Transitions: The Art of Todd Lockwood
by Todd Lockwood
from Paper Tiger
Bless the Beasts (Star Trek Voyager, No 10)
by Karen Haber
from Star Trek
In desperate need of crucial repairs, the Starship VoyagerTM has come to Sardalia, a planet blessed with great natural beauty and apparently friendly inhabitants. The Sardalians welcome Voyager enthusiastically, but Captain Janeway soon grows suspicious. The Sardalians seem almost too eager to help. Janeway fears they are hiding some secret agenda. When Tom Paris and Harry Kim disappear while visiting the planet, the captain and her crew find themselves caught in the middle of a planetary war -- and faced with an agonizing moral dilemma.
Science Fiction: The Best of 2002 (Science Fiction: The Best of ... (Quality))
by Robert Silverberg
from I Books
SCIENCE FICTION: THE BEST OF 2002
Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber, Editors
A collection of the best science fiction prose written in 2002, by some of the genre's greatest writers, and selected by two of science fiction's most respected editors. Continuing ibooks' series of popularly-priced, rack-sized "Best of the Year" books edited and designed to appeal to science fiction fans whose budgets may be taxed by more expensive "Best of the Year" collections.
• Editor Robert Silverberg is a five-time winner of the Nebula Award, and a four-time winner of the Hugo Award.
• Karen Haber is the bestselling co-author of Science of the X-Men, and is a contributing writer to The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. She was also the editor of the essay collection Meditations on Middle Earth, recently nominated for the prestigious Hugo Award.
Here in one affordable volume is the best short sci-fi and fantasy of the year as selected from magazines, anthologies, and journals by Robert Silverberg, one of the world's most honored fantasy authors. It includes stories by Christopher Priest, Ted Chiang, Geoffrey A. Landis, and many more.
Dog is my Copilot
A story about a guy, his talking mutt, and their space ship.
Exploring the Matrix: Visions of the Cyber Present
from St. Martin's Press
These questions, and many more like them, spin effortlessly out of the box-office mega-hit The Matrix. More than just a computer-aided shoot-'em-up, more than just the latest cinematic expression of cyberpunk angst, The Matrix presented layer upon layer of challenging explorations of what the true nature of reality might be, and why this should (or should not) be important to us.
Exploring the Matrix presents eighteen thoughtful and though-provoking essays on what the film had to say and exactly how it was said. Here you will discover the long and fascinating history of some of the themes set forth in the Wachowski Brothers' landmark film, why they are important, how they have been explored n the past, and their implications for the immediate future of human society. The true nature of reality in our current cyber-age is not a rhetorical question, but rather one that needs to be answered as we move closer to seamless virtual scenarios, accessible online, in video games... and perhaps ultimately as the result of uploading software to an implanted chip in the brain.
You can take the blue pill and stay in the dream, unaware of your status, or take the red pill and see just how deep the rabbit hole goes.
On the Tip of a Cat's Tongue
Her voice's name was Sabastian. He was a long-haired calico who didn't enjoy being petted by strangers, especially if they were private detectives.
Science Fiction: The Best of 2001 (Science Fiction: The Best of ... (Quality))
from I Books
Here in one affordable volume is the best short science fiction of the year as selected from magazines, anthologies and journals. It includes stories by Michael Swanwick, Nancy Kress, Stephen Baxter and many more. It is the first in a prestigious new series from ibooks.
Robert Silverberg, a multiple winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards as a writer, has compiled a distinguished record as an anthologist over the past 35 years. Among the famous books he has edited are The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, the New Dimensions, Universe, and Alpha series, and the best-selling original collections, Legends and Far Horizons. His long list of well-known science fiction and fantasy novels includes such titles as Dying Inside, The Book of Skulls, Downward to the Earth, The Alien Years, and the six volumes of the Majipoor Cycle, which began with the classic Lord Valentine's Castle.
Karen Haber is the co-author of Science of the X-Men, editor of Meditations on Middle Earth and author of eight science fiction novels, including the four-volume Mutant Season series. With Robert Silverberg, she edited the Universe anthology series of original science fiction stories.
Science Fiction: The Best of 2003
by Jonathan Strahan
from I Books
Science of the X-Men
by Linc Yaco
from I Books/Marvel
Have you ever wondered how laser beams might actually shoot out of someone's eyes?
What could cause wings to sprout from the back of a man, allowing him to fly?
If your skeleton was bonded with a flexible but indestructible metal, how would your blood flow and nerves be affected?
Through a combination of informed speculation and science fact The Science of the X-Men gives a scientific investigation of the most popular mutant super hero team in the history of comics. Using such cutting edge science as genetic manipulation, biotechnology, quantum physics, string theory, biophysics, and the Human Genome Project you'll learn how the powers of Wolverine, Professor X, Jean Grey, Rogue, Storm, Cyclops and many more X-Men and their adversaries could work in the real world.
The Science of the X-Men goes beyond the characters and includes an analysis of their equipment and some of the alien races that have crossed paths with the X-Men. You'll discover how Professor X's amazing computer, Cerebro, can find mutants, the technical specs on the X-Men's specially modified airplane, the Lockheed SR-71, and the amazing robotics and holograms that make up the X-Men's amazing adaptive obstacle course known as the Danger Room.
+++
