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The plans for the Leadership College now very much resemble what we had anticipated doing three years ago. What are your thoughts on the criticism the Leadership College has attracted? I think the criticism has been as a result of some misunderstanding that the Leadership College will simply be a small program that will largely be residential. The project is what the U of A community has finally developed through a normal academic planning process.

There is nothing different between this process and every other process that we use to develop new programs. How much control would you say donors have over this project? They can choose to give their money or not, based on whether they like the idea. How much money have donors raised, so far? What sort of admission requirements would the Leadership College have? Students who demonstrate a commitment to undergoing these programs will be admitted.

It very much resembles colleges in other institutions. Many are expressing doubt that this project is something Peter Lougheed would have wanted. How would you respond? Chelen said if a residence must be built, it should be built either. Updates to the registration process mean certain members of the executive team will have to undergo training offered by Student Group Services.

Groups will also be required to re-register after electing a new executive team, minimizing what can be a lengthy processing time. Executive group members must now be composed solely of University of Alberta students. Broad changes have been made to the event approval procedure, which has been expanded to include a larger array of events needing advance approval. Previously, student groups hosting events involving alcohol, travel or physical activity had to undergo advance approval from the Dean of Student and Student Group Services.

The changes are intended to streamline the event planning process and ensure the safety of students while placing the responsibility of risk assessment on the university. The new procedures apply to all groups and clubs operating on campus and have been in the works for a number of years, Cuthbertson said. Changes to the scope of event approval has some groups — including fraternities and sororities — concerned about possible barriers to facilitating long-established events. Cuthbertson said the training sessions will be offered throughout the year to accommodate busy schedules.

The updated event approval procedure mirrors policies common at most Canadian universities, she said, and alongside increased executive training offers a more streamlined way of providing help to groups who host events. The Girls Coding Club aims to show the practical uses of coding outside of just sitting in front of a computer screen in a classroom.

DicoverE Camp and Workshop Coordinator Alissa Boyle said teaching the tangible uses of coding is what will keep young women interested in computing science. In addition to the money, the club receives a wealth of support and professional development from the staff at Google as well as networking opportunities for similar organizations around the world. Krahn said the importance of coding comes from the need to not only be consumers of technology, but producers of it as well.

You can change the technology around you. While employers are still responsible for providing a third of the grant, the budget says if provinces refuse to negotiate an agreement, the remainder of the funding will be provided directly through Service Canada. While only a pilot project, the FIATT will have the ability to support 12 multi-year programs implementing training techniques such as simulators, video conferencing and online learning. Flaherty said the government is on track to balancing the budget next year as projected.

Since this hike came in the wake of severe budget cuts to the university, accusations have been laid against the institution for using international students as a cash cow to make up for other lost funds. After all, the vote to even obtain the advice in the first place passed with just over half of the councillors present not voting in favour of it, with eight abstentions and six voting in opposition.

If there was some greater strategy for this information, students could feel safe knowing their money is being spent responsibly. But the divide in council comes from some being wary of the potential final result of this counsel, that being a lengthy and expensive charter challenge or court case that the SU may not be able to ultimately afford. Rather, council should have a better idea about the intent of this request and their overall strategy for representing international students in this initiative before they spend student money on it.

But it sets a difficult precedent for the future where a pet project and underdeveloped idea taken on by a councillor is reason enough to warrant thousands of dollars in expenses. It remains to be seen how many students would be in favour of seeking this legal counsel, a battle in court paid for by the money they put towards the SU.

Even then, only five of those signatures actually came from self-identified international students at the time it was included in this document, and the two councillors who identified themselves as international students during debate on the motion voted against the initiative. But the biggest problem with debating motions like these without more foresight is it furthers a deep-rooted problem of student disengagement with council. With that in mind, meetings will remain poorly attended by the general public, some faculties will still struggle to find candidates who want to run for council positions and voter turnout will remain dismally low.

And so the cycle will continue as council meeting by meeting goes by with disengaged students responding to their decisions with nothing but a shrug. This is tremendous progress and we thank Dean Mummery for his willingness to work with students. With that being said, some of the Deans comments confused me, and reflect a concerning attitude. The SU has worked to try and bring many of these concerns to the attention of the campus community over the past few weeks.

Dean Mummery asserts that plebiscites to do with fee increases will invariably get voted down. Statistics in Alberta have shown that students have voted in favour of fee referendums 76 per cent of the time, with students especially likely to vote in favour if the value of the fee in question has been properly demonstrated. Students should have the right to say what fees external to tuition they do or do not want, to ensure that services students are charged for are actually services that students use and want.

