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Rip-Off!

Rip-Off!

by Mike ResnickDaryl Gregory Robert Charles Wilson and others
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 05/08/2014

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Audie Award Finalist, Original Work, 2013



In Rip-Off!, 13 of today's best and most honored writers of speculative fiction face a challenge even they would be hard-pressed to conceive: Pick your favorite opening line from a classic piece of fiction (or even non-fiction)-then use it as the first sentence of an entirely original short story.



In the world of Rip-Off!, "Call me Ishmael" introduces a tough-as-nails private eye-who carries a harpoon;The Wonderful Wizard of Oz inspires the tale of an aging female astronaut who's being treated by a doctor named Dorothy Gale; andHuckleberry Finn leads to a wild ride with a foul-mouthed riverboat captain who plies the waters of Hell.



Once you listen to Rip-Off! you'll agree: If Shakespeare or Dickens were alive today, they'd be ripping off the authors in this great collection.



The stories included in Rip-Off! are:



* "Fireborn" by Robert Charles Wilson
* "The Evening Line" by Mike Resnick
* "No Decent Patrimony" by Elizabeth Bear
* "The Big Whale" by Allen M. Steele
* "Begone" by Daryl Gregory
* "The Red Menace" by Lavie Tidhar
* "Muse of Fire" by John Scalzi
* "Writer's Block" by Nancy Kress
* "Highland Reel" by Jack Campbell
* "Karin Coxswain or Death as She Is Truly Lived" by Paul Di Filippo
* "The Lady Astronaut of Mars" by Mary Robinette Kowal
* "Every Fuzzy Beast of the Earth, Every Pink Fowl of the Air" by Tad Williams
* "Declaration" by James Patrick Kelly



As a bonus, the authors introduce their stories, explaining what they ripped-off-and why.



Rip-Off! was produced in partnership with SFWA-Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America. Gardner Dozois served as project editor.
ISBN:
9781491528938
9781491528938
Category:
Science fiction
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
05-08-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Brilliance Audio
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
165x133x13mm
Weight:
0.08kg
Daryl Gregory

Daryl Gregory grew up in Chicago and has lived in various other cities within a few miles of the continent-spanning highway, Interstate 80, including his current home, Oakland, California.

He's been a high school teacher, a technical writer, and a programmer, and now writes full time, occasionally dabbling in comics and videogame scripts.

His short novel We Are All Completely Fine won the World Fantasy Award and the Shirley Jackson award, and was a finalist for the Nebula, Sturgeon, and Locus awards.

The novel Afterparty was a National Public Radio and Kirkus Best Fiction book of the year. Spoonbenders is his first work of literary fiction.

Elizabeth Bear

Elizabeth Bear was the recipient of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. She has won two Hugo Awards for her short fiction, A Sturgeon Award, and the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Bear lives in Brookfield, Massachusetts.

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