Eileen Gunn

Stable Strategies and Others

Buch

This collection of tightly crafted, highly imaginative short stories employs surrealist, satirical, and fantastical devices to explore politics, class, and gender. From a hilarious tale about bioengineering and the stresses of climbing the corporate ladder to an evocative story of a woman who loses a sock at the the laundromat and finds she's missing a bit of her soul, these science fiction stories showcase an award-winning writer's compelling vision of the universe. Computer pioneers, cross-country skiers, and aliens figure into these literary stories that challenge the boundaries of imagination with quirky, anti-establishment characters and… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Waldrop, Howard (Solist) / Gibson, William (Solist)

ISBN: 978-1-892391-18-6
EAN: 9781892391186
Produktnummer: 23162767
Verlag: Tachyon Pubn
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Masse: H20.6 cm x B12.6 cm x D1.7 cm 240 g
Gewicht: 240

Über den Autor

Eileen Gunn won a Nebula for one of the stories in her first collection, Stable Strategies and Others, and was nominated for another. The book was nominated for the Philip K. Dick and World Fantasy awards. She has also been nominated twice for the Hugo Award. Eileen has been the marketing director of Microsoft, a board member of the prestigious Clarion Writers Workshop, the publisher of The Infinite Matrix, and she maintains The Difference Dictionary, an online concordance to the Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling.