L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 20 - Softcover

Eric James Stone

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1592121772 ISBN 13: 9781592121779

Publisher: Galaxy Pr Llc, 2004

Synopsis

A collection of today's best science fiction and fantasy short stories penned by the winners of L. Ron Hubbard's annual Writers of the Future Contest, today's top competition for launching the careers of new speculative fiction authors.

About this title

About the Author:

Algis has been the editor in chief of Regency Books, Playboy Press, all the titles at Woodall's Trailer Travel publications, and L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future, where he works now.

From Publishers Weekly:

The human element remains at all times paramount in the 15 SF stories gathered in the 20th edition of L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future series, at this point the most enduring forum to showcase new talent in the genre. Standouts include Eric James Stone's eerie "In Memory," whose hero, a brilliant mad physicist, exists as a disembodied computer image; Joy Remy's poignant "Sleep Sweetly, Junie Carter," in which a bedridden woman feels helpless in her near-immortality; and Jonathon Laden's disturbing "Monkey See, Monkey Deduce," in which a multibodied monster is actually a tribe of chimps, with an imposed common memory, at the mercy of human researchers. Brief essays on writing by Hubbard and contemporary giants such as Robert Silverberg and Kevin J. Anderson round out the volume. The cartoonlike artwork, one drawing for each story, is less successful. The series, however, continues to be a powerful statement of faith as well as direction in American science fiction.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Galaxy Pr Llc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1592121772
• ISBN 13: 9781592121779
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 500
• Editor: Algis Budrys