For most other e-book readers, the EPUB format works best. SWORDSMAN OF LOST TERRA-Proud Kery of Broina felt like a ghost himself shade of a madman flitting hopelessly to the citadel of Earth’s disinherited to recapture the fierce, resonant Pipes of Killorn-weapon of the gods-before they blared out the dirge of the world! Poul Anderson (19262001) grew up bilingual in a Danish American family. THE VIRGIN OF VALKARION-Tonight, so spake the Temple Prophecy, a sword-scarred Outlander would come riding, a Queen would play the tavern bawd, and the Thirty-Ninth Dynasty should fall with the Mating of the Moons! It would mean a reprieve from the headman’s axe-a few more precious moments of life and love… though his lover be a witch! All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are. WITCH OF THE DEMON SEAS-Guide a black galleon to the lost, fear-haunted citadel of the Xanthi wizards-into the very jaws of Doom? Corun, condemned pirate of Conahur, laughed. He combines elements of both genres in the three novellas presented here, which have never been collected in one book before.

Anderson mines even the mundanities of this situation thoroughly, but adds in enough twists in the far-future plot to start asking some really interesting questions too: when the vast supermind inhabiting posthuman Earth (mythically named Gaia) starts simulating endless replays of humanity's chaotic evolution, the time-hopping Brannock and Ashcroft-who have been tasked with investigating exactly what Gaia's been up to-find themselves struggling over the moral complexities of free will and the very nature of reality.Poul Anderson is one of the most celebrated authors of science fiction and fantasy. Taking on ideas that share space with Anderson's well-loved Fireball series ( Harvest of Stars et al.), Genesis follows the peculiar existence of Christian Brannock and Laurinda Ashcroft, two humans who shared such affinity with machines in their mortal lives that they went on to become uploaded consciousnesses, immortal human-robot hybrids. (Heck, the guy's even got whippersnapper Greg Bear for a son-in-law.) A decorated hard-SF veteran from the old school (think the Amazing, Analog and Omni crew from the '50s, '60s, and '70s), Anderson has got a mantle any other writer would kill for, boasting a Nebula Grand Master award, seven Hugos, and three 'regular' Nebulas.

Even after nearly 40 years in the biz, Poul Anderson still cranks out the imaginative sci fi like a champ, with the idea-packed Genesis-a billion-year-spanning tale involving immortal AIs and the future of Earth itself-being just another example.

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