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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: ON SALE UNTIL September 30, 2004
British author Charles Stross, a writer currently about as hot as it's possible for a writer to get, returns with the penultimate story in his acclaimed "Accelerando" sequence (which have included the Hugo finalists "Lobsters," "Halo," and the current finalist, "Nightfall") depicting the adventures of Manfred Macx and his daughter Amber in a strange, post-human future on the far side of a Vingean Singularity, in "Elector," set on a bizarre floating-lilypad habitat orbiting the gas giant Jupiter, Amber is a candidate in a strange but hotly contested election that might determine the future of the human race itself (or if the human race in anything even remotely like the form we know it is even going to have a future) ... and must deal with some surprises even she couldn't predict. This is Cutting Edge SF at its best; don't miss it! New writer Paolo Bacigalupi, making a compelling Asimov's debut, takes us to a deadly, feud-haunted world for a tricky life-or-death interview with "The Pasho"; Tiptree Award-winner Maureen F. McHugh returns to examine an "Oversite" with disturbing implications; new writer Lynette Aspey, making an evocative Asimov's debut, teaches us the wisdom of not disturbing "Sleeping Dragons"; new writer Y.S. Wilce, making a baroque Asimov's debut, serves up, with a dramatic flourish, "The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror! Part One: Crime Commences"; Meredith Simmons returns to show us how all creatures are "Brethren" under the skin (sort of), for better and worse; new writer David Moles, making a powerful Asimov's debut, unravels a suspenseful tangle of intrigue, espionage, and cultural conflict on a troubled distant planet, as the fate of worlds hangs on the decisions of "The Third Party"; Matthew Hughes, making a clever Asimov's debut, takes a mordant look at "The Hat Thing." Robert Silverberg's "Reflections" column examines some stuff that is truly "Far Out"; Peter Heck brings us "On Books"; and James Patrick Kelly's "On The Net" column sweeps us along for some "Time Travel"; plus an array of poems and other features. Contents:
Readers' Award Results
Reflections: Once More into Space (Maybe)
Elector by Charles Stross
The Third Party by David Moles
The Pasho by Paolo Bacigalupi
Oversite by Maureen McHugh
Brethren by Meredith Simmons
The Biography of a Bouncing Boy Terror! by Y. S. Wilce
Sleeping Dragons by Lynette Aspey
The Hat Thing by Matthew Hughes
Verse by W. Gregory Stewart
On the Net: Time Travel by James Patrick Kelly
On Books: by Peter Heck
The SF Conventional Calendar
Upcoming Chats: Meet Our Hugo Nominees

eBook Publisher: Dell Magazines
Fictionwise Release Date: July 2004

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Words: 68001
Reading time: 194-272 min.
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