4 Short Story Collections by James P. Hogan
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Overview: James P. Hogan was a science fiction writer in the grand tradition, combining informed and accurate speculation from the cutting edge of science and technology with suspenseful story-telling and living, breathing characters.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
Catastrophes, Chaos and Convolutions (2005) SSC
Catastrophes, Chaos & Convolutions gives Hogan’s thousands of avid readers both a solid-chunk of high-quality science fiction and a look behind the scenes, as Hogan describes how his work came to be written, with biographical details. Add a dash of science fact articles, often on controversial topics (suppose, for example, that Velikovsky was right and the orthodox scientists wrong), and you have a volume that is an essential purchase for Hogan fans everywhere.
Table of Contents:
The Guardians
Getting Better Connected
From the Web Site
WITH A LITTLE INGENUITY
Frog Fantasies
THAT NEVER WAS
Convolution
The Modern Medievalism
The Tree of Dreams
Who Will Remember The
The Trouble With Utopias
Decontamination Squad
The Cosmic Power Grid
AN IDEALIZED UNIVERSE
PLASMA
Electrical Cocoons
Arc Discharges
Jovian Thunderbolts
COSMIC CURRENTS
Strings of Galactic Beads
STAR AND PLANET FACTORIES
AN ELECTRIC SUN
The Cosmic Power Company
Plasma Discharges
Element Synthesis the Easy Way
Notes
Sword of Damocles
Cryptic Crossword
Animal Quackers
Take Two
Intelligence Test
The Falcon
Crossword Solution
Mind, Machines and Evolution (1988) SSC
TAKE THIS, MONKEY BOYS! James P. Hogan stands among the foremost writers of science fiction today, and is renowned for his ability to combine accurate science from the cutting edge of present-day research with living, breathing characters in fast-paced, suspenseful stories. Minds, Machines & Evolution gives Hogan’s thousands of avid readers both a solid chunk of high-quality science fiction, and a look behind the scenes, as Hogan describes how his work came to be written, with biographical details that will make this volume an essential purchase for Hogan fans everywhere. Read how a young girl raised by robots learned her true destiny. Travel back in time to learn that inventors are always misunderstood, even in the time of Og, the caveman. Learn about a political conspiracy more bizarre and sinister than any conceived by any conspiracy theory junky. And, if the idea of cloning worries you, Hogan will prove that you’re not nearly as worried as you ought to be. Plus Hogan’s thoughts on nuclear power, artificial intelligence, and the rise of scientific mysticism.
CONTENTS:
Preface to the Baen Books Edition
SILVER SHOES FOR A PRINCESS
INSIDE STORY
GETTING HERE FROM THERE
THE PACIFIST
MINDS, MACHINES AND EVOLUTION
DISCOVERING HYPERSPACE
TILL DEATH US DO PART
FORTUNE COOKIE
MORE ON REPLICATION
CODE OF THE LIFEMAKER: PROLOGUE
THE REVEALED WORD OF GOD
MAKING LIGHT
HOW LONG SHOULD A PIECE OF STRING BE?
ASSASSIN
GOING FULL-TIME
NEANDER-TALE
KNOW NUKES
ALL IN A NAME
DOWN TO EARTH
MERRY GRAVMAS
KNOWLEDGE IS A MIND-ALTERING DRUG
EARTH MODELS—ON A PLATE
GENERATION GAP
RULES WITHIN RULES
THE ABSOLUTELY FOOLPROOF ALIBI
Postscript, 1996
Rockets, Redheads & Revolution (1999) SSC
Hogan is in the top rank of writers who write real science fiction about "real" science, and now he offers enthusiastic readers a special treat, giving them a guided tour through his many worlds. Learn new possibilities for smuggling through space travel; let Hogan explain how he personally brought about the fall of the Soviet Union; see what it would be like to rent-a-body of your choice; and much more.
Table of Contents:
Madam Butterfly
How They Got Me At Baycon
Identity Crisis
Uprooting Again
Leap Frog
Boom And Slump In Space: What Really Brought Down Communism?
Last Ditch
Sorry About That
AIDS Heresy and the New Bishops
Evolution Revisited
Zap Thy Neighbor
Ozone Politics
Fact-Free Science
Out of Time
Star Child 01 – 04 (1998)
Must the Creator be greater than the Creation? Taya had always lived in the World. Her companion Kort had always been with her. She accepted these things, and why not? They were her world. But Taya wondered why everything she could see beyond the window was so different from all the things inside. She also wondered why the stars never changed if her world was really moving the way her metal friend Kort said it was…. Could Kort be wrong? That would be very strange, because Kort knew everything, and he was sure they were moving — just as she was sure the stars were not. Then, one day, the World was born anew…
Star Child Comprises:
1. "Silver Shoes for a Princess"
2. "Silver Gods from the Sky"
3. "Three Domes and a Tower"
4. "The Stillness Among the Stars"
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