The Williamson Hugo nominated story, titled "The Ultimate Earth,"
depicts a time far after all life on Earth has been annihilated
from asteroid impacts. Human colonies, however, are thriving independently
on planets throughout the galaxy. Centuries later, Earth has been
terraformed and re-populated when historian Sander Pen makes a startling
discovery beneath the surface of the moon: a domed station built
by Earth's original humans--and the tissue cells left frozen in
the cryostat are still alive.
Author Michael Swanwick wrote that Williamson's story achieves "a
genuine by-God sense of wonder. New writers could do a lot worse
than to study this story and imitate its virtues."
"The
Ultimate Earth" will be available for free for a limited
time.
The other free 2001 Hugo nominated works at Fictionwise are:
"Kaddish for the Last Survivor"
by Michael A. Burstein;
"The Elephants on Neptune"
by Mike Resnick;
"Redchapel" by Mike
Resnick
These eBooks are available to registered Fictionwise.com members
(registration is free) for a limited time. To register at Fictionwise,
go to: /servlet/mw?a=v&t=register.htm
The Hugo Awards are among the most prestigious literary awards
and are presented annually by the World Science Fiction Society
(http://www.worldcon.org).
Earlier this year, Fictionwise offered 2001 Nebula Award nominated
works as free eBooks.
About
Fictionwise.com
Fictionwise.com is a leading independent eBook publisher and distributor.
The company publishes award-winning and high-quality fiction eBooks
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and Win CE), Adobe Acrobat, Rocket/REB1100, Microsoft Reader (Pocket
PC and PCs), and Franklin eBookMan. Fictionwise authors include
Larry Niven, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, Nancy Kress, Damon
Knight, Gregory Benford, Mike Resnick, James Patrick Kelly, Pamela
Sargent, and Kate Wilhelm, amongst many others. Fictionwise also
distributes eBooks by other high-quality publishers. It is believed
that Fictionwise.com has the largest eBook collection of major award-winning
and nominated science fiction stories on the Internet.
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