The Reluctant Heretic
The Reluctant Heretic

Author: Clara Miller

Publisher: Virtualbookworm Publishing

Published: 2006-04

Total Pages: 506

ISBN-13: 1589398580

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"The Reluctant Heretic," the twelfth volume in the BROTHERS Series and the first in the SAGA OF THE TRAVELERS, relates the strange background and exciting adventures of the mysterious Frenchman, Andre Giroux. It also interweaves the tale of the ordeals endured by some unlikely victims of the Nazis. The story moves back and forth between the two stories and two time periods.

Cyberabad Days
Cyberabad Days

Author: Ian McDonald

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2010-03-19

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 1591028418

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This collection of seven stories and a thirty-one thousand word original novella revisits the vivid world of near future India that McDonald so successfully depicted in River of Gods (a BSFA Award winner). Readers will discover a new, muscular superpower of one and a half billion people in an age of artificial intelligences, climate-change induced drought, water wars, strange new genders, genetically improved children that age at half the rate of baseline humanity, and a population where males outnumber females four to one. This future India has fractured into a dozen states from Kerala to the headwaters of the Ganges in the Himalayas. Includes one Hugo Award nominee and one Hugo Award winner. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Teaching Science Fiction
Teaching Science Fiction

Author: A. Sawyer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-03-24

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0230300391

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Teaching Science Fiction is the first text in thirty years to explore the pedagogic potential of that most intellectually stimulating and provocative form of popular literature: science fiction. Innovative and academically lively, it offers valuable insights into how SF can be taught historically, culturally and practically at university level.

River of Gods
River of Gods

Author: Ian McDonald

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2009-09-18

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 1591028116

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As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business — a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj — the waif, the mind-reader, the prophet — when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples and cultures — one and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.