If you feel strongly about your issues, and that none of the existing candidates will address them adequately to your liking, you can form your own political party and field your candidates in the election, or run as an Independent. People should be active in politics Re: I will be voting, and I will encourage everyone I know to vote.

In addition to voting, I will also continue to work and devote my efforts to supporting my brothers and sisters through education, alliance building, practicing my culture, adding in some small way to the national dialogue and forming as strong a voice as possible. And if we all did — well then you get a pretty good nudge. Even if it does nothing, at least I can say to my grandchildren that I did everything I could, no matter how insignificant it seemed to be.

My belief is that Indigenous people in Canada should be as active as possible in every level of government, bringing their agendas with them, speaking for the land, for each other, for All Our Relations. But it will happen through a change in the hearts of all our potential allies.

I look at protests and Indigenous movements around the world and the one that spoke loudest and woke people up was Idle No More. It spoke to core values we all share. And it still is. Labelling products in grocery stores containing Genetically Modified Organisms GMO is a contentious issue to say the least. The Coalition for Safe Affordable Food, comprised of farming and biotechnology advocate groups, has pushed congress to reject proposed mandatory labeling of GMOs in favour of a voluntary labeling policy.

But labeling food products that contain GMOs would create confusion and further encourage the spread of misinformation moreso than it would protect consumers. The mandatory labeling of GMOs would be a mistake for practical and scientific reasons. Lobbying directly to the United States federal government, the coalition is encouraging lawmakers to pass legislation that would make the labeling of products containing GMOs a voluntary effort for food producers. The coalition is also pushing for GMO products to be included in a natural foods category.

Various studies have tried to find harm, but only those with poor research methodology have ever been successful. To give an example, there was a highly publicized study that seemed to show that rats fed glyphosate resistant corn, also known as Monsanto Roundup Ready Corn, developed more lethal tumors than. However, the publisher, Elsevier, eventually retracted the paper when it became clear the authors had gone statistical fishing to get their conclusions.

Despite significant methodological flaws anti-GMO advocates claimed that GMO foods were potentially carcinogenic as gospel, this story is passed around on forums and Facebook as evidence to this day, and it causes anxiousness about what impact mandatory labeling would have. Disregarding scientific evidence is something the anti-GMO movement does consistently. Skeptical criticisms exist, but much of the movement is steeped in pseudoscientific notions and ridiculous pronatural sentiments.

Emotional arguments and fear mongering about the big scary GMO corporations that are poisoning you and your children have proven effective, especially on the matter of mandatory GMO labeling. If labels were mandated, the implication would be that these products are in fact dangerous, thus facilitating further fear mongering. Ultimately, labeling would encourage people to turn away from GMO.

Blindly rejecting GMOs because they feel different is fundamentally flawed. Almost no current fruit or vegetable crop has any corollary in nature, because they were created by centuries of selective breeding. Hold up a russet potato to a purple majesty and the difference is immediately apparent.

Genetically engineered crops feel different but are substantially equivalent to their unmodified counterparts, even more so than another strain. Voluntary labeling allows corporations to adapt to the desires of the consumer and not be held to the whims of the generally unscientific anti-GMO movement. Mandating labeling would have no benefits to customers and would only encourage the spread of misinformation about GMO products. Army sergeant major Louis DiNatale and his wife allegedly and unknowingly attempted to cross the Canadian border with a gun in their car that he had forgotten about.

While many are looking at the matter as an overreaction by the border patrol, the truth is that our Canadian Border Patrol was just doing its job efficiently, and deserves no criticism regarding their decision to detain him. Immediately, this whole situation raises a few red flags. This furthers the question of how responsible of a person he is, and calls into question the whole truth behind the situation. Forgetting about something illegal is not a get out of jail free card, contrary to the point DiNatale is trying to argue.

If it was, drug smugglers could simply claim they forgot about the cocaine lining the walls of their van every time they got caught, and just turn around and try to hide. This is as absurd as it sounds, and for this reason, any traveller attempting to enter into Canada with controversial items — be it drugs or a gun — should be aware of the law or otherwise face the consequences. According to city planners, the proposed liquor outlet followed all city regulations, including being at least metres away from other liquor stores and being the proper distance from schools and public parks.

Councilors voted 13 - 0 against rezoning the area for a liquor store — much to the celebration of some Belvedere residents. We need to be engaged. We need to engage others.

We need the engagement of as many non-Indigenous people as possible if we want to see fundamental course correction in Canadian politics. But the point is that there are many ways to transform the way we relate to and interact with those who would represent us. Will voting do that? Not by itself, of course. But it has a better chance than non participation.

