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Burndive
''Burndive'' is a science fiction novel by Karin Lowachee. It was first published in 2003 by Warner Aspect. ''Burndive'' is the second book in Lowachee's Warchild Universe. Plot summary Ryan Azarcon lives in a fishbowl. He is the son of the infamous Captain Cairo Azarcon, of the deep space carrier ship ''Macedon'' and Songlian Lau, Austro Station's head of publicity. Because of his combination of good looks and influential parents, Ryan is constantly watched by the media. After going to college for three years on earth and witnessing a horrifying terrorist attack related to the war between Earthhub and the striviiric-na in deep space, Ryan develops post traumatic stress disorder, drops out of school and returns to Austro, where he quickly begins doing drugs. However, when Captain Azarcon destroys the pirate ship ''Genghis Khan'' and begins to make peace with the striviiric-na, Ryan finds himself in danger. After a failed assassination attempt in a club on New Years Day which le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karin Lowachee
Karin Lowachee is a Guyanese-born Canadian author of speculative fiction. Lowachee is the author of four novels, ''Warchild (Lowachee novel), Warchild'' (2002), ''Burndive'' (2003), ''Cagebird (novel), Cagebird'' (2005) and The Gaslight Dogs (2010). ''Warchild'', which uses second-person Point of view (literature), point of view for the first several chapters of the novel, won the Orbit Books, Warner Aspect First Novel Award. ''Cagebird'' won the 2006 Gaylactic Spectrum Awards and the Prix Aurora Awards, Prix Aurora Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Philip K. Dick Award. Her fourth novel, ''The Gaslight Dogs'', was released in April 2010. Bibliography Novels * ''Warchild (Lowachee novel), Warchild'' (2002) * ''Burndive'' (2003) * ''Cagebird (novel), Cagebird'' (2005) * ''The Gaslight Dogs'' (2010) Short stories * "Culture Shock," ''ON SPEC: The Canadian Magazine of Speculative Writing'' (1994) * "The Forgotten Ones," ''So Long Been Dreaming, So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warchild (Lowachee Novel)
''Warchild'' is a science fiction novel by Canadian writer Karin Lowachee. It was published by Warner Aspect in 2002. It won the Warner Aspect First Novel Award. ''Warchild'' was also a finalist for the 2002 Philip K. Dick Award. Plot summary The story starts when eight-year-old Joslyn Musey's parents die in a vicious pirate attack on his home ship, the merchant ''Mukudori''. Jos, along with a handful of the ships other children, are captured by the attackers. Vincenzo Marcus Falcone, an infamous pirate and captain of the "Genghis Khan", keeps Jos as his hostage, with the intention of making him a protégé. Falcone teaches Jos how to "win people over" with manners and cunning, and especially good looks. The human race, EarthHub, is at war with aliens called the striviirc-na, who are called "strits" by the Hub. When the pirate ship ''Genghis Khan'' docks at Chaos Station, which is located in deep space, the station is suddenly attacked by the striviiric-na. Jos escapes Falcon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cagebird (novel)
''Cagebird'' is a science fiction novel by Canadian author Karin Lowachee. It was published by Warner Aspect in 2005, as the third book in the Warchild Universe. ''Cagebird'' was the winner of the Prix Aurora Award and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 2006. Plot summary The novel begins with Yuri Terisov, the jaded former protégé of the infamous dead , Captain Vincenzo Falcone, and the Captain of the pirate ship ''Kublai Khan'' in prison on earth, where his is approached by Black Ops agent Andreas Lukacs. Lukacs off ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Stawicki
Matt Stawicki (born in Delaware) is a professional illustrator best known for providing cover art for science fiction and fantasy novels. Career His work has also been used for videogame covers, collectible card images, collectors plates and fantasy pocket knives. He claims the work of Maxfield Parrish, N.C. Wyeth, Norman Rockwell as his traditional influences. Working mainly in " digital paint" he is also influenced by the visual worlds created by Walt Disney, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. He studied at the Pennsylvania College of Art and Design in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1991. He began his professional career in 1992. He is noted for his work for the Dragonlance series. Stawicki has illustrated cards for the ''Magic: The Gathering'' collectible card game. His work is included in the book ''Masters of Dragonlance Art''.D'Ammassa, Don (January 2003). "Masters of Dragonlance Art", ''Chronicle A chronicle ( la, chronica, from Greek ''chroniká'', from , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speculative Fiction
Speculative fiction is a term that has been used with a variety of (sometimes contradictory) meanings. The broadest interpretation is as a category of fiction encompassing genres with elements that do not exist in reality, recorded history, nature, or the present universe. Such fiction covers various themes in the context of supernatural, futuristic, and other imaginative realms. The genres under this umbrella category include, but are not limited to, science fiction, fantasy, horror, superhero fiction, alternate history, utopian and dystopian fiction, and supernatural fiction, as well as combinations thereof (for example, science fantasy). History Speculative fiction as a category ranges from ancient works to paradigm-changing and neotraditional works of the 21st century. Characteristics of speculative fiction have been recognized in older works whose authors' intentions, or in the social contexts of the stories they portray, are now known. For example, the ancient Greek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Aspect
Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a publishing company owned by Hachette Livre, the largest publishing company in France, and the third largest trade and educational publisher in the world. Hachette Livre is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère Group. HBG was formed when Hachette Livre purchased the Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner on March 31, 2006. Its headquarters are located at 1290 Avenue of the Americas, Midtown Manhattan, New York City. Hachette is considered one of the big-five publishing companies, along with Holtzbrinck/ Macmillan, Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, and Simon & Schuster. In one year, HBG publishes approximately 1400+ adult books (including 50-100 digital-only titles), 300 books for young readers, and 450 audio book titles (including both physical and downloadable-only titles). In 2017, the company had 167 books on the ''New York Times'' bestseller list, 34 of which reached No. 1. History The earliest publisher to eventually become part of the H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Bélial'
''Bifrost'' is a French science fiction magazine that is published every three months. It was first published in April 1996. References 1996 establishments in France Literary magazines published in France French-language magazines French science fiction Magazines established in 1996 Science fiction magazines Triannual magazines {{France-lit-mag-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Novels
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious or cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
