Carter Scholz

Physicist Philip Quine is plunged into a realm where greed and personal gain reign supreme over science when he unexpectedly becomes involved with Superbright, a project conceived to protect the world from nuclear weapons.

A Novel

Radiance

Jonathan Lethem

Stories bring Franz Kafka to the United States, where he writes scripts for "It's a Wonderful Life," attends an insurance industry conference with Wallace Stevens and Charles Ives, and interacts with other contemporaries.

Kafka Americana

In this collection of sci-fi stories, heralded writer Carter Scholz explores a variety of sociopolitical themes. In the novella Gypsy, a few visionary scientists, chosen and nurtured by an eccentric billionaire undertake humankinds most expansive adventure generations long voyage to a distant planet. The story The Nine Billion Names of God uses a classic sci-fi text to deconstruct literary deconstruction itself, with hilarious results. Imprecations is an unforgiving examination of the primary lies in popular culture. An interview with the author, in which Scholz reveals his sources, frustrations, forbidden delights, and demonic designs, is also included.

Gypsy plus ...

Julian Rohrhuber

George Lewis

Golo Föllmer

Atau Tanaka

Alvin Curran

Barbara Golden

Shelly Knotts

Thomas Lehn

Jon Leidecker

Gino Robair

Laetitia Sonami

This comprehensive publication depicts the work of the music collective in a historical context and serves as inspiration for a new generation of network music.

The Hub: Pioneers of Network Music

Aliette de Bodard

Bao Shu

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Eugene Fischer

Short novels are movie length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This unabridged collection presents the best-of-the-best science fiction novellas published in 2015 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of story-telling. In “The Citadel of Weeping Pearls,” by Aliette de Bodard, set in the author’s Dai Viet interstellar empire, an Empress orders her scientific Grand Master to search deepest space and track down the missing Citadel, along with its technologies, to help defend against enemies amassing on her borders. In “The New Mother,” by Eugene Fischer, a freelance journalist pursues the career-making opportunity to write a feature article for a major publication following a contagion that turns human ova diploid, capable of parthenogenesis—reproduction without the need for sperm. In “Inhuman Garbage,” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, set in the author’s popular Retrieval Artist series, a detective investigates the murder of a body found in a recycling/composting waste disposal crate in a dome on the moon. In “Gypsy,” by Carter Scholz, a meticulously rendered, slower-than-light, starship flees a totalitarian Earth on a mission whose outcome is not a clear-cut success or failure. Finally, in “What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear,” by Bao Shu, Xie Baosheng and his lifelong love, Qiqi, are small children as the countdown to the 2008 Beijing Olympics has begun. Their lives in China are prosperous but then history starts to run backwards.

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