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The Claus Effect
David Nickle
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Karl Schroeder
Tesseract Books, 1997
The Claus Effect is a continuation of "The Toy Mill", the 1993 Aurora-Award-winning story about a malevolent, post-industrial-revolution Santa Claus and Emily, the little girl whose wish to be a Christmas Elf nearly destroys the world. The Claus Effect takes up eights years later, when events propel teen-aged Emily and West Point cadet Neil Nyman ...
Ten Monkeys, Ten Minutes
Peter Watts
Tesseract Books, 2002
In this collection of short stories from best selling author Peter Watts, enter strange new worlds that defy the imagination. Journey to the depths of the ocean floor with genetically engineered human beings ... push the boundaries of life with a scientist obsessed with death ... and watch as sentient gaseous entities offer destruction and ...
The Silent City
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Tesseract Books, 1981
A True Postmodernist Sci-Fi Novel
The plot line exists to support the ruminations of the story's main character, Elisa. It is through her thoughts that we learn about the City--a semi-autonomous, self-referencing (but not truly self-aware) entity in which the last few humans live...along with their ...
The Maerlande Chronicles
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Tesseract Books, 2002
Watch out for variant titles!
This is in fact the same book (same translation, even) as the one published under the title, "In the Mothers' Land." Don't go buying this one thinking it's a sequel or another work in the same world, the way I did. :-> That said, it's lovely detailed anthropological ...
Reluctant Voyagers
Elisabeth Vonarburg
Tesseract Books, 2002
Reality isn't real, but then what is ? Handle with CARE.
The world isn't always what it seems (is it ever ?) This tale brings the story of Katherine who finds herself in a world that can't be true, yet insists on existing. Is the world unraveling, or is it only you, because you it is, pulled right into the story by the ...
Tesseracts 6
Tesseract Books, 1997
Passion Play (Tesseract Books)
Sean Stewart
Tesseract Books, 1992
Passion Play - best I've read in years
Gets a nine for the annoying, unhappy ending. Seriously, this is a great book. While on the surface it's a book about a murder, it really engages on other levels. One of the central themes is biblical vs. civil justice, and whether murder is ever right.. Not that ...
Pallahaxi Tide
Michael G. Coney
Tesseract Books, 1990
A young man coming of age on a planet with a binary star deals with his own family issues, and in the process, confronts his race's fear of the cold and discovers the myth about the mysterious Lorin-creatures who share their world. Unbeknownst to all, their planet is about to be drawn into the orbit of Rax - where the long-dreaded freeze will ...
The Taming (Tesseract Book)
Heather Spears
Tesseract Books, 1996
In the far future, deadly radiation from atomic conflict has caused humanity to mutate into two-headed or "bi-cephalic" people, who are essentially twins inhabiting one body. In the Moonfall series, readers follow one-headed Tasman and her family, witnessing their development from outcasts to heroes, the only ones able to fit into the ancient ...
The Plague Saint
Rita Donovan
Tesseract Books, 1997
In a near-future Canada transformed by plague, an unlikely Lily Dalriada is chosen for sainthood by the ruling Church of the Survivors. But she soon becomes an outcast who risks contracting the plague when she conceives a child outside the Church_s sanctioned methods. Now, separated from her daughter and pursued by the Church, Lily seeks refuge in ...
The Children of Atwar
Heather Spears
Tesseract Books, 1993
In the second book of the Moonfall Trilogy, the story continues in a post-holocaust world inhabited by bicephalic humans - two-headed twins sharing the same body. With the birth of a new religion, which makes its saviors into victims, the children of Atwar must complete the prophecy of Moonfall.
Distant Signals (Tesseract Books)
Andrew Weiner
Tesseract Books, 2002
This intriguing collection of short stories stretches reality in a highly original manner, from comical accounts of alien encounters and disturbing speculations on the future of the earth, to the threatening possibilities of Artificial Intelligence in an omnipresent technological world.
Land/Space: an Anthology of Prairie Speculative Fiction
Tesseract Books, 2002
See the prairies in a whole new light, in this groundbreaking anthology of speculative fiction and poetry, exploring the prairie and the space above it, expressing prairie themes, visions, reality - and unreality! Land/Space includes short fiction by Alexandra Merry Arrvin, John Baillie, Martha Bayless, Ven Begamudré, Renée Bennett, Steven Michael ...
Tesseracts 7
Tesseract Books, 1998
Readers will find both familiar and new authors in this seventh volume of speculative fiction and poetry showcasing the very best in Canadian literature (including French-Canadian authors whose works are translated into English), as well as a special international Spanish translation. Tesseracts7 includes top talents such as: Candas Jane ...
Moonfall (Tesseract Book)
Heather Spears
Tesseract Books, 1991
Enraptured by Moonfall
Heather Spears is a very complicated and disturbing writer, artist and human being. Her "other" career (as an artist) has often been to draw sketches of children in situations of great trauma such as at birth or with facial deformities or the Palestinian children of ...
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