The Year's Top Short SF Novels

by Stephen Baxter, Geoffrey A. Landis, David Moles, Steven Popkes, Robert Reed, Alastair Reynolds, Rick Wilber

2011 · AudioText

Short novels may well be the perfect length for science fiction. They are movie length tales that resonate with moxie while exploring characters, new worlds, and ideas. The stories in this unabridged collection are the best-of-the best short science fiction novels published in 2010 by current and emerging masters of this form. “Return to Titan,” by Stephen Baxter, is set in his Xeelee sequence. Michael Poole and his father search one of Saturn’s moons for sentient life that would interfere with their plans to build a gateway to the stars. In this year’s Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award winner for best short fiction, “The Sultan of the Clouds,” by Geoffrey A. Landis, a terraforming expert is inexplicably invited to Venus by the child who owns most of the planet’s habitable floating cities. “Seven Cities of Gold,” by David Moles, tells the story of a Japanese relief worker charged with tracking down the renegade Christian leader responsible for detonating a nuclear device in an Islam-occupied North American city. In “Jackie’s-Boy,” by Steven Popkes, an orphaned child befriends an uplifted elephant from the abandoned St. Louis Zoo as they trek south across a sparsely populated North America to find sanctuary. “A History of Terraforming,” by Robert Reed, involves a young boy’s ambition to take up his father’s work of terraforming Mars and then much of the solar system and discovers that much more than planets have been altered. In “Troika,” by Alastair Reynolds, the lone survivor of a mission that explored a massive alien object attempts to reveal what he discovered despite the wishes of the Second Soviet Union. Set in the author’s S’hdonni universe, “Several Items of Interest,” by Rick Wilber, the Earth ruling aliens ask a human collaborator to help quell a human insurrection led by the collaborator’s brother.

Holy Trinity Amberley Rectors, Burial Book & Parishioners

by Robert Sharpe

2021 · Robert Sharpe

The church of The Holy Trinity in Amberley, Gloucestershire was consecrated in 1841. Since that date over 1000 people have been interred in the churchyard and many memorials have been erected in their memory. Investigation into many of these people has uncovered interesting facts about their lives, where they lived and the work they undertook to earn a living. Where possible these mini biographies have been supplemented by photographs taken by the Reverend Blackwell during his period as Rector.

Science, Faith, and Ethics

by Denis Alexander, Robert S. White

2006 · Hendrickson Publishers

Does religion belong in the laboratory? What relationship exists between science and Christian faith? Are the two mutually exclusive? Arguing that Christianity has much to contribute to the scientific and ethical debates facing today's world, gifted scientists and committed Christians Alexander and White ask the hard questions as they examine some of the greatest scientific and ethical challenges of the age. Topics include: the new genetics, reproductive technologies, cloning, the significance of evolution, the environment and climate change, and sustainable consumption. - from publisher information.