All that being said, I really enjoyed this article. Because of what residents fear. Although the merits of alcohol can be debated, a local business with something to provide to the community will never have the chance to open. Instead, big brand name liquor stores will dominate the neighbourhood. Reporting crimes and undesirable. Of course those kinds of measures already happen, but community redevelopment must start from the ground up. Increased neighborhood vigilance and working closely with law enforcement is the way to do that — not banning businesses.

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The Gateway has compiled a list of some of the best awkward things about sex. Tyler Hein I love talking about awkward sex with people for the same reason I love seeing people get their highfive left hanging. Bojangles to surprise the girl you were seeing who was really into Kings of Leon. I speak, of course, about the apology at the end. Because after all, if your sex is missing the awkward apology afterwards, was it really sex? These slight hiccups during sex happen. As a society, we really should strive to remove the stigma attached to these cute sex mishaps and these totally normal apologies.

Please everyone, I need this. Pillow and blanket mechanics are one of the most technical aspects of a proper love wrestle, and failure is all too common. She let her friend Becky in on her plan to be an entertainer, and Purity Taken is a look into a night that was to become the turning point of Annabelle Sitko's life. She let her friend Becky in on her plan to be an entertainer, and the club was happy to oblige her wish to bring Becky along for safety.

As it turns out, letting Becky know was precisely the thing that set everything in motion. Published June 16th by Smashwords first published June 15th To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Purity Taken , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jul 14, Kim BookJunkie rated it liked it. The only word that comes to mind to describe this book is, "weird. Everything in the story is very ambiguous, maybe even incomplete?

For example, we aren't told anything about who the woman in the book is- we just know her name and that she has some specific taboo interests. We don't get to care about her or any characters. Then, Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent, approaches Lee with an extraordinary offer. Rhoodie demonstrates an amazing rifle: Its rate of fire is incredible, its lethal efficiency breathtaking--and Rhoodie guarantees unlimited quantitites to the Confederates. The name of the weapon is the AK This is the story of Gilbert Gosseyn, who lives in that future world where the Games Machine, made up of twenty-five thousand electronic brains, sets the course of people's lives.

Gosseyn isn't even sure of his own identity, but realizes he has some remarkable abilities and sets out to use them to discover who has made him a pawn in an interstellar plot. Read a review in Strange Horizons. Outside that again is the Transcend, full of unguessable, godlike "Powers. And the half-mythical Countermeasure, if it exists, is lost with two human children on primitive Tines World. Cat's Cradle Read the article in Strange Horizons. Mother Night Set in Nazi Germany during World War II, this short novel explores allegiance, morality, and honesty, and what their worth and meaning are in extreme circumstances.

This book will spark serious doubts in many people as to the way they live their lives, and what they hold dear in life and in themselves. The story is told in Vonnegut's usual gripping style, with past and present events told as needed to make the story flow. Ian Watson The Great Escape This collection of 19 stories by Hugo- and Nebula-finalist Watson showcases the author's knack for contemporary dark fantasy, often blended with an SF chaser. Peter Watts Starfish Peter Watts's first novel explores the last mysterious place on earth--the floor of a deep sea rift.

Channer Vent is a zone of freezing darkness that belongs to shellfish the size of boulders and crimson worms three meters long. It's the temporary home of the maintenance crew of a geothermal energy plant--a crew made up of the damaged and dysfunctional flotsam of an overpopulated near-future earth. The crew's reluctant leader, basket case Lenie Clarke, can barely survive in the upper world, but she quickly falls under the rift's spell, just as Watts's magical descriptions of it enchant the reader: Irvine Welsh Trainspotting Okay, so it's not spec fic, but it could be.

There's world-building the drug culture in Scotland , there's an unfamiliar language much of the novel is written in dialect , and there are characters who act in a way pretty much alien to the rest of the world Spud, Sick Boy, Rentz, Mother, etc. A more rewarding experience than the movie, and I really enjoyed the movie.

The book, of course, is even better.

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Wilhelm tackles the greater problem of asserting one's own individuality in a society where differences are both feared and desperately needed. Jack Williamson The Humanoids On the plant Wing IV, a brilliant scientist creates humanoids--sleek black androids programmed to serve humanity. But they follow their program with ruthless efficiency, and the planet's inhabitants soon succumb to the humanoid's velvet-gloved tyranny.

Only a group of rebels on a distant world can stem the humanoid tide--if it's not already too late. Connie Willis Bellwether A sociologist who studies fads and a chaos theorist are brought together by a strange misdelivered package. Doomsday Book A history student in is transported to an English village in the 14th century. The student arrives mistakenly on the eve of the onset of the Black Plague. Her dealings with a family of "contemps" in and with her historian cohorts lead to complications as the book unfolds into a surprisingly dark, deep conclusion.

