Taking us from the mundane to the magical, this collection of short stories will entertain and delight.
Drawing inspiration from East Asian and Malaysian myth and folklore, Zen Cho guides the reader through enchanted realms inhabited by dragons, vampires and incorrigible grandmothers.
We’ll meet an elderly ex-member of parliament, who recalls her youthful romance with an orang bunian. This was forbidden. Not because her lover was an invisible jungle spirit, but because she was Muslim and he was not. A teenage vampire struggles to balance homework, bossy aunties, first love . . . and eating people. A mischievous matriarch returns from the dead to disrupt her own funeral rites, pitting granddaughter against granddaughter. An earth spirit becomes entangled in protracted negotiations with an annoying landlord. And Chang E, the Chinese moon goddess, spins off into outer space – the ultimate metaphor for diaspora.
Pan Macmillan
Cover for Spirits Abroad by Zen Cho
This book contains ten masterpieces from Connie Willis's creative career, including the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning Fire Watch, Even the Queen, and The Last of the Winnebagos, as well as a homage to Agatha Christie's The Misadventures on the Nile of the same name.
These works take scattered fragments from daily life and weave a warm and soft dream world with a unique perspective full of aura and a wonderful imagination of science.
Science Fiction World
Cover for THE BEST OF CONNIE WILLIS: AWARD-WINNING STORIES, Chinese version
The assassination target of the killer managed to escape in the nick of time and appeared a hundred years later. "If one person goes to the future, one person must go back to the past". Irene Sophia, who lives a hundred years later, was transported back to the modern era by mistake, and has not only become the object of competition among various forces, but also the ultimate weapon that can create time paradoxes and thus threaten the whole of mankind.
"Burrow", a ruthless man with few words, is one of the killers hunting Irene. This cold-blooded killer, in the twists and turns he shares with Irene, gradually projects his own regretful feelings towards the seemingly weak but deeply secretive little girl over the years.
Tense and exciting game of life and death, breathtaking assassination action, heart-stopping action scenes, exciting and intense gun battle sniper, as well as carefully laid multiple suspense ...... single Burroughs will be how to find a way out of the dangers? The fate of the world will usher in what kind of ending because of Irene?
Science Fiction World
Cover for Shrike and Thorns by Tan Gang.
Sex in the Sea: Our Intimate Connection with Sex-Changing Fish, Romantic Lobsters, Kinky Squid, and Other Salty Erotica of the Deep
Forget the Kama Sutra. When it comes to inventive sex acts, just look to the sea. There we find the elaborate mating rituals of armored lobsters; giant right whales engaging in a lively threesome whilst holding their breath; full moon sex parties of groupers and daily mating blitzes by blueheaded wrasse. Deep-sea squid perform inverted 69s, while hermaphrodite sea slugs link up in giant sex loops. From doubly endowed sharks to the maze-like vaginas of some whales, Sex in the Sea is a journey unlike any other to explore the staggering ways life begets life beneath the waves.
Beyond a deliciously voyeuristic excursion, Sex in the Sea uniquely connects the timeless topic of sex with the timely issue of sustainable oceans. Through overfishing, climate change, and ocean pollution we are disrupting the creative procreation that drives the wild abundance of life in the ocean. With wit and scientific rigor, Hardt introduces us to the researchers and innovators who study the wet and wild sex lives of ocean life and offer solutions that promote rather than prevent, successful sex in the sea. Part science, part erotica, Sex in the Sea discusses how we can shift from a prophylactic to a more propagative force for life in the ocean.
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Cover for Sex in the Sea, illustration and font design.