Time travel and brothels; unusual visitors from different eras, dimensions, and realities; human zoos maintained by curious aliens who like to watch; private eyes who are zombies; leafy-green literary collaborators; moral steampunk issues; a dreamer at the edge of the solar system; an astronaut who'
The Chronotope and Other Speculative Fictions
โ Scribed by Hemmingson, Michael
- Book ID
- 109904556
- Publisher
- Wildside Press LLC
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 101 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781479409235
- ASIN
- B00J91THV4
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โฆ Synopsis
Time travel and brothels; unusual visitors from different eras, dimensions, and realities; human zoos maintained by curious aliens who like to watch; private eyes who are zombies; leafy-green literary collaborators; moral steampunk issues; a dreamer at the edge of the solar system; an astronaut who's gone insane; and the conspiracies of chrono-assassins--just a few of the fantastic themes in these 16 stories from Michael Hemmingson's first collection of speculative fiction: page-turners, every one of them!
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