{"title":"Jack Dann","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"ghosts-by-gaslight-paperback","title":"Ghosts by Gaslight - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdited by Jack Dann (World Fantasy Award-winning co-editor of \u003cem\u003eDreaming Down Under\u003c\/em\u003e) and Nick Gevers (acclaimed editor and book reviewer), \u003cem\u003eGhosts by Gaslight\u003c\/em\u003e is a showcase collection of all-new stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense by modern masters of horror, fantasy, sf, and the paranormal. An absolutely mind-boggling gathering of some of today's very best dark storytellers--including Peter Beagle, James Morrow, Sean Williams, Gene Wolfe, Garth Nix, Marly Youmans, Jeffery Ford, and Robert Silverberg--\u003cem\u003eGhosts by Gaslight\u003c\/em\u003e offers chilling gothic and spectral tales in a delightfully twisted Victorian and Edwardian vein. 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The outstanding bestselling authors include Garth Nix, Terry Dowling, Sean McMullen, Kim Wilkins, Sara Douglass, A. Bertram Chandler, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Stephen Dedman, Trudi Canavan, John Birmingham, Margo Lanagan, Janeen Webb, Isobelle Carmody, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing the World Fantasy Award-winning \u003cem\u003eDreaming Down-Under\u003c\/em\u003e, acclaimed editor Jack Dann gathers thirty-five of the best and brightest in a golden age of Australian fiction to pen fantastic new tales to shock, astound, and delight. The outstanding bestselling authors include Garth Nix, Terry Dowling, Sean McMullen, Kim Wilkins, Sara Douglass, A. Bertram Chandler, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, Stephen Dedman, Trudi Canavan, John Birmingham, Margo Lanagan, Janeen Webb, Isobelle Carmody, and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51459927671007,"sku":"9780061364082","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/z3AgwOvAFD9780061364082.webp?v=1790369612"},{"product_id":"da-vinci-rising-the-diamond-pit-wildside-double-9-paperback","title":"Da Vinci Rising \/ The Diamond Pit (Wildside Double #9) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of the old \"Ace Doubles\" (flip one book over to read the second title)--here is the ninth Wildside Double: DA VINCI RISING, by Jack Dann Imagine what would happen if Leonardo da Vinci--the Albert Einstein of the Renaissance--was actually able to build and fly his fabulous flying machine. In this marvelous story of high political intrigue, danger, adventure, and ethical dilemma, Leonardo faces the difficult and dangerous consequences of what happens when you try to turn dreams into reality. Winner of the 1996 Nebula Award! THE DIAMOND PIT, by Jack Dann The magazine Ideomancer called this tale an action story, a moral meditation, and a critique of pulp heroes that takes place \"against the backdrop of early airplanes, kidnappings, ragtime piano, spectacular chateaux, Faulknerian histories, elaborate gardens, romantic interludes, catacombs, battles, infidelity, and cold-blooded murder.\" Winner of the Ditmar Award!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67576408604895,"sku":"9781434411907","price":23.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6LwmfTNPAE9781434411907.webp?v=1790380450"},{"product_id":"the-economy-of-light-jubilee-wildside-double-22-paperback","title":"The Economy of Light \/ Jubilee (Wildside Double #22) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of the old Ace Doubles (flip one book over to read the second title), here's the twenty-second Wildside Double: THE ECONOMY OF LIGHT, by Jack Dann. This is the story of a Nazi hunter's journey to find the man who tortured him and murdered his family, as he penetrates the depths of the Amazon jungle to experience an extraordinary \"dream time.\" Michael Swanwick called this extraordinary novel a \"dark quest into the heart of dreams.\" It is a magnificent depiction of a modern descent into hell...and the frightening--and profoundly surprising--consequences of redemption. JUBILEE, by Jack Dann. Peter Lindsay lives in Melbourne, Australia. Charles Blackford is an American trying to relive a happier time in Athens. Both men have lost their wives. And now they must decide how to cope with the overwhelming changes being wrought by transcendent emergences from the sea. This is the quintessential \"First Contact\" story, a mind-bendingly brilliant exploration into what is alien...and what it means to be human. 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Sargent published the first novel in her \"Venus\" trilogy, Venus of Dreams, in 1986; it was followed by Venus of Shadows (1988) and Child of Venus (2001). For the first time, Dream of Venus collects the short fiction set against the backdrop of the author's Venus novels, comprising four stories written after the trilogy had been completed. As Sargent writes in her Introduction: \"Characters and stories existing in the interfaces of the novels began to speak to me.\" These are tales that can be enjoyed both for themselves and by longtime fans of the Venus trilogy. DECIMATED: TEN SCIENCE FICTION STORIES, by Jack Dann and George Zebrowski. Long before their award-nominated and awarded stories and novels, these two writers word-jammed together, learning the music of story writing and the blood and bones of distinctive prose. And all these early efforts were published! Here they are again, together in one place--ten riveting stories of science fiction--as entertaining as they were fun to write--including the previously unpublished tale, \"The Standard Crisis Scenario\"!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67892268794079,"sku":"9781434445018","price":24.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/6yKYuQlFYT9781434445018.webp?v=1790916684"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jack-dann.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}