New Releases by David Marusek

On the mystery side, Black Cat Weekly #25 has an original mystery by Joseph S. Walker, thanks to editor Michael Bracken, and Barb Goffman has tracked down an Edgar Award nominee by Judith Green. Plus we have a solve-it-yourself mystery from Hal Charles (the writing team of Charlie Sweet and Hal Blythe), and novels by Lange Lewis and Nicholas Carter. On the fantastic side, Cynthia Ward has selected “Cabbages and Kale” by David Marusek for this issue. Plus we have modern and classic tales by Larry Tritten, Lester dey Rey, Fletcher Pratt, and Richard Wilson. Good stuff! Here’s the complete lineup: Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: “Here on Seventeen,” by Joseph S. Walker [short story] “A Present from the Past,” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “A Good, Safe Place,” by Judith Green [Barb Goffman Presents short story] Meat for Murder, by Lange Lewis [novel] The Pressing Peril, by Nicholas Carter [novel] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “Cabbages and Kale,” by David Marusek [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] “Play It Again, Sam,” by Larry Tritten [short story] “Done Without Eagles,” by Lester del Rey [short story] “Danger,” by Irvin Lester and Fletcher Pratt [short story] “Course of Empire,” by Richard Wilson [short story]

Welcome to Black Cat Weekly #44. This is an amazing issue, with quite the all-star lineup. First off, private detective Frank Wolf and his grandson Joel return to our pages with a new short novel by Saul Golubcow, The Dorm Murder (published simultaneously with Golubcow’s collection, The Cost of Living and Other Mysteries). This is one of my favorite series in recent years, and I highly recommend you start with The Dorm Murder. You won’t be disappointed. Black Cat’s acquiring editors have been busy, too—Michael Bracken, Barb Goffman, Cynthia Ward, and Darrell Schweitzer all have contributions this issue. Michael and Barb found great mysteries by Mary Dutta and Brendan Dubois, Cindy has a neo-classic science fiction tale by David Marusek, and Darrell has unearned a “paleo-interview” from 1988 with fantasist Nancy Springer. It’s fascinating. And we have classics by Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, George O. Smith, Henry Kuttner, and a Nick Carter mystery novel. Plus, of course, a solve-it-yourself mystery from Hal Charles (the writing team of Hal Blythe and Charlie Sweet). Here''s the lineup: Mysteries / Suspense / Adventure: The Dorm Murder, by Saul Golubcow [short novel] “The Wonderworker” by Mary Dutta [Michael Bracken Presents short story] “An Eggcellent Equation” by Hal Charles [Solve-It-Yourself Mystery] “The Lake Tenant” by Brendan DuBois [Barb Goffman Presents short story] The Blue Veil, by Nicholas Carter [novel] Non-Fiction: “Speaking with Nancy Springer” [Interview with Darrell Schweitzer] Science Fiction & Fantasy: “Getting To Know You” by David Marusek [Cynthia Ward Presents short story] “Friends and Enemies," by Fritz Leiber [short story] “Lair of the Dragonbird," by Robert Silverberg [short story] “Meddler’s Moon,” by George O. Smith [short story] Avengers of Space, by Henry Kuttner [short novel]

« Le 30 mars 2092, le ministère de la Santé et des Affaires sociales nous délivra un permis, à Eleanor et moi. Le sous-secrétaire d’État à la Population nous fit part de la nouvelle avec les félicitations officielles. Nous étions abasourdis par tant de bonne fortune. Le sous-secrétaire nous invita à contacter l’Orphelinat National. Dans un tiroir se trouvait un bébé à notre nom. Nous étions fous de joie. » En cette fin de siècle surpeuplée, quand les traitements anti-vieillissements rendent chaque individu virtuellement immortel, avoir un enfant relève du luxe le plus extrême. Sam Harger, artiste spécialisé en design intérieur, ne s’attendait pas à tant de bonne fortune lorsqu’il rencontra l’ambitieuse Eleanor Starke. Couler le parfait amour, puis obtenir l’autorisation d’avoir un bébé... une chance inouïe pour le couple, qui ne cache pas son bonheur. Mais dans ce monde surveillé à l’extrême, dominé par l’informatique et les intelligences artificielles, est-on jamais à l’abri des bugs ? Écrivain américain peu prolifique, David Marusek (né en 1951 et vivant en Alaska) a d’abord travaillé comme designer graphique avant de débuter sa carrière littéraire au milieu des années 90 suite à un passage à l’atelier d’écriture Clarion, sous le patronage de parrains aussi prestigieux que Gardner Dozois ou Nancy Kress. Il est à ce jour l’auteur de quatre romans, dont seul Un paradis d’enfer a été traduit en français (en 2008, aux Presses de la Cité). Son court roman The Wedding Album, nommé aux prix Hugo et Nebula, lauréat du prix Sturgeon, est annoncé comme à paraître dans la collection Une Heure-Lumière.

