307 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Wraparound cover art by John Picacio. This anthology contains: Introduction: The Business of Lying by Lou Anders; Shuteye for the Timebroker - a novelette by Paul Di Filippo; Looking Through Mother's Eyes by John Meaney; The Man Who Knew Too Much by Alan Dean Foster; The Engines of Arcadia by Sean McMullen; The Pearl Diver by Caitlin R. Kiernan; Before the Beginning by Mike Resnick and Harry Turtledove; Man You Gotta Go - a novelette by Adam Roberts; Homosexuals Damned - Film at Eleven by Alex Irvine; Contagion by Chris Roberson; Absalom's Mother by Louise Marley; Job Qualifications by Kevin J. Anderson; TheTeosinte War by Paul Melko; Slip by Robert A. Metzger; All's Well at World's End by Howard V. Hendrix; Flashes by Robert J. Sawyer; and The Cartesian Theater - a novelette by Robert Charles Wilson. Size: 8vo.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

FUTURESHOCKS

Publisher

Roc - Penguin Books, New York

Publication Date

2006

Language

English

ISBN 10

0451460650

ISBN 13

9780451460653

Binding

Soft cover

Illustrator

John Picacio;

Edition

First Edition.

Condition

Near Fine

Book Type

Book

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Sixteen renowned masters of speculative fiction share their individual visions of the future of humankind, in an anthology containing all-original short stories by Keven J. Anderson, Alan Dean Foster, Sean McMullen, Louise Marley, Mike Resnick, Harry Turtledove, Robert Charles Wilson, and others. Original.

About the Author

Lou Anders is an editor, author, and journalist. He is the editorial director of Prometheus Books' science fiction imprint Pyr, as well as the anthologies Outside the Box, Live Without A Net, and Projections: Science Fiction in Literature & Film. He is the author of The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, and has published over 500 articles in such magazines as The Believer, Dreamwatch, Star Trek Monthly, Star Wars Monthly, Babylon 5 Magazine, Sci Fi Universe, Doctor Who Magazine, and Manga Max.

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