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis combines a hard-sf approach to time travel, an expert historian's love of "what-if" chronologies, and the hilarious turn-of-the-century aesthetic of authors such as Jerome K. Mixing romantic intrigue, specualtion on all manner of historical details, and a disaster that threatens the existence of the world, this is one of the finest works of comic sf ever written.

A Choice of Futures by and About Women ed. Jack Womack Let's Put the Future Behind Us Ex-bureaucrat-turned-successful Moscow businessman Max Borodin confronts the trials and tribulations of post-Soviet Russia as he copes with a nagging wife, exhausting mistress, troublesome brother, and the Russian mafia. Elvissey A troubled couple sets out from a dismal future to retrieve Elvis Presley from an oddly different They need the King to be a savior to what's left of humanity, but he's a murderous freak with no desire to be anyone's god. Wright The Golden Age In the far future, humans have become as gods: A trusting son of this future, Phaethon of Radamanthus House, discovers the rulers of the solar system have erased entire centuries from his mind.

When he attempts to regain his lost memories, the whole society of the Golden Oecumene opposes him. Like his mythical namesake, Phaethon has flown too high and been cast down. He has committed the one act forbidden in his utopian universe. Now he must find out what it is--and who he is.

In spite of their potentially lethal sting and ability to walk, they are initially treated as a novelty. However, the triffids are far more cunning than anyone had first realized Written in the early s, Wyndham's apocalyptic novel reflects the fears of the cold war period and paints a believable picture of the certainties and comforts of modern life slowly falling apart. Brian Youmans Best of the Rest 3: A collection of the best of the small press from But Rameau refused, and chose to follow his own path. And one faction of Original Man is determined to wrest control of the galaxy from the inferior race.

A brutal attack destroys both Rameau's home planet and the satellite that has become his world.

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The sole survivor, he finds himself a prisoner of Gunnarsson Prime, a clone of the original creator, on board the Jumpship Langstaff. Against his will, Rameau is enlisted as the ship's wartime medical officer. As a doctor, he swore an oath to do no harm. As a man, he swears blood vengeance on the inhuman killers who destroyed everything he ever loved. Roger Zerbrowski Swift Thoughts with Gregory Benford Science fiction's most philosophical talent here offers 24 stories, some of them landmarks in the field. Sarah Zettel Fool's War Bookstore blurbs written by: Flatland illus, introduction by Banesh Hoffman Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson.

Published in , this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension.

Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. A classic must-read when it comes to witty science fiction. Geared towards grades , the stories in Necklace are infused with magical themes, like flying carpets and talking animals.

The once happy home is now disassembled and the girls are sent off to a prison-like boarding school. With the help of some new friends, they escape, but to what end? Will they ever be able to save Willoughby Chase from the clutches of the greedy Miss Slighcarp? The first book definitely has a fairy-tale feeling to it, making it most traditionally a children's story, but the series can be enjoyed by readers of all ages. Cultures are born in the spring, flourish and prosper in summer, and wither and die at the onset of the generations-long winter.

As Helliconia emerges from its latest centuries-long winter, the tribes of the equatorial continents are able once more to dispute ownership of the planet with the ferocious phagors. Their offices are eternal, but the particular occupants of the position are not.

Flint, a human from one of Earth's outermost colonies, is more gifted than others, in that his "aura" is stronger which enables him to transfer onto alien hosts and experience a new world of opportunities. An ingenious combination of hard science fiction, epic space opera, and star-crossed romance, Primary Inversion is the story of Sauscony Valdoria, telepath, fighter pilot, and heir to the Skolian throne.

Skolia is locked in a seemingly endless conflict with the empire of the Traders, flawed empaths who pick up only on emotions generated by pain, and whose brains convert the sensations into their own pleasure. A chance encounter on neutral territory with the son of the Trader Emperor leads Soz to a shocking revelation, and a love affair which, if discovered, could lead to an all-out war between the two empires. Asaro's professional knowledge of theoretical physics allows her to create surprisingly plausible explanations for such improbably SF staples as faster-than-light travel and psi abilities, and her main characters are exceptionally well-developed, likable, and believable people.

Charisma An experiment to transplant positive personality characteristics into thousands of inner-city children goes horribly wrong. The Christ Clone Trilogy Newspaper editor Decker wangles his way onto a scientific expedition that examines the Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ. When body cells stuck to the shroud are found to be "alive," they are cloned, and the resulting baby, Christopher, changes the course of history.