Cosa succede quando una casa dotata di intelligenza artificiale perde l''inquilino di cui è innamorata?Qual è la coppia perfetta in una versione tecnologicamente avanzata del gioco del corteggiamento?Quanti segreti si nascondono nella villa di Aethra dove si creano "soggetti d''arte" al cui interno è intrappolata una copia senziente della padrona di casa?Chi ha ucciso un famoso indovino in una città modulare dove la divinazione eseguita sul DNA dei cittadini è una pratica obbligatoria? E come finisce uno splendido matrimonio il giorno in cui una coppia di coniugi quasi-immortali riceve una rarissima e quanto mai preziosa licenza di procreazione? Questi e molti altri interrogativi trovano risposta nell''antologia dei migliori racconti pubblicati su Future Fiction nel 2014. Dodici futuri, scritti da nove autori provenienti da otto paesi: Canada, Grecia, Irlanda del Nord, Italia, Nigeria, Regno Unito, Romania, Stati Uniti. Dodici visioni, di scrittori che nei loro paesi sono veri e propri maestri del genere, capaci di aprire incredibili finestre sul mondo che verrà. Perché anche domani accade oggi. Indice:La casa di Bernardo - James Patrick Kelly (U.S.A.)Caso 74 - Cristian M. Teodorescu (Romania)Rocket Boy - Paul McAuley (U.K.)Un buon partito - Ian McDonald (Irlanda del Nord)Aethra - Michalis Manolios (Grecia)Guerre genetiche - Paul McAuley (U.K.)La mano servita - Robert J. Sawyer (Canada)Eravamo pazzi di gioia - David Marusek (U.S.A)Big Bang Larissa - Cristian M. Teodorescu (Romania)L''altra mamma - Michalis Manolios (Grecia)Riti di passaggio - Giovanni De Matteo (Italia)Risoluzione 23 - Efe Tobunko (Nigeria)

An epic new science fiction series about faith, family, and alien invasion in the wilds of Alaska. When a shooting star plunges through the atmosphere and touches down in the Alaska wilderness, only two earthlings are present to witness the event. But they perceive two utterly different realities. What park ranger Jace Kuliak sees is a UFO and the arrival of a dangerous alien species from beyond the solar system. What Poppy Prophecy sees is the star called Wormwood, as recorded in Scripture, and the arrival of an archangel of the Apocalypse. The thing is -- they''re both sorta right. Poppy Prophecy is the despotic patriarch of a large End-Times prepper family that is busily converting a depleted copper mine into its own private doomsday bunker. Their copper mine is a century-old relic from territorial days when East Coast robber barons ruled Alaska and plundered its mineral wealth. Today the abandoned mine sits in the middle of the largest, wildest, most majestic national park in the United States. But Poppy isn''t impressed by mere earthly beauty, and he doesn''t mind bulldozing federal land when it suits his purposes. Backcountry Ranger Jace Kuliak does mind, and he and fellow rangers confront the fundamentalist family in an armed standoff over the construction of an illegal airstrip. It doesn''t help matters when Ranger Kuliak falls hopelessly in love with Poppy''s second daughter, the lovely, innocent, and totally clueless Deuteronomy. An uneasy truce between the Prophecys and the park service is shattered when the falling star lands in their backyard and is claimed by both sides. What is it? Who is it? Better yet, of all the pit stops on all the planets in all the galaxies, why did the Visitor choose this particular rock to screw with?

