Neon Stories - David Gerrold

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Résumé :
At every moment, half the world is dark. And in the dark, something always waits. From David Gerrold, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Martian Child and the man who gave us The Trouble with Tribbles, comes a collection of five illuminating journeys into the shadows between neon lights. These stories explore what lies beyond the glow- charred civilizations, trembling time streams, and minds that twist under pressure. Monsters stalk the alleys of our imagination, and sometimes... they wear our own faces. All Of Them Were Empty A desperate encounter with silence and memory. In The Quake Zone Time travel meets noir in a fractured Los Angeles Endless City A walk through a city that never ends... unless you do. Dancer in the Dark Surrounded by night, life creates light. The Bag Lady What if she knows something you don't? Five stories. Countless nightmares....

Biographie:
David Gerrold has been writing professionally for half a century. He created the tribbles for Star Trek and the Sleestaks for Land Of The Lost. His first professional sale, the Star Trek episode The Trouble With Tribbles, won a Hugo Award. His most famous novel is The Man Who Folded Himself. His semi-autobiographical tale of his son's adoption, The Martian Child won both the Hugo and the Nebula awards, and was the basis for the 2007 movie starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet. He has also written for Babylon 5, Sliders, and The Twilight Zone and appeared on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, The Big Bang Theory, and Young Sheldon. He has also written comics, computer columns, and taught writing at Pepperdine University....

Sommaire:

At every moment, half the world is dark.

And in the dark, something always waits.

From David Gerrold, Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author of The Martian Child and the man who gave us The Trouble with Tribbles, comes a collection of five illuminating journeys into the shadows between neon lights.

These stories explore what lies beyond the glow- charred civilizations, trembling time streams, and minds that twist under pressure.

Monsters stalk the alleys of our imagination, and sometimes... they wear our own faces.

All Of Them Were Empty

A desperate encounter with silence and memory.

In The Quake Zone

Time travel meets noir in a fractured Los Angeles

Endless City

A walk through a city that never ends... unless you do.

Dancer in the Dark

Surrounded by night, life creates light.

The Bag Lady

What if she knows something you don't?

Five stories. Countless nightmares.