Shattered Glass One of a new breed of vampires who do not need to hunt blood unless they want to, Stephen Austra makes his living restoring the stained glass in cathedrals, but his existence and his relationship with his lover are threatened by a series of vicious murders. Beyond the Last Star ed. The "what" is left to the imagination of the editor and the twenty-five authors. Most of the stories involve non-human protagonists in some finely crafted stories, and some of them even contain fairly outstanding writing, to boot. Includes story by Beth Bernobich. The Brains of Rats In these twelve stories we enter the darkest corridors of America's hospitals.

Meet a scientist who discovers how to predetermine and alter the sex of a pregnant woman's fetus, and proceeds to contemplate his own gender Filled with dark surprises, these splendid tales invite us to glimpse the world of high-tech medicine from a disturbing new angle. Jupiter In the time of Jupiter , the world has changed. Earth society is dominated by a selection of religious theocracies spread across the globe. The most prevalent group is the New Morality, a Christian fundamentalist movement, that shares power with similar Muslim and Buddhist movements.

Citizens are conscripted to surrender a few years of their lives in Service to the New Morality, and scientists are viewed with deep suspicion -- especially those whose sciences may challenge or contradict Scripture. Evolution becomes a dirty word.

Enter our reluctant hero, Grant Archer, who is conscripted to serve on Gold Station orbiting Jupiter to spy on the station. Religion and science conflict, for Archer is a Believer and a scientist, studying the nature of black holes. Venus Ben Bova picked his villains well for this fast-paced, popcorn-and-Milk- Duds matinee: Topping the playbill is our sister planet, Venus itself, which Bova matter-of-factly describes as "the most hellish place in the solar system. Venus proves a mighty, unthinking antagonist indeed--frustrating the efforts of sickly but likable rich kid Van Humphries to land there and recover the remains of his older brother Alex, who died two years earlier on another ill-fated mission.

Fahrenheit In Bradbury's classic, the future is a scary place. Rather than putting out fires, the primary task of firemen is to start them -- in order to burn books. In this place, trivial information is good, but knowledge and facts are detrimental to such a "happY" society, so books become contraband. When fireman Guy Montag becomes aware of the nature of his dysfunctional life, with his wife engrossed in her "TV family" and his lack of satisfaction with life, he finds his much needed escape in the world of books and must fight with those he once served.

Paxson This famous retelling of the Arthurian legend takes the point of view of the women in the tale, and proceeds to turn many parts of the story upside down. Forget what you thought you knew about Morgan le Fay; you'll see her in a whole new light in this novel. Set against the backdrop of the Roman withdrawal from the British Isles and the conquest of Christianity over the Celts' pagan religion, Bradley returns the legend to its tragic roots while simultaneously providing a new perspective on the religious conflicts, politics, and power struggles that underlie the familiar story.

Thendara House is a novel of speculation which has become a classic masterwork on the role of women on any world, past, present, or future. One Evening a Year ed. This Flesh Unknown What happens when we dream of our spouse as he or she once was? Does a door in the universe open, letting these secret fantasies become all too real? Paul and Vanessa Howe are about to find out what happens when their erotic passions and fantasies go too far and take on a unique life of their own.

Bloodchild A collection of stories and novellas that cover a diverse arena of subjects. From what she calls her "pregnant male title story" to a sympathetic tale of incest to a bleak futuristic world of violence and nonverbal communication, Butler's imagination is strong--and so is her awareness of how to work real issues subtly into the text of her fiction.

The question is answered in Octavia Butler's gripping tale of the story of a twentieth century woman who is brought back in time by her slave-owning ancestor to save his life, even though she knows that by doing so her free-born black grandmother will become his slave. One girl, Lauren Oleanna, finds her own truths in the midst of this madness and begins an adventurous journey. Brilliant occasional commentary by Lauren's daughter gives this book an outside perspective on the society Butler envisions.

Can he take the final step and murder the final obstacle in his way: He fears no one--until he meets Anyanwu. Anyanwu has also died many times. She can absorb bullets and make medicine with a kiss, give birth to tribes, nurture and heal, and savage anyone who threatens those she loves. She fears no one--until she meets Doro. From African jungles to the colonies of America, Doro and Anyanwu weave together a pattern of destiny that not even immortals can imagine. They rescue those humans they can, keeping most survivors in suspended animation while the aliens begin the slow process of rehabilitating the planet.

When Lilith Iyapo is "awakened," she finds that she has been chosen to revive her fellow humans in small groups by first preparing them to meet the utterly terrifying aliens, then training them to survive on the wilderness that the planet has become. But the aliens cannot help humanity without altering it forever. Bonded to the aliens in ways no human has ever known, Lilith tries to fight them even as her own species comes to fear and loathe her. A stunning story of invasion and alien contact by one of science fiction's finest writers.

