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Kress, Nancy (ed.) - Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 / Кресс, Нэнси (ред.) - Витрина премии Небьюла 2003 [2003, epub, ENG]

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Kress, Nancy (ed.) - Nebula Awards Showcase 2003

Название: Nebula Awards Showcase 2003 / Витрина премии Небьюла 2003
Год выпуска: 2003
Под редакцией: Kress, Nancy / Кресс, Нэнси
Издательство: Roc/New American Library
ISBN: 0-451-45909-1
Формат: epub
Качество: OCR
Язык: английский

Описание:
Основу антологии составили произведения, номинированные на премию «Небьюла» в 2001 году.
Introduction: Entering the Field by Nancy Kress
The 2001 Nebula Awards Ballot
The Cure for Everything / Лекарство от всего short story by Severna Park
The Ultimate Earth / Перевоплощённая планета novella by Jack Williamson
Betty Ballantine Appreciation essay by Shelly Shapiro
Louise's Ghost / Луизин призрак novelette by Kelly Link
Undone novelette by James Patrick Kelly
My Wife Returns As She Would Have It poem by Bruce Boston
January Fires poem by Joe Haldeman
The Elephants on Neptune / Слоны на планете Нептун short story by Mike Resnick
Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada essay by Geoffrey A. Landis
Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada essay by Scott Edelman
Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada essay by Terry Bisson
Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada essay by Andy Duncan
Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada essay by Mindy L. Klasky
Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada essay by Ellen Datlow
Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada essay by Harry Turtledove
Commentary: Joys and Jeremiada essay by Michael Cassutt
The Quantum Rose (excerpt) by Catherine Asaro
THE ULTIMATE EARTH
Jack Williamson
1

We loved Uncle Pen. The name he gave us was too hard for us to say, and we made it Sandor Pen. As early as we could understand, the robots had told us that we were clones, created to watch the skies for danger and rescue Earth from any harm. They had kept us busy with our lessons and our chores and our workouts in the big centrifuge, but life in our little burrow left us little else to do. His visits were our best excitement.
He never told us when he was coming. We used to watch for him, looking from the high dome on the Tycho rim, down across the field of Moondust the digging machines had leveled. Standing huge on the edge of it, they were metal monsters out of space, casting long black shadows across the gray waste of rocks and dust and crater pits.
His visit on our seventh birthday was a wonderful surprise. Tanya saw him landing and called us up to the dome. His ship was a bright teardrop, shining in the black shadow of a gigantic metal insect. He jumped out of it in a sleek silvery suit that fitted like his skin. We waited inside the air lock to watch him peel it off. He was a small lean man, who looked graceful as a girl but still very strong. Even his body was exciting to see, though Dian ran and hid because he looked so strange.
Naked, his body had a light tan that darkened in the sunlit dome and faded fast when he went below. His face was a narrow heart-shape, his golden eyes enormous. Instead of hair like ours, his head was capped with sleek, red-brown fur. He needed no clothing, he told us, because his sex organs were internal.
He called Dian when he missed her, and she crept back to share the gifts he had brought from Earth. There were sweet fruits we had never tasted, strange toys, stranger games that he had to show us how to play. For Tanya and Dian there were dolls that sang strange songs in voices we couldn't understand and played loud music on tiny instruments we had never heard.
The best part was just the visit with him in the dome. Pepe and Casey had eager questions about life on the new Earth. Were there cities? Wild animals? Alien creatures? Did people live in houses, or underground in tunnels like ours? What did he do for a living? Did he have a wife? Children like us?
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