Turn Left to Tomorrow [Paperback]

Robin Wayne Bailey (Author), Selina Rosen (Editor), Andrew Probert (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2007

Robin Wayne Bailey is best known for his large body of Fantasy work, but he is also a very accomplished science fiction writer. This book is a showcase of the best of his science fiction short work spanning his entire career from some of his earliest stories to some of his most recent. Open your mind and extend your senses as one of the field s best story tellers builds worlds, civilizations, and situations filled with intrigue, suspense, and danger. You will meet a myriad of complex and engaging characters as they tackle their different environments and realities. Every story will leave you eager to read the next and leave a lasting impression.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

In his first collection, Bailey exhibits the expansive imagination that distinguishes his Dragonkin novels and led to his current presidency of the Science Fiction Writers of America. With a heavy bent toward action-driven military sf, Bailey's tales often feature jaded antiheroes grappling with ill-fated careers and hostile environments. A sword-wielding officer in a battle-weary space brigade forges an intimate relationship with her enemy in a bid to end the war. A blind starship pilot seizes the chance to regain his eyesight on a mission to rescue an imperiled craft carrying his commanding officer's parents. In "Doing Time," a time traveler accidentally jumps 10 million years ahead and stumbles on a prison camp exiled to the far future. In the volume's longest, most dynamic story, "Toy Soldiers," a mercenary exposes the identities of an embattled planet's guerilla warriors as ageless, superintelligent children. From the first paragraph, Bailey's visceral prose grabs and doesn't let go, resulting in a collection as likely to stimulate adrenaline as to entertain. Hays, Carl

Review

ATTENTION: LOVERS OF SPECULATIVE FICTION! You may think you've seen it all. You may think you've read it all. You may think you've traveled through time. You may think you've visited alien worlds. You may think you've lived with robots. You may think you've been teleported to alternate Earths. You may think you've seen every star in the Galaxy, and then some. You may think you've already encountered every possible variation on every great theme Science Fiction has ever produced. If so, then all I can say is: Ladies and gentlemen, meet Robin Wayne Bailey. Every story in TURN LEFT TO TOMORROW is both a timeless tale and a postmodern miracle because no one else can crack open the classic themes of speculative fiction and supercharge them for the New Millennium like Robin Bailey. From the chrono-shock of "Doing Time" ... to the extraterrestrial wonder of "The Golden Cats" ... to the Victorian horror of "The Terminal Solution" ... to the poignant future of "Keepers of Earth" ... to the telekinetic hope of "The Children's Crusade" ... TURN LEFT TO TOMORROW will warp you to eleven amazing worlds of infinite imagination and superior storytelling. So suit up and brace yourselves. You're in for an adrenaline-pumped, heart-stopping ... incredible ride through a stunning series of science-fiction shockwaves. And luckily for you: Your guide and pilot for the journey is the fearless, skilled and, I'm afraid, mad, quite mad Robin Wayne Bailey. --Bradley Denton

Product Details

• Paperback: 242 pages
• Publisher: Yard Dog Press (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893687848
• ISBN-13: 978-1893687844
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,897,606 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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