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Book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction   Fantasy   Volume I

Download or read book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction Fantasy Volume I written by Marie Hodgkinson and published by Paper Road Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen of the brightest stars in New Zealand SFF For the first time ever, the best short SFF from Aotearoa New Zealand is collected together in a single volume. This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018. Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you might prefer to avoid. Featuring: "We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice", by Octavia Cade (originally published in Strange Horizons) "Logistics", by A.J. Fitzwater (originally published in Clarkesworld) "The Garden", by Isabelle McNeur (originally published in Wizards in Space) "Trees", by Toni Wi (originally published in Breach) "A Most Elegant Solution", by M. Darusha Wehm (originally published in Terraform) "Mirror Mirror", by Mark English (originally published in Abyss & Apex) "A Brighter Future", by Grant Stone (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG)) "The People Between the Silences", by Dave Moore (originally published in Landfall) "Common Denominator", by Melanie Harding-Shaw (originally published in Wild Musette Journal) "The Billows of Sarto", by Sean Monaghan (originally published in Asimov's) "The Glassblower's Peace", by James Rowland (originally published in Aurealis) "Te Ika", by J.C. Hart (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG)) "Girls Who Do Not Drown", by Andi Buchanan (originally published in Apex)

Book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy

Download or read book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy written by Emily Brill-Holland and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fantastical and phantasmagorical, fearless and fear-inspiring; venture beyond the beaten track with this collection of spellbinding speculative fiction. Showcasing the weirdest, wildest and most wonderful short fiction to come out of Aotearoa in 2021.

Book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction   Fantasy

Download or read book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction Fantasy written by Emily Brill-Holland and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fantastic and phantasmagoric collection of the weirdest, wildest and most wonderful short fiction to come out of Aotearoa in 2021. Volume 4 in the award-winning anthology series.

Book Monsters in the Garden

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Larsen
  • Publisher : Victoria University Press
  • Release : 2021-02-23
  • ISBN : 177656376X
  • Pages : 567 pages

Download or read book Monsters in the Garden written by David Larsen and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes. Perhaps a stroll out under the trees, where things are breezier, stranger, more liable to break the rules. You may meet monsters out there, true. But that's the point. Casting its net widely, this anthology of Aotearoa-New Zealand science fiction and fantasy ranges from the satirical novels of the 19th-century utopians &– one of which includes the first description of atmospheric aerobreaking in world literature &– to the bleeding edge of now. Spaceships and worried sheep. Dragons and AI. The shopping mall that swallowed the Earth. The deviant, the fishy and the rum, all bioengineered for your reading pleasure.Featuring stories by some of the country's best known writers as well as work from exciting new talent, Monsters in the Garden invites you for a walk on the wild side. We promise you'll get back safely. Unchanged? Well, that's another question.

Book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy  Volume 3

Download or read book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy Volume 3 written by Marie Hodgkinson and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume in the annual anthology series celebrating the strength and diversity of Aotearoa New ZealandSFF writing. Table of Contents: New Zealand Gothic, by Jack Remiel Cottrell Synaesthete, by Melanie Harding-Shaw Kōhuia, by T Te Tau Death confetti, by Zoë Meager For Want of Human Parts, by Casey Lucas How To Get A Girlfriend (When You're A Terrifying Monster), by Marie Cardno Salt White, Rose Red, by Emily Brill-Holland Florentina, by Paul Veart Otto Hahn Speaks to the Dead, by Octavia Cade The Waterfall, by Renee Liang The Double-Cab Club, by Tim Jones Wild Horses, by Anthony Lapwood You and Me at the End of the World, by Dave Agnew The Secrets She Eats, by Nikky Lee How To Build A Unicorn, by AJ Fitzwater Even the Clearest Water, by Andi C. Buchanan You Can't Beat Wellington on a Good Day, by Anna Kirtlan The Moamancer (A Musomancer short story), by Bing Turkby They probably play the viola, by Jack Remiel Cottrell Crater Island, by P.K. Torrens A Love Note, by Melanie Harding-Shaw The Turbine at the End of the World, by James Rowland

Book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction   Fantasy  Volume 2

Download or read book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction Fantasy Volume 2 written by Marie Hodgkinson and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy

