The Invisible Country

In these nine extraordinary tales, acclaimed author Paul J. McAuley illuminates the unseen and the unimaginable with brilliant prose and incandescent conceptual daring. These stories explore the wonders and dangers of biotechnology and its and travel from a distant alternate past to a breathtaking far-flung future. in sixteenth century Venice, transformed by a premature Industrial Revolution, a physician mourning his daughter's passing meets a mountebank with the power to raise the dead. In a tomorrow of raw and terrible beauty, revolutionaries struggle to free genetically engineered creatures fated to die in combat games and violent sexual encounters. And ten million years in the future, on an artificial world orbiting an immense black hole, a civilization of awesome strangeness and complexity created -- and abandoned -- by God-like Preservers is about to meet the human ancestors of its makers. Enter "The Invisible Country" -- and prepare to be dazzled. Introduction • essay by Kim Newman The Invisible Country • (1991) Afterword (The Invisible Country) • (1996) Gene Wars • (1991) Afterword (Gene Wars) • (1996) Prison Dreams • (1992) Afterword (Prison Dreams) • (1996) Recording Angel • [The Book of Confluence] • (1995) Afterword (Recording Angel) • (1996) Dr. Luther's Assistant • (1993) Afterword (Dr. Luther's Assistant) • (1996) The Temptation of Dr Stein • (1994) Afterword (The Temptation of Dr. Stein) • (1996) Children of the Revolution • (1993) Afterword (Children of the Revolution) • (1996) The True History of Dr. Pretorius • (1995) Afterword (The True History of Dr. Pretorious) • (1996) Slaves • (1995) Afterword (Slaves) • (1996)