Description: Ukrainian nuclear engineer Gennady Malianov would rather camp in the ruins of Chornobyl or explore abandoned anthrax factories than talk to another human being. Painfully shy as he is, he finds it soothing dismantling the abandoned genocide-machin...
Brief description:
Karl Schroeder is an award-winning Canadian science-fiction writer whose dozen novels have been translated into as many languages. Since 1983, his many short stories and serializations have appeared in venues as diverse as Analog Magazine, Slate, and many numerous anthologies. A member of the Association of Professional Futurists (with a master's degree in strategic foresight and design from OCAD University), he frequently works as a foresight consultant and guest speaker.
Three of the stories in this collection were republished in "Year's Best" collections, one won an Audie Award, and another was nominated for American science fiction's top award: the Hugo. As well as other literary honors, he has also won three Canadian Aurora Awards, for Best Short Work in English (1993), Best Canadian Science-Fiction Novel (2003), and Best YA Novel (2015).
Born into the same Manitoba Mennonite community as famous "Golden Age" science fiction writer A.E. van Vogt, Schroeder now lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter.
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