Survival Ship, and Other Stories
Author | : Judith Merril |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1973 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015019978298 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
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Author | : Judith Merril |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1973 |
ISBN-10 | : UOM:39015019978298 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Author | : Alicia Gaspar de Alba |
Publisher | : Bilingual Review Press (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1993 |
ISBN-10 | : UTEXAS:059173000486268 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
These are stories about strong women: survivors that include professionals or professional whores, writers, educators, counselors and curanderas, the bewitched and the bewitchers. The title story and its description of the sexual abuse of a young girl by her stepfather will make it clear that this work treats outrages as well as mysteries, and the reader will come to learn that a part of surviving is to begin to understand outrageous humanity.
Author | : Ted Chiang |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010-10-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781931520898 |
ISBN-13 | : 1931520895 |
Rating | : 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
From the author of Exhalation, an award-winning short story collection that blends "absorbing storytelling with meditations on the universe, being, time and space ... raises questions about the nature of reality and what it is to be human" (The New York Times). Stories of Your Life and Others delivers dual delights of the very, very strange and the heartbreakingly familiar, often presenting characters who must confront sudden change—the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens—with some sense of normalcy. With sharp intelligence and humor, Chiang examines what it means to be alive in a world marked by uncertainty, but also by beauty and wonder. An award-winning collection from one of today's most lauded writers, Stories of Your Life and Others is a contemporary classic. Includes “Story of Your Life”—the basis for the major motion picture Arrival
Author | : Paolo Bacigalupi |
Publisher | : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 2010-05-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780316081689 |
ISBN-13 | : 031608168X |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, this thrilling bestseller and National Book Finalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.... In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War. "Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." —Los Angeles Times A New York Times Bestseller A Michael L. Printz Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book A Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book Don’t miss the other books in the series: The Drowned Cities Tool of War
Author | : Jonathan Franklin |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2015-11-17 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781501116292 |
ISBN-13 | : 1501116290 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.
Author | : Dianne Newell |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-01-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780786489855 |
ISBN-13 | : 0786489855 |
Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Remembered as one of science fiction's best editors, Judith Merril (1923-1997) also wrote prolifically and stands as one of the genre's central figures in the United States and Canada. This work offers a much-needed literary biography and critical commentary on Merril's groundbreaking science fiction, anthologies, reviews, memoir and other endeavors. A thorough account of Merril's 50-year career, it is a valuable source for students of science fiction, women's life writing, women's contributions to frontier mythology and women's activism.
Author | : Ken Liu |
Publisher | : Gallery / Saga Press |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2020-02-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781982134037 |
ISBN-13 | : 1982134038 |
Rating | : 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
From award-winning author Ken Liu comes his much anticipated second volume of short stories. Ken Liu is one of the most lauded short story writers of our time. This collection includes a selection of his science fiction and fantasy stories from the last five years—sixteen of his best—plus a new novelette. In addition to these seventeen selections, The Hidden Girl and Other Stories also features an excerpt from book three in the Dandelion Dynasty series, The Veiled Throne.
Author | : Judith Merril |
Publisher | : Between The Lines |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2002 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781896357577 |
ISBN-13 | : 1896357571 |
Rating | : 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Judith Merril was a pioneer of twentieth-century science fiction, a prolific author, and editor. She was also a passionate social and political activist. In fact, her life was a constant adventure within the alternative and experimental worlds of science fiction, left politics, and Canadian literature. Better to Have Loved is illustrated with original art works, covers from classic science fiction magazines, period illustrations, and striking photography.
Author | : Chŏnghŭi O |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2012-07-03 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780231504119 |
ISBN-13 | : 023150411X |
Rating | : 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she has formed a powerful challenge to the patriarchal literary establishment in Korea, and her work has invited rich comparisons with the achievements of Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, and Virginia Woolf. These nine stories range from O Chonghui's first published work, in 1968, to one of her last publications, in 1994. Her early stories are compact, often chilling accounts of family dysfunction, reflecting the decline of traditional, agrarian economics and the rise of urban, industrial living. Later stories are more expansive, weaving eloquent, occasionally wistful reflections on lost love and tradition together with provocative explorations of sexuality and gender. O Chonghui makes use of flashbacks, interior monologues, and stream-of-consciousness in her narratives, developing themes of abandonment and loneliness in a carefully cultivated, dispassionate tone. O Chonghui's narrators stand in for the average individual, struggling to cope with emotional rootlessness and a yearning for permanence in family and society. Arguably the first female Korean fiction writer to follow Woolf's dictum to do away with the egoless, self-sacrificing "angel in the house," O Chonghui is a crucial figure in the history of modern Korean literature, one of the most astute observers of Korean society and the place of tradition within it.
Author | : Pam Durban |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1995-08-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 0820317756 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780820317755 |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
The seven stories in Pam Durban's widely praised debut collection are tales of family, of love and loss, of survival and affirmation. Durban's resonant prose subtly obliges her readers to experience the rush of icy water in a stream, the taste of greens freshly snatched from an overgrown garden, the dread weight of confusion and uncertainty. In "This Heat," the opening story, a mill worker faces the long-expected loss of her teenage son when his weak heart finally gives out. In the title story, which concludes the collection, a formidably eccentric woman abruptly leaves her daughter and granddaughter to answer a "calling" to do missionary work in Africa. Framed between these two stories is a gathering of characters made real and consequential by Durban's touch: a country singer more than a few big breaks short of stardom, a preadolescent boy lovestruck over his private swimming instructor, a father cut off from his children by haunting war memories, and others.