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• Title: Transtories
• Author : Colin Harvey
• Release Date : January 05, 2012
• Genre: Short Stories,Books,Sci-Fi & Fantasy,Science Fiction & Literature,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 632 KB

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The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary defines "trans" as follows:
"Used in words adopted from Latin and in English words modelled on
these, and as a feely productive prefix, with the senses 'across',
'beyond', 'on or to the other side of', 'into another state or form',
'surpassing', 'transcending'." Every one of these senses seems to
be perfectly science fictional. Consult the dictionary - beginning
with "transaccidentation" (which even now feels like an intriguing
story subject) and journeying all the way through to "Transylvanian"
(which may have been used before in fiction) - there are a wealth of
words that could have been designed purely to inspire science fiction
writers. And so the brief was issued - write a story based on a
"trans-" word. And here are the results. From a man who attempts to
save his reality through music to a boy who sees a unicorn and from
the devil trapped in a transept to the last radio show on Earth we
proudly present fifteen terrific stories that might just be best
described as "transcendent" ("beyond the range or grasp of human
experience, reason, belief, etc." - OED).


Transtories features excellent new speculative fiction
by: Joanne Hall, Jay Caselberg, Priya Sharma, Tala Bar, John Kenny,
Tomas L. Martin, Lawrence M. Schoen, Susanne Martin, Robert Neilson,
Sharon K. Reamer, Rob Rowntree, Jonathan Shipley, Rodney J. Smith,
Cody L. Stanford, and Hugo, Nebula and Campbell Award nominee Aliette
de Bodard, the winner of the British Science Fiction Association
Award for Short Fiction, as well as the Writers of the Future Contest.


Full book contents:


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br />• Introduction

• The Axle of Heaven - Aliette de Bodard

• Transference - Jay Caselberg

• Transthermal - John Kenny

• The Snake on His Shoulder - Joanne Hall

• Thanks for the Memories - Rodney J. Smith

• Oh, For the Touch Tentacular - Jonathan Shipley

• Adonis Transferred - Tala Bar

• Shopping for Children - Susanne Martin

• Radio Apocalypse - Robert Neilson

• Silver - Rob Rowntree

• Fighting for Blood - Sharon K. Reamer

• The Carbon Cyborg - Priya Sharma

• Rainbows & Unicorns - Cody L. Stanford

• Harmonic - Tomas L. Martin

• Yesterday's Taste - Lawrence M. Schoen

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