Worlds Enough & Time
Author | : Dan Simmons |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2002-11-26 |
ISBN-13 | : 0060506040 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780060506049 |
Rating | : 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Download or read book Worlds Enough & Time written by Dan Simmons and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats. Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost "cousins"...and an ancient scourge. A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power. The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past. A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human. At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future.