false 19169 77887 0765315432 9780765315434 52 <![CDATA[Sun of Suns (Virga, #1)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170901845m/77887.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170901845s/77887.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/77887.Sun_of_Suns 3.73 215 19169 3.80 837 189 2006 421703 0765315440 9780765315441 18 <![CDATA[Queen of Candesce (Virga, #2)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174593808m/421703.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174593808s/421703.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/421703.Queen_of_Candesce 3.83 104 Sun of Suns. Now, in Queen of Candesce, Venera finds herself plunging through the air among the artificial worlds of Virga, far from home and her husband, who may or may not be alive. Landing in the ancient nation of Spyre, Venera encounters new enemies and new friends (or at least convenient allies). She must quickly learn who she can trust, and who she can manipulate in order to survive.

Survival isn’t her only goal; with the powerful Key of Candesce in her hands, she can control the fate of the entire world of Virga, yet something even more pressing is driving her—the all consuming need for revenge.]]> 19169 3.80 837 189 2007 5196932 22 <![CDATA[METAtropolis: The Dawn of Uncivilization]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224770029m/5196932.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1224770029s/5196932.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5196932.METAtropolis_The_Dawn_of_Uncivilization 3.86 74
METAtropolis is an intelligent, stunning creation of five of today's cutting-edge science fiction writers: 2008 Hugo Award winners John Scalzi and Elizabeth Bear; Campbell Award winner Jay Lake; plus fan favorites Tobias Buckell and Karl Schroeder. Together they set the ground rules and developed the parameters of this "shared universe", then wrote five original novellas; all linked, but each a separate tale.

Bringing this audiobook to life is a dream team of performers: Battlestar Galactica's Michael Hogan ("Saul Tigh"); Alessandro Juliani ("Felix Gaeta"); and Kandyse McClure ("Anastasia 'Dee' Dualla"); plus legendary audiobook narrators Scott Brick (Dune) and Stefan Rudnicki (Ender's Game).

John Scalzi, who served as Project Editor, introduces each story, offering insight into how the METAtropolis team created this unique project exclusively for digital audio. ]]> 4763 3.97 7560 1286 19169 3.80 837 189 108173 3.64 2284 553 234088 3.44 831 266 107891 3.73 646 164 2008 34009 0765350785 9780765350787 17 <![CDATA[Lady of Mazes]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168479164m/34009.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1168479164s/34009.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34009.Lady_of_Mazes 3.55 78 19169 3.80 837 189 2005 394024 0812576357 9780812576351 13 <![CDATA[Ventus]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174411068m/394024.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174411068s/394024.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394024.Ventus 3.86 66 19169 3.80 837 189 2000 2321054 0765315459 9780765315458 11 <![CDATA[Pirate Sun (Virga, #3)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2321054.Pirate_Sun 3.92 62 Sun of Suns and Queen of Candesce.

Chaison Fanning, the admiral of a fleet of warships, has been captured and imprisoned by his enemies, but is suddenly rescued and set free. He flees through the sky to his home city to confront the ruler who betrayed him. And perhaps even to regain his lovely, powerful, and subversive wife, Venera, who he has not seen since she fled with the key to the artificial sun at the center of Virga, Candesce.

Schroeder sets a whole new standard for hard SF space opera.]]> 19169 3.80 837 189 2008 223449 0312262752 9780312262754 4 <![CDATA[The Year's Best Science Fiction: 17th Annual Collection]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172853539m/223449.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172853539s/223449.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/223449.The_Year_s_Best_Science_Fiction_17th_Annual_Collection 4.04 53
Collected in this anthology are such imaginative gems as:

"The Wedding Album" by David Marusek. In a high-tech future, the line between reality and simulation has grown thin . . . and it's often hard to tell who's on what side.

"Everywhere" by Geoff Ryman. Do the people who live in utopian conditions ever recognize them as such?

"Hatching the Phoenix" by Frederik Pohl. One of science fiction's Grand Masters returns with a star-crossing tale of the Heechee---the enigmatic, vanished aliens whose discarded technology guides mankind through the future.

"A Hero of the Empire" by Robert Silverberg. Showing that the past is as much a province of the imagination as the future, this novelette returns to an alternate history when the Roman Empire never fell to show us just how the course of history can be altered.