We All Fall Down When you no longer need question the nature of the universe, does it follow you no longer need question the nature of your soul? The Christian Bible is true, the prophets were right, and Armageddon is now. Using this dramatic backdrop, Brian Caldwell explores the nature of hatred and forgiveness, divinity and damnation. Building to a shattering, inevitable climax, We All Fall Down employs biting realism in the story of one man's confrontation with the end of the world, God, and, most harrowingly, himself.

In these two brilliant burlesques he created two of the most famous and fantastic novels of all time that not only stirred our imagination but revolutionized literature. The Vampire Tapestry Dr. Edward Lewis Weyland is an anthropologist, a professor and student of man. His interest in this field is, however, more than academic, for he is a vampire, not a spirit creature but a perfectly evolved predator: However, when Weyland stalks a woman who proves a more adept hunter than himself, he winds up critically wounded and humbled, and obliged to make a journey toward the greatest threat he's faced yet: Cuckoos Egg The "alien" human.

Haras, Thorn, a young man growing up in a world of people not his own, striving to become one of them, but remaining an outcast, feared and hated by those he seeks to know. Learning of his differences, his true origin, and his destiny, with his mentor, murderer, and only friend, Dunn, all while wrestling with the pain and emotion that comes with teenage years. For aeons this golden-skinned, golden-eyed race had provided the universe mercenary soldiers of almost unimaginable ability. But now the mri have faced an enemy unlike any other -- an enemy whose only way of war is widespread destruction.

These "humans" are mass fighters, creatures of the herb, and the mri have been slaughtered like animals. Now, in the aftermath of war, the mri face extinction. It will be up to three individuals to save whatever remains of this devastated race: Can they retrace the galaxy-wide path of this nomadic race back through millennia to reclaim the ancient world which first gave them life?

One of these species, the "nighthorse," befriends the humans, and together they form a bond of mutual protection--the nighthorses guard their riders against the planet's mind-clouding predators, while the humans provide them with food and shelter. Once matched, the two experience a companionship more profound than either has ever known before. Taizu, who is determined to become a swordwoman, seeks out Shoka and begs his help to exact revenge upon the evil tyrant Lord Ghita.

Soon, Shoka and Taizu become the stuff of legends. Serpent's Reach Within the Constellation of the Serpent, out of bounds to all spacefarers, humans live among the insect-like aliens--and one of them, a woman named Paen, is bent on a revenge that will tear apart the truce between human and alien. Children of Amarid LonTobyn Chronicles, 1 The Outlanders LonTobyn Chronicles, 2 Eagle-Sage LonTobyn Chronicles, 3 A thousand years ago, Amarid and Theron founded a magical order whose new members become mages by acquiring bird familiars necessary for the magic to work , staffs, and ceryll crystals, which focus and project the magic.

Now, someone impersonating a mage is spreading death and destruction across Tobyn-Ser, so confidence in the real Children of Amarid collapses. Tam Lin The Fairy Tale Series This retelling of the Scottish legend of Tam Lin, a man captured by the Queen of Fairies and doomed to be sacrificed at the end of seven years, sets the story on the campus of a small liberal arts college in the early s. It is a must read for anyone who went to college at such a school and loved it deeply.

Dean captures the essence of the small, private, rural liberal arts college in a story with just a touch of the world of faerie. Our heroine Janet and her friends trade barbs and quotations from literature, eat horrible food in dining halls, and deal with obnoxious roommates and chemistry homework, and all the while the Faerie Queen and her minions live among them, occasionally breaking their cover in moments of true wonder and terror. Babel The key concept driving this novel is Babel, which at the novel's outset appears to be an indecipherable code being used by the Invaders, enemies of humanity.

In order to break this code, the military recruits Rydra Wong, a young poet and polyglot with unusual mental abilities. The catastrophe is confined to Bellona, and most of the inhabitants have fled. The Kid is emblematic of those who live in the new Bellona, who are the young, the poor, the mad, the violent, the outcast--the marginalized. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? If you've seen Blade Runner , try to not to think about it too much; this novel has far more depth of both character and plot than the movie, not to mention actual electric sheep. On the West Coast, Americans are strait-jacketed by rigid Japanese protocols, while in the East, the insanity of the Third Reich holds sway.

Meanwhile, in the mid-west a maverick author called Abendsen has written a book which dares to imagine Germany loosing the war. Dick's novel provides a well thought out alternative world, and finishes with a strange take on the nature of Abendsen's, and perhaps everyone's, fiction. Hmm, must be a Philip K. What would it be like if you woke up and no one remembered who you were? Fractal Paisleys The 10 stories in Fractal Paisleys blend alternate history, hard SF, modern fantasy, noir-detective fiction, satire, and pop culture to varying degrees, creating what the author calls "trailer park science fiction," in which regular folks middle-, working-, and nonworking-class encounter great and terrible powers and technologies of human, alien, futuristic, and fantastic origin.

