Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novelwelcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. The award-winningmagazine Orson Scott Card's IntergalacticMedicine Show has been an online haven for this powerful form ofstorytelling since 2005. Now its editors have selected theirall-time favorite science fiction novelettes from the magazine's eight-yearhistory and reprinted them together in one big book of reading pleasure. Anythingthat is remotely possiblefutures near and far, artificial intelligence and alienencounters, alternate timelines and alternate theories about creatinguniverses, planet-eating black holes and lunar racetracksis all here underthe big tent of Orson Scott Card's IntergalacticMedicine Show.This anthology features stories by such award-winningauthors as Orson Scott Card, Wayne Wightman, Aliette de Bodard, Eric JamesStone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Stephen Kotowych, Jackie Gamber, Greg Siewert,Jamie Todd Rubin, Brad R. Torgersen, and Marina J. Lostetter, plus an all-newessay by Orson Scott Card about writing the character of Ender.
Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novelwelcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. The award-winning magazine Orson Scott Cards Intergalactic Medicine Show has been an online haven for this powerful form of storytelling since 2005. Now its editors have selected their all-time favorite science fiction novelettes from the magazines eight-year history and reprinted them together in one big book of reading pleasure. Anything that is remotely possiblefutures near and far, artificial intelligence and alien encounters, alternate timelines and alternate theories about creating universes, planet-eating black holes and lunar racetracksis all here under the big tent of Orson Scott Cards Intergalactic Medicine Show.This anthology features stories by such award-winning authors as Orson Scott Card, Wayne Wightman, Aliette de Bodard, Eric James Stone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Stephen Kotowych, Jackie Gamber, Greg Siewert, Jamie Todd Rubin, Brad R. Torgersen, and Marina J. Lostetter, plus an all-new essay by Orson Scott Card about writing the character of Ender.