A modern classic, Einstein's Dreams is a fictional collage of stories dreamed by Albert Einstein in 1905, when he worked in a patent office in Switzerland. As the defiant but sensitive young genius is creating his theory of relativity, a new conception of time, he imagines many possible worlds. In one, time is circular, so that people are fated to repeat triumphs and failures over and over. In another, there is a place where time stands still, visited by lovers and parents clinging to their children. In another, time is a nightingale, sometimes trapped by a bell jar.
Now translated into thirty languages, Einstein's Dreams has inspired playwrights, dancers, musicians, and painters all over the world. In poetic vignettes, it explores the connections between science and art, the process of creativity, and ultimately the fragility of human existence.
Steampunk is the twisted offspring of science fiction and postmodernism, a sassy, unpredictable tongue-in-cheek style of which the incomparable Paul Di Filippo is master. The three short novels in The Steampunk Trilogy are all set in a very alternative nineteenth century, and feature a mixture of historical and imaginary figures. In "Victoria," a young and lissome Queen Victoria disappears from her throne and is replaced by a sexy human/newt clone. The race is on to find the original Victoria and to hide the terrible secret from the nation. In "Hottentots," Massachusetts is threatened by monsters from the deep; in "Walt and Emily," Emily Dickinson hooks up with a robust and lusty Walt Whitman, loses her virginity, and travels to a dimension beyond time where she meets the future Allen Ginsberg.
Winslow Remington Houndstooth, notorious outlaw, handsomest heartbreaker in the American South, has just finished a lucrative job, but he's faced with a hippo-sized problem that would test even the most seasoned of hoppers. A slyly funny, raucous adventure in the alternate America of Sarah Gailey's River of Teeth and Taste of Marrow.
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The Mammoth Book of Steampunk showcases the very best in the form of stories by Paul Di Filippo, Neil Gaiman, Cherie Priest, and many more.
An anthology that looks to the future through the lens of the past, these 30 mash-ups of past and future push the boundaries of steampunk.
This is steampunk with a modern, post-colonial sensibility. Contributors include: Jeff VanderMeer, Caitlín Kiernan, Mary Robinette Kowal, Jay Lake, Cherie Priest, Cat Rambo, Catherynne M. Valente, Genevieve Valentine, and many more.
Contents: Steampunk : looking to the future through the lens of the past / Ekaterina Sedia -- Fixing Hanover / Jeff VanderMeer -- The Steam Dancer (1896) / Caitlin R. Kierman -- Icebreaker / E. Catherine Tobler -- Tom Edison and his amazing telegraphic harpoon / Jay Lake -- The Zeppelin Conductors' Society Annual Gentlemen's Ball / Genevieve Valentine Clockwork fairies / Cat Rambo -- The mechanical aviary of Emperor Jala-ud-din Muhammad Akbar / Shweta Narayan -- Prayers of forges and furnaces / Aliette de Bodard -- The effluent engine / N.K. Jemisin -- The clockwork goat and the smokestack magi / Peter M. Ball -- The armature of flight / Sharon Mock -- The anachronist's cookbook / Catherynne M. Valente -- Numismatics in the reigns of Naranh and Viu / Alex Dally MacFarlane -- Zeppelin City / Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick -- The people's machine / Tobias S. Buckell -- The hands that feed / Matthew Kressel -- Machine maid / Margo Lanagan -- To follow the waves / Amal El-Mohtar -- Clockmaker's requiem / Barth Anderson -- Dr Lash remembers / Jeffrey Ford -- Lady Witherspoon's solution / James Morrow -- Reluctance / Cherie Priest -- A serpent in the gears / Margaret Ronald -- The celebrated carousel of the Margravine of Blois / Megan Arkenberg -- Biographical notes to ''A discourse on the nature of causality, with air-planes'' by Benjamin Rosenbaum / Benjamin Rosenbaum -- Clockwork chickadee / Mary Robinette Kowal -- Cinderella suicide / Samantha Henderson -- Arbeitskraft / Nick Mamatas -- To seek her fortune / Nicole Kornher-Stace -- The ballad of the last human / Lavie Tidhar.
An enchanting short story from Madeline Miller that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion.
In ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece — the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen — the gift of life. Now his wife, he expects Galatea to please him, to be obedience and humility personified. But she has desires of her own and yearns for independence.
In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, Galatea is locked away under the constant supervision of doctors and nurses. But with a daughter to rescue, she is determined to break free, whatever the cost...
Harlan Ellison is probably best known as a script writer for sci-fi and fantasy movies and TV series such as the original Outer Limits, The Hunger, Logan's Run, and Babylon Five. But his range is much broader than that, encompassing stories, novels, essays, reviews, reminiscences, plays, even fake autobiographies. The Essential Ellison, a special limited edition personally signed and numbered by Ellison, contains 74 unabridged works, including such classics as "A Boy and His Dog," "Xenogenesis," and "Mefisto in Onyx."
The March/April 2021 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.
Featuring new fiction by Catherynne M. Valente, Dominica Phetteplace, Caroline M. Yoachim, Carrie Vaughn, Rati Mehrotra, and Sarah Pinsker. Reprint fiction by Alaya Dawn Johnson. Essays by Tansy Rayner Roberts, Sid Jain, Marieke Nijkamp, and Jay Edidin, poetry by Tamara Jerée, Brandon O'Brien, Terese Mason Pierre, and Ali Trotta, interviews with Caroline M. Yoachim by Tina Connolly, and Sarah Pinsker by Caroline M. Yoachim, a cover by Paul Lewin, and editorials by Lynne M. Thomas and Michael Damian Thomas.
Contents: The Uncanny Valley / Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas The Sin of America / Catherynne M. Valente The Perils of a Hologram Heart / Dominica Phetteoplace Colors of the Immortal Palette / Caroline M. Yoachim The Book of the Kraken / Carrie Vaughn Eighteen Days of Barbereek / Rati Mehrotra Where Oaken Hearts Do Gather / Sarah Pinkser They Shall Salt the Earth with Seeds of Glass / Alaya Dawn Johnson Deadly Frocks and Other Tales of Murder Clothes / Tansy Rayner Roberts Seduced by the Ruler's Gaze: An Indian Perspective on Seth Dickinson's Masquerade / Sid Jain Protector of Small Steps / Marieke Nijkamp Please Be Kind to the Singularity / Jay Eddin The Most Humane Methods Could Involve a Knife / Tamara Jerée Lagahoo Culture (Part II) / Brandon O'Brien Future Saints / Terese Mason Pierre Of Monsters I Loved / Ali Trotta
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