A veteran of the Iraq war is appointed Under Secretary of Defense in order to penetrate a secret government purposely black-shelving zero-point-energy, a clean, abundant energy source reverse-engineered from downed UFOs.
Are Extraterrestrials...
“The Shortest Night,” like the author’s earlier story, “The Tragedy of Solveig” (December 1996), takes place in the world of Kaleva. This planet is the venue of his recent science fantasy epic The Books of Mauna (comprising Lucky’s...
Ever since finishing his acclaimed new novel, Jack Faust (Avon), Michael Swanwick has had an outpouring of short fiction. We’ve been lucky to be c the receiving end for most of these stories. In his latest tale, he reveals the high cost of...
Michael Kandel occasionally translates science fiction from Polish (Stanislaw Lem’s The Cyberiad), occasionally acquires science fiction for Harcourt Brace and Company (Kage Baker’s In the Garden of Iden), and occasionally writes his own science...
The amazing exploits of Wilson Wu and his pal Irving, who we first met in “The Hole in the Hole” (February 1994), and Irv’s curvaceous fiancée, Candy, who we came to know in “The Edge of the Universe” (August 1996), are amusingly...
Kage Baker’s first novel, In the Garden of Iden, a Novel of the Company, has just been published by Harcourt Brace. Her next company book, Sky Coyote, will be out in early 1999. Regarding her latest tale, Ms. Baker says, “The Pismo Dunes really...