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The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 3
''The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 3 - All the Rage This Year'' (2004) is an anthology edited by Keith Olexa. It contains twelve stories by different writers. All of them were winners of the 3rd Annual Phobos Fiction Contest for new writer. Story list The short stories in this book are: *"Veil of Ignorance" by David Barr Kirtley *"The Man Who Murdered Himself" by Nancy Fulda *"All the Rage This Year" by David Walton *"And Cry the Name of David" by Virginia Baker *"GoldenTown" by Daniel Conover *"The Second Chance of Clevon Walker" by Eric B. Griffin *"The Man Who Moved the Moon" by Eric James Stone *"The Big Shot" by Susan Fry *"Two Rooms and All the Electricity You Can Eat" by M. T. Reiten *"Dissident" by Julie Hyzy *"The Walls Within" by Lane Robbins *"Earl Billings and the Angels of the Lord" by James Maxey Related works *''The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1'' *''The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 2 ''The Phobos Science Fiction Antholog ... [...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] |
2004 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2004. Events *January **The poet Jang Jin-sung, in trouble with the North Korean authorities, defects to South Korea. **The Richard & Judy Book Club is launched on UK daytime television. *February – Canada Reads selects Guy Vanderhaeghe's '' The Last Crossing'' to be read across the nation. *February 16 – Edwin Morgan becomes Scotland's first official national poet, the Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament. * May 23 – Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, opens to the public. *June 1 – Controversy surrounds '' Battle Royale'' by Koushun Takami (高見広春), when an 11-year-old fan of the story in Sasebo, Nagasaki, murders her classmate, 12-year-old Satomi Mitarai, in a way that mimics a scene from the story. *October 14 – Edinburgh becomes UNESCO's first City of Literature. * October 31 – Denoël in Paris publishes Irène Némirovsky's '' Suite français ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 2
''The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 2 - Hitting the Skids in Pixeltown'' (2003) is an anthology edited by Orson Scott Card and Keith Olexa. It contains thirteen stories by different writers. All of them were winners of the 2nd Annual Phobos Fiction Contest for new writer, with the exception of Larry Niven, author of "The Coldest Place". Story list The short stories in this book are: *"The Takers" by Rosemary Jones *"Hidden Scars" by Kyle David Jelle *"RUWattU8" by Harold Gross *"Hitting the Skids in Pixeltown" by Matthew S. Rotundo *"The Beast of All Possible Worlds" by Carl Frederick *"Callus Redux" by Rebecca Carmi *"All in My Mind" by Eugie Foster *"The Bear Eater" by Paul Pence *"His Untrue Colors" by Jake West *"If Thy Right Hand Offend Thee..." by Christine Watson *"Ukaliq and the Great Hunt" by David D. Levine *"Warrior Heart" by David John Baker *"The Coldest Place" by Larry Niven Related works *''The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1 ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthology
In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categorizes collections of shorter works, such as short stories and short novels, by different authors, each featuring unrelated casts of characters and settings, and usually collected into a single volume for publication. Alternatively, it can also be a collection of selected writings (short stories, poems etc.) by one author. Complete collections of works are often called "complete works" or "" (Latin equivalent). Etymology The word entered the English language in the 17th century, from the Greek word, ἀνθολογία (''anthologic'', literally "a collection of blossoms", from , ''ánthos'', flower), a reference to one of the earliest known anthologies, the ''Garland'' (, ''stéphanos''), the introduction to which compares each of its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Barr Kirtley
