Böcker av James Morrow

The Nebula Awards are "the Oscars of Science Fiction"--the only SF awards voted by SF writers themselves. In this 28th annual edition, editor James Morrow notes that the vast majority of this superlative fiction probes the essential question, "Is science good or bad?" Contributors include John Clute, Nick Lowe, Poul Anderson and Steven King.

This short story anthology by the author of The Godhead Trilogy "e;reveals him to be one of the wittiest writers of contemporary speculative fiction"e; (Publishers Weekly, starred review).Join the Abominable Snowman as, determined to transcend his cannibalistic past, he studies Tibetan Buddhism under the Dalai Lama. Pace the walls of Ilium with fair Helen as she tries to convince both sides to abandon their absurd Trojan War. Visit the nursery of Zenobia Garber, born to a Pennsylvania farm couple who accept her for the uncanny little biosphere she is. Scramble aboard the raft built by the passengers and crew of the sinking Titanic-and don't be surprised when the vessel transmutes into a world even more astonishing than the original Ship of Dreams. Reality by Other Means offers readers the most celebrated results from James Morrow's decades-long career designing fictive thought experiments. Anchored by seven previously uncollected stories, this omnibus ranges from social satire to theological hijinks, steampunk escapades to philosophical antics.

A lacerating Swiftian satire on nuclear war, like 1984 before it, THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS stands as a stark warning of the path history so easily might have taken - and still could ...