4 Novels by John M. Ford
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Overview: JOHN M. FORD was the author of eight science fiction and fantasy novels and many pieces of short fiction, including the World Fantasy Award winner The Dragon Waiting and the Nebula Award finalist Fugue State. His stories and poetry have appeared in Omni, Analog, the anthology Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder and many other publications.
Genre: Fantasy/Science Fiction
Growing Up Weightless:
Matthias Ronay has grown up in the low gravity and great glass citadels of independent Luna—and in the considerable shadow of his father, a member of the council that governs Luna’s increasingly complex society. But Matt feels weighed down on the world where he was born, where there is no more need for exploration, for innovation, for radical ideas—and where his every movement can be tracked by his father on the infonets.
Matt and five of his friends, equally brilliant and restless, have planned a secret adventure. They will trick the electronic sentinels, slip out of the city for a journey to Farside. Their passage into the expanse of perpetual night will change them in ways they never could have predicted…and bring Matt to the destiny he has yearned for.
The Princes of the Air:
A soaring space epic of a galactic empire that rested on a boyhood friendship. The three were still together, bound now in the service of the empire’s splendid, treacherous Queen Rachel II … David, with his luck in his heart and his heart on his sleeve … Thorn, the silent one who spoke in deeds, not words … and Orden, indentured student turned diplomat.
But now the planets of the Inner Nine were under double siege: from the terrorist insurgents of the OutSide and from an enemy within—someone in the Queen’s confidence. Now the security of the galaxy depended on three friends — who played out a game as vast as space — as unknowable as the mind of Rachel II herself.
The Last Hot Time:
When Danny Holman leaves the cornfields of Iowa for the bright lights of Chicago, he expects his life to change. He just can’t guess how much and how fast. A violent incident on the road brings Danny the favor of a man known only as Mr. Patrise, who gives Danny a job, a home, and a new identity.
The City is a different world from the one Danny–now called Doc–knew, and literally so. The long-vanished lands of the Elves have again opened doors into our reality. Humans cannot cross these thresholds, but the Elves can. Long-vanished powers have returned, and more is going on in the streets than nightlife and street warfare. Power is gathering: a power rooted in terror, madness, and death. To fight it will require Doc to face what he fears most. To defeat it will take something more than courage.
Casting Fortune:
The theater anywhere is a magical place—but in Liavek, where wizardry is as common as unemployed actors, the theater is a place where magic rules. "May These Events" is opening for its first (and only) run, and wizard Oten Chitaru is behind the scenes. Chitaru thinks nothing of producing steaming hot cups of tea from his sleeves for the actors awaiting auditions—what effects will he produce for the audience? And if that weren’t enough magic for one evening, what will happen when a mystically reanimated actor finally decides to take his revenge on the director?
With two bonus stories set in the same universe!
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