A Fantastic Holiday Season

Kevin J. Anderson

thg 10 2013 · WordFire +ORM

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Festive and fanciful tales that capture the spirit of Christmas from Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jerry Oltion, Larry Correia, and others.
 
What if Santa were naughty and not nice at all? In A Fantastic Holiday Season, eighteen stories—both blood-curdling and heartwarming—portray Christmas in ways you’ve never imagined. These are tales that can be shared around a fireplace on a cold winter’s night from a talented group of writers who celebrate the season in the best way they know how: by putting their own particular spin on the most wonderful time of the year.
 
Stories include:

• “A Christmas Caroler” by Kim Antieau
• “Jukebox Gifts” by Dean Wesley Smith
• “Santa Claus Is Coming to Get You!” by Kevin J. Anderson
• “Foreign Exchange” by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
• “The Wereyam” by Kent Patterson
• “Nutball Season” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• “These Halls” by Kathy Oltion
• “My Favorite Christmas” by David Farland
• “One Last Gift” by Jerry Oltion
•  “Inquiring Minds Want to Snow” by Rebecca Moesta
•  “The Christmas Noun” by Larry Correia

And more!

Giới thiệu tác giả

Kevin J. Anderson is the author of more than one hundred novels, 47 of which have appeared on national or international bestseller lists. He has over 20 million books in print in thirty languages. He has won or been nominated for numerous prestigious awards, including the Nebula Award, Bram Stoker Award, the SFX Reader's Choice Award, the American Physics Society's Forum Award, and New York Times Notable Book. By any measure, he is one of the most popular writers currently working in the science fiction genre. Anderson has coauthored ten books in Frank Herbert's classic DUNE universe with Herbert's son Brian. The initial deal with Bantam Books was the largest single science fiction contract in publishing history. The first novel, DUNE: HOUSE ATREIDES became a #1 international bestseller and was voted "Book of the Year" by the members of the Science Fiction Book Club by the largest margin in the history of the award. All of the subsequent DUNE novels have also been bestsellers, each one peaking even higher on the lists; the most recent volume is PAUL OF DUNE, a direct sequel to the original classic DUNE; the authors will release JESSICA OF DUNE in August 2009. For further information, see the official "Dune" site, www.dunenovels.com. Herbert and Anderson are also co-producers on a major new film of DUNE from Paramount Pictures.