Land Sea and Why

By Daniel Eness
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Published: July 22, 2012
Words: 75,735 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476084558

Short description

In that territory of forgotten promises and withering indifference a new portal waits be discovered by those who seek: a lost cellar door that, when unlocked, unleashes the fires of hope. A collection of short stories: The Death March Mystery and Asteroid Mine as well as the full contents of three separate anthologies: Monstrous Magic, Tales of the Haunted Titanic and Adventures in Paratime.

Extended description

...an asteroid miner learns to anticipate the past. A famous night watchman rewrites the multiple ends of future history. A lost prodigy unlocks the mystery of his dead mentors, while another one looks to build a bridge in an apocalypse that never happened. A ghost fights a god for the soul of the HMS Titanic.

Where?

Right here, right never.

In Land Sea and Why, gaze upon an uncanny map through a dark and wondrous lens. Collecting more than 20 strange adventures where scientific discovery has been abandoned for scientific despair, where the promise of human space travel has fallen to machinery, where Depression has set in: a place we call home.

In that territory of forgotten promises and withering indifference a new portal waits be discovered by those who seek: a lost cellar door that, when unlocked, unleashes the fires of hope.

Including the never-before-published novelette The Death March Mystery and short tale Asteroid Mine as well as the full contents of three separate .. (Read more) ...an asteroid miner learns to anticipate the past. A famous night watchman rewrites the multiple ends of future history. A lost prodigy unlocks the mystery of his dead mentors, while another one looks to build a bridge in an apocalypse that never happened. A ghost fights a god for the soul of the HMS Titanic.

Where?

Right here, right never.

In Land Sea and Why, gaze upon an uncanny map through a dark and wondrous lens. Collecting more than 20 strange adventures where scientific discovery has been abandoned for scientific despair, where the promise of human space travel has fallen to machinery, where Depression has set in: a place we call home.

In that territory of forgotten promises and withering indifference a new portal waits be discovered by those who seek: a lost cellar door that, when unlocked, unleashes the fires of hope.

Including the never-before-published novelette The Death March Mystery and short tale Asteroid Mine as well as the full contents of three separate anthologies: Monstrous Magic, Tales of the Haunted Titanic and Adventures in Paratime, Land Sea and Why is a collection for every last odd cynical optimist left on the planet: namely, you.
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Tags

adventure, anthology, science fiction, twilight zone, weird fantasy

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