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New Releases by Paul McAuleyPaul McAuley is the author of The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 4 (2024), The Secret of Life (2022), Beyond the Burn Line (2022), Secret Harmonies (2022), The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book (2020).
The Year's Top Tales of Space and Time 4
release date: Aug 01, 2024
release date: Oct 13, 2022
release date: Sep 22, 2022
release date: Jun 09, 2022
The 2020 Look at Space Opera Book
release date: Oct 01, 2020
The 2020 Look at Mars Fiction Book
release date: Aug 01, 2020
This collection puts together 20 of the best science fiction stories about Mars published over the past two decades by top-notch authors of the genre. An improbable group of astronauts are slingshot to Mars in cheap one-person, one-way jalopies in "Terminal," by Lavie Tidhar. In "The Cascade," by Sean McMullen, an affair between a shy robotics postdoc and an adventurous young woman change the destiny of the first landing on Mars. A penal colony on Mars violently clashes with a science base in "Falling onto Mars," a Hugo Award winning story by Geoffrey A. Landis. In "The Old Cosmonaut and the Construction Worker Dream of Mars," by Ian McDonald, the lives of a young Indian construction worker and an old Estonian cosmonaut collide during the terraforming of Mars by quantum machines. Two young girls are desperate to survive on the surface of Mars after their commune''s underground compound is destroyed by comet strikes in "Hanging Gardens," by Gregory Feeley. In "Digging," by Ian McDonald, a project has been undertaken to create a breathable atmosphere on Mars constructing a valley so deep that the planet''s thin atmosphere will be forced into it. An amusing step-by-step program enables potential potentates to find the right Mars to rule over in "How to Become a Mars Overlord," by Catherynne M. Valente. In the Hugo Award winning story "The Emperor of Mars," by Allen M. Steele, a laborer on a corporate-owned Martian colony transforms himself into royalty while coping with a tragedy on Earth. A young girl defies the conventional role she''s fated for on Mars in "La Malcontenta," by Liz Williams. In "The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini," by Chez Brenchley, a gravedigger uncovers many secrets at the burial of a hanged British nobleman on a Victorian Mars. A colonist provides a moving account of his life on Mars to inspire a new generation of Martians in "Martian Heart," by John Barnes. In "The Vicar of Mars," by Gwyneth Jones, a High Priest suffers hauntings after visiting an old, reclusive, wealthy woman on Mars. A rough and tumble Martian mining town reconstructs a lawman from the Old American West to restore order in "Wyatt Earp 2.0," by Wil McCarthy. In "An Ocean is a Snowflake, Four Billion Miles Away," by John Barnes, the rivalry between two documentarians, filming on Mars, puts them in peril as the planet is being terraformed. A corporation building New Las Vegas on Mars grooms a janitor for rock stardom to improve worker morale in "The Rise and Fall of Paco Cohen and the Mariachis of Mars," by Ernest Hogan. In "Martian Blood," by Allen M. Steele, an Egyptian-American astrobiologist travels to a Martian aboriginal settlement to prove his theory that life on Earth originated on Mars. Pilgrims, tourists, and locals visit the many monoliths of Mars to commune with their unknown builders through radio bursts in "The Monoliths of Mars," by Paul McAuley. In "The Martian Job," by Jaine Fenn, the greatest heist known to humankind, with many a double-cross, is pulled on the largest corporation on Mars. The first man to step foot on Mars recounts his life''s story as mankind ends its colonization of the planet in "Mars Abides," by Stephen Baxter. And finally, in the Locus Award winning story "The Martian Obelisk," by Linda Nagata, a robotic crawler threatens the remote construction of a monument on Mars, by an architect on Earth, as it approaches the obelisk.
release date: Mar 19, 2020
release date: Jul 25, 2019
release date: Oct 19, 2017
release date: Jul 20, 2017
release date: Jul 20, 2017
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 9
release date: Jun 30, 2017
release date: Nov 05, 2016
Something Happened Here, But We're Not Quite Sure What It Was
release date: Jul 20, 2016
release date: Nov 15, 2015
release date: Feb 19, 2015
release date: May 29, 2014
release date: May 29, 2014
release date: May 29, 2014
release date: Feb 20, 2014
release date: Jul 18, 2013
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 5
release date: Jul 09, 2013
release date: Jan 01, 2013
The Year's Top Ten Tales of Science Fiction 4
release date: Jun 29, 2012
In the Mouth of the Whale
release date: Jan 19, 2012
Arc 1.2 Post human conditions
release date: Jan 01, 2012
The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy
release date: Jan 01, 2012
release date: Jan 05, 2011
release date: Dec 30, 2010
release date: Dec 30, 2010
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