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Man Tiger
by Benedict Anderson Labodalih Sembiring Eka KurniawanA wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being. An explosive act of violence follows, and its mysterious cause is unraveled as events progress toward a heartbreaking revelation.Lyrical and bawdy, experimental and political, this extraordinary novel announces the arrival of a powerful new voice on the global literary stage.From the Trade Paperback edition.o also happens to be half-man, half-supernatural female white tiger (in many parts of Indonesia, magical tigers protect good villages and families). At once elegant and bawdy, experimental and political, Man Tiger will help to establish Indonesia's new voice, underrepresented in world literature, while demonstrating the influence of world literature on Indonesian writers.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Man Trouble!
by Natalie FoxOn his terms...All Jade wants is to make a success of her company-on her own. It infuriates her that she's forced to turn to Mel Biaggio for help. In business, he's the best troubleshooter around. In private, he's simply trouble!Once, he'd wanted Jade with an obsessive passion. Until her father had announced that she was engaged to another man! Jade had insisted it was all a mistake, but Mel was devastated. And now he has the perfect opportunity for revenge: he'll save Jade's company, but refuse to do the one thing she really wants...rekindle their affair!
Man Vs Machine
by John Helfers Martin H. GreenbergFifteen original tales envision ever-more sophisticated technology-and the repercussions on humankind... As our world and daily lives become more and more involved with and dependent on complex technology, concern over what the future holds increases. If computers develop genuine Artificial Intelligence will they still willingly serve humankind? If the machines rebel, can we shut them down? And what kind of world would we be left with if we did? These are just a few of the questions explored in fifteen brand-new stories by some of science fiction's most visionary minds-inventive and cautionary tales about some of the futures we may be building for ourselves right now.
Man from Mundania (The Xanth Novels)
by Piers AnthonyWhen a princess from Xanth ventures to Mundania, she discovers an unexpected world of wonder in the New York Times–bestselling fantasy series.When Prince Dolph set out to find the Good Magician Humphrey, he wound up betrothed to two different women. With the magician still missing, his older sister Princess Ivy takes up the quest—and she’s bringing her brother’s co-fiancées along for the adventure. First they must retrieve a stolen magic mirror from the evil machine Com-Pewter. But when they try to transport themselves to Humphrey’s location, they find themselves in Mundania—in the company of a computer-loving college kid who’s looking for love.Grey Murphy is an ordinary guy who hopes a new computer program will find him his perfect match. When he meets Ivy, he’s sure she’s the one despite her claims that she is a princess from a fantasy world called Xanth. When Grey follows Ivy back home, his scientific skepticism soon reveals aspects of Xanth that nobody could have imagined—and the astonishing truth about the supposedly ordinary Grey.
Man in Duplicate
by John Russell Fearn Vargo StattenPlayboy millionaire Harvey Bradman is set an ultimatum by his fiancée: before she marries him, he must carry out some significant, courageous act. Amazingly, the next day the newspapers carry a full report of Harvey's heroic rescue of a woman from her stalled car on a level crossing! But Harvey had been asleep in bed at the time of the incident. And when his mysterious twin seeks him out, he becomes enmeshed in the sinister cosmic conspiracy being waged by his alien doppelganger...
Man in Duplicate
by John Russell Fearn Vargo StattenA classic SF title from the prolific pulp author John Russell Fearn, writing here as Vargo Statten.
Man in His Time: The Best Science Fiction Stories of Brian W. Aldiss
by Brian W. AldissTwenty-two classic science fiction stories spanning the first three decades of the Science Fiction Grand Master&’s career. Features &“Super-Toys Last All Summer,&” the short story that inspired the film A.I. Artificial Intelligence. &“Britain&’s most versatile and durable and consistently most interesting science-fiction writer presents his own personal &‘best of&’: 22 splendid tales. . . . To Aldiss, the human dimension has always been more important than hardware or fireworks—which is why his best stories have a timeless quality weaving intelligence, emotion, and inventiveness.&” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, Brian W. Aldiss was a science fiction author &“in competition with no one but himself&” (The New York TimesBook Review). In this collection he shows why, offering up twenty-two stories from the first three decades of his career, encompassing a stunning range of ideas, moods, and styles. In the title story we find a man, recently back from an expedition in space, who lives 3.3077 minutes in the future. A meteor shakes things up in a quiet English town in &“The Saliva Tree,&” an homage to H. G. Wells, and which earned Aldiss the Nebula Award in 1965. A giant lizard-like alien comes to Earth in &“Heresies of the Huge God,&” and while some believe it is a monster, others worship it. A mother tries to connect with her son through the help of a robot intermediary in &“Super-Toys Last All Summer.&” Unhappy with the state of his life, a man ventures back in time to hunt dinosaurs in &“Poor Little Warrior!&” Robots have an existential crisis in &“Who Can Replace a Man?&” and men travel to Mars to take a picture of the planet&’s tallest volcano in &“The Difficulties in Photographing Nix Olympica.&” Although the stories in this collection were originally published in the 1950s,&’60s, &’70s, and &’80s, they remain just as gripping today. Each conveys a fascinating idea for readers to ponder, and together, they make a perfect introduction to one of British science fiction&’s greatest authors.
