Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2012
ISBN 10: 1905583265 ISBN 13: 9781905583263
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2012
ISBN 10: 1905583508 ISBN 13: 9781905583508
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. This is the much-anticipated second collection of short stories by the award-winning author of 'Instruction Manual for Swallowing'. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2008
ISBN 10: 1905583222 ISBN 13: 9781905583225
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2010
ISBN 10: 1905583281 ISBN 13: 9781905583287
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. From Kandahar to Sarajevo, the forests of Lithuania to the boot camps of the DRC, Zoe Lambert's stories weave a dark and disturbing web, interlacing documentary accounts with imagined testimonies to give voice to the many silenced casualties of war: an elderly woman on a bus tells a love story drawn from the depths of Soviet history; a soldier returns from his first tour of duty unsure he deserves his hero's welcome; a Norwegian immigrant pieces together a family history fractured in the aftermath of Nazi occupation. Individually, these stories bear witness to a thirst for conflict that seems both unquenchable and foreign. But together, they bring the question of collusion and responsibility all the way back to the reader's own doorstep. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2019
ISBN 10: 1912697114 ISBN 13: 9781912697113
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2018
ISBN 10: 1910974412 ISBN 13: 9781910974414
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2019
ISBN 10: 191269722X ISBN 13: 9781912697229
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2021
ISBN 10: 1912697335 ISBN 13: 9781912697335
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2015
ISBN 10: 1905583761 ISBN 13: 9781905583768
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2014
ISBN 10: 1905583656 ISBN 13: 9781905583652
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Computers are changing. Soon, the days of silicon-based logic-gate computing will seem like a quaint and distant memory from a charmingly clunky past. Likewise, robots--once designed by mere mortals--will be soon be devised solely by the ultimate designing agency, evolution (with the help of computer modeling of natural selection). Meanwhile, A-Life (artificial life) and mathematical biomimicry--algorithm-based virtual models that map the collective intelligence of nature onto manmade systems--will become as big as genetics is right now. What this future will look like, exactly, is beyond even the scientists. But this book attempts to start the process of imagining it, by pairing researchers at the cutting edge of A-Life and Unconventional Computing with some of the most exciting writers working in English. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2008
ISBN 10: 1905583087 ISBN 13: 9781905583089
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2014
ISBN 10: 1905583486 ISBN 13: 9781905583485
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2016
ISBN 10: 1910974234 ISBN 13: 9781910974230
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2012
ISBN 10: 1905583451 ISBN 13: 9781905583454
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2022
ISBN 10: 1912697645 ISBN 13: 9781912697649
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2013
ISBN 10: 1905583427 ISBN 13: 9781905583423
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Each story in Sara Maitlands collection enacts a daring kind of alchemy, fusing together raw elements of scientific theory with ancient myth, folkloric archetype and contemporary storytelling. All the more remarkable is that each of these stories sprang from a conversation with a scientist and grew directly out of cutting-edge research. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2023
ISBN 10: 1912697742 ISBN 13: 9781912697748
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Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2024
ISBN 10: 191269798X ISBN 13: 9781912697984
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Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2021
ISBN 10: 1912697483 ISBN 13: 9781912697489
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2023
ISBN 10: 191269736X ISBN 13: 9781912697366
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Kurdistan + 100 poses a question to twelve contemporary Kurdish writers: might the Kurds have a country to call their own by the year 2046 - exactly a century after the last glimmer of independence (the short-lived Kurdish Republic of Mahabad)? Or might the struggle for independence have taken new turns and new forms?Throughout the 20th century (and so far in the 21st), the Kurds have been betrayed, suppressed, stripped of their basic rights (from citizenship to the freedom to speak their own language) and had their political aspirations crushed at every turn.In this groundbreaking anthology, Kurdish authors (including several former political prisoners, and one currently serving a 183-year sentence for his views) imagine a freer future, one in which it is no longer effectively illegal to be a Kurd. From future eco-activism, to drone warfare, to the resuscitation of victims of past massacres, these stories explore different sides of the present struggle through the metaphor of futurism to dazzling effect.The first anthology of Kurdish science fiction ever collected and published in the UK, we have invited authors from all parts of 'Kurdistan' and the diaspora to write specially commissioned stories set in their own versions of the future. The third instalment of Comma's popular series showcasing science fiction stories from the Middle East, this time asking the authors to write stories set 100 years after the Mahabad, home of the short-lived Republic. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2021
