This work provides students with easy-to-read guidance on fieldwork, sampling, laboratory studies, project work, and computing and communication skills. Text is supported by numerous illustrations and tables, and there is coverage of the necessary information technology.

Features over a quarter million words of fiction by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Peter S Beagle, Elizabeth Bear, Jay Lake, Ian McDonald, Sarah Monette, Garth Nix, Naomi Novik, Robert Reed, and Patrick Rothfuss.

A collection of fantasy prose written in 2008.

Some 10 million years in the future, 1000 humans and their cloned offspring have been granted a power so that may preserve a peace that has endured for eons: to build worlds wherever they wish and terraform any wasteland. But a woman as old as the peace itself brings warning of an ancient crime.

Contains dozen thought-provoking tales. 'Abducted Souls' is about a college student who becomes increasingly unsure of himself and his self-worth when the alien abduction he experienced as a child is questioned. Also included is the Asimov's Science Fiction Reader's Choice Award-winning 'Savior'.

Presents two stories, one, where a renegade misfit conquers the dragons and renews the threat of nuclear chaos aboard Springplace, a man-made repository for old reactor cores, dirty plutonium, and dismantled bombs. Another story is a sprawling intergalactic epic that takes place aboard a starship.

Selected from the Hugo award-nominated Clarkesworld Magazine , this title collects the work of twenty-five visionary writers of short fiction.

'Robert Reed is the new century's most compelling SF voice. MARROW is the highest of high concepts, one of the most original visions in a long while' STEPHEN BAXTER

A guide for journalists, this work teaches how to develop an effective business beat, report on public and private companies, cultivate sources inside and outside a corporation, use business databases and websites, and write business articles that hook readers.

Robert Reed's novel returns to the epic universe featured in Marrow .

An awe-inspiring vision of humanity's destiny and a heart-stopping thriller, DOWN THE BRIGHT WAY is SF at its best.

Present a new take on humor comics. Born from the imagination of Marlon Wayans - the comedic giant behind White Chicks , the Scary Movie franchise and more - this comic tells the story of the hapless title character, who's Shaft, Black Belt Jones and Superfly all rolled into one.

Selected from the Hugo award-nominated Clarkesworld Magazine , this title collects the work of twenty-five visionary writers of short fiction.