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Imaginings: An Anthology of Long Short Fiction
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.0876208
EAN: 9780743466653
Edition: 1st Pocket Books Trade Pbk. Ed
ISBN: 0743466659
Label: Pocket Books (Simon Says)
Manufacturer: Pocket Books (Simon Says)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: August 01, 2003
Publisher: Pocket Books (Simon Says)
Studio: Pocket Books (Simon Says)
Editorial Review:
Ten of the most fertile imaginations in science fiction and fantasy come together in one book to create new worlds, new universes, new times, new places, and new realities.
Master of alternate history Harry Turtledove tells a story of the future that casts a frightening light on the present. Award-winners Adam-Troy Castro and Janet Berliner provide two tales of very different kinds of magic. Old master Charles L. Harness is here, as are relative newcomers Aaron Rosenberg, Daniel Pearlman, and H. Courreges LeBlanc. Sarah Zettel looks at the future of computers, Nancy Jane Moore considers the future of gender roles, and bestselling author Craig Shaw Gardner visits a planet called Elvis.
Assembled by bestselling author/anthologist Keith R.A. DeCandido, this book will take you on a journey through ten writers' wildest imaginings....
"Ten of the most fertile imaginations in science fiction and fantasy come together in one book to create new worlds, new universes, new times, new places, and new realities. Master of alternate history Harry Turtledove tells a story of the future that casts a frightening light on the present. Award-winners Adam-Troy Castro and Janet Berliner provide two tales of very different kinds of magic. Old master Charles L. Harness is here, as are relative newcomers Aaron Rosenberg, Daniel Pearlman, and H. Courreges LeBlanc. Sarah Zettel looks at the future of computers, Nancy Jane Moore considers the future of gender roles, and bestselling author Craig Shaw Gardner visits a planet called Elvis. Assembled by bestselling author/anthologist Keith R.A. DeCandido, this book will take you on a journey through ten writers' wildest imaginings.... "
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - deserved award nominee
The Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America have nominated "Of a Sweet Slow Dance in the Wake of Temporary Dogs" by Adam-Troy Castro for a Nebula Award for Best Novelette (the winners will be announced in April 2004). It deserves to win -- in fact, all the novelettes in this book are worthy of award consideration.
Rating:  - Imagine this...
Very entertaining. Especially the Robinson Caruso-esqe "The Thalatta Thesis" by Charles L. Harness. I could've read an entire novels worth of this tale.
"Inescapable Justice" by Aaron Rosenberg is an interesting and unique look at the super-hero genre.
Craig Shaw Gardeners "A Planet Called Elvis" is a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there, thank you very much.
"Next Year in Jerusalem" by Harry Turtledove and "Of a Sweet Slow ... Read More
Rating: - Missing Link
Too many anthologies these days focus on short stories, with fewer and fewer outlets for longer pieces. Not anymore. Imaginings is a fine new anthology of longer short fiction.
Standout stories include "Walking Contradiction" by Nancy Jane Moore. In a world where, several generations previously, scientists created a new gender with both male and female sex organs and reproductive systems (called ambigendered and able to become pregnant and impregnate others), an ambigendered detective is hired ... Read More
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