The stories share an impressive, carefully constructed common setting of some 70 years hence. Body modifications to any specification are available. North America is run by Canada. Strange Trades This splendid collection of 11 SF and fantasy stories, most of novelette length and loosely predicated on the theme of work, showcases some excellent writing from the underrated Di Filippo.

The Steampunk Trilogy Queen Victoria as a trollop-in-training whose newt-human clone serves as stand-in during Victoria's trysts? Walt Whitman as lusty seducer of an only partly reticent Emily Dickinson who loses the "Keys to the Inner Chambers of her Heart" to him? This fine and funny madness is "steampunk," a branch of cyberpunk fiction that locates itself in historical venues rather than in the future. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive "cyberpunk" short fiction collection.

Includes story by Paul di Filippo. The project's inhabitants are universally poor, often jobless, sometimes squalid. Some are happy, others angry, depressed, or just numb. The stories study their hopes and disappointments, and all are deeply introspective. BO Read the review in Strange Horizons. Camp Concentration The unlikely hero of this piece is Louis Sacchetti, an overweight poet who's serving a five-year prison term for being a "conchie," or conscientious objector, to the ongoing war being fought by the United States.

Three months into his sentence, Sacchetti is mysteriously taken from prison and brought to Camp Archimedes, an underground compound run by General Humphrey Haast. This is the so-called "camp concentration" of the book's title, a strange oubliette where inmates are given a drug that will raise their intelligence to astounding levels, though it will also kill them in a matter of months. Pangaea Nine short stories of strangeness.

Beluthahatchie and Other Stories Duncan's collection of stories include such topics as an ethics-obsessed secret brotherhood of hangmen and a peripatetic electric-chair operator in "The Executioner's Guild", a certain notorious Paris theater brought to life with strange romance and artistic envy in "Grand Guignol", and "The Premature Burials" finds a gothic erotic charge in being buried alive. As it spreads throughout the galaxy, humanity enjoys an almost utopian existence--until a scientist accidentally creates an impenetrable, steadily expanding vacuum that devours star systems and threatens the entire universe with destruction.

Carmen Dog In a world where women turn into animals and back again, there can't help but be laughter. Pooch, a dog-girl, dreams of nothing more than playing the title role in the opera Carmen. In her journeys, she comes across many interesting characters, including a snake-woman and a vicious socialite who is gradually turning into a wolverine how apt , and all while the world around them is being turned upside down.

Emshwiller's playful writing was funny; perhaps mostly in the way that it poked fun at gender roles and modern-day society. A rich and old-fashioned family story. Preacher Series The main character, Jesse, the "preacher" of the title, finds that he shares his body with a being named Genesis, the child of a liaison between an angel and a demon. Upon the birth of Genesis, God leaves his post in Heaven and hides on Earth. Jesse and Genesis decide to hunt down God and make him answer for the evils of Creation. The devil has been destroyed earlier by the Saint of Killers, a gunslinger who has become the Angel of Death.

Along the way, they beat up angels and human apocalyptic conspirators. Jesse himself is no saint, but he embodies the cowboy virtues. The Black Stallion First published in , Walter Farley's best-selling novel for young readers is the triumphant tale of a boy and a wild horse. From Alec Ramsay and the Black's first meeting on an ill-fated ship to their adventures on a desert island and their eventual rescue, this beloved story will hold the rapt attention of readers new and old.

Finney The Circus of Dr. Lao Read the review in Strange Horizons. These swashbuckling misfits lead complicated lives, flitting between a decadent existence as gentlemen of leisure, on the one hand, and skilled professional thieves on the other. But even that is only a cover for their true calling, as spies in service to the wizard Nysander and the Skalan monarchy, undermining plots against Queen and country.

Casting Fortune Short story collection containing stories by John M. Masque of History The novel is set in an alternate history Europe, where either Constantine never converted to Christianity or Julian established the equality of all faiths, and the Byzantine Empire never declined, but in fact by the middle of the XVth century controls most of Eastern Europe and is trying to get as much of the West as possible.

And magic works, and vampires exist also. I don't usually like alternate history, the real historical characters usually look unlikely next to the alternate bits, but this novel handled it perfectly, and the real historical characters of the XVth century Richard III of England, his mother, and brothers, the Earl Rivers, Louis XI of France, the Medici, the Duke of Urbino are a joy to read about if you have met them before.

