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Aliens Among Us
''Aliens Among Us'' is a themed anthology of science fiction short works edited by American writers Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in June 2000. It was reissued as an ebook by Baen Books in October 2014. The book collects fifteen novellas, novelettes and short stories by various science fiction authors. Contents *"Preface" (Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois) *"The Other Celia" (Theodore Sturgeon) *"Residuals" (Paul J. McAuley and Kim Newman) *"Eight O'Clock in the Morning" ( Ray Nelson) *"Expendable" (Philip K. Dick) *"The Reality Trip" (Robert Silverberg) *"Decency" (Robert Reed) *"The Mindworm" (C. M. Kornbluth) *"Popeye and Pops Watch the Evening World Report" (Eliot Fintushel) *"The Autopsy" ( Michael Shea) *"Or All the Seas with Oysters" (Avram Davidson) *"Angel" (Pat Cadigan) *"Among the Hairy Earthmen" (R. A. Lafferty) *"I'm Too Big but I Love to Play" (James Tiptree, Jr.) *"The Hero as Werwolf" (Gene Wolfe Gene Rodman Wolfe (M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WikiProject Novels
A WikiProject, or Wikiproject, is a Wikimedia movement affinity group for contributors with shared goals. WikiProjects are prevalent within the largest wiki, Wikipedia, and exist to varying degrees within sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikiquote, Wikidata, and Wikisource. They also exist in different languages, and translation of articles is a form of their collaboration. During the COVID-19 pandemic, CBS News noted the role of Wikipedia's WikiProject Medicine in maintaining the accuracy of articles related to the disease. Another WikiProject that has drawn attention is WikiProject Women Scientists, which was profiled by '' Smithsonian'' for its efforts to improve coverage of women scientists which the profile noted had "helped increase the number of female scientists on Wikipedia from around 1,600 to over 5,000". On Wikipedia Some Wikipedia WikiProjects are substantial enough to engage in cooperative activities with outside organizations relevant to the field at issue. For e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Nelson (author)
Radell Faraday Nelson (October 3, 1931 – November 30, 2022) was an American science fiction author and cartoonist most famous for his 1963 short story "Eight O'Clock in the Morning", which was later used by John Carpenter as the basis for his 1988 film ''They Live''. Personal life Nelson was born October 3, 1931, in Schenectady, New York, the son of Walter Hughes Nelson and Marie Reed. He has one younger brother, Trevor Reed Nelson. Ray became an active member of science fiction fandom while still a teenager at Cadillac High School in Cadillac, Michigan. After graduation, he attended the University of Chicago (studying theology), then spent four years studying in Paris, where he met Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Vian and Simone de Beauvoir, as well as Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, William Burroughs and other Beat Generation icons. In Paris, he worked with Michael Moorcock smuggling then-banned Henry Miller books out of France. While there, he also met Norwegian Kirsten Enge, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction Anthologies
Science is a systematic endeavor that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe. Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for scientific reasoning is tens of thousands of years old. The earliest written records in the history of science come from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in around 3000 to 1200 BCE. Their contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine entered and shaped Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, whereby formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physical world based on natural causes. After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, knowledge of Greek conceptions of the world deteriorated in Western Europe during the early centuries (400 to 1000 CE) of the Middle Ages, but was preserved in the Muslim world during the Islamic Golden Age and later by the efforts of Byzantine Greek scholars who brought Greek man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Wolfe
Gene Rodman Wolfe (May 7, 1931 – April 14, 2019) was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. He was noted for his dense, allusive prose as well as the strong influence of his Catholic faith. He was a prolific short story writer and novelist, and won many literary awards. Wolfe has been called "the Melville of science fiction", and was honored as a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Wolfe is best known for his ''Book of the New Sun'' series (four volumes, 1980–1983), the first part of his "Solar Cycle". In 1998, ''Locus'' magazine ranked it the third-best fantasy novel published before 1990 based on a poll of subscribers that considered it and several other series as single entries. Personal life Wolfe was born in New York City, the son of Mary Olivia () and Emerson Leroy Wolfe. He had polio as a small child. He and his family moved to Houston when he was 6, and he went to high school and college in Texas, attending Lamar High School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Tiptree Jr
Alice Bradley Sheldon (born Alice Hastings Bradley; August 24, 1915 – May 19, 1987) was an American science fiction and fantasy author better known as James Tiptree, Jr., a pen name she used from 1967 to her death. It was not publicly known until 1977 that James Tiptree, Jr. was a woman. From 1974 to 1985 she also used the pen name Raccoona Sheldon. Tiptree was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame in 2012. Tiptree's debut story collection, ''Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home'', was published in 1973 and her first novel, ''Up the Walls of the World'', was published in 1978. Her other works include 1973 novelette " The Women Men Don't See", 1974 novella "The Girl Who Was Plugged In", 1976 novella "Houston, Houston, Do You Read?", 1985 novel ''Brightness Falls from the Air'', and 1990 short story "Her Smoke Rose Up Forever"''.'' Early life, family and education Alice Hastings Bradley came from a family in the intellectual enclave of Hyde Park, a university neighborh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pat Cadigan
