaginative fiction does in this collection of stories written between 1980 and 1982 for such magazines as Omni, Playboy, Twilight Zone, Beyond, Penthouse, and Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine. In sixteen brilliantly executed works of the imagination, Robert Silverberg makes fantasy as real and accessible as the mundane world of mortals. With boldly inventive plots, he creates characters as moving as those of any superlative fiction writer. From time travelers who sightsee at history’s debacles, to research chimps who imitate their keepers to the point of inventing religion, complete with the sacrifice of their peers, let Robert Silverberg lead you into his gripping, stirring universe.

From the Centipede Press website: "With twenty-five stories, this collection of noir fiction and slice-of-life stories presents a side of Kersh rarely seen. Included is one of Kersh’s finest tales, The Extraordinarily Horrible Dummy and a fine science fiction tale, This Stuff is Like Cigarette Ash. Also included is the rare Blast, a story never before reprinted in book format. This book has a printed cloth front panel with a design by Limehouse Design/Medusa Press, an interior photograph by Jeff Hersch, and a brief introduction by Paul Duncan. Most of the stories in here have been out of print for decades."

Continuing the adventures of the lovable "fools" of Helm begun in "The Wise Men of Helm", this book is illustrated with whimsical drawings. These humorous stories are just right for children.

"A breathtaking journey across Iran where war and superstition, jealousy and betrayal, and passion and loyalty rage behind the impenetrable walls of mansions and the crumbling houses of the Jewish Quarter. Against the tumultuous background of World War II, Dr. Yaran will find himself caught in the thrall of the anti-Semitic Governor General, the most powerful man in the country. Dr. Yaran falls in love with the Governor General's defiant wife, Velvet, upending not only the life of the doctor's beloved daughter, but the entire community. In his quest to save everything and everyone he loves, Dr. Yaran will navigate the intersections of magic, science, lust, and treachery. His sole ally is the Governor General's servant, an exotic eunuch, who will do anything to aid his mistress in her dangerous quest to attain forbidden love." --

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A replica of the November 1952 issue of SCIENCE FICTION ADVENTURES digest magazine featuring THE FIRES OF FOREVER by Chad Oliver, MAKE MINE MARS by Cyril Kornbluth, THE 21st GENERATION by Irving B. Cox Jr., INTERPLANETARY TIN CAN by Ross Rocklynne, A DAY'S WORK by Wilmar H. Shiras, THE ORDEAL OF PROFESSOR KLEIN by L. Sprague de Camp, RECOGNITION Thomas C. Pace, and THE PERSUASIVE MAN by Roger Dee.

An anthology of Australian Speculative Fiction. BAGGAGE presents some of the finest new work by Aussie writers, including Jack Dann, Monica Carroll, K. J. Bishop, Kaaron Warren, Yaritji Green, Janeen Webb, Lucy Sussex, Jennifer Fallon, Maxine McArthur, Tessa Kum, Laura E. Goodin, Deborah Biancotti, and Simon Brown.

Includes The Articles Confidence Game, By Jim Harmon; The Hardest Bargain, By Evelyn E. Smith; Lulu, By Clifford D. Simak; And Many Others.

Quality Control essay by Stanley Schmidt Savage Planet novelette by Barry B. Longyear How to Get Along With an Extraterrestrial or Your Neighbor essay by G. Harry Stine One-Wing (Part 2 of 2) serial by George R. R. Martin and Lisa Tuttle Tetherball shortstory by Thomas A. Easton A First Glimpse novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun "Your Privacy is My Business" shortstory by Joe Patrouch Biocybernetics Revisited [The Alternate View] essay by G. Harry Stine

Conner, "The Hammer," McVee has a score to settle and enough spare parts in her body to build a small car. Tarent Powers destroyed her life, but even her enhanced abilities and her job as a police agent couldn't get her close enough to the corporate mob boss to bring him down.Now the key to his unravelling has fallen into her lap. Can she do what's necessary to make him pay even if it means destroying the life of an innocent young woman?Come along for a ride in this future that corporate take-overs, plague and automation have made. A world where everything from crime, to central government, to the police are run by the corporations, and where a "mad" cult has sprung up whose members want to remake the world using hand tools and good, hard work."Conner McVee has a problem. She's a throwback in a sterile world almost totally reliant on machines, and she's a cop with ties to the underworld seeking revenge against the man who killed her lover. But when she sets a plot for revenge in motion, it turns into something far more than she ever bargained for. With the copsand criminals both after her, she's got to fight back to protect herself, her new lover, and her way of life. That's okay, she thinks fast, acts faster, and wields a modified nail gun. Maybe it's not a problem after all. Action, attitude, sex, politics, and more attitude... Rosen has another winner " - Rob Gates, free-lance writer & editor of "Spectrum""Selina Rosen writes an action adventure with a heroine who is as hard as nails and just as sharp. I guarantee, you won't want to put this one down." - Laura J. Underwood, author of Ard Magisterand The Black Hunter"Nobody creates tougher than nails heroines better than Selina Rosen. She's outdone even herself with Conner "The Hammer" McVee, a cyborg who is half-human, half-machine, and all woman.Hammer Town is high-octane science fiction overflowing with adventure, humor, romance and blue-collar sensibilities. Persons not enjoying this book must be diagnosed as entertainment impaired." - Garrett Peck, co-editor of Personal Demons and Tooth & Claw