Eine Zukunft, in der ein Teil der Menschheit länger lebt, als wir uns das überhaupt vorstellen können; eine Zukunft, in der Kinder zu Objekten der Begierde einer ganzen Nation geworden sind; eine Zukunft, in der Nanotechnologie das Leben maßlos bequem, aber auch maßlos gefährlich gemacht hat ... Unter dem Titel Getting to Know You erschien 2007 in dem US-amerikanischen Verlag Subterranean Press ein Sammelband mit Erzählungen des in Alaska lebenden Schriftstellers David Marusek. SF-Lesern war Marusek zu dem Zeitpunkt bereits ein Begriff. Seit seiner ersten Geschichte "The Earth Is on the Mend", im Mai 1993 in der Zeitschrift Asimov''s Science Fiction publiziert, wurden seine Storys und Novellen regelmäßig in "Best of"-Anthologien nachgedruckt und für zahlreiche Literaturpreise nominiert. Inzwischen hat David Marusek zwei Romane vorgelegt. Mit Counting Heads (2005) und Mind Over Ship (2009) hat er sich endgültig als herausragender und in vieler Hinsicht bahnbrechender SF-Autor etabliert. Seine Novelle "The Wedding Album" wurde im Jahr 2000 mit dem "Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award" ausgezeichnet. Im Golkonda Verlag erscheint nun ein Sammelband mit fünf Erzählungen und Novellen, die alle vor dem Hintergrund desselben Zukunftsentwurfs spielen wie Maruseks Romane. Darin enthalten sind unter anderem seine beiden Meisternovellen "We Were Out Of Our Minds With Joy" und "The Wedding Album", die im englischsprachigen Raum zu den am häufigsten nachgedruckten SF-Texten überhaupt zählen.

In this sequel to Marusek''s stunning debut novel "Counting Heads," the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth''s orbit and begin to convert them into space condos.

Not since William Gibson and Bruce Sterling galvanized science fiction in the 1980s has the emergence of a new writer been heralded with such acclaim as that attending David Marusek, whose brilliant first novel, Counting Heads, appeared to rave reviews in 2005. But Marusek did not come out of nowhere. Aficionados of the genre had already taken note of his groundbreaking short fiction: masterfully written, profoundly thought-out examinations of futures so real they seemed virtually inevitable. Now, in this collection of ten short stories, Marusek’s fierce imagination and dazzling extrapolative gifts are on full display. Five of the stories, including the Sturgeon Award-winning “The Wedding Album,” a shattering look at the unintended human consequences of advanced technology, are set in the same future as Counting Heads. All ten showcase Marusek’ s talent for literate, provocative science fiction of the very highest order.

An 2134. A l''Ere de l''Information a succédé l''Economie de Boutique, qui concerne une élite de riches privilégiés, rendant ainsi la production et la consommation de masse totalement obsolètes. Pour ces nantis, tout ou presque est fabriqué chez soi, grâce à des assembleurs nés des progrès de la nanotechnologie. Leurs thérapeutes leur ont permis d''accroître de plusieurs siècles leur espérance de vie ; leurs robots accomplissent la plus grande partie des tâches quotidiennes. Des clones humains, très heureux de leur sort, aident à parfaire ce monde idéal. Un paradis donc... pour qui peut se l''offrir. Et c''est là tout le problème : l''Economie de Boutique a écarté de la société et rendu inutiles 99 % des quinze milliards d''êtres humains. C''est alors que les autorités du Grand Chicago annoncent la désactivation prochaine du dôme filtrant qui protège la ville et ses alentours d''attaques de virus, toxines et autres nanorobots. Une décision qui pourrait annoncer la fin du monde. Ou sa renaissance...

Maruseks extraordinary launch in the science fiction genre presents readers with an entirely new vision of the future. The year is 2134, and 99 percent of the worlds 15 billion human inhabitants are rendered obsolete. The world would be a much better place if they all simply went away.