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| Author | : Mike Ashley |
| Publisher | : Running Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010-07-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780762439911 |
Pre- and post-apocalyptic science fiction is on the rise, and some of the genre's best new stories are collected here, with contributions by Stephen Baxter, Alistair Reynolds, Robert Reed, Robert Silverberg, and Damien Broderick.
| Author | : Mike Ashley |
| Publisher | : Robinson |
| Total Pages | : 481 |
| Release | : 2010-07-31 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 184901535X |
Here are 25 stories of science fiction that push the envelope, by the biggest names in an emerging new crop of high-tech futuristic SF - including Charles Stross, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Peter Hamilton and Neal Asher. High-tech SF has made a significant comeback in the last decade, as bestselling authors successfully blend the super-science of 'hard science fiction' with real characters in an understandable scenario. It is perhaps a reflection of how technologically controlled our world is that readers increasingly look for science fiction that considers the fates of mankind as a result of increasing scientific domination. This anthology brings together the most extreme examples of the new high-tech, far-future science fiction, pushing the limits way beyond normal boundaries. The stories include: "A Perpetual War Fought Within a Cosmic String", "A Weapon That Could Destroy the Universe", "A Machine That Detects Alternate Worlds and Creates a Choice of Christs", "An Immortal Dead Man Sent To The End of the Universe", "Murder in Virtual Reality", "A Spaceship So Large That There is An Entire Planetary System Within It", and "An Analytical Engine At The End of Time", and "Encountering the Untouchable."
| Author | : Greg van Eekhout |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 221 |
| Release | : 2011-06-21 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1599905248 |
Born half-grown in a world that is being destroyed, Fisher has instinctive knowledge of many things, including that he must avoid the robot that knows his name.
| Author | : Bill McGuire |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780192804525 |
Life on earth will come to an end. It's just a matter of when. A Guide to the End of the World focuses on the many potential catastrophes facing our planet and our species in the future, and looks at both the probability of these events happening and our chances of survival. Coverage extendsfrom discussion of the likely consequences of the current global warming to the inevitable destruction of the earth in the far future, when it is enveloped by our giant, bloated sun. In between, other 'end of the world scenarios' will be examined, including the New Ice Age, asteroid and cometimpact, supervolcanoes, and mega-tsunami.
| Author | : Robert Silverberg |
| Publisher | : Robinson |
| Total Pages | : 16 |
| Release | : 2012-09-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1472104722 |
A parody of the end-of-the-world theme in which time travel allows Nick, Jane and their friends to witness the final apocalypse. As a group of friends gather for Mike and Ruby's party, each couple boasts about their recent trip to the end of the world: a new holiday service available from travel agents at tremendous expense. But as the time-tourists compare their experiences, they soon realise they have not all witnessed the same end of the world.
| Author | : Mike Ashley |
| Publisher | : Constable |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : End of the world |
| ISBN | : 9781849013055 |
The last sixty years have been full of stories of one or other possible Armageddon, whether by nuclear war, plague, cosmic catastrophe or, more recently, global warming, terrorism, genetic engineering, AIDS and other pandemics. These stories, both pre- and post-apocalyptic, describe the fall of civilization, the destruction of the entire Earth, or the end of the Universe itself. Many of the stories reflect on humankind's infinite capacity for self-destruction, but the stories are by no means all downbeat or depressing - one key theme explores what the aftermath of a cataclysm might be and how humans strive to survive. Includes six original works, of which the most outstanding is probably the amazing novella Sleepover, by Alistair Reynolds (Lisa Tuttle, Times Saturday 3 July 2010).
| Author | : Stephen Jones |
| Publisher | : Robinson |
| Total Pages | : 544 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Diary fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781780334653 |
In the near future, a desperate UK government attempts to restore a sense of national pride with a New Festival of Britain. But construction work on the site of an old church in south London releases a centuries-old plague that turns its victims into flesh-hungry ghouls whose bite or scratch passes the contagion on to others.
| Author | : Stephen Jones |
| Publisher | : Robinson |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2011-03-24 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1849019150 |
How will the King of Vampires adapt to the social and technological changes brought by the twenty-first century? Could the Count's condition be cured by modern medicine? How does the mythology perpetuated by literature and movies affect the existence of a real bloodsucker? What if Dracula found himself ruler of a world controlled by vampires? Or perhaps political and ecological catastrophe will result in the Count's final destruction? This tribute to the world's greatest vampire collects together more than 200,000 words of Dracula fiction by masters of dark fantasy such as: Hugh B. Cave, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Basil Copper, John Gordon, Brian Hodge, Nancy Holder, Nancy Kilpatrick, Roberta Lannes, Thomas Ligotti, Paul J. McAuley, Nicholas Royle, Guy N. Smith and many more. It also includes a brand new story from Charlaine Harris.
| Author | : Mike Ashley |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 540 |
| Release | : 2011-09-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1780333587 |
A hundred years after the death of Jules Verne, the founding father of science fiction, The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures celebrates his amazing vision. A host of top science fiction authors pay homage to Verne's genius with a series of breathtaking stories using as a springboard his iconic ideas and characters. Collected in this anthology of Extraordinary Voyages are stories of intrigue and adventure set in the four corners of the globe, and even within it. Stories set in the past, present and future - tales that will delight with the same sense of wonder conjured by Jules Verne in such novels as Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea..
| Author | : Marie O'Regan |
| Publisher | : Hachette UK |
| Total Pages | : 512 |
| Release | : 2012-03-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1780330448 |
A gripping collection which offers for the first time a chronological overview of the popular contemporary sub-genre of body horror, from Edgar Allan Poe to Christopher Fowler, with contributions from leading horror writers, including Stephen King, George Langelaan and Neil Gaiman. The collection includes the stories behind seminal body horror movies, John Carpenter's The Thing, David Cronenberg's The Fly and Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator.
