Book Preview The zeppelin Hans Glücker left Calais at 9:15 in the evening on a cold night in March, 1899, bound for New Amsterdam, the jewel of British North America. Don Sebastien de Ulloa, known to the Continent as the great detective, passed his departure on the promenade, watching the city lights recede through blurring … Read more
Book Preview Proofread & re-formatted by nukie. Color: -1- -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7- -8- -9- Text Size: 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- 16- 17- 18- 19- 20- 21- 22- 23- 24 It takes a lot of people to write a novel. This one would not have existed without the assistance of my … Read more
Book Preview A Bantam Spectra Book / July 2005 Published by Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc. Copyright © 2005 by Elizabeth Bear Cover illustration copyright © 2005 by Paul Youll Cover design by Jamie S. Warren Youll If you purchased this book without a cover, you should be aware that this book … Read more
Book Preview Proofread & re-formatted by nukie. Color: -1- -2- -3- -4- -5- -6- -7- -8- -9- Text Size: 10- 11- 12- 13- 14- 15- 16- 17- 18- 19- 20- 21- 22- 23- 24 A Bantam Spectra Book / January 2005 Published by Bantam Dell A Division of Random House, Inc. Copyright © 2005 by … Read more
Book Preview A little after three A.M., as a cold whispering rain fell over steep-gabled slate, husbands silently pulled wives close in the clammy darkness. Nursemaids rose from narrow beds to check bundled babes; massive-headed mastiffs whined by banked hearthfires as household cats insinuated between dream-running paws; and in their warm, summer-smelling loose boxes, arch-necked … Read more
Book Preview THE MORNING AFTER HE KILLED EUGENE SHAPIRO, ANDRÉ Deschênes woke early. Before his headset warble ended, he rolled from the bed and landed palms-down on the deck of his bedroom. He slept in loose white trousers; nudity implied vulnerability. The raw breeze through the long windows above his bed roughened his shoulders, scalp, … Read more
Book Preview From Gardner Dozois – The Year’s Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006) Elizabeth Bear shares a birthday with Frodo and Bilbo Baggins and owns a pair of Acme cowboy boots. The needle wore a path of dye and scab round and round Patience’s left ring finger; sweltering heat adhered her to the … Read more
Book Preview Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, and nearly named after Peregrine Took. She is the only daughter of a poet and a luthier. The author is both a John W. Campbell and Locus Award laureate, and her books to be released in 2007 are New Amsterdam … Read more
Book Preview View but his picture in this tragic glass, And then applaud his fortunes as you please. —Christopher Marlowe, Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 II 7-8 The light gleamed pewter under gracious, bowering trees; a liver-chestnut gelding stamped one white hoof on the road. His rider stood in his stirrups to see through wreaths … Read more
Book Preview Elizabeth Bear and Sarah Monette (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/originals/originals_archive/bear/bear1.html). After Wiscon that year, we were sitting around a table in one of Madison’s more psychedelic delis, talking about Marlowe and the Elizabethan theatrical scene and, inevitably, the Master of Revels, Sir Edmund Tylney. Elizabeth’s state censor. And we imagined how frustrated he must have been by … Read more
Book Preview Cully sees the fin whale as he’s leaving Nantucket Harbor. A mother with calf; seventy-foot whale, and a forty-foot boat. She’s gray as Wellington rubber, lined with long parallel lines. She rolls on her side to show him an eye big as his hand, dark and sweet. Dreaming. Looking back at him. Her … Read more
Book Preview Elizabeth Bear is the 2005 John W. Campbell Award winner. Her most recent novel, Dust (Bantam Spectra), is the first in a series she describes as “Amber: Gormenghast, Upstairs: Downstairs. In space!” The author lives near Hartford with a presumptuous cat. Her New England heritage is apparent in this skilful evocation of… “Well, … Read more
Book Preview Orm the Beautiful sang in his sleep, to his brothers and sisters, as the sea sings to itself. He would never die. But neither could he live much longer. Dreaming on jewels, hearing their ancestor-song, he did not think that he would mind. The men were coming; Orm the Beautiful knew it with … Read more
Book Preview You cannot really keep a princess in a tower. Not if she has no brothers and must learn statecraft and dancing and riding and poisons and potions and the passage of arms, so that she may eventually rule. But you can do the next best thing. In the land of the shining empire, … Read more
Book Preview Remarkably, Christian Whittaker went to bed sober one cold Wednesday night, the last day of February, in 1976. Whittaker was a big, blunt man, broken-veined, with a habitual drunk’s coarseness of skin and voice. He wasn’t astoundingly fat, but he had an astounding ring of fat around his neck: jowls and a double … Read more
Book Preview Pinky Gilman limped. He wore braces on both legs, shining metal and black washable foam spoiling the line of his off-the-rack suits, what line there was to spoil. He heaved himself about on a pair of elbow-cuff crutches. I used to be able to hear him clattering along the tiled, echoing halls of … Read more
Book Preview This was proofed by the scanner and called (v1.0). The OCR program that I use interfaces with MS Word. My scans are done so I can read the books on my smart phone. There are a few spelling mistakes that were made by the author/typesetter that I left as is. This is not … Read more
Book Preview MICHELANGELO OSIRIS LEARY KUSANAGI-JONES HAD BEEN drinking since fourteen hundred. He didn’t plan on stopping soon. He occupied a bubbleport on the current observation deck of Kaiwo Maru, where he had been since he started drinking, watching a yellow main-sequence star grow. The sun had the look of a dancer swirling in veils, … Read more