Venging And Other Stories: Signed
by Bear, Greg
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- Hardcover
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- first
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0712650504
- ISBN 13
- 9780712650502
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Synopsis
Greg Bear is one of the foremost voices in science fiction today, with many successful and award winning novels to his credit. However, this is his first published collection of short stories. It is a significant volume, containing many characters and situations that later evolved into their own novels. "Mandala" features technologically perfect cities that eject their sinful human occupants, a premise that can be found at the root of Bear's later novel, Strength of Stones. In "Hardfought", Bear brilliantlt handles the classic science fiction dilemma of human communication with aliens. Other stories include "The Wind From a Burning Woman" in which a woman holds the world hostage by controlling a giant asteroid; "Scattershot", in which the inhabitants of many universes meet in an undefined limbo space; and "Petra", a story of a world where chaos rules, stone moves and the mind controls reality. Hailed by readers and critics alike, The Venging has been described as "an excellent collection" and Bear praised as "one of the freshest writers to break into the science fiction field in many a year".
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- skylarkerbooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 029968
- Title
- Venging And Other Stories: Signed
- Author
- Bear, Greg
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1ST
- ISBN 10
- 0712650504
- ISBN 13
- 9780712650502
- Publisher
- Orbit
- Place of Publication
- England
- Date Published
- 1992
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