The twenty-seven stories in this collection imaginatively take us to nearby planets and distant futures, into the past and into universes no larger than a grain of sand. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talents.

Supplementing the stories are the editor's insightful summation of the year's events and a lengthy list of honorable mentions, making this book a valuable resource in addition to serving as the single best place in the universe to find stories that stir the imagination and the heart.
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Comprising:

The Wedding Album by David Marusek;
10^16 to 1 by James Patrick Kelly;
Winemaster by Robert Reed;
Galactic North by Alastair Reynolds;
Dapple: A Hwarhath Historical Romance by Eleanor Arnason;
People Came From Earth by Stephen Baxter;
Green Tea by Richard Wadholm;
The Dragon of Pripyat by Karl Schroeder;
Written in Blood by Chris Lawson;
Hatching the Phoenix by Frederik Pohl;
Suicide Coast by M. John Harrison;
Hunting Mother by Sage Walker;
Mount Olympus by Ben Bova;
Border Guards by Greg Egan;
Scherzo with Tyrannosaur by Michael Swanwick;
A Hero of the Empire by Robert Silverberg;
How We Lost the Moon, A True Story by Frank W. Allen by Paul J. McAuley;
Phallicide by Charles Sheffield;
Daddy's World by Walter Jon Williams;
A Martian Romance by Kim Stanley Robinson;
The Sky-Green Blues by Tanith Lee;
Exchange Rate by Hal Clement;
Everywhere by Geoff Ryman;
Hothouse Flowers by Mike Resnick;
Evermore by Sean Williams;
OF Scorned Women and Causal Loops by Robert Grossbach;
Son Observe the Time by Kage Baker.]]> 12052 3.87 1827 351 48960 3.74 3424 259 1858 3.82 9449 984 108548 3.91 222 30 20295 3.70 5726 604 22996 3.67 4759 383 2766603 4.04 53 4 8694 3.80 10015 855 10765 3.61 1262 241 70180 3.81 506 47 19169 3.80 837 189 50408 3.91 1125 208 2765747 4.00 88 7 858185 3.70 185 4 54475 3.58 3133 404 12407 3.62 3947 343 32699 3.88 1660 234 31321 3.54 1950 113 278272 3.73 292 75 145766 3.93 70 8 14454 3.76 1447 212 53193 3.78 3748 494 4338 3.77 10806 739 73418 3.87 589 90 57814 3.85 800 111 20433 3.68 710 120 51204 3.90 5854 648 32276 3.56 1136 91 2000 394027 0765342855 9780765342850 12 <![CDATA[Permanence]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174411070m/394027.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174411070s/394027.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/394027.Permanence 3.90 48 19169 3.80 837 189 2002 6186127 0765320762 9780765320766 2 <![CDATA[The Sunless Countries (Virga, #4)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6186127.The_Sunless_Countries 3.67 18
As its cold words reach even to the city walls—and as outlying towns and travelers’ ships start to mysteriously disappear—only Leal has the courage to try to understand the message thundering from the distance. Even the city’s most famous and exotic visitor, the sun lighter and hero named Hayden Griffin, refuses to turn aside from his commission to build a new sun for a foreign nation. He will not become the hero that Leal knows the city needs; so in the end, it is up to her to listen, and ultimately reply, to the worldwasp.]]> 19169 3.80 837 189 2009 164076 0028639189 9780028639185 2 <![CDATA[Complete Idiot's Guide to Publishing Science Fiction]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172330686m/164076.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172330686s/164076.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/164076.Complete_Idiot_s_Guide_to_Publishing_Science_Fiction 3.75 16 12581 3.83 7391 1852 19169 3.80 837 189 2000 3332276 1597801364 9781597801362 7 <![CDATA[Eclipse 2: New Science Fiction and Fantasy]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225246511m/3332276.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1225246511s/3332276.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3332276.Eclipse_2_New_Science_Fiction_and_Fantasy 3.75 12 56352 3.79 261 94 20295 3.70 5726 604 21158 3.79 2724 369 130698 4.36 473 126 1325446 4.01 200 89 51204 3.90 5854 648 19169 3.80 837 189 277536 3.56 1406 553 2008 580148 0889953457 9780889953451 0 <![CDATA[The Engine of Recall]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/580148.The_Engine_of_Recall 3.80 5 <font color="#002090" size="3">Aurora Award Nominee, 2006

Gathered here for the first time are the finest science-fiction stories, including the previously unpublished novelette "Alexander's Road," by the award-winning Karl Schroeder. The Engine of Recall tales are of ordinary people in astonishing circumstances. Whether stranded alone on the frigid oceans of Saturn's moon Titan, or searching for stolen nuclear bombs under the rusting oil derricks of Azerbaijan, Schroeder's characters assert their humanity in inhuman circumstances.

