Recovering Apollo 8: And Other Stories - Hardcover

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn

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9781930846623: Recovering Apollo 8: And Other Stories

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1930846622 ISBN 13: 9781930846623

Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press, 2010

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Unique perspectives on technology, space, and aliens, and how they might affect humanity are explored in this compelling collection of short science fiction. In the title story, a near-future is examined in which an eight-year-old at the time of the loss of the Apollo 8 grows into a wealthy pioneer that devotes his life to recovering the capsule and its crew. In The Strangeness of the Day” a shy, successful lawyer is hired by a near immortal to battle a witch to save his love, while suicide bombings are taken to a new, horrifying level, with the bombers chosen at birth in Craters.” A large pile of bones that do not seem to be human or animal is discovered at a renovation of a resort in The End of the World,” while an alternate history of the death and dark secrets of J. Edgar Hoover are imagined in G-Men.” Rounding off this fascinating compilation is a novella in which salvaging a 5,000-year-old spaceship is neither easy nor without dangers. This stunning compendium brings some of the most prestigious work from a prolific and visionary author into a single, essential volume.

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About the Author:

Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an award-winning mystery, romance, science fiction, and fantasy writer who has written or collaborated on more than 60 novels, including Afterimage, The Black Queen, The Disappeared, Fantasy Life, The Fey: The Sacrifice, No Good Deed, Star Wars: The New Rebellion, and X-Men. She has won the Asimov’s Readers Choice, Ellery Queen Reader’s Choice, the Homer Award, the Hugo, and the Science Fiction Age Reader’s Choice. She lives in Lincoln City, Oregon.

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"Whether [Rusch] writes high fantasy, horror, science fiction, or contemporary fantasy, I've always been fascinated by her ability to tell a story with that enviable gift of invisible prose. She's one of those very few writers whose style takes me right into the story—the words and pages disappear as the characters and their story swallows me whole." —Charles de Lint, author, The Onion Girl

"A masterful writer is at work." —Orson Scott Card, author, Ender's Game

"One of the most sure-footed authors in science fiction, never straying from the path of good story-telling as she dissects her characters and their situations for the reader's benefits, she integrates the fantastic elements so rigorously into her story that it is often hard to remember she is not merely recording the here and now." —A. M. Dellamonica, Science Fiction Weekly

"[Rusch] is already far better than should be allowed." —Nexus

"[Rusch's] writing style is simple but elegant, and her characterization excellent." —Mark Morris Beyond

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