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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the far north of Canada, a team led by a visionary American architect is building a project called Camp Zero. With its fresh, clean air and cold climate, it's intended to be the beginning of a new community and a new way of life. A brilliant and determined young woman employed as a sex worker to the elite is offered a chance to join the Blooms, a group meant to service the men in camp-but her mission is to secretly monitor the mercurial architect...
Author
Publisher
Mythic Delirium Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Nebula Award finalist Barbara Krasnoff's debut crosses many genres, spinning tales of sorcery, ghosts, time travel, virtual reality, alien contact, and elemental confrontations between good and evil. The book follows two Jewish immigrant families, one from Eastern Europe, one from Western Europe, whose destinies are mysteriously intertwined."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
American reader volume 36
Publisher
BOA Editions, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrated Nigerian-born writer E.C. Osondu delivers a short-story collection of nimble dexterity and startling originality in his BOA Short Fiction Prize-winning Alien Stories. These eighteen startling stories, each centered around an encounter with the unexpected, explore what it means to be an alien. With a nod to the dual meaning of alien as both foreigner and exterrestrial, Osondu turns familiar science-fiction tropes and immigration narratives...
Publisher
Laksa Media Groups Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Migration comes in unlimited shades of colour where we straddle between physical, emotional, and spiritual boundaries within ourselves-and within our worlds and beyond...Who are the shades within us? We are called immigrants, locals, explorers, natives, settlers, pioneers, discoverers, newcomers, drifters, tenants, transients, nomads, expatriates, wanderers, evacuees, refugees, pilgrims, aliens, foreigners, squatters, visitors, intruders, conquerors,...
Author
Publisher
Lanternfish Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In the gridlocked harbor of San Francisco's Barbary Coast, a ship hung with red paper lanterns draws crowds eager to gamble and drink. Aboard this red-lit ship, the fates of two young women will be altered irrevocably and tied forever to that of an ancient lighthouse keeper who longs to be free. Set against the backdrop of Gold Rush-era San Francisco's Chinese immigrant community, Ship of Fates is a coming-of-age fairy tale that stretches across generations....
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