Bøger af Sean McMullen

Paperback - 6"x9"Great science fiction stories from an award winning master: Sean predicts practical electronic telepathy by about 2030. Whether electronic or biological, however, it will bring the same issues in its luggage...Even magic cannot argue with mathematics.We have war crime trials, so are climate crime trials on the way?How well could King Arthur sing, really?What is the purpose of human life? Progress or survival? If you opted for progress, then you must define progress...Facebook makes a lot of things very easy, but what about Spacebook...Could you truly love someone forever? With the help of mathematics, yes.The past has clues for un-thought-of things we can do with the science and technology that we have right now...Death is still inevitable. Immortality might be possible. Could there be anything else?Why are cheetahs the most perfect of creatures? Besides because they're cats, that is...What has graffiti to do with first contact? Possibly everything...To get to Mars you only need a Volkswagen.These and a bunch more cool, mind-blowing stories. You really can't argue with mathematics, so buy your copy now

Hugo finalist and steampunk master Sean McMullen presents ten science fiction stories that skirt the borderlands of reality

Paperback - 308 pagesAward winning steampunk from a master!Balloons were the only way to fly in 1840, and air safety standards were the stuff of science fiction...A modern day librarian in London is about to reserve a book for a Regency serial killer...When you think about it, they had the skills and materials to build a steam engine in 1449...Some people just don't appreciate art, but a two mile long metal dragon with a serious attitude problem can do more than just sneer...Some people in 1404 are listening to our radio broadcasts...A steampunk story written before steampunk was invented...It is 1303, and medieval aviation is about to get some serious funding in the name of love...If the Soviets had been a little better at quality control, the race to the moon might have gone a bit differently...The young Dragon Librarian Zarvora has an idea for a 2 Kilo-Slave computer. She is willing to shoot her way to the top to get funding for it... (a prequel story to the Greatwinter Trilogy)Some very brave people in 1852 are about to fly the first steam powered aircraft, and diet will mean the difference between life and death.This and much more incredible steampunkery to be found herein

Swords, sorcery, and time travel are a strange and dangerous mix in The Time Engine, the fourth hilarious adventure in Sean McMullen's Moonsworld series, featuring characters from Voidfarer.Wayfarer Inspector Danolarian saw his world's future and did not approve. After that incident, and having once met his future self, the inspector considered himself as knowledgeable as he ever wanted to be on the subject of time travel. What he did not know was that he would be abducted into the future and wind up on the run with a constable who had shape-shifted into a cat. He would also find himself marooned in the ancient past, where he would have to recover his time engine-the device that is his only way to get back home-from five thousand naked, psychopathic horsemen. And when the time engine is finally recovered, a faulty repair plunges him another three million years back in time, to a world of strange, beautiful people living idyllic lives in splendid castles. But things are not always as they seem. After being attacked, he learns from his unlikely rescuer that his travels might not have simply been a series of misadventures through time and space. A furious Danolarian returns to his own time, planning revenge against the time engine's true builders....

Sean McMullen, one of Australia's leading genre writers, took America by storm with his sweeping Greatwinter Trilogy, a post-apocalyptic science fiction tour de force that won over critics and readers alike.Now McMullen delivers Voyage of the Shadowmoon, a fantasy epic of daunting skill and scope. The Shadowmoon is a small, unobtrusive wooden schooner whose passengers and crew are much more than they seem: Ferran, the Shadowmoon's lusty captain who dreams of power; Roval, the warrior-sorcerer; Velander and Terikel, priestesses of a nearly extinct sect; and the chivalrous vampire Laron, who has been trapped in a fourteen-year-old body for seven hundred years.They sail the coast, gathering useful information, passing as simple traders. But when they witness the awful power of Silverdeath, an uncontrollable doomsday weapon of awesome destructiveness, they realize they must act. But every single king, emperor, and despot covets Silverdeath's power. It will take all of their wits and more than a little luck if they hope to prevent one of these power-hungry fools from destroying the world. Their only advantage? The Shadowmoon.While it seems to be little more that a small trading vessel-too small for battle, too fat for speed-it is actually one of the most sophisticated vessels in the world, one that allows them to travel to places where no others would dare. They can only hope it will be enough to save them all before Silverdeath rains destruction across their entire world.

In the fortieth century, technology has become limited to biplanes and wind trains, but an ancient, forgotten device threatens the world with a new ice age unless the one man who knows how to stop it can be found.