The Best Science Fiction Novellas of the Year #1

Literature & Fiction

GENE WOLFE

JOAN D. VINGE

Michael Bishop

CHRISTOPHER PRIEST

Donald Kingsbury

JOHN VARLEY

United States

Del Rey/Ballantine Books

Granada 1984 paperback edition, vg++ In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

Geta (Panther Books)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

GRANADA

The Moon Goddess and the Sun

Contemporary

Grafton Books

On the inhospitable planet Geta, where only the strong survive, three creche-brothers of clan Kaiel are ordered by their ruler to ally with a heretical outlander and begin a ritual courtship whose outcome may be world changing

Courtship Rite

Pocket

Courtship Rite (A Timescape Book)

Pocket Books/Simon & Schuster

The war for human survival continues against the felinoid invaders from the planet Kzin

Man-Kzin Wars IV

LARRY NIVEN

Greg, Bear

Baen

Chronicles the continuing battle between the humans of Earth and the lethal felines of Kzin

Man-Kzin Wars VI

GREGORY BENFORD

Mark O. Martin

A vast alien landscape, a human culture based on our own, yet evolved in strange ways by the forces of an inimical nature provide a panoramic backdrop for the romantic adventures of a large cast of memorable &amp; attractive characters. Courtship Rite is an SF novel by American writer Donald Kingsbury, originally serialized in Analog magazine in 1982. The book is set in the same universe as some of his other stories, such as "Shipwright" (1978) and the unpublished "The Finger Pointing Solward". In the UK, the novel was entitled Geta; in France, Parade nuptiale. Courtship Rite was the 1st winner of the Compton Crook Award for best first novel and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1983. The novel details the attempts of two of the priest-clans, the Kaiel &amp; the Mnankrei, to expand into territory controlled by the Stgal. Ultimately, all the priest clans are trying to attain dominance of the planet through the use of new technology, propaganda, treachery, and "war", a new concept in this world. Previously, killing was done merely in order to provide food. Jo Walton remarked that Courtship Rite "is about a distant generation of colonists on a planet with no usable animals. This is the book with everything, where everything includes cannibalism, polyamory, evolution and getting tattoos so your skin will make more interesting leather when you're dead."

Courtship Rite (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection)

Science Fiction Book Club

Psychohistorical Crisis

A loving homage to Asimov, and dialogue with him--a triumph of galactic-scaled SF that is destined to be recognized as a classic in its own right Eron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty. Not death, but the removal of his fam. Without the augmentation of his brain by his electronic familiar, he can barely function amidst the bewildering complexities of everyday life on Splendid Wisdom. Here, on the capital world of the galaxy's Second Empire, everyone from the meanest citizen to the ruling Pscholars has depended upon a fam since childhood. Without one, simply navigating the streets and levels of the planetary megalopolis is a paralyzing challenge. Lost along with such everyday survival skills were many of Eron's memories and his professional knowledge. The crime he committed must have been terrible to warrant such a dreadful punishment. If only he could remember what it was!

Tor Science Fiction

[Read by Vikas Adam, J. Paul Boehmer, Alex Hyde-White, Stefan Rudnicki][Directed by Claire Bloom and Judy Young]Five novellas of hard science fiction by five modern masters of the form.From Nebula Award winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that collects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view - all are set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology. The novellas included are:Genesis by Poul Anderson is set a billion years ahead, when humanity has become extinct. Earth is threatened by the slowly warming sun, and vast machine intelligences decide to recreate humans. The last moments of a universe beseiged occupy Greg Bear's Judgment Engine. Can something human matter at the very end of creation, as contorted matter ceases to have meaning and time itself stutters to an eerie halt? Donald Kingsbury contributes Historical Crisis, a starting work on the prediction of the human future that challenges the foundations of psychohistory, as developed in Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation Trilogy. Joe Haldeman's For White Hill confronts humanity with hostile aliens who remorselessly grind down every defense against them. A lone artist struggles to find a place in this distant, wondrous future when humanity seems doomed. In At the Eschaton by Charles Sheffield, a man tries to rescue his dying wife from oblivion by hurling himself forward, in both space and time, to the very end of the universe itself.

Far Futures

Charles, Sheffield

Joe, Haldeman

POUL ANDERSON

Short Stories & Anthologies

Skyboat Media and Blackstone Audio

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