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eBook Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy
eBook Description: Get ready for 66,000 words of fantastic fiction from some of your favorites at Fictionwise! switch.blade is an all-new concept ... the first written-for-Fictionwise anthology of original fiction. From a select list of authors who've been with us since our opening day in June 2000, switch.blade showcases award-winning and award-nominated talent: World Fantasy, Stoker, Nebula, John W. Campbell, Writers of the Future, and Analog AnLab poll winners. Get some lemonade to accompany this collection of summertime reading, and brace yourself for the cutting edge ... switch.blade. [Edited by Amy Sterling Casil]

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: USA, 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2002

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: eReader (PDB) [222 KB] , ePub (EPUB) [194 KB] , Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [193 KB] , Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [696 KB] , Palm Doc (PDB) [216 KB] , Microsoft Reader (LIT) [238 KB] , Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [247 KB] , hiebook (KML) [530 KB] , Sony Reader (LRF) [294 KB] , iSilo (PDB) [178 KB] , Mobipocket (PRC) [223 KB] , Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [265 KB] , OEBFF Format (IMP) [294 KB]
Words: 66000
Reading time: 188-264 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format:  Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
Microsoft Reader ISBN: 1590624467

"Fictionwise has recently released its first written-to-order anthology of short SF, a daring and energetic e-anthology of fantastic school-tales, scribed by some of the hottest, award-winning authors in the field. The stories range from the gently amusing to the angrily tragic, but what they share, mostly, is an imaginative exuberance, and a feeling of escape very similar to that feeling you had waking up on the first day of summer, back when summer meant more than high utility bills and sunscreen.... The Switch.Blade School's Out anthology is a fine offering from Fictionwise and proof that producing original Fictionwise collections is a very good idea. You're not liable to find another collection quite like this one, which serves up a tremendous range of mood and color, based around an intriguing theme. Most of the stories are solid escapist fiction, perfect reading for the young or young of spirit. The anthology's low moments seem to correspond with its more serious offerings--a fitting conclusion which reinforces the spirit of escape and rebellion that the stories were meant to capture. As for the one or two less-successful stories--they are liable to seem like a lecture or homework assignment, thereby magnifying the impact of the antho's more spirited and imaginative offerings. A highly recommended and unique collection that's worth every penny of its modest price."--Jack Crane, SFReader.com

Switch.blade: School's Out Contents:

"What's This?" Letter from the Editor

"Connections," by Matt Horgan

"Penny Lombard and the Heart Ken Found," by Alan Rodgers

"Oh-Oh," by Ron Collins and John C. Bodin

"Hell Week at Grant-Williams High," by Vera Nazarian

"High-Stakes Test," by James Van Pelt

"Nord's Gambit," by Tobias Buckell

"The Universe in the Bottom of A Cereal Box," by Amy Sterling Casil

"Flunking the Assassin," by Michael A. Arnzen

"Safe as the Dark," by Lisa Silverthorne

"Why I Bring A Bag Lunch Now," by Tom Gerencer

From "Why I Bring a Bag Lunch Now" by Tom Gerencer

"Jou keeding, right? I mean, jou keedeeng."

"We're gonna save the school," I said.

The pepper laughed. "Jeah? How jou ees gonna get past General K'Chazzpak?"

"General Ka-who?" said Marty.

"Chazzpak. He try to take over the juniverse, but he crash the sheep here twenty jears ago."

"The sheep?" said Kenzie.

"He means, 'ship,'" I said.

"He's a genius," said the pepper. "He juse the mind-control to make the people here forgets the crash. He makes the sheep look like a school."

Kenzie squinted. "It really sounds like he said, 'sheep.'"

"When the sheep crash, the computer break. Ever seence, jou keeds ees do the calculations. For to feex eet."

Marty looked like the guy on the Heimlich-Maneuver posters in the lunch room. "I knew my homework was too hard," he said.