Kate Wilhelm

Where late the sweet birds sang

Part memoir and part writing manual, an affectionate account of teaching writing at the Clarion workshop.

Writing Lessons and More from 27 Years of the Clarion Writers' Workshop

Storyteller

When a mercurial artist from their Oregon coastal resort town dies amid speculation about her latest husband's secret effort to sell her work, Marie, a widow, and her medical student granddaughter, Van, enlist the help of a former NYC cop to prove the artist has been murdered. By the award-winning author of Heaven Is High. 30,000 first printing.

A Mystery

Death of an Artist

The Hamlet Trap

Skeletons

Death qualified

Juniper Time

A collection of the shorter cases of Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn, the husband-and-wife detective team, includes "With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope," "Torch Song," "All for One," "Sister Angel," and "The Gorgon Field."

Five Short Novels Featuring Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn

A Flush of Shadows

John Daniel Culbertson attempts to retain his despotic control over his family--even after death--by employing a research psychologist to choose the heir to his rich Oregon estate

A Sense of Shadow

The dark door

Welcome, Chaos

Demain le silence

The Price Of Silence

A critically acclaimed psychological thriller by a Nebula Award-winning writer tells the story of a circle of siblings who harbor a shocking secret about their mother's death, one that threatens to destroy them. Reprint.

The Good Children

Hiram Granville, a modern Leonardo, secured more than a thousand patents during his lifetime. His son John, an economics genius, never lost a cent in the stock market or any other financial deal. Now Cat, a documentarian, her researcher Mercy, and Cracker Jack, an electronics whiz, are preparing to do a documentary about the Granville clan. What they find as they research the family is madness, suicides, a seclusion that appears to be total, and a frightening glimpse about what it means to peer into the future.

The Fullness of Time

They came to his deathbed. Four dutiful children. Each the victim of a different mother. Each mother the victim of a tragic accident, unsolved murder, mysterious disappearance. As he sank away they glowered their hatred. It was a hatred he expected, and his revenge was well-planned. He left a multimillion dollar legacy, bearing a ghoulish price tag. They could pay with their sanity, or their psyches, or their souls, they would be part of an experiment, something to do with brain waves. It would be a great service to science, they were told. Just one last little joke on his kids, and they swore they could hear him laughing - all the way to hell.

Before becoming one of today's most intriguing and innovative mystery writers, Kate Wilhelm was a leading writer of science fiction, acclaimed for classics like The Infinity Box and The Clewiston Test. Now one of her most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and "hard" SF, and won SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then. Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is the winner of the 1977 Hugo Award for Best Novel. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Novel

Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang

A collection of five short cases of Constance Leidl and Charlie Meiklejohn, the husband-and-wife detective team, includes "With Thimbles, with Forks and Hope," "Torch Song," "All for One," "Sister Angel," and "The Gorgon Field." Reprint.

From 1966 to 1980, Damon Knight created the Orbit anthologies series of science fiction, representing the finest writing in the genre. Nineteen of Kate Wilhelm?s stories were included in this series of 21 volumes. Among these are ?Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang,? an exploration of infertility and cloning in the aftermath of global environmental collapse. It won the Locus, Jupiter, and Hugo Awards for Best Novel in 1977. ?The Planners? reaches into the moral conflicts of a primate researcher, which won the Nebula Award for Best Short Story in 1968. Other stories include: a road trip into a woman?s psyche; primal fears through the eyes of a wise and empathetic alien; an encounter in a bus depot during a raging winter storm; the first ?interactive? reality TV show. Ms. Wilhelm?s stories are prophetic, yet as recognizable as a story in this morning?s paper.

Kate Wilhelm in Orbit - Volume One

The case against young Travis Morgan is simple: he walked into his father's house and shot the man at his desk in front of two witnesses. The fact that the murdered man was not his father is immaterial: he still killed a man in cold blood. Although he admits to a passionate hatred and fear of his father, Travis swears he is innocent. This is the case attorney Barbara Holloway is presented with. The trouble is she believes Travis, even though the eyewitness accounts appear irrefutable. As Barbara digs deeper, the case explodes into a dangerous conspiracy, causing Frank, Barbara's father and part-time associate, to hire a bodyguard to protect her.

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