My desert island books part 23
Dive into My Desert Island Books Part 23, a handpicked list of essential reads. Explore sci-fi epics like David Brin's *Startide Rising*, literary classics including Hemingway's complete stories, and gripping fiction from Katherine V. Forrest.
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The Complete Short Stories Of Ernest Hemingway
by Ernest Hemingway
The complete, authoritative collection of Ernest Hemingway's short fiction, including classic stories like "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber," along with seven previously unpublished stories. In this definitive collection of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s short stories, readers will delight in Hemingway’s most beloved classics such as "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," "Hills Like White Elephants," and "A Clean, Well-Lighted Place," and will discover seven new tales published for the first time in this collection, totaling in sixty stories. This collection demonstrates Hemingway’s ability to write beautiful prose for each distinct story, with plots that range from experiences of World War II to beautifully touching moments between a father and son. For Hemingway fans, The Complete Short Stories is an invaluable treasury.
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Daughters of a Coral Dawn
by Katherine V. Forrest
The legendary classic of lesbian science fiction, now available from Alyson.
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Daughters of an Amber Noon
by Katherine V. Forrest
The lesbian science-fiction classic Daughters of a Coral Dawn (80,000 copies sold) told the story of a group of pioneering women who disappeared from Earth and colonised the planet Maternas. But what of their sisters left behind? In this highly anticipated sequel, Katherine Forrest tells the story of a group of women called Unity, who have gone into hiding to escape the tyrannical rule of dictator Theo Zedera. As Zed uses his intimate knowledge of the women's secrets against them, they struggle to build a world safe for women.
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Daughters of an Emerald Dusk
by Katherine V. Forrest
Late in the 22nd century, 4000 women escape the tyranny of a male-dominated Earth and colonise the planet of Maternas. Katherine V. Forrest's influential 1984 novel, Daughters of the Coral Dawn, told the story of this exodus. Her 2002 novel, Daughters of an Amber Moon, told the story of the women left on Earth. Here she brings her trilogy to a close with this story of how the first generation born on Maternas have reached maturity. But their vision of a perfect world is very different from that of the founders of the Maternas colony.
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Understanding Comics
by Scott McCloud
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.
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Sundiver
by David Brin
Mankind encounters conflicts among the inhabitants of the universe, as brave individuals prepare to journey into the boiling inferno of the sun.
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Startide Rising
by David Brin
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind? The Terran exploration vessel Streaker has crashed in the uncharted water world of Kithrup, bearing one of the most important discoveries in galactic history. Below, a handful of her human and dolphin crew battles armed rebellion and a hostile planet to safeguard her secret--the fate of the Progenitors, the fabled First Race who seeded wisdom throughout the stars.
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The Uplift War
by David Brin
David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written. Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time. Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race. But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind? As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth. The various uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction. At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth, and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies. Sweeping, brilliantly crafted, inventive and dramatic, The Uplift War is an unforgettable story of adventure and wonder from one of today's science fiction greats.
