David Marusek: 13 books

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....

This short story first appeared in Playboy magazine. Walt Baffen, an Oxford-trained archeologist, is spending his first winter alone in a remote Alaskan log cabin. All goes well until the temperature drops to minus 40 and he receives a visit by an odd neighbor with a “bone to pick.” What...

Here are three flash science fiction stories collected in one volume for the first time. (Flash fiction is the name given to ultra-short stories of 1000 words or less.) These stories were originally published by the British science journal Nature in their Futures series of original one-page sci-fi...

Forever is a new monthly science fiction magazine that features previously published stories you might have missed. Each issue will feature a novella, a brief interview with the novella's author, two short stories, and cover art by Ron Guyatt. Edited by the Hugo and World Fantasy Award winning editor...

Love is only science fiction. With wedding photos and videos and mementos of all kinds, newlyweds attempt to hold on to their special day and to cherish it forever. Someday technology may enable us to record not only our appearance and voices but everything we know, feel, fear, and love at...

Before email, before the world wide web, before hackers, Before sexting, before always-on GPS, before titanium implants, before Alexa, Cortana, and Siri, before the computer in your pocket was more powerful than the one that sent astronauts to the moon, there was cyberpunk. And science fiction...

Counting Heads is David Marusek's extraordinary launch as an SF novelist: The year is 2134, and the Information Age has given rise to the Boutique Economy in which mass production and mass consumption are rendered obsolete. Life extension therapies have increased the human lifespan by centuries. Loyal...

Would the real Alaska please stand up?  This was the challenge put to ten of Alaska’s finest authors: to share unique and intimate perspectives—some previously published, some new to this volume—that reach beyond the usual stereotypes to an Alaska that can’t be packaged or staged. ...

The year is 2135, and the international program to seed the galaxy with human colonies has stalled as greedy, immoral powerbrokers park their starships in Earth's orbit and begin to convert them into space condos. Ellen Starke's head, rescued from the fiery crash that killed her mother, struggles...

An epic new science fiction series about family, faith, and alien invasion in the wilds of Alaska When a shooting star plunges through the atmosphere and touches down in the Alaska wilderness, only two earthlings are around to witness the event. But they see two utterly different things. What...

An epic new science fiction series about faith, family, and alien invasion in the wilds of Alaska. This compilation ebook includes the full text of Books 1 and 2, more than a quarter million words in all. When a shooting star plunges through the atmosphere and touches down in the Alaska wilderness,...

Sound the Trumpet — Light the Signal Fires From the alien’s point of view, its First Contact with earthlings (Book 1) is a bust, but at least it has survived the ordeal. After executing an emergency landing on the nearest inhabited rock, the celestial being is captured by the Prophecy...

This title is stand-alone short story. "Yurek Rutz, Yurek Rutz, Yurek Rutz" is an outright funny story of a quest for immortality through a catchy jingle and a hole in the Alaskan permafrost. It's also a tale of the quirky inhabitants of the author's home in Fairbanks. —Denver...