- Description
- Details
- Extras
- eBooks etc
- Reader Reviews
New Ceres Nights edited by Alisa Krasnostein and Tehani Wessely
New Ceres, a planet in the outer colonies, embraced the Age of Enlightenment nearly two hundred years ago and refused to let go. Refugees and opportunists come to New Ceres in search of new lives, escaping the conflicts of the interstellar war that has already destroyed Earth.
New Ceres is the shared creation of an online community of as many writers as wished to be involved as well as artists, readers, fans and detail-freaks. Contributions to this imaginary world have come from historians, philosophers, game designers and scientists, as well as writers of what is sometimes referred to as ‘scientifiction.’
New Ceres Nights presents thirteen exciting stories of rebellion, debauchery, decadence, subterfuge and murder set against the backdrop of powdered wigs, coffee houses, duels and balls
Stock No:210045
Aisle: Fiction & Literature
Bookshelves:Short Stories/Science Fiction
ISBN:9780980484120
Format: Paperback
Size: 130mm x 195mm
Pages: 235
Illustrations: b&w
Contributing Authors: Dirk Flinthart, Thoraiya Dyer, J C Hay, Aliette de Bodard, Kaaron Warren, Stephen Dedman, Matthew Farrer, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Sue Isle, Martin Livings, Sylvia Kelso, Lee Battersby, Angela Slatter
We have gathered together a few extras to help you make the most of your reading – just for yourself, for your bookgroup, your children at home or in the classroom.
You cannot currently buy eBooks or any of the alternative versions you see here directly from First Edition Book Sales. However, we are happy to redirect you to where you can.
Reader Reviews
The Australian-based shared world project New Ceres has produced an enjoyable anthology, New Ceres Nights, set on a planet with artificially restricted tech. The stories hint at (and sometimes show directly) some dark aspects of this future, though many are fairly light in tone. I particularly liked Tansy Rayner Roberts’s “Prosperine When It Sizzles”, featuring the very popular character La Duchesse and her assistant M. Pepin – about whom we learn some secrets as he meets an old offworld acquaintance while the two of them try to rescue a prominent politician’s children from some unfortunate choices in entertainment; and Sylvia Kelso’s “The Sharp Shooter”, in which the title character comes to a remote farm to help eliminate a dangerous beast. (Though I wish Kelso had not felt obliged to baldly explain the nice touch concerning the main character’s identity.)
Rich Horton, Locus June 2009
While [the stories] share the same setting, each explores different aspects, and the result is a surprising variety…these were all strong offerings, and set in an inspired order, to gently introduce readers to the world’s quirks before they become important subtleties in later tales.
SF Book Reviews, July 2009
… marvel that a story set a thousand years in the future, at a remove of many light years from Earth, and seeking to recapture an era two or three centuries before our own, can hold up such a mirror to our own mode of existence.
Simon Petrie, Specusphere, September 2009