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Sto caricando le informazioni... Elemental: The Tsunami Relief Anthology: Stories of Science Fiction and Fantasy (edizione 2006)di Steven Savile (A cura di), Alethea Kontis
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Various authors contributed to this benefit anthology. Unfortunately some of the stories seemed to be dug out of a drawer rather than responding thematically to the disaster. My favorites were the first and the last stories and I found some new authors of interest. I only gave up on one story (I'm not a fan of detailed military campaigns) I was reminded of how much I like Nina Kiriki Hoffman. ( ) A couple of stinkers, but overall it had some really nice stories. Report from the Near Future: Crystallization by David Gerrold – A story of the natural disaster-like consequences of completely stalled L.A. traffic. Very fun. ***** And Tomorrow and by Adam Roberts – A lawyerly interpretation of the witches of Macbeth’s prophesies. Also very entertaining. **** Abductio ad Absurdum by Esther M. Friesner – A silly tale of a botched abduction. ** In the Matter of Fallen Angels by Jacqueline Carey – Very nice bit about an angel falling in a small town. **** Tiger in the Night by Brian Aldiss – A three page kind of pomo thing. ** The strange case of Jared Spoon, who went to pieces for love. by Stel Pavlou – Really funny bit about a girlfriends strange gifts. **** The Solipsist at Dinner by Larry Niven – Bad philosophy. ** The Wager by Kinley MacGregor – A [Lords of Avalon] story focusing on Sir Thomas Malory. *** Expedition, with Recipes by Joe Haldeman – Interesting post apocalyptic tale about a group of children. *** Tough Love 3001 by Juliet Marillier – An alien writing group rebels against the teacher’s use of genre fiction. Very funny. **** Chanting the Violent Dog Down: A Tale of Noreela by Tim Lebbon – Nice fantasy about a Mourner finding an empty town. **** Butterflies Like Jewels by Eric Nylund – Interesting bit about multiple dimensions and power. *** Perfection by Lynn Flewelling – Loved this story of a designer building a magnificent palace for a cruel tyrant. ***** The Compound by Michael Marshall Smith – Odd dual tale of a boy nursing his sick mother and a political rebel’s escape from capture. *** Sea Child: A Tale of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson – I can see why people hate these new Dune books. Takes itself entirely too seriously. * Moebius Trip by Janny Wurts – A strange woman commissions a retired gentleman to make a scrying mirror. *** The Run to Hardscrabble Station by William C. Dietz – Military sci-fi, an ambush, not really my thing. * The Last Mortal Man by Syne Mitchell – Media follow the death of the last man who has chosen to remain mortal. *** The Double-Edged Sword by Sharon Shinn – A noblewoman asks a fortuneteller for her help, in doing so brings up the fortuneteller’s past. *** Night of the Dolls by Sean Williams and Shane Dix – A group of incorporeal beings are given form to attend a party. Interesting look at excesses of the flesh. *** The Potter’s Daughter by Martha Wells – Entertaining story about a balladeer wanting to tell the story of a half fae woman. **** The Day of Glory by David Drake – Another military sci-fi about recruiting a town for a battle. * Sea Air by Nina Kiriki Hoffman – Strange story about a boy discovering he is some sort of sea creature. ** nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In the winter of 2005, after the horrifying natural disaster of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, Steve Savile and Alethea Kontis joined forces to raise money to help the distressed survivors and have createdElemental. They solicited SF and fantasy stories, all new and never published elsewhere, from many of the top writers in the genres today, and received immediate responses in the form of the excellent stories here in this book. Elemental has an introduction by Arthur C.Clarke and more than twenty stories by Brian Aldiss, David Drake, Jacqueline Carey, Martha Wells, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman, Eric Nylund, Sherrilyn Kenyon writing as Kinley MacGregor, and a Dune story by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson, and many others. They created inElemental one of the most important genre anthologies of the year, but more than that: in giving real value for the purchase price, everyone who sells this book can be proud, and everyone who buys it will be richly rewarded for supporting the tsunami relief effort. "The entire collection constitutes thought-provoking entertainment for a good cause, with all publisher and author profits earmarked for the Save the Children Tsunami Relief Fund."--Booklist Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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