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Product Description: "Here, in four brilliantly conceived, remarkably different novellas, [Ryman] displays a penetrating vision of the human condition under extraordinary circumstances."—Booklist "His themes beautifully interweave transcendence, death, and the dignity of all life...read more
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9781931520492 | Small Beer Pr, July 17, 2012, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: "Here, in four brilliantly conceived, remarkably different novellas, [Ryman] displays a penetrating vision of the human condition under extraordinary circumstances.

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Product Description: "A moving lament for lost childhoods and an eloquent tribute to the enduring power of art."—The New York TimesA haunting novel exploring the lives of characters intertwined with The Wizard of Oz: the "real" Dorothy Gale; Judy Garland's unhappy fame; and Jonathan, a dying actor, and his therapist, whose work at an asylum unwittingly intersects with the Yellow Brick Road...read more
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9781931520737 | Anv edition (Small Beer Pr, July 17, 2012), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: "A moving lament for lost childhoods and an eloquent tribute to the enduring power of art.

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9781429952897 | Tor Books, July 20, 2010, cover price $0.99

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Product Description: Collaborating between leading scientists and literary authors, this unique experiment creates a new strain of science fiction by extending the repertoire of the genre beyond the common places of space travel, time travel, and artificial intelligence...read more
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9781905583195, titled "When It Changed: Science into Fiction: An Anthology" | 2 edition (Carcanet Pr, April 1, 2010), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Collaborating between leading scientists and literary authors, this unique experiment creates a new strain of science fiction by extending the repertoire of the genre beyond the common places of space travel, time travel, and artificial intelligence.

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Product Description: "[Ryman] has not so much created as revealed a world in which the promise of redemption takes seed even in horror."—The Boston Globe “Sweeping and beautiful. . . . The complex story tears the veil from a hidden world.”—The Sunday Times “Inordinately readable ...read more
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9781931520560 | Small Beer Pr, September 1, 2008, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: "[Ryman] has not so much created as revealed a world in which the promise of redemption takes seed even in horror.

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Mae Chung, who guides women in the remote farming village of Kizuldah/Karzistan in dress, make-up, and hairstyling, struggles to prepare her people for the inevitable changes while preserving their past when the UN decides to test the AIR, the latest wireless communication technology that will connect everyone throughout the world, but when the test backfires, many are killed in the massive surge of air.
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9788498003062 | Italian edition edition (LA Factoria De Ideas, April 1, 2007), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Mae Chung, who guides women in the remote farming village of Kizuldah/Karzistan in dress, make-up, and hairstyling, struggles to prepare her people for the inevitable changes while preserving their past when the UN decides to test the AIR, the latest wireless communication technology that will connect everyone throughout the world, but when the test backfires, many are killed in the massive surge of air.

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Product Description: Tesseracts Nine also made the LOCUS Recommended reading list for 2006.It was included in the Locus Poll for best anthology!Many of the stories have now appeared in Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies.While other stories received nominations for the Brandon, Fountain, Sturgeon and Aurora Awards...read more
By Nalo Hopkinson (editor) and Geoff Ryman (editor)
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9781894063265 | Edge Science Fiction & Fantasy Pub, August 29, 2005, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Tesseracts Nine also made the LOCUS Recommended reading list for 2006.

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The link between the inhabitants of the isolated farming village of Kisuldah, Karzistan, and the culture of the world beyond, Chung Mae finds her life turned upside down when a test of Air, a new wireless communication technology that will connect everyone throughout the world, backfires, killing many with the shock. Original. 25,000 first printing.
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9780312261214 | Griffin, September 15, 2004, cover price $17.99 | About this edition: When Air, the latest communication technology, finally comes to the remote village of Kizuldah, Karzistan, with disastrous results, Chung Mae struggles to prepare her people for the inevitable changes while preserving their past.

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A modern erotic fable finds young scientist David an unwitting subject in a bizarre sexual experiment that enables him to experience a broad range of fantasies with numerous celebrities. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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9780312312114 | 1 edition (St Martins Pr, August 1, 2003), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: A modern erotic fable finds young scientist David an unwitting subject in a bizarre sexual experiment that enables him to experience a broad range of fantasies with numerous celebrities.

