A Changeable Market in Slaves
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Ascending
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Oar is the last of her kind — a resident of the so-called 'planet of no return,' once the Admiralty’s dumping ground for undesirables and those who had become expendable. Oar’s transparent body is indestructible. Yet the mind it houses grows weary and will soon surrender to the catatonic torpor that has already claimed the others of her genetically altered human race. But Oar cannot sleep, not yet. There are powerful forces seeking her destruction for reasons unknown. There are old allies who need her assistance and a true history that must be revealed. There is much Oar must accomplish before the 'apathetic hibernation' overcomes her, though time is decidedly her enemy. Together with her friend, Admiral Festina Ramos, she must find her final destiny… and in a vast and volatile...
Commitment Hour
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Commitment Hour is a science fiction novel by James Alan Gardner, published in 1998. The novel is set in Gardner's 'League of Peoples's' futuristic universe, and plays out in the small, isolated village of Tober Cove. Set on post-apocalyptic Earth, Tober Cove most resembles a rural, seventeenth century fishing village, with one exception: every year, everyone below the age of 21 changes gender. At the age of twenty-one, the people of the village must 'commit' to being male, female or both in the form of a Hermaphrodite (a 'Neut'), forever. Commitment Hour follows the day leading up to the main character's hour of commitment...
Gravity Wells (Short Stories Collection)
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Award-winning author James Alan Gardner evokes a sense of wonder that is synonymous with great speculative fiction. Now, in his first short-story collection, he brings together the numerous tales that have made his reputation, ranging from the everyday experience to the cosmic, from peanut butter sandwiches to space drives. There are stories of wonder, imagination, humanity, and the unknown and tales that remind us of the importance of possibility. Some of the stories in this collection have won the Aurora Award and the grand prize in the prestigious Writers of the Future contest and been nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, while others are completely new and...
Kent State Descending the Gravity Well: An Analysis of the Observer
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First published in Amazing Stories, Vol. 69, #3, No. 592, Winter 1995. Published in 2005 as part of Gravity Wells short stories...
Muffin Explains Teleology to the World at Large
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First publiched in On Spec (Canadian SF magazine) in April 1990. Published in 2005 as part of Gravity Wells short stories...
Radiant
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The protagonist of this Explorer Corps adventure is Ugly Screaming Stink-Girl. The name is supposed to bring her luck, but since she is quickly contaminated by a red fungus known as the Balrog, one has to wonder. Then she, Admiral Festina Ramos, and a slightly mad fellow named Tut are assigned to a rescue mission on the planet Muta. There, an entire expedition from the unit has been turned into gas clouds that give out electromagnetic pulses, and it looks as if this is the result of a deadly defense mechanism left behind by an alien race. It takes ingenuity and suffering to discover the mystery behind the pulses. The sheer complexity of Gardner’s characters and inventions will make the book daunting to a good many, but his ingenuity and wit will keep a good many others reading...
The Children of the Crèche
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First publiched in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future anthology (vol. VI) in 1990. Published in 2005 as part of Gravity Wells short stories...
The Last Day of the War, with Parrots
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First published in Amazing Stories, Vol. 69, #3, No. 592, Winter 1995. Published in 2005 as part of Gravity Wells short stories...
Trapped
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Life under the thumb of the Spark Lords – the League's Earthly representatives – is dull but comfortable for Philemon Abu Dhubhai and the other teachers at a third-rate private school for second-rate rich kids. But all that changes when a female student is found murdered by an unknown alien organism, and her boyfriend, the prime suspect, goes missing. Suddenly an unofficial homicide investigation has snared Philemon and five other 'misfits' – plus one of the planet's most powerful criminals, the mother of the murdered girl – trapping them all in a web of terrifying conspiracy that could involve the Spark Lords… and even the League of Peoples itself. For all is perilously not what it seems, on Earth and in the heavens. But then again, neither are Phil and his...
Withered Gold, the Night, the Day
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