David Barr Kirtley (born 1977) is an American short story writer and the host of the ''Geek's Guide to the Galaxy'' podcast. Writing His short fiction appears in magazines such as ''Realms of Fantasy'' and ''Weird Tales'', in online magazines such as Orson Scott Card's ''InterGalactic Medicine Show'' and '' Lightspeed'', and on podcasts such as ''Escape Pod'', ''Pseudopod'', and ''The Drabblecast''. In 2003, he was selected for the anthology ''New Voices in Science Fiction''. In 2008, his story " Save Me Plz" was chosen for the anthology ''Fantasy: The Best of the Year''. He was profiled in the 2008 ''Novel & Short Story Writer's Market'' as part of "Speculative Fiction: The Next Generation." Early life He is the son of physicist John R. Kirtley and grew up in Katonah, New York. Education From 1996-2000, he attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine, where he majored in government, with a minor in creative writing. In 1997, he won the Dell Magazines Award for undergraduate sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Fulda
Nancy Fulda (née Owens) is an American science fiction writer, editor, and computer scientist. She is an alumna of Brigham Young University in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning. She has won multiple awards for her science fiction writing, which has been compared to that of Asimov and Clarke. Biography Fulda graduated in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in computer science at Brigham Young University. In 2004, she received a master's degree in the same field, focusing on artificial intelligence and machine learning. One of her favorite science fiction short stories is ''Flowers for Algernon'', by Daniel Keyes, and she calls it "one of the best science fiction books heever read". Her first award for writing was the 1998 Vera Hinckley Mayhew Award—given out at Brigham Young University—for her short story "The Man Who Murdered Himself". This story was later formally published in 2004 for the first time in ''The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 3''. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Hyzy
Julie Hyzy is an American author of mystery fiction. Life and career Hyzy writes a series of books about sleuth Alex St James, a news researcher, which combines mystery and adventure, and another about Olivia Paras, assistant chef at the White house, which sits in the subgenre "culinary mysteries". Her ''State of the Onion'', from the latter series, won an Anthony Award and other awards. She has a third series, the Manor House Mysteries, featuring amateur sleuth Grace Wheaton, curator of palatial Marshfield Manor. Hyzy studied business at college and worked in business-related jobs until taking up fiction writing. She also writes under two pseudonyms, N. C. Hyzy and S. F. Hyzy. Books Alex St James series *''Deadly Blessings'' (2005) Five Star. *''Deadly Interest'' (2006) Five Star. *''Dead Ringer'' (2008) Five Star. (with Michael A. Black) White House Chef Mysteries - Ollie Paras series *'' State of the Onion'' (2008) Berkley Prime Crime Press. ( 2009 Anthony Award for Be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1
''The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1 - Empire of Dreams and Miracles'' (2002) is an anthology In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically categ ... edited by Orson Scott Card and Keith Olexa. It contains twelve stories by different writers. All of them were winners of the 1st Annual Phobos Fiction Contest for new writer. Story list The short stories in this book are: *"They Go Bump" by David Barr Kirtley *"Twenty-Two Buttons" by Rebecca Carmi *"The Hanged Man, the Lovers and the Fool" by Justin Stanchfield *"Empire of Dreams and Miracles" by James Maxey *"The Messiah" by Carl Frederick *"Eula Makes Up Her Mind" by Daniel Conover *"Carthaginian Rose" by Ken Liu *"Rippers" by Chris Leonard *"The Compromise" by Rick Sabian *"Who Lived in a Shoe" by Andrew Rey *"The Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 Anthologies
4 (four) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 3 and preceding 5. It is the smallest semiprime and composite number, and is considered unlucky in many East Asian cultures. In mathematics Four is the smallest composite number, its proper divisors being and . Four is the sum and product of two with itself: 2 + 2 = 4 = 2 x 2, the only number b such that a + a = b = a x a, which also makes four the smallest squared prime number p^. In Knuth's up-arrow notation, , and so forth, for any number of up arrows. By consequence, four is the only square one more than a prime number, specifically three. The sum of the first four prime numbers two + three + five + seven is the only sum of four consecutive prime numbers that yields an odd prime number, seventeen, which is the fourth super-prime. Four lies between the first proper pair of twin primes, three and five, which are the first two Fermat primes, like seventeen, which is the third. On the other hand, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
