Getting to Know You by David Marusek

Getting to Know You by David Marusek

Not since William Gibson and Bruce Sterling galvanized science fiction in the 1980s has the emergence of a new writer been heralded with such acclaim as that attending David Marusek, whose brilliant first novel, Counting Heads, appeared to rave reviews in 2005. But Marusek did not come out of nowhere. Aficionados of the genre had already taken note of his groundbreaking short fiction: masterfully written, profoundly thought-out examinations of futures so real they seemed virtually inevitable.

Now, in this collection of ten short stories, Marusek's fierce imagination and dazzling extrapolative gifts are on full display. Five of the stories, including the Sturgeon Award-winning The Wedding Album, a shattering look at the unintended human consequences of advanced technology, are set in the same future as Counting Heads. All ten showcase Marusek' s talent for literate, provocative science fiction of the very highest order.

Marusek, David: - Author David Marusek writes science fiction in a cabin in Fairbanks, Alaska. His work has appeared in Playboy, Nature, MIT Technology Review, Asimov's, and other periodicals and anthologies around the world and has been translated into ten languages. According to Publisher's Weekly, Marusek's writing is ferociously smart, simultaneously horrific and funny, as he forces readers to stretch their imaginations and sympathies. His current series, Upon This Rock, is a tale of love, faith, and alien invasion set in the Alaska bush.

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ISBN 13	9780345504289
ISBN 10	0345504283
Title	Getting to Know You
Author	David Marusek
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2008-12-30
Number of pages	288
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