Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction: Volume 2 - Softcover

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn; Lovegrove, James; Steele, Allan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781080879 ISBN 13: 9781781080870

Publisher: Solaris, 2013

Synopsis

The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction

Solaris Rising 2 showcases the finest new science fiction from both celebrated authors and the most exciting of emerging writers. Following in the footsteps of the critically-acclaimed first volume, editor Ian Whates has once again gathered together a plethora of thrilling and daring talent. Within you will find unexplored frontiers as well as many of the central themes of the genre – alien worlds, time travel, artificial intelligence – made entirely new in the telling. The authors here prove once again why SF continues to be the most innovative, satisfying, and downright exciting genre of all.

Featuring new writing by Allen Steele // Paul Cornell // Nancy Kress // James Lovegrove // Adrian Tchaikovsky // Neil Williamson // Nick Harkaway // Kay Kenyon // Kristine Kathryn Rusch // Mercurio D. Rivera // Eugie Foster // Vandana Singh // Kim Lakin-Smith // Robert Reed // Martin Sketchley // Norman Spinrad // Liz Williams // Martin McGrath // Mike Allen

About this title

About the Author

James Lovegrove is the author of over 70 books, including the novels The Hope, Days, Untied Kingdom, Provender Gleed, and the New York Times bestselling Pantheon series. He has produced eight Sherlock Holmes novels, a collection of Holmes short stories, and a four-volume Conan Doyle/Lovecraft mashup series, The Cthulhu Casebooks. He has also written four tie-in novels for the TV show Firefly, Doctor Strange and Fantastic Four novels for Marvel, and a novel featuring pulp hero Conan the barbarian, Cult of the Obsidian Moon. James has sold well over 60 short stories and published two collections, Imagined Slights and Diversifications. He has produced a dozen short books for readers with reading difficulties, and a four-volume fantasy saga for teenagers, The Clouded World, under the pseudonym Jay Amory. James has been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, the Bram Stoker Award, the British Fantasy Society Award, the Manchester Book Award, the Scribe Award and the Costigan Award. His short story “Carry The Moon In My Pocket” won the 2011 Seiun Award in Japan for Best Translated Short Story, and Firefly: The Ghost Machine won the 2020 Dragon Award for Best Media Tie-in Novel. His work has been translated into twenty languages, and his journalism has appeared in periodicals as diverse as The Literary Review, Interzone, BBC MindGames, All About History, The Baker Street Journal, SFX and Comic Heroes. He contributes regular fiction review columns to the Financial Times and lives with his wife Lou in Eastbourne.

Edition details

• Publisher: Solaris
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781080879
• ISBN 13: 9781781080870
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Whates Ian