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Flying at the Speed of Night . . . Following in the successful footsteps of his previous short fiction collection ("Lights in the Deep") award-winning and award-nominated Science Fiction author Brad R. Torgersen is back with twelve new tales. From the edges of explored space, to the depths of the artificial soul. At once breaking the limits of human endurance, while also treading the tender landscapes of the human heart. Originally appearing in the pages of Analog magazine, Orson Scott show more Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show magazine, Mike Resnick's Galaxy's Edge magazine, and elsewhere, these stories are collected here for the first time; with commentary and anecdotes from the author. Introductions by bestsellers L.E. Modesitt, Jr., Kevin J. Anderson, and Dave Wolverton (Farland.) show lessTags
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- The Promise of Joy
- Original title
- The Promise of Joy
- Original publication date
- 1975
- Dedication
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Ken McCormick
Editor sapiens et patiens - First words
- Now the august day has come when he and Governor Edward Montoya Jason of California are to go to Washington Monument Grounds and there before their countrymen pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor - and as... (show all) much cooperation with each other as they can manage.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)So, the missiles and bombs and planes and submarines raced on through hte winter night to keep their fateful appointments in the warring lands, over the oceans, over the continents, over the good, bad, decent, crafty, devious, straightforward, honest dishonest, Mean, generous, cruel, kindly, gentle, brutish races and nations of the globe, about to find out whether history still had a place for creatures so strangely composed of great ideals and unhappy compromise as they,
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- PS3554.R8
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