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PM Press outspoken authors volume 1
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Sardonic and merciless, this satire of the entire apocalyptic enterprise provides a humorous and timely interpretation of the best-selling 'Left Behind' series - the adventures of those 'left behind' to battle the Anti-Christ after all born-again Christians have ascended into heaven.
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 4
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"Shaggy herds of mammoths still roam the Great Plains--to the delight of President Thomas Jefferson--in this imaginative alternative history in which the beasts thunder over the grasslands as living symbols of the oncoming struggle between the Native peoples and the European invaders. This unforgettable saga soars from the Badlands of the Dakota Territory to the icy wastes of Siberia, from the Russian Revolution to the American Indian Movement protests...
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 3
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Presents Gary Phillips' novella "The Underbelly" in which a semi-homeless Vietnam vet searches for a missing friend, and includes an interview with the author.
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 8
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Contains "The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" in which a transhuman teenager must choose between immortality and sex; and includes a transcription of an address by the author to the 2010 World SF Convention as well as an interview with Cory Doctrow.
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PM Press outspoken authors volume no. 7
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Combining both the fiction and nonfiction of one of the most unique contemporary science fiction writers, this collection offers a rare look into Rudy Rucker's mind as an author and mathematician. Featuring an in-depth interview with Rucker about his ideas, politics, and how his career as a mathematician and scientist overlap with that of a bestselling author, this exclusive compilation is a must-have for any science fiction enthusiast. Infiltrating...
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PM Press outspoken authors volume No 10
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"The Human Front follows the adventures of a young Scottish guerrilla, drawn into low-intensity sectarian war in a high-intensity future, when the arrival of an alien intruder (complete with saucer) calls for new tactics and strange alliances"--publisher's website.
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 11
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Mixing outlaw humor, sci-fi adventure, and cutting social criticism, this collection draws upon John Shirley's entire arsenal. The title essay, New Taboos is his prescription for a radical revisioning of America. A new short story, State of Imprisonment, is a horrifying and hilarious look at the privatization of the prison industry. His TEDx address (delivered in Brussels in 2011) presents his proudly contrarian views of the next 40 years. Also featured...
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 12
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This collection of short stories--part of PM Press's Outspoken Author's series--features a historical science fiction narrative of England's first female paleontologist, but also includes other tales of family woes, invisibility, and an interview with the author.
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 13
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An all-new story designed to take a poke at both Christian fundamentalists and corporate CEOs, 'Raising Hell' is a rousing account of the fight to improve working conditions in Hell, with the help of such deceased immortals as Jimmy Hoffa, John L. Lewis and Cesar Chavez. 'The Abnormal New Normal', which casts a cold and razor-sharp eye on current trends in popular culture, shows how they reflect the domination of the one percent and suggests a radical...
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 16
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In this collection of sci-fi stories, heralded writer Carter Scholz explores a variety of sociopolitical themes. In the novella Gypsy, a few visionary scientists, chosen and nurtured by an eccentric billionaire undertake humankinds most expansive adventure, a generations long voyage to a distant planet. The story The Nine Billion Names of God uses a classic sci-fi text to deconstruct literary deconstruction itself, with hilarious results. An interview...
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"In a candid and intimate new collection of essays, poems, memoirs, reviews, rants, and railleries, Piercy discusses her own development as a working-class feminist, the highs and lows of TV culture, the ego-dances of a writer's life, the homeless and the housewife, Allen Ginsberg and Marilyn Monroe, feminist utopias (and why she doesn't live in one), why fiction isn't physics; and of course, fame, sex, and money, not necessarily in that order. The...
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Miracles Ain't What They Used to Be features new fiction starring Joe R. Lansdales unlikely best friends Hap and Leonard, two good ol' boys from East Texas who have a way of getting into some bad fixes, along with some of Lansdales most famous and hard-to-find Texas Observer columns. In his nonfiction, Lansdale discusses, dissects, and discovers the trials of a Southern writer's life, his personal literary inspirations from Poe to porn, race and class...
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 18
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"The title story, 'Fire' written especially for this volume, is a harrowing postapocalyptic adventure in a world threated by global conflagration. Based on Hand's real-life experience as a participant in a governmental climate change think tank, it follows a ragtag cadre of scientists and artists racing to save both civilization and themselves from fast-moving global fires. 'The woman men didn't see' is an expansion of Hand's acclaimed critical assessment...
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 19
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John Crowley's all-new essay "Totalitopia" is a wry how-to guide for building utopias out of the leftovers of modern science fiction. "This Is Our Town," written especially for this volume, is a warm, witty, and wonderfully moving story about angels, cousins, and natural disasters based on a parochial school third-grade reader. One of Crowley's hard-to-find masterpieces, "Gone" is a Kafkaesque science fiction adventure about an alien invasion that...
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PM Press outspoken authors volume 20
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"'The Atheist in the Attic,' published here in book form for the first time, is a tense and vivid novella about the top-secret meetings between the mathematical genius Leibniz and the philosopher Spinoza, caught between the zombie-like horrors of the cannibalistic Dutch Rampjaar and the brilliant "big bang" of the European Enlightenment. Plus...Equal parts history, adventure, and analysis, Delany's 1998 classic "Racism and science fiction" combines...
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