We Install and Other Stories
โ Scribed by Turtledove, Harry
- Book ID
- 108690970
- Publisher
- Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 452 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781504009409
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โฆ Synopsis
From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author of the Worldwar series and The Guns of the South , a collection of nine stories and three essays that illuminate his broad storytelling range
Harry Turtledove earned the title "master of alternate history" from Publishers Weekly for his thought-provoking novels that turn historical facts into gripping tales of possibility. But his writing talent goes much further. We Install offers a showcase of styles, from humor--in "Father of the Groom," a scientist with a penchant for wild experimentation helps his love-struck son by synthesizing a wedding ring out of two carrots--to classic science fiction, as in the Hugo Award-winning "Down in the Bottomlands" and "Hoxbomb," in which a regular guy just trying to make a living selling scooters has to deal with some very odd competition. The alternate history tale "Drang von Osten" begins on a bloody battlefield in World War II and ends somewhere...
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