Böcker av Christopher McMaster

Eighteen science fiction stories from the asteroid belt to otherwise messed up places: A lonely Soviet komissar searches for his lost love among the mines of the asteroid belt ...A desperate journalist follows the lead for a story that may cost his life ...A motley group of speed freaks get up to no good in a red-light district of the future ... And more!

A climate fiction adventure! Rickets is a PAC-Man, his patrol and attack craft the first line of defence against encroaching vessels. Moss is a Fisheries Observer, tasked with seeing that companies abide by the quotas set on target species. Together they play a part in ensuring the waters are not fished to extinction. But as fisheries elsewhere play out, New Zealand waters start to look more attractive until every ship protects itself with PAC boats, missiles that skim the surface, and kamikaze drones equipped with explosives. Only there is a bigger shadow on the horizon, one that deflects all radar, is lethally armed, and takes what it wants.

Can one person change a reality? Her father killed because of the color of his skin. Harassed by the mercenaries hired to control their streets. The county run at the whim of the billionaire oligarchs. Nadia is living the American nightmare. Even sleep offers no escape as her waking dreams transport her to a past reality where she is being groomed to manipulate fate. Worse than her own reality, she is trapped by an unknown entity in a different kind of nightmare where any hope of escape seems impossible. But she begins to realize she isn't alone or powerless, that there are others like her, and she has to decide who to trust. At stake is an entire timeline.

Fog obscured the channel today ... I had no idea it would be the beginning of a very long stay.As soon as I speak, I always get the question, "Where are you from?" My typical answer is, "California," where I grew up. I notice most of the time I don't even mention Britain. That is a disservice--the place shaped me more than know. The poems, vignettes, and stories from the UK in this book are an effort to acknowledge both place and experience.Before I left, while ion a trip to Venice, I found a handmade notebook, leather bound with paper perfect for ink and quill, as well as watercolor. So, I bought a fancy pen and a paint pallet. I needed to remember.

This book contributes significantly to the conversation about inclusion as a critical component of school culture. Educating All recounts Christopher McMaster's experience as a critical ethnographer in a school community, given the task of not only studying the institution's culture, but of creating change as well.