Combining classic adventure and sophisticated speculation, the ten stories in this collection are sure to satisfy a broad range of readers.

Includes an introduction by Stephen Baxter.

The original story "Alexander's Road" was nominated for the Aurora Award -- Canada's top Science Fiction award -- for best short work in English.

]]> 19169 3.80 837 189 2005 6362707 1607513501 9781607513506 0 <![CDATA[Virga (Virga, #1-2)]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6362707-virga 4.50 2
In SUN OF SUNS, young Hayden Griffin has arrived in the land of Slipstream with a murderous goal in mind: to take revenge for the deaths of his parents. His target is Admiral Fanning, the head of the fleet that seized his nation years ago. And his life with pirates does not bode well for the admirals chances.

In QUEEN OF CANDESCE, Admiral Fannings wife, Venera, awakens in the ancient nation of Spyre, far from home and husband...who may or may not be alive. Though she bears a Key with which she may control the entire world of Virga, her first order of business is survival. But more pressing still is her need for revenge.]]> 19169 3.80 837 189 2008 421705 1895836344 9781895836349 2 <![CDATA[The Claus Effect]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174593809m/421705.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174593809s/421705.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/421705.The_Claus_Effect 2.33 3 237787 2.75 4 2 19169 3.80 837 189 1997 6305654 0202805123 0 <![CDATA[Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2005 December (Volume CXXV, No. 12)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235960860m/6305654.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235960860s/6305654.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6305654.Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact_2005_December 5.00 1 Audubon in Atlantis • [Lost Continent of Atlantis] • novella by Harry Turtledove
Testosterone Replace: Beyond Viagra to Successful Aging • essay by Fran Van Cleave
A Christmas In Amber • shortstory by Scott William Carter
Hotel Security • shortstory by Carl Frederick
The Ball Lightning Puzzle • [The Alternate View] • essay by John G. Cramer
The Slow Ones • [Draco's Tavern] • shortstory by Larry Niven
Do Neanderthals Know? • novelette by Robert J. Howe
Sun of Suns (Part 2 of 4) • serial by Karl Schroeder
]]> 32275 3.75 75 13 485643 5.00 2 0 12534 3.69 27823 1489 1079183 3.75 4 0 19169 3.80 837 189 29479 3.71 11802 732 890303 5.00 1 0 1213825 3.28 25 10 976901 4.27 15 2 2005 580170 372552209X 9783725522095 0 <![CDATA[Probleme der zivilrechtlichen Haftung des freipraktizierenden Zahnarztes]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/580170.Probleme_der_zivilrechtlichen_Haftung_des_freipraktizierenden_Zahnarztes 0.0 0 19169 3.80 837 189 1982 1750338 0 <![CDATA[Crisis in Zefra]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1750338.Crisis_in_Zefra 0.0 0 19169 3.80 837 189 2007 6305625 0202805115 0 <![CDATA[Analog Science Fiction and Fact, 2005 November (Volume CXXV, No. 11)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235960444m/6305625.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1235960444s/6305625.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6305625.Analog_Science_Fiction_and_Fact_2005_November 0.0 0 Sun of Suns (Part 1 of 4) • serial by Karl Schroeder
Retirement Homes of the Gods • essay by Stephen L. Gillett, Ph.D.
The Case of the Contumacious Qubit • novelette by Thomas R. Dulski
911 Backup • shortstory by Richard A. Lovett
Orion • [The Alternate View] • essay by Jeffery D. Kooistra
Keeping Track • [Probability Zero] • shortfiction by Richard Foss
The Diversification of Its Fancy • novella by John Barnes
]]> 32275 3.75 75 13 961736 4.00 3 0 2864472 0.0 0 0 45596 3.64 762 123 19169 3.80 837 189 905149 4.09 11 1 1492398 0.0 0 0 64891 3.27 11 0 2005