To visit the past or the future, even in imagination, is to change it. Setting out on a hike to a mountain village shrine, away from the charred city, she begins a life to which she is not sure she is entitled, a life which feels like living on the other side of the sky. In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds herself wandering the burned-out ruins of her dead parents' fire-bombed home with only hazy recollections of how she survived. When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled. Wixon, literary executor of the Clifford D. Each story includes an introduction by David W. This volume also includes the celebrated short works “Eternity Lost,” “Shotgun Cure,” and “Paradise,” among others. Unfortunately, his “rescuer” has the same idea. But when a ship like none he’s ever encountered lands, he sees his salvation-and an opportunity to take the priceless craft for himself. So when he’s marooned on a planet with no plan for escape and no working radio, he takes it in stride and prepares for a long stay gathering food, making shelter, and collecting all the diamonds the world has to offer. Cheviot Sherwood doesn’t believe in miracles. The title story is just one example of this. And his short fiction is still as gripping and surprising now as when it first entertained an entire generation of fans. Heinlein, and Ray Bradbury, his novels continue to enthrall today’s readers. Held in the same esteem as fellow luminaries Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Simak was a preeminent voice during the decades that established sci-fi as a genre to be reckoned with. Named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America, Clifford D.
Summary Nine tales of imagination and wonder from one of the formative voices of science fiction and fantasy, the author of Way Station and City. Publisher: Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy READ The Shipshape Miracle - And Other Stories Clifford D.
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