ISBN 10: 1912697424 ISBN 13: 9781912697427
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Unlike most other Palestinian cities, Ramallah is a relatively new town, a de facto capital of the West Bank allowed to thrive after the Oslo Peace Accords, but just as quickly hemmed in and suffocated by the Occupation as the Accords have failed. Perched along the top of a mountainous ridge, it plays host to many contradictions: traditional Palestinian architecture jostling against aspirational developments and cultural initiatives, a thriving nightlife in one district, with much more conservative, religious attitudes in the next. Most striking however - as these stories show - is the quiet dignity, resilience and humour of its people; citizens who take their lives into their hands every time they travel from one place to the next, who continue to live through countless sieges, and yet still find the time, and resourcefulness, to create.Translated by Basma Ghalayini, Alexander Hong, Thoraya El-Rayyes, Mohammed Ghalaieny, Raph Cormack, Adam Talib, Yasmine Seale, Andrew Leber, Emre Bennett & Raph Cohen. Ramallah, the de facto capital of the West Bank, hemmed in and suffocated by the Occupation as the Oslo Peace Accords have failed. The stories collected here showcase the resilience and humour of its people, who continue to live through countless sieges, and yet still find the time, and resourcefulness, to create. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2019
ISBN 10: 1905583788 ISBN 13: 9781905583782
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The Sea Cloak is a collection of 11 stories by the author, journalist, and campaigner, Nayrouz Qarmout. Drawing from her own experiences growing up in a Syrian refugee camp, as well as her current life in Gaza, these stories stitch together a patchwork of different perspectives into what it means to be a woman in Palestine today.Whether following the daily struggles of orphaned children fighting to survive in the rubble of recent bombardments, or mapping the complex, cultural tensions between different generations of refugees in wider Gazan society, these stories offer rare insights into one of the most talked about, but least understood cities in the Middle East. Taken together, the collection affords us a local perspective on a global story, and it does so thanks to a cast of (predominantly female) characters whose vantage point is rooted, firmly, in that most cherished of things, the home.Translated from the Arabic by Perween Richards. The Sea Cloak is a collection of 11 stories by the author, journalist, and campaigner, Nayrouz Qarmout. Drawing from her own experiences growing up in a Syrian refugee camp, as well as her current life in Gaza, these stories stitch together a patchwork of different perspectives into what it means to be a woman in Palestine today. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2023
ISBN 10: 1912697661 ISBN 13: 9781912697663
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. "Ma is Scared is the long-overdue debut of Anjali Kajal in English, representing the best of her shortfiction, written and published over the last twenty years.From the anxious mother waiting for her daughter to return home safely, to the young student accused of stealing because of her caste, the stories gathered here explore the experience of women in small towns and urban centres across North India. Kajal writes about desire, abuse, silence, love and oppression in nuanced ways; how they are negotiated in the world; through relationships, family, motherhood, school, university, jobs. Her language, imagery and concerns are thoroughly contemporary, capturing the yearnings, restrictions and possibilities of modern life from a feminist and anti-caste perspective. " Ma is Scared is the long-overdue debut of Anjali Kajal in English, representing the best of her shortfiction, written and published over the last twenty years. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Comma Press, United Kingdom, Mytholmroyd, 2020
ISBN 10: 1905583591 ISBN 13: 9781905583591
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2023
ISBN 10: 1912697785 ISBN 13: 9781912697786
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much the city has changed. The son of political dissidents in Soviet-era Prague is condemned to a life of menial jobs, like working at a local abattoir, unable to imagine his prospects ever improving. A young shop assistant in a tourist-friendly antique shop imagines what Prague would now look like if Czechoslovakia had stood up to the Nazis. The stories collected in this anthology show Prague to be a city of myriad layers and multiple histories. Famous for its untouched, Gothic and Baroque architecture and its trapped-in-aspic charm, it is also a place that has lived through numerous traumas over the last century and learned to conceal its scars, perhaps a little too well. Just as its landmarks should be preserved, so should these hidden histories, and sometimes the best place to preserve them is in stories. Translated by Alz beta Bel nov, Geoffrey Chew, Melvyn Clarke, Graeme Dibble, Paul Kaye, Andrew Oakland, Justin Quinn, Julia and Peter Sherwood, Paul Wilson and Alex Zucker. Supported by the Czech Literary Centre and the Moravian Library. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2024
