The only way to save her is for Tak to use the time travel device he "borrowed" to transport them both to an alternate timeline.īut what neither Tak nor Axon knows is that the actual inventor of the device is searching for a timeline called the Beautiful Land - and he intends to destroy every other possible present and future to find it. A veteran of the Iraq War suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Samira can barely function in her everyday life, much less deal with Tak's ravings of multiple realities. If Axon succeeds, Tak will lose Samira Moheb, the woman he has loved since high school, because her future will cease to exist. A great gig, until information he brought back gave Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future of this world. Takahiro O'Leary has a very special job working for the Axon Corporation as an explorer of parallel timelines, as many and as varied as anyone could imagine. "A Poetry of Angles and Dreams" can be read online here The first 3 chapters of the Nebula-winning Novella "The Spacetime Pool" can be read online here: Introduction (Light and Shadow) - essay.Introduction (The Spacetime Pool) - essay.Kelric returns (at least, most of him does!) with a new lust for life. and two ruling brothers locked in a deadly power struggle to which Janelle holds the key to victory.Īsaro's story "Light and Shadow" proves mathematics can be stranger than most fiction, as Kelric Valdoria, a young pilot recovering from a great personal loss, flies a sentient aircraft with a new starship drive - against his commander's orders - up to and surpassing the speed of light.
"The Spacetime Pool" begins as Janelle, a brilliant young MIT graduate, is pulled against her will into an alternate world of medieval-level warfare but with advanced mathematics, harems, breathtakingly beautiful Moorish architecture.
This exciting collection includes Asaro's Nebula Award-winning novella "The Spacetime Pool," her Skolian Empire story "Light and Shadow", and the author's essay "A Poetry of Angles and Dreams", with new Introductions to the fiction works. A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001.
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