Comma press apr 2017 (2 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A simple act of gallantry in the Malaysian jungle spawns a lifelong feud in the Home Counties. A fading actor with a terminal illness devises a meticulous plan to leave the stage in style.A pregnant composer contemplates motherhood at the end of civilisation. Spanning centuries and continents, the stories in this collection amount to a tour de force of literary worldbuilding. From deeply insecure time travellers to medieval mystics and futuristic body modification cults, Norminton's characters find themselves torn between conflicting impulses - temptation and fortitude, hubris and shame, longing and regret. By turns sad, strange and darkly comic, The Ghost Who Bled reveals a master storyteller of incredible range. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - An anthology of specially commissioned stories exploring thought experiments and their use in science to crack fundamental problems. 20 leading scientists acted as consultants on the stories, and write scientific afterwords to the them.