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In Rip-Off!, 13 of today’s best and most honored writers of speculative fiction face a challenge even they would be hard-pressed to conceive: Pick your favorite opening line from a classic piece of fiction (or even non-fiction) - then use it as the first sentence of an entirely original short story.

An exploited child worker in the silver mines of Bolivia finds an ally – but at what cost? A young woman's affair has terrifying repercussions when her lover's wife dies. A sailor's wife takes her communion with Nature a little too far…From a hungry young woman who is not what she seems, to a boy who has taken his mother's advice a little too seriously; from disfigured girls willing to pay any price to fit in, to an immigrant who cannot escape his tormentor; from a new home with a sinister secret, this collection plumbs the depths of the psyche and dredges up some very modern horrors.

A worldwide diaspora has left a quarter of a million people at the foot of a space station. Cultures collide in real life and virtual reality. The city is literally a weed, its growth left unchecked. Life is cheap, and data is cheaper. When Boris Chong returns to Tel Aviv from Mars, much has changed. Boris' ex-lover is raising a strangely familiar child who can tap in to the datastream of a mind with the touch of a finger. His cousin is infatuated with a robotnik - a damaged cyborg soldier who might as well be begging for parts.

Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being read. Only the author, a rakish sci-fi writer, knows whether his popular novel is truthful or a hoax. In a story that is cosmic, inventive, and sly, multi-award-winning author Lavie Tidhar (Central Station) travels from the emergence of life to the very ends of the universe.

In 1946, a young Ruth begins building a new life in Palestine, haunted by the death of her family in Europe and driven by youthful ideals in a land hostile to her presence. Her sister, Shoshana, survives in the Displaced Persons camps of Germany and joins her in Palestine, but dreams of escaping to distant America. Her lovers, Dov and Israel, die in war, and her children try to serve the land Ruth bled for, only to find their own tragic ends or means of escape.

When pulp-fiction writer Lior Tirosh returns to his homeland in East Africa, much has changed. Palestina - a Jewish state established in the early 20th century - is constructing a massive border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in the capital, Ararat, is at fever pitch. While searching for his missing niece, Tirosh begins to act as though he is a detective from one of his own novels. He is pursued by ruthless members of the state's security apparatus while unearthing deadly conspiracies and impossible realities.

Short novels are movie-length narratives that may well be the perfect length for science fiction stories. This audio collection, nearly 16 hours long, presents the best-of-the-best science fiction novellas published in 2016 by current and emerging masters of this vibrant form of storytelling.

1946 beginnt die junge Ruth, sich in Palästina ein neues Leben aufzubauen, getrieben von jugendlichen Idealen in einem Land, das ihr feindlich gesinnt ist. Wir folgen Ruth und den Ihren durch die Jahre 1945 bis 2009. Und damit durch die Turbulenzen des Staates Israel – die Auseinandersetzung mit den Briten, die Vertreibung der Araber, der Sechs-Tage-Krieg und der Jom-Kippur-Krieg machen Ruth womöglich noch zäher und härter.

Legendary editor, Maxim Jakubowski, delivers another chilling anthology collecting stories of cold-blooded murder, revenge and crimes-gone-wrong from the best of the best in crime fiction. Spine-chilling and gripping, these tales will grip you with their devious narrators and crafty twists.

The Unidentified Funny Objects series delivers an annual dose of funny, zany, and unusual science fiction and fantasy stories. All-new fiction from the genre's top voices!

Pym fa il ricordatore e tutte le sue esperienze vengono registrate e trasmesse ai suoi follower. La "Storia di Pym", seguita da milioni di persone, è un'avventura nel sistema solare, fino alle lune di Plutone, e anche una fiction con affetti e amori interrotti... Ma forse è tutto troppo simile a un Truman Show spaziale.

How do you build a nation? It takes statesmen and soldiers, farmers and factory workers, of course. But it also takes thieves, prostitutes and policemen. Nation-building demands sacrifice. And one man knows exactly where those bodies are buried: Cohen, a man who loves his country. A reasonable man for unreasonable times.

Bobby Nguyen studia gastronomia molecolare e ci mette grande impegno perché superare il corso gli permetterebbe di trovare lavoro nello spazio. Nhu cuce tute spaziali di seta ma vorrebbe viaggiare tra le stelle. Entrambi si dividono tra le fatiche quotidiane e la speranza di un futuro migliore.

Mulan Rouge è un'ex mercenaria e adesso guardia del corpo del Boss Gui, capo dei Rospi di Kunming. Quando lui deve partire in treno, Mulan è incaricata di controllare che nessun passeggero costituisca un pericolo per lui: un compito molto pericoloso anche per un'esperta come lei.

In questo racconto, chi desidera andare a vivere su Marte come colono può compiere una specie di "viaggio della speranza" di sola andata, ma su delle carrette spaziali, navicelle monoposto, non proprio sicure. L'immigrazione spaziale è l'ultima frontiera?

Le storie di Lavie Tidhar si possono leggere sia come racconti di fantascienza sia come estratti – emozionanti ed evocativi – della vita di personaggi ai margini di una società in espansione verso lo spazio. Storie di persone che, con poco o nulla da perdere, s'imbarcano su “carrette spaziali” per un viaggio dall'esito incerto. E poi c'è chi resta, chi spera di partire un giorno dal “Terminale Terra” e chi farebbe qualunque cosa – il killer, la webstar o il clonatore – pur di realizzare il sogno di riuscire ad andarsene per sempre.

Sandoval è un artista la cui vita si svolge tra incredibili avventure e dicerie spesso impossibili da verificare. Si è conquistato una fama da ribelle quando si è fatto togliere il "nodo" che gli permetteva di rimanere nella Conversazione e ha cancellato i dati esistenti su di lui. Perché Sandoval ha un'unica ossessione: l'immagine della Terra che sorge vista dalla Luna.

The city known as Neom is many things to many beings, human or otherwise. Neom is a tech wonderland for the rich and beautiful, an urban sprawl along the Red Sea, and a port of call between Earth and the stars. In the desert, young orphan Elias has joined a caravan, hoping to earn his passage off-world from Central Station. But the desert is full of mechanical artefacts, some unexplained and some unexploded. Recently, a wry unnamed robot has unearthed one of the region’s biggest mysteries: the vestiges of a golden man.

Lavie Tidhar ci porta in un futuro dove la clonazione umana è una pratica comune: Bruce lavora per il Dipartimento per l'Applicazione del Copyright (DAC) e il suo lavoro consiste nel dare la caccia ai clonatori pirata che creano copie di personaggi famosi che non solo sono illegali ma anche di bassa qualità. L'incontro con Pam, una falsaria, complica terribilmente la sua vita...

When Mycroft Holmes is murdered in London, it is up to retired shadow executive Smith to track down his killer—and stumble on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Strange forces are stirring into life around the globe, and in the shadow game of spies nothing is certain. Fresh from liberating a strange alien object in Abyssinia—which might just be the mythical Ark of the Covenant—young Lucy Westerna, Holmes' protégé, must follow her own path to the truth while, on the other side of the world, a young Harry Houdini must face his greatest feat of escape—death itself.