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9780312312121 | Reprint edition (Griffin, July 1, 2004), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A modern erotic fable finds young scientist David an unwitting subject in a bizarre sexual experiment that enables him to experience a broad range of fantasies with numerous celebrities.

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Product Description: China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Paul Di Filippo, and Geoff Ryman: These award winners are on any list of the most inventive, popular, and critically acclaimed talents writing in the realms of fantasy and science fiction today. Their four original creations for this collection range from surreal visions of the infinite to high-tech nightmare; from apocalyptic ruins stalked by heroes and vampires to a near future where the aged terrorize the young...read more
By Peter Crowther (editor), Paul Di Filippo (editor), China Mieville (editor), Michael Moorcock (editor) and Geoff Ryman (editor)
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9781568583044 | Thunder''s Mouth Pr, April 11, 2004, cover price $17.00 | About this edition: China Miéville, Michael Moorcock, Paul Di Filippo, and Geoff Ryman: These award winners are on any list of the most inventive, popular, and critically acclaimed talents writing in the realms of fantasy and science fiction today.

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Describes the 253 people (including the driver) riding on a train from London on January 11, 1995, and the connections between them
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9780312182953 | Griffin, September 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Describes the 253 people (including the driver) riding on a train from London on January 11, 1995, and the connections between them

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Product Description: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards."An exuberant celebration of excess set in a resource-poor but defiantly energetic twenty-first century."—The New York Times"A richly absorbing tale—with a marvelous premise expertly carried out...read more
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9781931520287 | Reprint edition (Small Beer Pr, June 28, 2011), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Winner of the Arthur C.
9780312890230 | Reprint edition (St Martins Pr, May 1, 1994), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: In the city of the future, humans photosynthesize, viruses educate people, organics have replaced electronics.

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A collection of astonishing and inventive works by a groundbreaking author of speculative fiction includes 'O Happy Day,' 'Please Say Hello,' 'The Unconquered Country,' and 'A Fall of Angels, or On the Possibility of Life Under Extreme Conditions.'
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9780312099299 | St Martins Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: A collection of astonishing and inventive works by a groundbreaking author of speculative fiction includes 'O Happy Day,' 'Please Say Hello,' 'The Unconquered Country,' and 'A Fall of Angels, or On the Possibility of Life Under Extreme Conditions.

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Product Description: This haunting, wildly original novel explores the lives of several characters entwined by The Wizard of Oz--both the novel written by L. Frank Baum and the strangely resonant 1939 film. Was traverses the American landscape to reveal how the human imagination transcends the bleakest circumstance...read more
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9780679404293 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, May 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: While volunteering in an insane asylum in 1956 Kansas, Bill Davison meets and becomes inamored with Dotty, an aged woman who insists that the story enacted on the television airing of 'The Wizard of Oz' is her own

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9780140178722 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1993), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: This haunting, wildly original novel explores the lives of several characters entwined by The Wizard of Oz--both the novel written by L.

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In a twenty-first-century world where mankind's cancer cure has accidentally halved the human lifespan and where children rule, Milena's obsessive attempts to stage an operatic adaptation of 'The Divine Comedy' has worldwide consequences
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9780312050023 | St Martins Pr, October 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In a twenty-first-century world where mankind's cancer cure has accidentally halved the human lifespan and where children rule, Milena's obsessive attempts to stage an operatic adaptation of 'The Divine Comedy' has worldwide consequences

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When the Neighbors invade and Sharks attacking from the skies kill her family, Third Child must find her own way through a rapidly changing world
By Sacha Ackerman (illustrator) and Geoff Ryman
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9780553266542 | Bantam Books, June 1, 1987, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: When the Neighbors invade and Sharks attacking from the skies kill her family, Third Child must find her own way through a rapidly changing world

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A young woman from a land of magic transforms herself into a mighty warrior to redeem her world from the grip of an ancient Evil
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9780553263442 | Bantam Books, January 1, 1987, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: A young woman from a land of magic transforms herself into a mighty warrior to redeem her world from the grip of an ancient Evil

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