2005 Science Fiction Paperback Award
Explore the top 2005 Science Fiction Paperback Award winners—discover acclaimed books that defined the year's best in sci-fi literature.
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The Coyote Kings of the Space-age Bachelor Pad
by Minister Faust
Hamza and Yehat are The Coyote Kings–best friends, one a disgruntled dishwasher and the other a video store clerk, but each brilliant in his own right. Yehat builds prototypes of space-age inventions in his spare time, while Hamza, a former English honors student who was kicked out of the university, writes lush, lyrical poems when he’s not blocked–which, these days, is nearly always. When the gorgeous, mysterious Sherem shows up in E-Town decked out in desert finery, Hamza’s creative spark is ignited. Who is this sophisticated woman that speaks arcane African tongues, quotes from obscure comics andStar Warsmovies, yet seems somehow too ethereal for the world Hamza inhabits? And what is the lost artifact that she and a cast of coiffed collectors and criminal cultists so desperately seek? As Hamza falls blindly in love with Sherem, little does he know that he and Yehat play the biggest part of all in the recovery of the ancient relic–and in the future of all living beings. . . .
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Stable Strategies and Others
by Eileen Gunn
Page proofs for stories and Afterwards by Howard Waldrop, May 14, 2004.
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Banner of Souls
by Liz Williams
One of Mars's most elite warriors must travel to Earth, where she is assigned to guard a very special child. The girl's name is Lunae and is grown from a secret genetic code. She alone can breach time's barrier and alter the shape of things to come.
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Apocalypse Array
by Lyda Morehouse
The End Times are at hand and the world is abuzz with speculation. Is celebrity Inquisitor Emmaline McNaughton the Antichrist? Who is the messiah?
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Air
by Geoff Ryman
What happens when the whole world goes online . . . through the air? A brilliant literary SF novel by the author of 253.
