Old Venus - Martin, Dozois

Autor: Martin, Dozois

Editorial: Bantam

Lenguaje: Inglés

ISBN13: 9780345537287

Reseña: Sixteen all-new stories by science fictions top talents collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughss Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradburys The Long Rain to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewiss Perelandra the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earths next-nearest neighbor Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities bright blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas just as the last centurys space probes exploded our dreams of Mars so too did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus revealing instead of a lush paradise a hellish world inimical to all life. But dont despair! This new anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fictions best writers--edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois--turns back the clock to that more innocent time before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination. Join our cast of award-winning contributors--including Elizabeth Bear David Brin Joe Haldeman Gwyneth Jones Mike Resnick Eleanor Arnason Allen M. Steele and more--as we travel back in time to a planet that never was but should have been: a young rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries. FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY Eleanor Arnason - Elizabeth Bear - David Brin - Tobias S. Buckell - Michael Cassutt - Joe Haldeman - Matthew Hughes - Gwyneth Jones - Joe R. Lansdale - Stephen Leigh - Paul McAuley - Ian McDonald - Garth Nix - Mike Resnick - Allen M. Steele - Lavie Tidhar And an Introduction by Gardner Dozois