Paradise tales
By: Geoff Ryman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Small Beer Press; Distributed to the trade by Consortium
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Easthampton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9781931520645
Description: "Pol Pot's Beautiful Daughter," a Cambodian ghost story, and "The Last Ten Years in the Life of Hero Kai," a samurai-style narrative, have the delicacy of Asian folktales or lyrical fantasies. By contrast, "V.A.O.," about a future society destabilized by prohibitively expensive health care, and "The Film-makers of Mars," which suggests that Edgar Rice Burroughs's John Carter stories were drawn from life, are set in futures that credibly extrapolate current scientific and cultural trends.
Table of contents: title: The film-makers of Mars; title: The last ten years in the life of Hero Kai; title: Birth days; title: V.A.O; title: The future of science fiction; title: Omnisexual; title: Home; title: Warmth; title: Everywhere; title: No bad thing; title: Talk is cheap; title: Days of wonder; title: You; title: K is for Kosovo (or, Massimo's career); title: Pol Pot's beautiful daughter; title: Blocked.