There's a figurative weightless to the story as well, that of Ronay's life and decisions he faces growing up as an adolescent in lunar society. Ronay, a brilliant youth, takes a trip to distant city, acts in theater and dreams of flight to far-off worlds. His father, a leader in lunar politics, doesn't always understand, though he may have had some of the same yearnings as his son. This imaginative novel won the Philip K. It tells the story of Danny Holman, who comes from the Iowa farm-country to the city, where magic and science mingle.

The reader isn't sure what drives Danny, and he's not sure either. He finds himself brought into the entourage of a Mr. Patrise, who owns a club, and who has mysterious sources of wealth and power. How much of his business is illegal, how much of his business is magical, no one knows for sure. Trained as a paramedic, Danny enters Patrise's service as a doctor, and receives his alias few in Patrise's service go by their given names -- Doc Hallownight.

One might say that the book is about the transformation of Danny Holman into Doc Hallow. One might also say that the book is a love-story for the city of Chicago.

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But neither would be quite accurate. Since the reader knows no more than Danny does, and he begins the story not knowing his city, his employer, or himself, it's only retrospectively that the reader will begin to understand the plot of The Last Hot Time. Giguere Short story collection containing stories by John M. He's established a utopian community on an estate outside the town of Jekyll's Glen, where the faithful wait, work, and pray for the world to end.

Neo Addix Alex Gibson is an evidence chaser on the run in London. One of his eyes is a Zeiss eyecam containing enough data to blow open a messy murder trial. Unfortunately for him, two other people want this evidence. The only person who can help Alex is Johnnie T, the leader of the neoAddix. Pashazade Ashraf Bey is not who he seems--a rich Ottoman aristocrat to whom the Iskandryia of a rather different 21st century is more or less his oyster--nor is he simply what he thinks he is--a minor street criminal shipped off to North Africa when he fell foul of his employers.

Accused yet again of murders he did not commit, he finds out on the run that he is better than he thinks he is--smarter and more capable and also someone whom people trust and love. Effendi The sequel to Pashazade, Ashraf Bey is a fugitive from the US justice system definitely ; son of the Emir of Tunis possibly ; and chief of detectives in the El Iskandryian police force apparently. Small wonder that he's a little confused Raf's ex-fiance Zara still doesn't want to see him, so she says. His nine-year-old niece is busy doing things with computers that are strictly illegal.

And when the city suddenly starts to fall apart and Zara's father is accused of mass-murder, Raf begins to learn the true cost of loyalty. She teams up with her lover and the father of her children, John Aversin, when he is called away from their remote northern village to slay a dragon. Hambly takes what ought to be the typical setup for an extremely typical fantasy plot, and turns it inside out and on its head.

Dragonsbane stands alone, but it is followed by three sequels, Dragonshadow which is at least as much about psychological suspense and horror as it is about dragons , Knight of the Demon Queen , and Dragonstar. These are intricate and deeply thought-through books; Hambly's world is rich and colorful, and well-informed by her years of graduate study in medieval history.

Hambly's other genre work is in horror fiction, and this influence shows in the gripping suspense and horrific descriptions of the Dark, their world, and what happens when they rise. The Ice Monkey and Other Stories Set for the most part in present day England, Harrison's stories begin like normal 'literary' fiction and then twist unnervingly away from reality.

In 'The New Rays' a desperate, terminally ill woman embarks on a radical course of treatment. In 'Egnaro,' an accountant becomes drawn into the obsession of one of his clients: In the title story, the dismal tower blocks of inner city Sheffield are haunted by the power of voodoo. Harrison has a talent for warping the familiar into the fantastic, and after I finished these stories everything around me looked a little bit different. What are they, and what do they mean?

Tiptree Award Winner! Heinlein's lesser-known works, The Door into Summer tells the charming story of an inventor, his cat, the double-dealing business partner and scheming fiancee who stole his greatest creation and got him cryonically frozen for twenty years, and the time machine that gave him a second chance at happiness. The title refers to the cat's conviction that if you just open all the doors in the house on a stormy winter day, one of them will lead into warm weather -- and as the novel's heart-warming ending shows, he just might be on the right track. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormous financial empire, not to mention de facto owner of the planet Mars.

With the irascible popular author Jubal Harshaw to protect him, Michael explores human morality and the meanings of love. He founds his own church, preaching free love and disseminating the psychic talents taught him by the Martians. Ultimately, he confronts the fate reserved for all messiahs. Working at Boss's whimsical behest she travels from far north to deep south, finding quick, expeditious solutions as one calamity after another threatens to explode in her face Dune This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire.

Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices. Dune is one of the most famous science fiction novels ever written, and deservedly so. The setting is elaborate and ornate, the plot labyrinthine, the adventures exciting.

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