Sixteen all-new stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multiple-award-winning editor Gardner Dozois From pulp adventures such as Edgar Rice Burroughs’s Carson of Venus to classic short stories such as Ray Bradbury’s “The Long Rain” to visionary novels such as C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra, the planet Venus has loomed almost as large in the imaginations of science fiction writers as Earth’s next-nearest neighbor, Mars. But while the Red Planet conjured up in Golden Age science fiction stories was a place of vast deserts and ruined cities, bright blue Venus was its polar opposite: a steamy, swampy jungle world with strange creatures lurking amidst the dripping vegetation. Alas, just as the last century’s space probes exploded our dreams of Mars, so, too, did they shatter our romantic visions of Venus, revealing, instead of a lush paradise, a hellish world inimical to all life. But don’t despair! This new anthology of sixteen original stories by some of science fiction’s best writers—edited by #1 New York Times bestselling author George R. R. Martin and award-winning editor Gardner Dozois—turns back the clock to that more innocent time, before the hard-won knowledge of science vanquished the infinite possibilities of the imagination. Join our cast of award-winning contributors—including Elizabeth Bear, David Brin, Joe Haldeman, Gwyneth Jones, Mike Resnick, Eleanor Arnason, Allen M. Steele, and more—as we travel back in time to a planet that never was but should have been: a young, rain-drenched world of fabulous monsters and seductive mysteries. FEATURING ALL-NEW STORIES BY Eleanor Arnason • Elizabeth Bear • David Brin • Tobias S. Buckell • Michael Cassutt • Joe Haldeman • Matthew Hughes • Gwyneth Jones • Joe R. Lansdale • Stephen Leigh • Paul McAuley • Ian McDonald • Garth Nix • Mike Resnick • Allen M. Steele • Lavie Tidhar And an Introduction by Gardner Dozois

Professor Thompson's subject is the uneasy position of art within Marxist ideology: what part can the arts of the past play in the new society? On the one hand there was the sense of a continuing cultural tradition, more or less independent of ideological change symbolized in the image of the Venus of Milo, and on the other, the iconoclastic demands for a complete break with the past in all its forms made by revolutionary artists, who found in the myth of Lot's wife a symbol of the attractions of the past. Originally published in 1978, the book discusses the problems and paradoxes involved from a general theoretical point of view and in the work of individual artists. Professor Thompson suggests that the power inherent in art to resist social and ideological changes undermines all rationalistic theories of art, those of the Marxists and those fashionable in the West.

The Victorian novelist Ellen Wood, better known as “Mrs. Henry Wood”, became an international publishing phenomenon with the controversial ‘East Lynne’. Her works are noted for their domestic dramas, enticing mysteries and inimitable gift of storytelling, making them a unique example of nineteenth century fiction. This comprehensive eBook presents Wood’s collected works, with numerous illustrations, many rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 3) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Wood’s life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * 29 novels, with individual contents tables * Many rare novels appearing in digital print for the first time * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare short stories * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the short stories * Easily locate the short stories you want to read * Includes Wood’s rare non-fiction text OUR CHILDREN – available in no other collection * Includes the memoir by the author’s son – first time in digital print * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * Updated with 9 novels and a biography CONTENTS: The Novels Danesbury House (1860) East Lynne (1861) A Life’s Secret (1862) Mrs. Halliburton’s Troubles (1862) The Channings (1862) The Foggy Night at Offord (1863) The Shadow of Ashlydyat (1863) Verner’s Pride (1863) Lord Oakburn’s Daughters (1864) Oswald Cray (1864) Trevlyn Hold (1864) William Allair (1864) Mildred Arkell (1865) It May Be True (1865) Elster’s Folly (1866) St. Martin’s Eve (1866) Lady Adelaide’s Oath (1867) Orville College (1867) Anne Hereford (1868) The Red Court Farm (1868) Roland Yorke (1869) Bessy Rane (1870) George Canterbury’s Will (1870) Within the Maze (1872) The Master of Greylands (1872) Edina (1876) Pomeroy Abbey (1878) Court Netherleigh (1881) The Story of Charles Strange (1888) The Shorter Fiction The Elchester College Boys (1861) The Ghost of the Hollow Field (1867) Johnny Ludlow (1874) Johnny Ludlow, Second Series (1880) Johnny Ludlow, Third Series (1885) Johnny Ludlow, Four Series (1889) Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series (1899) Johnny Ludlow, Sixth Series (1899) The Short Stories List of Short Stories in Chronological Order List of Short Stories in Alphabetical Order The Non-Fiction Our Children (1876) The Biographies Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood (1887) by Charles W. Wood Ellen Wood (1900) by Thomas Seccombe Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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