ISBN 10: 191269770X ISBN 13: 9781912697700
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Egypt + 100 poses a question to twelve contemporary Egyptian authors: what might your country look like in the year 2111 - exactly a century after the failed Tahrir Square Revolution? Might Egypt still be in the grip of ' friendly authoritarianism', clinging to power with all the weapons of futurism at its disposal: protest-avoidant architecture, excessive surveillance, the slow replacement of the outside world with the virtual one. Or might other historical forces come into play, pairing pragmatism with tolerance, and realising some of the lost aspirations of the long-cancelled ' Arab Spring' . Covering a range of styles - from SF noir, to supernatural horror, to political farce - these stories use the blank canvas of the future to process recent traumas that Egypt has yet to come to terms with. Along the way, we encounter gladiatorial entertainments, anti-procreation resistance movements, the decline of Cairo into a lawless wasteland, far from the gated security of the New Capital, and the simultaneous flooding of lower Egypt with the drying up of the Nile. Each story offers an object lesson in the strange logic of authoritarianism, and how, as the editor puts it, politicians' fant Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2023
ISBN 10: 1912697688 ISBN 13: 9781912697687
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A decade after the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the large Hadron Collider at CERN still leads the world in the search to uncover what the universe is made of, how it was formed, and what fate may lie in store for it. If there is such a thing as a cutting edge, it surely lies 100 metres below the Swiss-French border, at the point the beams collide. As part of a unique collaboration, this book pairs a team of award-winning authors with CERN physicists to explore some of the consequences of what the LHC is learning, through fiction. Authors include Sherlock and Dr. Who writer Steven Moffat, novelist and Small Axe screenwriter Courttia Newland, Dame Margaret Drabble and SF legends Ian Watson (whose credits include the screenplay for the Spielberg's A.I.) and Stephen Baxter (winner of the Philip K Dick and John W Campbell Memorial Award). Featuring CERN physicist and engineers: Professor Lyn Evans, Professor John Ellis, Dr. Andrea Bersani, Dr. Tessa Charles, Dr. Joey Huston, Dr. Michael Davis, Dr. Carole Weydert, Dr. Joe Haley, Dr. Kristin Lohwasser, Dr. Pete Dong, Dr. Daniel Cervenkov, Dr. Andrea Giammanco. As part of a unique collaboration, this book pairs a team of award-winning authors with CERN physicists to explore some of the consequences of what the LHC is learning, through fiction. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2015
ISBN 10: 1905583575 ISBN 13: 9781905583577
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. "The Book of Tokyo" collects 10 stories by some of Japan s most exciting contemporary short story writers. Together, the stories form a kind of literary map of the city s ever-changing districts through its fiction. With works of literary fiction, crime, science fiction, and horror, the anthology provides an imaginative tour of the city for short story fans and travelers alike." A unique anthology of ten stories set in the dazzling metropolis of contemporary Tokyo. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2019
ISBN 10: 1910974447 ISBN 13: 9781910974445
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 - a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? How might this event - which, in 1948, saw the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinian Arabs from their homes - reach across a century of occupation, oppression, and political isolation, to shape the country and its people? Will a lasting peace finally have been reached, or will future technology only amplify the suffering and mistreatment of Palestinians? Covering a range of approaches - from SF noir, to nightmarish dystopia, to high-tech farce - these stories use the blank canvas of the future to reimagine the Palestinian experience today. Along the way, we encounter drone swarms, digital uprisings, time-bending VR, peace treaties that span parallel universes, and even a Palestinian superhero, in probably the first anthology of science fiction from Palestine ever. Palestine + 100 poses a question to twelve Palestinian writers: what might your country look like in the year 2048 - a century after the tragedies and trauma of what has come to be called the Nakba? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Comma Press, Mytholmroyd, 2024
ISBN 10: 1912697904 ISBN 13: 9781912697908
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Modelled on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, the Refugee Tales series sets out to communicate the experiences of those who, having sought asylum in the UK, find themselves indefinitely detained. Here, poets, novelists and other established writers create a space in which the stories of those who have been detained can be safely heard, a space in which hospitality is the prevailing discourse and listening becomes an act of welcome. Featuring specially written stories (based on real-life testimonies) by David Mitchell, Daljit Nagra, Guy Gunaratne, Tess McWatt, Natasha Brown, Guy Gunaratne, David Flusfeder, Haifa Zangana and others. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.