Anthologies and Short Story Collections Books

	The Lives of Dax (Star Trek Deep Space Nine) by: Marco Palmieri publisher: Star Trek, published: 1999-12-01 ASIN: 0671028405 sales rank: 1011522 price: $4.00 (new), $0.01 (used)	Three hundred fifty-seven years. Nine lives. One soul. Mother, father, engineer, ambassador, scientist, statesman, serial killer, Starfleet officer: At one time or another, Dax has been all of these things and more. The near-immortal part of a composite species known as the Trill, Dax is a sentient, wormlike symbiont joined body and mind to a succession of humanoid hosts, carrying the memories of each lifetime into the next. Each incarnation is different. Each has its own personality, its own triumphs, its own tragedies, its own dreams. And each one... is Dax. Here for the first time are tales from the lives of one of the most unique and compelling Star Trek characters ever created, told by voices as diverse as the hosts themselves: Steven Barnes, Michael Jan Friedman, L.A. Graf, Jeffrey Lang, S.D. Perry, Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Simpson, and Susan Wright. Much more than an anthology, this unique collection of stories weaves the tapestry of one being's life... through three and a half centuries of history in the Star Trek universe. Imagine who she's known. Imagine what he's seen.
	Dark Matter: A Century of Speculative Fiction from the African Diaspora publisher: Aspect - Warner Books, published: 2000-07-18 ASIN: 0446525839 sales rank: 98694 price: $5.95 (new), $0.24 (used)	Dark matter: the nonluminous matter, not yet detected, that nonetheless has detectable gravitational effects on the universe. Dark matter: the Afro-American presence and influences unseen or unacknowledged by Euro-American culture. Dark Matter: the first anthology to illuminate the presence and influence of black writers in speculative fiction, with 25 stories, three novel excerpts, and five essays. This anthology's critical and historical importance is indisputable. But that's not why it will prove to be the best anthology of 2000 in both the speculative and the literary fiction fields. It's because the stories are great: entertaining, imaginative, insightful, sharply characterized, and beautifully written. The earliest story in Dark Matter is acclaimed literary author Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Goophered Grapevine" (1887), in which an aging ex-slave tells a chilling tale of cursed land to a white Northerner buying a Southern plantation. In "The Comet" (1920), W.E.B. Du Bois portrays the rich white woman and the poor black man who may be the only survivors of an astronomical near-miss. In George S. Schuyler's "Black No More" (1931), an excerpt from the satirical novel of the same name, an African American scientist invents a machine that can turn blacks white. More recent reprints include science fiction master Samuel R. Delany's Nebula Award-winning "Aye, and Gomorrah..." (1967), which delineates the socio-sexual effects of asexual astronauts; Charles R. Saunders's heroic fantasy "Gimmile's Songs" (1984), in which a woman warrior encounters a singer with a frightening, compelling magic in ancient West Africa; MacArthur Genius Grant recipient Octavia E. Butler's powerful "The Evening and the Morning and the Night" (1987), in which the cure for cancer creates a terrifying new disease of compulsive self-mutilation; and Derrick Bell's angry, riveting "The Space Traders" (1992), in which aliens offer to trade their advanced technology to the U.S. in exchange for its black population. Other reprints include "Ark of Bones" (1974) by author-poet-folklorist Henry Dumas; "Future Christmas" (1982) by master satirist Ishmael Reed; "Rhythm Travel" (1996) by playwright-poet-critic Amiri Baraka (who has also written as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amiri Baraka); and "The African Origins of UFOs" (2000) by London-based West Indian author Anthony Joseph. Most of the stories in Dark Matter are original; these range even more widely in their concerns and themes. In the generation ship of Linda Addison's "Twice, at Once, Separated," a Yanomami Indian tribe preserves its culture in coexistence with technology, while visions tear a young woman from her own wedding. Bestselling novelist Steven Barnes examines degrees of privilege and deprivation when an African American woman artist is trapped in an African concentration camp in his unflinching contribution, "The Woman in the Wall." In John W. Campbell Award winner Nalo Hopkinson's sexy, scary "Ganger (Ball Lightning)," two lovers drifting apart try to reconnect through the separation of virtual sex. A mystic power awakens in the devastated future of Ama Patterson's gorgeous and tough "Hussy Strutt." An artist's infidelity changes two generations in Leone Ross's astute, magic-realist "Tasting Songs." In Nisi Shawl's sharp, witty mythic fantasy "At the Huts of Ajala," the spirit of a modern woman must outwit a god before she is even born. Others contributing new stories are Tananarive Due, Robert Fleming, Jewelle Gomez, Akua Lezli Hope, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Kalamu ya Salaam, Kiini Ibura Salaam, Evie Shockley, and Darryl A. Smith. --Cynthia Ward
	The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 by: Ursula K. Le Guin publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, published: 1993-10 ASIN: 0393035468 sales rank: 685451 price: $15.01 (new), $5.31 (used)	A collection of sixty-seven contemporary American science fiction writers includes contributions by Poul Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delany, and Philip K. Dick. Tour.
	The Fu-Manchu Omnibus: The Insidious Fu-Manchu; The Return of Fu-Manchu; The Hand of Fu-Manchu by: Sax Rohmer publisher: PageTurner, published: 2003-11-15 ASIN: B000FBJE0Q sales rank: 66412	THE EVIL GENIUS OF CRIME That fiendish, brilliant turn-of-the century villain is back again. Read the original trilogy that launched his celebrated career. A brow like Shakespeare, a face like Satan, and eyes of hypnotic green - and an army of the weirdest, most fiendish cohorts, tortures, and death-dealing devices in history. Penned by the immortal Sax Rohmer, authority on the occult, obscure cults and even more obscure murder methods, the Fu-Manchu books have enthralled audiences for nearly one hundred years. They have been filmed, become radio series, and even appeared as a television series. Your flesh will creep when you learn about how a man was murdered with the Zayat Kiss, of tortures like the Wire-Jackets, and the invisible murderer who could slay a victim in the locked room of a penthouse. Can Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard and his friend Dr. Petrie possibly thwart this evil mastermind who aims at nothing less than to make himself supreme dictator of the World! If they fail, Fu-Manchu will destroy civilization in order to remake it in his own image. And what of Fu-Manchu's beautiful, nameless slave woman? Has she truly fallen in love with Petrie's instinctive British decency - or is she a willing pawn in Fu-Manchu's plot to destroy both Smith and the good doctor? Three complete classic 1900s British thrillers in one convenient ebook for one low price.
	Dangerous Visions : The 35th Anniversary Edition publisher: I Books, published: 2002-10-01 ASIN: 0743452615 sales rank: 687030 price: $24.99 (new), $2.50 (used)	THE MOST HONORED ANTHOLOGY OF FANTASTIC FICTION EVER PUBLISHED Featuring the works of such luminaries as: Isaac Asimov ? Robert Silverberg ? Philip José Farmer ? Robert Bloch ? Philip K. Dick ? Larry Niven ? Fritz Leiber ? Poul Anderson ? Damon Knight ? J.G. Ballard ? John Brunner ? frederik pohl ? Roger Zelazny
	The Island of Doctor Moreau by: H. G. Wells published: 2008-04-17 ASIN: B0017XIW18 sales rank: 10444	On a lonely island in the Pacific, the victims of a shipwreck wash ashore. They find a land like no other, a private empire, populated by grotesque human-like creatures, and ruled by a sinister scientist.

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