Patricia Oren Kearney Cadigan (born September 10, 1953) is a British-American science fiction author, whose work is most often identified with the cyberpunk movement. Her novels and short stories often explore the relationship between the human mind and technology. Her debut novel, '' Mindplayers'', was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988. Early years Cadigan was born in Schenectady, New York, and grew up in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In the 1960s Cadigan and a childhood friend "invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus", she told National Public Radio. The Beatles "came to us for advice about their songs and how to deal with fame and other important matters," Cadigan says. "On occasion, they would ask us to use our highly developed shape-shifting ability to become them, and finish recording sessions and concert tours when they were too tired to go on themselves." The Venusian twins had other superpowers, that they would sometimes use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avram Davidson
Abraham, ; ar, , , name=, group= (originally Abram) is the common Hebrew patriarch of the Abrahamic religions, including Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In Judaism, he is the founding father of the special relationship between the Jews and God; in Christianity, he is the spiritual progenitor of all believers, whether Jewish or non-Jewish; and in Islam, he is a link in the chain of Islamic prophets that begins with Adam (see Adam in Islam) and culminates in Muhammad. His life, told in the narrative of the Book of Genesis, revolves around the themes of posterity and land. Abraham is called by God to leave the house of his father Terah and settle in the land of Canaan, which God now promises to Abraham and his progeny. This promise is subsequently inherited by Isaac, Abraham's son by his wife Sarah, while Isaac's half-brother Ishmael is also promised that he will be the founder of a great nation. Abraham purchases a tomb (the Cave of the Patriarchs) at Hebron to be Sarah' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Shea (author)
Michael Shea (July 3, 1946 – February 16, 2014) was an American fantasy, horror, and science fiction author. His novel ''Nifft the Lean'' won the World Fantasy Award, as did his novella ''Growlimb''. Life and work Shea was born to Irish parents in Los Angeles in 1946. There he frequented Venice Beach and the Baldwin Hills for their wildlife. He attended UCLA and Berkeley and hitch-hiked twice across the US and Canada. At a hotel in Juneau, Alaska, Shea chanced on a battered book from the lobby shelves, ''The Eyes of the Overworld'' by Jack Vance (1966). Four years later, after a brief first marriage and one year hitch-hiking through France and Spain, he wrote a novel in homage to Vance, who graciously declined to share the advance offered by DAW Books. It was Shea's first publication, ''A Quest for Simbilis'' (1974), and an authorized sequel to Vance's two Dying Earth books then extant. ISFDB notes that it "became non-canonic" in 1983 when Vance "continued ... ''The Eyes'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliot Fintushel
Eliot S. Fintushel (born March 13, 1948) is an American actor, educator and speculative fiction writer. He writes as Eliot Fintushel.Fantastic Fiction entry for Eliot Fintushel Biography Fintushel is a baker's son, born in .Santa Rosa Junior College entry for Eliot Fintushel/ref> At nine he supposedly "grinned down" a cougar terrorizing upstate New York and delivered it to the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril M
Cyril (also Cyrillus or Cyryl) is a masculine given name. It is derived from the Greek name Κύριλλος (''Kýrillos''), meaning 'lordly, masterful', which in turn derives from Greek κυριος (''kýrios'') 'lord'. There are various variant forms of the name ''Cyril'' such as ''Cyrill'', ''Cyrille'', ''Ciril'', ''Kirill'', ''Kiryl'', ''Kirillos'', ''Kuriakose'', '' Kyrylo'', ''Kiril'', ''Kiro'', and ''Kyrill''. It may also refer to: Christian patriarchs or bishops * Cyril of Jerusalem (c. 313 – 386), theologian and bishop * Cyril of Alexandria (c. 376 – 444), Patriarch of Alexandria * Cyril the Philosopher (link to ''Saints Cyril and Methodius''), 9th century Greek missionary, co-invented the Slavic alphabet, translated the Bible into Old Church Slavonic * Pope Cyril II of Alexandria reigned 1078–1092 * Greek Patriarch Cyril II of Alexandria reigned in the 12th century * Cyril of Turaw (1130–1182), Belorussian bishop and orthodox saint * Pope Cyril III of Alexandri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Reed (author)
Robert David Reed (born October 9, 1956 in Omaha, Nebraska) is a Hugo Award-winning American science fiction author. He has a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the Nebraska Wesleyan University. Reed is an "extraordinarily prolific" genre short-fiction writer with "Alone" being his 200th professional sale. His work regularly appears in '' Asimov's'', ''Fantasy & Science Fiction'', and ''Sci Fiction''. He has also published eleven novels. , Reed lived in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and daughter. Awards * "Mudpuppies" (1986) (First Writers of the Future Grand Prize winner) * ''la Voie terrestre'' (1994), the French translation of ''Down the Bright Way'' (1991) ( Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for foreign novel) * "Decency" (1996) (''Asimov's Science Fiction'' reader poll, short story) * "Marrow" (1997) (''Science Fiction Age'' reader poll, novella) * "She Sees My Monsters Now" (2002) (''Asimov's Science Fiction'' reader poll, short story) * "A Billion Eves" (2006): Hugo Awar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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