Frontera by Lewis Shiner (@lewisshiner) is in The Philip K Dick Award Storybundle!
Frontera
by
Lewis Shiner
is in The
Philip K Dick Award Storybundle!
The Cyberpunk classic
and Nebula Award finalist in the revised, definitive edition.
Ten years ago the world's governments collapsed, and now the
corporations are in control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the
lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors. Reese, aging hero of
the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive, they have
discovered a secret so devastating that the new rulers of Earth will stop at
nothing to own it. Reese is equally desperate to use it for his own very
personal agenda. But none of them have reckoned with Kane, tortured veteran of
the corporate wars, whose hallucinatory voices are urging him to complete an
ancient cycle of heroism and alter the destiny of the human race.
''Lewis Shiner's Frontera is an extraordinarily
accomplished first novel . . . his pacing is brisk, his scientific
extrapolation well-informed and plausible, and his characterization nothing
short of outstanding . . . This is 'realism' of a sort seldom found in either
commercial or literary fiction; to find it in a first novel makes one eager for
more.''
--Chicago Sun-Times
--Chicago Sun-Times
''Hard-edged and colorful and relentless, and altogether a
compelling read.''
--George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for its dramatic series Game of Thrones
--George R. R. Martin, author of A Song of Ice and Fire, the international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels that HBO adapted for its dramatic series Game of Thrones
''One of the genre's more arresting books.''
--Rolling Stone
--Rolling Stone
"Frontera rises to literary art, first because several viewpoint
characters are rendered with skill and sensitivity as complex people, and second
because Kane, the central combat-capable figure, is a poor bastard who’s had
his head screwed with in various unpleasant ways, so that he is both hero and
victim, doing his deeds of derring-do as best he can with a headful of broken
glass.”
--Norman Spinrad
About the Author
Lewis Shiner is the author of the award-winning novel Glimpses, available in trade paperback
from Subterranean Press. Included in the same series of Definitive Editions are
his novels Black & White, Dark Tangos, Deserted Cities of the Heart, Frontera,
Say Goodbye, and Slam. Subterranean has also published
his career-spanning short fiction volume, Collected
Stories. He lives in North Carolina, USA.
For more information, see www.lewisshiner.com.
So
there you have it, my friends. The
Philip K Dick Award Storybundle includes Aestival Tide by Elizabeth Hand
(PKD Finalist), Life by Gwyneth
Jones (PKD Winner), The Cipher by
Kathe Koja (PKD Finalist), Points of Departure by Pat Murphy (PKD Winner), Dark Seeker by K. W. Jeter (PKD Finalist), Summer of Love by Lisa Mason (PKD Finalist), Frontera
by Lewis Shiner (PKD Finalist), Acts
of Conscience by William Barton (PKD
Special Citation), Maximum Ice by
Kay Kenyon (PKD Finalist), Knight Moves by Walter Jon Williams (PKD Finalist), and Reclamation by Sarah Zettel
(PKD Finalist).
The
Philip K Dick Award Storybundle runs only until October 15. Once it’s gone, it’s gone. Download yours today at http://storybundle.com/pkdaward
and enjoy world-class, award-winning
reading right now and into the holidays.
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