Урсула Ле Гуин4.2 Большую часть романа «The Telling» составляет авторская речь, с относительно малой долей активного действия, и даже необходимые события в ней чаще всего происходят «за кадром». Благодаря великолепным способностям Ле Гуин в антропологии, ей удалось построить полноценное, необычайно интересное общество, выдерживающее анализ на нескольких уровнях, пусть оно и кажется внешне очень простым.
Луиз Марли0.0 Eilish Eam is an orphan and street musician, living in 1761, London. She survives on pennies and applause, and nothing more. Until the night Benjamin Franklin stops to listen, awe-struck by her gift-and with plans for her future...
Erin Rushton is a classical musician living in 2018, Seattle. She stands in the orchestra, consumed by the music-and haunted by visions of a young girl from a different time, who needs her help...
Протектор Редрут узурпировал власть в звездной системе Ларикса и Куры и покушается на целостность Конфедерации. Чтобы ему помешать, Корпус внедряет Ньянгу Иоситаро в окружение диктатора. Тем временем его друг Гарвин Янсма во главе диверсионной группы действует в тылу противника.
Richard Paul Russo is known for his dark and sinister views of the future and the human spirit. In his first collection of short fiction, Russo presents a wide variety of tales—“More Than Night” and “In the Season of the Rains,” tales of gritty alien encounters, and the ultimate road story, “Just Drive, She Said.” In other stories, the hopelessness of the human condition is examined—on Earth in “Cities in Dust,” in space in “The Open Boat,” and in an alternate reality in “Prayers of a Rain God.” Of the 14 tales, 11 are set on Earth—and Russo’s Earth can be far more alien than other worlds.
From dark fairy tales to creepy science fiction to a theological mystery set in the Old West, the mind of Bruce Holland Rogers takes you to territories of the bizarre: Wall Street, Suburbia, and Mexico. In the Nebula Award-nominated story "These Shoes Strangers Have Died Of," a World War II veteran confronts the perpetrators and victims of genocide, and the would-be perpetrators, through his art. The title story, "Wind over Heaven," exposes the weird underside of the upscale restaurant business. And the 1998 Bram Stoker Award-winner "The Dead Boy at Your Window" (which also won a Pushcart Prize for literary fiction) takes readers on a journey to the land of the dead like no other.
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