Download or read book Year s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy written by Octavia Cade and published by . This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time ever, the best short SFF from Aotearoa New Zealand is collected together in a single volume. This inaugural edition of the Year's Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy brings together the very best short speculative fiction published by Kiwi authors in 2018. Explore worlds of hope and wonder, and worlds where hope and wonder are luxuries we wasted long ago; histories given new life, and futures you might prefer to avoid. Featuring: "We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice", by Octavia Cade (originally published in Strange Horizons) "Logistics", by A.J. Fitzwater (originally published in Clarkesworld) "The Garden", by Isabelle McNeur (originally published in Wizards in Space) "Trees", by Toni Wi (originally published in Breach) "A Most Elegant Solution", by M. Darusha Wehm (originally published in Terraform) "Mirror Mirror", by Mark English (originally published in Abyss & Apex) "A Brighter Future", by Grant Stone (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG)) "The People Between the Silences", by Dave Moore (originally published in Landfall) "Common Denominator", by Melanie Harding-Shaw (originally published in Wild Musette Journal) "The Billows of Sarto", by Sean Monaghan (originally published in Asimov's) "The Glassblower's Peace", by James Rowland (originally published in Aurealis) "Te Ika", by J.C. Hart (originally published in Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud (IFWG)) "Girls Who Do Not Drown", by Andi C. Buchanan (originally published in Apex)

Book Gangland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jared Savage
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-12-01
  • ISBN : 1775491935
  • Pages : 218 pages

Download or read book Gangland written by Jared Savage and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs 'The best true-crime book of the year by a long stretch.' - Steve Braunias, Newsroom 'A series of rip-snorting yarns about gangs, drugs, fancy cars, wads of cash, violence, and guns - Aotearoa New Zealand style.' - Simon Bridges New Zealand is now one of the most lucrative illicit drug markets in the world. Organised crime is about making money. It's a business. But over the past 20 years, the dealers have graduated from motorcycle gangs to Asian crime syndicates and now the most dangerous drug lords in the world - the Mexican cartels. In Gangland, award-winning investigative reporter Jared Savage shines a light into New Zealand's rising underworld of organised crime and violent gangs. The brutal execution of a husband-and-wife; the undercover cop who infiltrated a casino VIP lounge; the midnight fishing trip which led to the country's biggest cocaine bust; the gangster who shot his best friend in a motorcycle shop: these stories go behind the headlines and open the door to an invisible world - a world where millions of dollars are made, life is cheap, and allegiances change like the flick of a switch.

Book Bad Panda

    Book Details:
  • Author : Swapna Haddow
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2021-06-29
  • ISBN : 0571352421
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book Bad Panda written by Swapna Haddow and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you sick of being utterly adorable?Tired of being cuddled and hugged?Fed up of having your head confused for your bottom because you just so happen to be SOOOOPER-DOOOOOPER fluffy?Lin: If you answered yes to any of those questions, then you're in the right book.Everyone thinks that Lin is the cutest panda in the world. So much so that they ship her off to the local zoo, away from her beloved brother, to be ogled at by the masses. But Lin HATES being cute, and now she will do everything in her power to prove that she's the baddest, meanest, most un-cute animal in the zoo.Laugh-yourself-out-of-bed hilarious, the first in a new series from the creators of DAVE PIGEON.

Book The P  rangi Boy

Download or read book The P rangi Boy written by Shilo Kino and published by Huia Publishers. This book was released on 2020-10-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Niko lives in Pohe Bay, a small, rural town with a sacred hot spring – and a taniwha named Taukere. The government wants to build a prison over the home of the taniwha, and Niko’s grandfather is busy protesting. People call him pōrangi, crazy, but when he dies, it’s up to Niko to convince his community that the taniwha is real and stop the prison from being built. With help from his friend Wai, Niko must unite his whānau, honour his grandfather and stand up to his childhood bully.

Book Seeker

    Book Details:
  • Author : Arwen Elys Dayton
  • Publisher : Delacorte Press
  • Release : 2015-02-10
  • ISBN : 0385378572
  • Pages : 450 pages

Download or read book Seeker written by Arwen Elys Dayton and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2015-02-10 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Katniss and Tris would approve.”—TeenVogue.com The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor. As a Seeker, Quin will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, to protect the weak and the wronged. Together they will stand for light in a shadowy world. And she'll be with the boy she loves--who's also her best friend. But the night Quin takes her Oath, everything changes. Being a Seeker is not what she thought. Her family is not what she thought. Even the boy she loves is not who she thought. And now it's too late to walk away. "This book will not disappoint."-USAToday.com "Fans of Veronica Roth’s Divergent, Marie Lu’s Legend, and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games series: your next obsession has arrived."-School Library Journal "In this powerful beginning to a complex family saga...Dayton excels at creating memorable characters."-Publishers Weekly “[A] genre-blending sci-fi, fantasy…[with] action-packed scenes.”—Booklist "Secrets, danger, and romance meet in this unforgettable epic fantasy." —Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Beautiful Creatures & author of Unbreakable "A tightly-woven, action-packed story of survivial and adventure, Seeker is perfect for fans of Game of Thrones." —Tahereh Mafi, author of the New York Times bestselling Shatter Me series

Book Maori

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Dean Foster
  • Publisher : Open Road Media
  • Release : 2015-07-28
  • ISBN : 1504016394
  • Pages : 432 pages

