Items related to The Lowest Heaven
Synopsis
We have adorned the lowest heaven with an ornament, the planets...
A string of murders on Venus. Saturn's impossible forest.
Voyager I's message to the stars - returned in kind.
Edible sunlight.
The Lowest Heaven collects seventeen astonishing, never-before-published stories from award-winning authors and provocative new literary voices, each inspired by a body in the solar system, and features extraordinary images drawn from the archives of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Contributors include Sophia McDougall, Alastair Reynolds, Archie Black, Maria Dahvana Headley, Adam Roberts, Simon Morden, E. J. Swift, Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Mark Charan Newton, Kaaron Warren, Lavie Tidhar, Esther Saxey, David Bryher, S.L. Grey, Kameron Hurley, Matt Jones and James Smythe. The Lowest Heaven is introduced by Dr. Marek Kukula, Public Astronomer at the Royal Observatory, with a cover designed by award-winning artist Joey Hi-Fi.
Contains Sophia McDougall's "Golden Apple", a finalist for the British Fantasy Awards, E.J. Swift's "Saga's Children", a finalist for the BSFA and Kaaron Warren's "Air, Water and the Grove", finalist for the Ditmar and winner of the Aurealis Awards.
This is the solar system as you've never seen it before.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
From the Author
The Lowest Heaven is a new anthology of contemporary science fiction, published to coincide with Visions of the Universe, a major exhibition of space imagery at the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Each story is themed around a body in the Solar System, from the Sun to Halley's Comet.
The stories are illustrated with photographs and artwork selected from the archives of the Royal Observatory, while the book's cover and overall design are the work of award-winning South African illustrator Joey Hi-Fi.
About the Author
Jared Shurin has edited over a dozen anthologies on topics ranging from mummies to Dickens. He's been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson and Hugo Awards, and twice won the British Fantasy Award for Non-Fiction. He's also the editor of Pornokitsch, the award-winning pop culture site which is (sadly) not nearly as naughty as it sounds.
"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherJurassic London
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 0957646216
- ISBN 13 9780957646216
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages380
- IllustratorHi-Fi Joey
- Rating
Other Popular Editions of the Same Title
Top Search Results from the AbeBooks Marketplace
Stock Image
The Lowest Heaven
Seller: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Paperback. Condition: As New. No Jacket. Hi-Fi, Joey (illustrator). Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.4. Seller Inventory # G0957646216I2N00
Quantity: 1 available