Com histórias de Joe Haldeman ou Ken Liu, esta antologia de contos de ficção científica de guerra está dividida em quatro partes: Wartime Systems, Combat, Armored Force e Aftermath. A versão digital pode ser adquirida por um preço aceitável em Vodo. Este site tem uma particularidade interessante – independentemente do preço que lá se encontra, podemos oferecer um valor inferior, ficando à consideração para ser aceite. Caso se opte por oferecer um preço o próprio site nos indica a probabilidade de esse preço ser aceite.
Uma lista completa de conteúdos, bem como a sinopse, podem ser encontrados no site da Amazon:
In War Stories: New Military Science Fiction, editors Andrew Liptak and Jaym Gates collects short stories by science fiction and fantasy authors dealing with the effects of war prior, during, and after battle to soldiers and their families.
War is everywhere. Not only among the firefights, in the sweat dripping from heavy armor and the clenching grip on your weapon, but also wedging itself deep into families, infiltrating our love letters, hovering in the air above our heads. It’s in our dreams and our text messages. At times it roars with adrenaline, while at others it slips in silently so it can sit beside you until you forget it’s there.
Join Joe Haldeman, Linda Nagata, Karin Lowachee, Ken Liu, Jay Posey, and more as they take you on a tour of the battlefields, from those hurtling through space in spaceships and winding along trails deep in the jungle with bullets whizzing overhead, to the ones hiding behind calm smiles, waiting patiently to reveal itself in those quiet moments when we feel safest. War Stories brings us 23 stories of the impacts of war, showcasing the systems, combat, armor, and aftermath without condemnation or glorification.
Instead, War Stories reveals the truth.
Esta é uma edição gratuita da revista que facilmente me convenceu a adquirir, no futuro, outras edições. Para além de artigos e entrevistas (nas quais não estou muito interessada) possui várias histórias de diversos autores conhecidos: Joe Haldeman (com a novela A Separate War) ou Ken Liu (com The Bookmaking Habits of Selected Species). Ando a rever cada conto desta edição, pelo que hei-de colocar no final um post que compila todas. Algum deste conteúdo é exclusivo da edição ebook. Por enquanto fica aqui a sinopse da Amazon:
Lightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.
In our August 2012 issue, we have original fantasy by Kat Howard (“Breaking the Frame”) and Linda Nagata (“A Moment Before It Struck”), along with fantasy reprints by Wil McCarthy (“The Necromancer in Love”) and Delia Sherman (“Cotillion”).
Plus, we’ll have original science fiction by 2012 Nebula Award-winner Ken Liu (“The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”) and a collaboration between Caroline M. Yoachim and Tina Connolly (“Flash Bang Remember”), and SF reprints by io9’s Charlie Jane Anders (“Love Might Be Too Strong a Word”) and award-winning author Michael Swanwick (“Slow Life”).
For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella is “A Separate War” by Joe Haldeman, and we have an excerpt of Kitty Steals the Show, the new Kitty Norville novel by bestselling author Carrie Vaughn.
Não, nunca li nada da autora. Eis a minha primeira aquisição, Kindred:
Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stay grows longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana’s life will end, long before it has a chance to begin.
Não é bem uma aquisição, dado que o Almanaque Steampunk 2012 pode ser obtido gratuitamente no site da ClockWork Portugal. Pela vista de olhos que dei está graficamente interessante e possui conteúdos curiosos.
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