Download or read book Maori written by Alan Dean Foster and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-07-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping historical novel set in nineteenth-century New Zealand from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author. The only son of a poor British coal miner, Robert Coffin sets sail for the far ends of the Earth in search of his fortune, leaving his young bride and infant child behind in England. In the sordid and dangerous South Pacific port of Kororareka, on the sprawling island the native Maori call “the Land of the Long White Cloud,” Coffin builds a successful new life as a merchant. He gains an unwavering respect for the aboriginal people and their culture, and finds comfort in the arms of his fiery Irish mistress, Mary. But the unexpected arrival of a China-bound clipper bearing his wife, Holly, and son, Christopher, throws Coffin’s world into turmoil—compounded by the ever-increasing tension between the Maori tribes and the mistrusted “pakehas” who are plundering their land. As the years of a volatile nineteenth century progress, the indomitable family of the stalwart adventurer the Maori have named “Iron Hair” will struggle, sacrifice, and endure through war, chaos, catastrophe, and change.

Book Show Us Who You Are

Download or read book Show Us Who You Are written by Elle McNicoll and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A neurodiverse twelve-year-old girl is shown an amazing new technology that gives her another chance to talk to the best friend she lost. But she soon discovers the corporation behind the science hides dark secrets that only she can expose in this heartwarming and heroic sophomore novel from the award-winning author of A Kind of Spark. A CILIP Carnegie Medal nominee! "A touching, perceptive take on grief, technology, and self-acceptance.” –Kirkus Reviews It has never been easy for Cora to make friends. Cora is autistic, and sometimes she gets overwhelmed and stims to soothe her nerves. Adrien has ADHD and knows what it is like to navigate a world that isn’t always built for the neurodiverse. The two are fast friends until an accident puts Adrien in a coma. Cora is devastated until Dr. Gold, the CEO of Pomegranate Institute, offers to let Cora talk to Adrien again, as a hologram her company develops. While at first enchanted, Cora soon discovers that the hologram of Adrien doesn’t capture who he was in life. And the deeper Cora dives into the mystery, the more she sees Pomegranate has secrets to hide. Can Cora uncover Pomegranate's dark truth before their technologies rewrite history forever?

Book The Memory Thief

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leonie Agnew
  • Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
  • Release : 2021-07-02
  • ISBN : 0143775731
  • Pages : 160 pages

Download or read book The Memory Thief written by Leonie Agnew and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2021-07-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lonely troll and a fierce, spiky girl form an unlikely alliance in Leonie Agnew's extraordinary novel for children aged 9 years and up. For as long as Seth can remember he’s been trapped behind the iron bars of the public gardens, desperate to explore the world outside. By day he’s frozen in a stone skin as a statue of a shepherd boy. As soon as the sun sets he’s free to roam the park, ravenously hungry. He’s a troll, and the food he seeks is human memories. But somehow he’s yearning for something more than an endless cycle of hunting and loneliness. Then he meets Stella, who has just moved to live with her grandfather in a house neighbouring the park. Her mind is sharp and quick and there’s something so different about her — she’s the only human Seth has met whose memories make his insides burn. He doesn’t want to feed off her. He simply wants to talk to her. Maybe she can help him find another way to live? Engrossing, spine-chilling and surprising, this is a novel that grabs the reader and holds them spellbound. What terrible memory is Stella trying to escape? What are the fragments of memory that Seth is trying to put together? And is there any possibility that Seth could escape the lonely garden and start truly living?

Book The Year s Best Science Fiction  Thirty Third Annual Collection

Download or read book The Year s Best Science Fiction Thirty Third Annual Collection written by Gardner Dozois and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation of short stories has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre.

Book Against the Grain

    Book Details:
  • Author : Melanie Harding-Shaw
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-06-07
  • ISBN : 9780473575076
  • Pages : 154 pages

Download or read book Against the Grain written by Melanie Harding-Shaw and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-07 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coeliac mountain biking witch finds a dash of romance while facing a dark trap with her snarky demon familiar.

Book The Dawnhounds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sascha Stronach
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2022-06-14
  • ISBN : 1982187050
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Dawnhounds written by Sascha Stronach and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this queer, Māori-inspired debut fantasy about a police officer who is murdered, brought back to life with a mysterious new power, and tasked with protecting her city from an insidious evil threatening to destroy it. The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, after a devastating war and a sweeping biotech revolution, all its inhabitants want is peace, no one more so than Yat Jyn-Hok a reformed-thief-turned-cop who patrols the streets at night. Yat has recently been demoted on the force due to “lifestyle choices” after being caught at a gay club. She’s barely holding it together, haunted by memories of a lover who vanished and voices that float in and out of her head like radio signals. When she stumbles across a dead body on her patrol, two fellow officers gruesomely murder her and dump her into the harbor. Unfortunately for them, she wakes up. Resurrected by an ancient power, she finds herself with the new ability to manipulate life force. Quickly falling in with the pirate crew who has found her, she must race against time to stop a plague from being unleashed by the evil that has taken root in Hainak.