Quiet Post - Humorous

Name: Quiet Post
Price: 4.49 EUR
Author: Stephen Goldin
ISBN: 9781311801937

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Stephen Goldin

JPCA
Paru le : 15/08/2022

From the author of POLLY! and TREK TO MADWORLD comes a truly bizarre comedy of outlandish proportions. The Quasiverse: A land that's a combination of... > Lire la suite

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From the author of POLLY! and TREK TO MADWORLD comes a truly bizarre comedy of outlandish proportions. The Quasiverse: A land that's a combination of Oz, Wonderland, Discworld, and general surreality, where anything can happen and often does; a land of snow globe mines and french fries plantations; a land where bossy birds can have teeth and locks can be very particular about how you stick a key in them; a land where you never know what color the sky will be when you wake up in the morning and where murder victims can be only randomly dead.
Martia Rosenthal is escaping from a bad love affair, and enlists for a diplomatic assignment in the Quasiverse. With the combination of her wealth and the position of sub-legate, she's assured it will be a quiet post. But she reckons without the vagaries of this bizarre world, where the unusual nature of her friends, as well as her enemies, threatens to end her sanity, if not her very life. QUIET POST is an absurdist comedy with surprises around every turn and smiles never far from your lips.

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Date de parution : 15/08/2022
Editeur : JPCA
Collection : Humorous
ISBN : 978-1-311-80193-7
EAN : 9781311801937
Format : ePub

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Biographie de Stephen Goldin

STEPHEN GOLDIN is a Nebula Award finalist science fiction and fantasy writer who was born in Philadelphia. When he was 13, his family moved to California, where he's lived ever since. He graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor's degree in Astronomy. His first job out of college was as a civilian space scientist for the U. S. Navy. The urge to write was strong, though, and after several years he left to try writing full time.
He only regretted the move every other Thursday, when he would have gotten paid. After several years of genteel poverty, he took a job as writer/editor for a pornographic humor paper, the San Francisco Ball. In retrospect, this was a great crucible; because of deadline pressure, he had to learn to make his writing dirty, funny, and one draft. At about this time, too, he began selling novels on a regular basis.
While he has, from time to time, held down other full-time employment (he helped design the Star Trek: The Next Generation computer game "A Final Unity" for Spectrum HoloByte and has also written manuals and game design documents for Maxis), his real love is fiction writing and he continues to pursue it. His first wife was fellow author Kathleen Sky. Their medieval-style wedding was a Saturday morning program item at the 1972 World Science Fiction Convention in Los Angeles.
In the 10+ years of their marriage, in addition to their individual works, they collaborated on a pair of stories ("Painting the Roses Red" and "The Devil Behind the Leaves") about the diMedicis, a family of interstellar swindlers. Mr. Goldin's current wife is fellow author Mary Mason. Their wedding took place the night before EclectiCon 1 in Sacramento, at which Mr. Goldin was the Guest of Honor.
They currently live in the San Francisco East Bay area. So far they have co-authored two books in the Rehumanization of Jade Darcy series: Jade Darcy and the Affair of Honor and Jade Darcy and the Zen Pirates. More books in this series are planned. Mr. Goldin is an atheist whose interests include Broadway show albums and surrealist art. He has lived with cats virtually all his adult life. He served the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association for three years as editor of the SFWA Bulletin and amother three as its Western Regional Director.