Bøger af Cb Droege

In this retelling of the Brother's Grimm tale The Sleeping Beauty, the administrator of the great Spincity Gamma Fald has invited twelve of the thirteen great A.I. scientists in his city to help him complete the programming for Brair Rose, the machine which will succeed him as Administrator. As each of these wise women work, they tell a story that exemplifies the gift they bestow upon the machine. The book includes 13 fantastic Sci-fi stories from: Sarah HersmanWendy NikelJamie B. GrangerAdrian LewisHolly SchofieldJo MilesElizabeth DavisJay SykesKeyan BowesLouis EvansChristine WheatonMerc Fenn WolfmoorStewart C Baker

Just outside the small town of Sleepy Hollow, retired Music Executive Ichabod Crane has been spending his days at the palatial estate of wealthy agri-business executive Baltus VanTassel, tutoring his daughter, Katerina, in digital music production. When a strange man claiming to be from the VanTassel's ancestral homeland tricks him into exploring an ancient crypt to find a fabulous magic ring, his only companion is the daemon who inhabits the brass flashlight the wizard sent him in with. Also included in this volume are 31 flash fiction stories including: TerramancerA timid man is surprised to find a wizard casting spells on his side-lawn one morning. Unalloyed PayloadIn an abandoned missile silo, the greatest of craftsmen tries to reconstruct the lover he left in Pohjola. The Order of the Leaf EatersAn acolyte of a sacred brotherhood of salad tasters begins to lose his faith. Piggy the GunmanA frontierswoman builds herself a scarecrow protector who is more than the sum of his parts.

Agent Z-4Q, of the Timeline Corrections Office has been sent into a broken, war-torn future on a seemingly routine mission. Each time he takes one of these missions, he is forced to forget everything about himself and his previous time with the organization, leaving him only with his training and the image of a pair of beautiful brown eyes, seared forever into his mind's eye. When he learns that he is the TCO's only remaining agent, and that the organization may not be working for the good of the people of the world, will he be able to subvert the organization's twisted agenda, or will they simply take his memories from him once more?