Man in a Cage
by Brian M. StablefordHarker Lee is a survivor. His mind withstands the threat of insanity and the pressure of imprisonment. His lifelong struggle to keep mind and body together in the face of the hostile environment of the maximum-security block is a struggle against the society of his fellow men. But that society can still find a need for him; a need for the ability to survive which it is testing to the full. He was taken from his cell once to be used in experiments in reading minds. Now he is brought forth again, to endure the ultimate test: to fly a Titan spaceship through hyperspace to the stars. Starflight destroys the minds of sane men. But Harker Lee is not sane and his mind has strength which sane men lack. In Harker Lee, the man whom society is caging for his crimes, now lies the hope that man might break out of the greatest of all cages: the void of empty darkness which enfolds the Earth. In this chilling, enthralling novel of psychology and science fiction, one final escape must be made, for a man and for mankind.
Man in the Dark: A Novel
by Paul AusterA novel exploring war in an alternate post–9/11 America “is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter” (Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books)From Paul Auster, a “literary original” (Wall Street Journal) comes a novel that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget: his wife’s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter’s boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued.As the night progresses, Brill’s story grows increasingly intense, and what he is desperately trying to avoid insists on being told.A Washington Post Best Book of the Year“Absorbing.” —The New Yorker“Probably Auster’s best novel.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review“Astute and mesmerizing.” —Booklist, starred review“Auster’s book leaves one with a depth of feeling much larger than might be expected from such a small and concise work of art.” —San Francisco Chronicle“[Auster is] a master of voice, an avuncular confidence man who can spin dark stories out of air.” —Entertainment Weekly
Man in the Empty Suit
by Sean FerrellSay you're a time traveler and you've already toured the entirety of human history. After a while, the outside world might lose a little of its luster. That's why this time traveler celebrates his birthday partying with himself. Every year, he travels to an abandoned hotel in New York City in 2071, the hundredth anniversary of his birth, and drinks twelve-year-old Scotch (lots of it) with all the other versions of who he has been and who he will be. Sure, the party is the same year after year, but at least it's one party where he can really, well, be himself.The year he turns 39, though, the party takes a stressful turn for the worse. Before he even makes it into the grand ballroom for a drink he encounters the body of his forty-year-old self, dead of a gunshot wound to the head. As the older versions of himself at the party point out, the onus is on him to figure out what went wrong--he has one year to stop himself from being murdered, or they're all goners. As he follows clues that he may or may not have willingly left for himself, he discovers rampant paranoia and suspicion among his younger selves, and a frightening conspiracy among the Elders. Most complicated of all is a haunting woman possibly named Lily who turns up at the party this year, the first person besides himself he's ever seen at the party. For the first time, he has something to lose. Here's hoping he can save some version of his own life
Man of Earth
by Algis BudrysHis only escape was to become another man!Allen Sibley was a frightened little man - frightened for his life. In the corrupt, swindling world of cutthroat big business in which he was an important and pseudo-respectable figure, Allen Sibley had made the unforgivable error - he had found out. And worse, someone had known this would happen, someone who waited quietly to collect Allen Sibley's entire fortune in exchange for a gamble - but it was the only gamble which might save Sibley his life!
Man of His Word
by Miriam MacgregorPromises to keep...Blake didn't know why April Lindsay had suddenly accepted a job in town but he was sure there had to be a man involved. And just how did six-year-old Tim fit into April's life? Blake sensed a mystery and he vowed to get to the bottom of it.There was something about April that infuriated the hell out of him, and he knew the feeling was mutual. They were also both aware of another emotion at play between them: attraction! Where would it all lead? Blake was determined it wouldn't be down the aisle, and if there was one thing April had learned about him, it was that he was a man of his word!
Man of Many Minds
by E. Everett EvansAN ENTIRE GALAXY WAS IN DANGER!Somewhere, somehow, the first moves had been made--there was a pattern beginning to emerge. Someone, or something, was on the way to wresting supreme power over all the planets currently controlled by Mankind--and the Interstellar Corps seemed helpless to meet this threat. No "normal" man could hope to penetrate the vast conspiracy of it all. But...the Corps did have one man who wasn't normal, a man who possessed a very strange weapon......his mind. "Exciting...strange...extraordinary!"These were just a few of the words used to describe "Man of Many Minds" when it was released back in 1953. It's an amazing tale that can be aptly described as one of the most unusual science fiction adventures ever published.
Man of Steel: The Early Years
by Frank WhitmanMiddle-grade readers will be able to experience the thrills of the major motion picture Man of Steel in this junior novel that follows young Clark Kent as he learns to control his awesome powers and finds out who he really is. Eight pages of full-color movie stills featuring Superman(TM) add to the action. Featuring characters from the action-packed new movie, the Junior Novel tells the story of Clark Kent as he learns he is not the biological son of a Kansas couple from a town called Smallville. Clark is actually from the planet Krypton. As Clark slowly learns about his amazing powers and uncovers truth of where he came from, he begins to accept that it is his destiny to be Superman.
