Ray Bradbury Presents Dinosaur World
Title | Ray Bradbury Presents Dinosaur World PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Leigh |
Publisher | J. T. Colby & Company, Inc. |
Pages | 218 |
Release | 2012-01-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1596875852 |
THE FIRST IN A SPECTACULAR NEW SERIES OF TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURES EVOLVING FROM THE WORK OF RAY BRADBURY, AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES T I M E S A F A R I, I N C. SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST. YOU NAME THE ANIMAL. WE TAKE YOU THERE. YOU SHOOT IT. The sign said it all, but the hunters soon became the hunted. Their safari took them to the age of dinosaurs, but the hunt went terribly wrong, sending ripples of change throughout the timestream. GREEN TOWN, USA............TIME: THE PRESENT.... Aaron Cofield and Jennifer Mason are discussing their future when they make an incredible discovery: a newly laid dinosaur egg, ready to hatch! Before long the two are caught in an astonishing trip across the millennia to Earth’s dim past, chased by a psychotic member of a Time Safari. Racing against time, they face Mesozoic monsters, mysterious time travelers, and a strange new race of intelligent dinosaurs—humanity’s allies in their effort to rescue the future!
Ray Bradbury Presents Dinosaur Samurai
Title | Ray Bradbury Presents Dinosaur Samurai PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Leigh & John J. Miller |
Publisher | ibooks |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2018-04-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1596875836 |
THE THIRD IN A SPECTACULAR NEW SERIES OF TIME TRAVEL ADVENTURES EVOLVING FROM THE WORK OF RAY BRADBURY, AUTHOR OF THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES. SAFARIS TO ANY YEAR IN THE PAST. YOU NAME THE ANIMAL. WE TAKE YOU THERE. The sign said it all, but the hunters soon became the hunted. Their safari took them to the age of dinosaurs, but the hunt went terribly wrong, sending ripples of change throughout the timestream. Eckels, a psychotic time-traveler, has shot a dinosaur and meddled with history, destroying the future and trapping himself in the past. Transported to an alternate prehistoric period by a savage timestorm, Aaron Cofield manages to link up with a lost Time Safari guide, Travis. Together, they must hunt down Eckels and restore the shape of history. Attacked by sentient dinosaurs, Aaron and Travis escape to an alternate medieval Japan. Caught between dinosaurs, ferocious samurai warriors, and the cold-blooded Eckels, the two must fight for their own survival—and to restore the timestream of our future!
Serious about Series
Title | Serious about Series PDF eBook |
Author | Silk Makowski |
Publisher | Rlpg/Galleys |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN |
Teen paperback series, routinely castigated or ignored by Young Adult librarians despite their popularity with young adults, should be considered for inclusion in collections alongside other genres. In Serious about Series, Makowksi provides distinct criteria by which these series can be judged for quality within their genre, and emphasizes them as an inexpensive way to fulfill patron needs and increase circulation by bringing young people, often considered "non-readers," into the library. Makowski's book is an insightful evaluation of over fifty popular series, and includes an introduction that analyzes the teen series paperback genre and its significance for both teen reading practices and library services. Hundreds of titles are annotated in the book, allowing librarians to develop "in-house" bibliographies of favorite teen series titles, making this a truly useful reference source for the young adult librarian.
Old Venus
Title | Old Venus PDF eBook |
Author | George R. R. Martin |
Publisher | Bantam |
Pages | 584 |
Release | 2015-03-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0804179859 |
Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earth’s next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century’s space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so, too, did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish world inimical to all life. But don’t despair! This new anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fiction’s best writers—edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois—turns back the clock to that more innocent time, before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination. Join our cast of award-winning contributors—including Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Mike Resnick, Eleanor Arnason, Allen M. Steele, and more—as we travel back in time to a planet that never was but should have been: a young, rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries. FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY Eleanor Arnason • Elizabeth Bear • David Brin • Tobias S. Buckell • Michael Cassutt • Joe Haldeman • Matthew Hughes • Gwyneth Jones • Joe R. Lansdale • Stephen Leigh • Paul McAuley • Ian McDonald • Garth Nix • Mike Resnick • Allen M. Steele • Lavie Tidhar And an Introduction by Gardner Dozois
S.S.S.L.
Title | S.S.S.L. PDF eBook |
Author | Society for the Study of Southern Literature |
Publisher | |
Pages | 162 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | American literature |
ISBN |
The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction
Title | The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur B. Evans |
Publisher | Wesleyan University Press |
Pages | 787 |
Release | 2010-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0819569550 |
The best single-volume anthology of science fiction available—includes online teacher's guide The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction features over a 150 years' worth of the best science fiction ever collected in a single volume. The fifty-two stories and critical introductions are organized chronologically as well as thematically for classroom use. Filled with luminous ideas, otherworldly adventures, and startling futuristic speculations, these stories will appeal to all readers as they chart the emergence and evolution of science fiction as a modern literary genre. They also provide a fascinating look at how our Western technoculture has imaginatively expressed its hopes and fears from the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century to the digital age of today. A free online teacher's guide at http://sfanthology.site.wesleyan.edu/ accompanies the anthology and offers access to a host of pedagogical aids for using this book in an academic setting. The stories in this anthology have been selected and introduced by the editors of Science Fiction Studies, the world's most respected journal for the critical study of science fiction.
Burn
Title | Burn PDF eBook |
Author | James Patrick Kelly |
Publisher | Tachyon Publications |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2018-04-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1616962593 |
Nebula Award Winner Hugo Award Nominee Featuring a new afterword from the author “Burn is James Patrick Kelly at his best, and there’s nothing better.” —Connie Willis, author of Doomsday Book The tiny planet Morobe's Pea has been sold and renamed Walden. The new owner has some interesting ideas. Voluntary simplicity will rule in the Transcendent State; Walden is destined to become a paradise covered in lush new forests. But even believers find temptations in the black markets; non-believers are willing to defend their ideals with fire. Walden's only hope may lie with a third option: a very unlikely alien intervention. In Burn, James Patrick Kelly (Think Like a Dinosaur) delivers an innovative, entertaining, and morally-complex vision of the perils of idealism.