The Night Orchid: Conan Doyle in Toulouse - Softcover

Dunyach, Jean-Claude

 
9780974071176: The Night Orchid: Conan Doyle in Toulouse
Softcover
ISBN 10: 097407117X ISBN 13: 9780974071176
Verlag: Hollywood Comics, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Arthur Conan Doyle takes Professor Challenger to the South of France to meet Professor Picard, Irene Adler and a horror from the ancient past. ("A treat... read it and grin," Tangent Online.) What extraordinary secrets lie in the weave of an ancient carpet? (Voted Best Story of 1998, Interzone; "particularly strong," scifi.com.) A young boy accidentally swallows a fairy. ("An intriguing glimpse into a different world," BestSF.net; "A disturbing fairy tale," Strange Horizons.) Mysterious cocoons fall to Earth bringing alien revelations. ("Vivid and engaging," Tangent Online.) What do corpses do to other corpses at night? ("Gripping... disquieting," Tangent Online.) In cyberspace all intelligences are edible. ("Worthy of Philip K. Dick," Mauvais Genres.) Fourteen stories by multiple award-winning French science fiction author Jean-Claude Dunyach, including six never before translated. This volume features Unravelling the Thread selected in Year’s Best Science Fiction of 1999 and Watch Me When I Sleep included in Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror of 2002. In his foreword, David Brin (The Postman, Earth) describes the author as "one of the most talented imaginations living today" and urges: "Feast upon the imagination of Jean-Claude Dunyach."

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Reseña del editor

Arthur Conan Doyle takes Professor Challenger to the South of France to meet Professor Picard, Irene Adler and a horror from the ancient past. ("A treat... read it and grin," Tangent Online.) What extraordinary secrets lie in the weave of an ancient carpet? (Voted Best Story of 1998, Interzone; "particularly strong," scifi.com.) A young boy accidentally swallows a fairy. ("An intriguing glimpse into a different world," BestSF.net; "A disturbing fairy tale," Strange Horizons.) Mysterious cocoons fall to Earth bringing alien revelations. ("Vivid and engaging," Tangent Online.) What do corpses do to other corpses at night? ("Gripping... disquieting," Tangent Online.) In cyberspace all intelligences are edible. ("Worthy of Philip K. Dick," Mauvais Genres.) Fourteen stories by multiple award-winning French science fiction author Jean-Claude Dunyach, including six never before translated. This volume features Unravelling the Thread selected in Year's Best Science Fiction of 1999 and Watch Me When I Sleep included in Year's Best Fantasy and Horror of 2002. In his foreword, David Brin (The Postman, Earth) describes the author as "one of the most talented imaginations living today" and urges: "Feast upon the imagination of Jean-Claude Dunyach."

Biografía del autor

Jean-Louis Trudel is the author of twenty-three books in French, including the novel Le Ressuscite de l Atlantide. He is also the author of over fifty short stories in French, published in magazines such as Imagine and Solaris, and has won the Aurora Award in 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, and 2001. In addition he was awarded the Prix Boreal, in 1999 and 2002 as well as the Grand Prix de la Science-Fiction et du Fantastique quebecois in 2001.

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Verlag
Hollywood Comics
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
097407117X
ISBN 13 
9780974071176
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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