Man of Two Worlds
by John Russell Fearn Vargo StattenWhat happened to Walter Cardish, epicenter of a freak storm in the Lake District? The source of the strange lightning that struck him was a complete mystery, but only until its curious mental effect on Cardish became apparent.
Man of Two Worlds
by John Russell Fearn Vargo StattenWhat happened to Walter Cardish, epicenter of a freak storm in the Lake District? The source of the strange lightning that struck him was a complete mystery, but only until its curious mental effect on Cardish became apparent.
Man of Two Worlds: 30th Anniversary Edition
by Frank Herbert Brian HerbertAfter an unfortunate spaceship accident, the hedonistic and ambitious human Lutt Hansen, Jr., finds himself sharing his body and mind with a naive alien dreamer. The two have to survive numerous dangers, schemes and assassination attempts . . . but can they survive each other?
Man of the Mist
by Elizabeth Mayne"Mrs. Evan MacGregor." The Mere Sound of It Sent Chills Up Elizabeth's Spine,for the knowledge of her marriage to Evan was a dangerous secret, one she hadn't enjoyed keeping over the last five years. And now he was back to claim her as his wife! But that could never be, for she could not risk losing her son to the father he had never met....Damn Elizabeth Murray-MacGregor! It had taken Evan years to summon the confidence to right his youthful blunder, and return for the only woman he'd ever loved. And now, his beautiful wife was refusing to see him. And determined to ignore the undeniable passion that raged between them still!
Man's Best Friend
by C. B. LewisSam Eastman lives a lonely existence in the mountains of Colorado, working as a ranger and taking care of holiday cabins during the winter. He gets a new dog from the animal shelter and is shocked to find out he has accidentally adopted a shape-shifter. Philip, a young Englishman, was on holiday and got a bit carried away on a night out. Sam agrees to help him get back to his friends, but a landslide cuts them off, stranding them in Sam's cabin together. They end up getting closer than either of them expected. When they go their separate ways, Sam gives Philip his number to stay in touch, but Philip loses it. He'll have to resort to desperate measure to find Sam again.A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Daily Dose package "A Walk on the Wild Side".
Man's Best Friend
by Evelyn E. SmithSometimes a job comes after the man . . . and this one came after Gervase like a tiger! Evelyn E. Smith is best known as the author of the Miss Melville mysteries. From 1952 to 1969 she wrote dozens of science fiction and fantasy short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Galaxy, Super Science Fiction, and Fantastic Universe. Her stories were witty, well written, often humorous, and always unforgettable.
Man's World (MIT Press / Radium Age)
by Charlotte HaldaneIn a eugenics-driven future society, will one young woman&’s defiance make a difference?In the not-too-distant future, England&’s population quality and quantity are under scientific control: Only those deemed the fittest are permitted to procreate. Women are groomed to be &“vocational mothers&”—or else sterilized and put to other uses. Written by an author married to one of the world&’s most prominent eugenics advocates, this ambivalent adventure anticipates both Brave New World and The Handmaid&’s Tale. When a young woman rebels against her conditioning, can she break free?
Man-Kzin Wars
by Larry NivenOnce upon a time, in the earliest days of interplanetary exploration, an unarmed human vessel was set upon by a warship from the planet Kzin. But the Kzinti learned the hard way that the reason humanity had given up war was that they were so very, very good at it. Thus began the Man-Kzin Wars.
Man-Monsters and Animal Horrors #3 (Monster Hunters Unlimited #3)
by John GatehouseNow it’s the monsters’ turn to be scared!The monster hunting continues is the third installment of Monster Hunters Unlimited. This series of tongue-in-cheek handbooks instruct readers on the not-so-deadly art of monster hunting. Complete with comical, full-color art and irreverent narratives based around actual myths, folklore, and legends, Monster Hunters Unlimited: Shape Shifters and Flying Fiends is a must-have book for all young monster hunters.
Man-amorphosis
by Rick R. ReedI awoke one morning from uneasy dreams to find my penis had transformed itself into a vagina ...Thus begins the story of a very unusual day in the life of one utterly baffled gay man. After the shock wears off about his new genitalia, this promiscuous, fun-loving gay man wonders how he can take advantage of his bizarre gift. Bagging a straight man is the first thing that comes to mind. Well, actually bagging whole battalions of straight men ...There's only one problem: while he now has his very own love taco, he has none of the customary toppings to go with it. Enter Pete Thickwhistle, friend and drag artist extraordinaire.Pete quickly sets about making his friend's appearance go from butch man to convincing female as fast as you can say "Max Factor." Rick, now Rickie, sets off on his quest for straight-man flesh. Little does he know that what awaits is not his lust's desire, but his heart's. Rickie finds that when you go out looking just for sex, you may end up with something a lot more substantial ...