This edition collects 23 illustrated tales of science fiction by Nelder of Great Britain and Blevins of the United States. The two authors are the founders of Adventure Books of Seattle and serve as editors for the science fiction magazine, "Escape Velocity.
INCREMENTAL: a small but regular increase in value or worth. It can be decremental too. These short bursts of fiction are a smorgasbord of the surreal - science fiction, horror, weird or just humorous.
Two highly experienced, award-winning writers and short story competition judges share everything they know about entering, judging and (most importantly) winning short story competitions, in an easy-to-follow Q&A format. Find out: Exactly what the judges are looking for. How the scoring system works. How to score highly in every category. What impresses judges - and what turns them off. How to write exceptional short stories. Which competitions give you the best chance of winning. How to avoid being disqualified. And much more. Also included are two award-winning short stories from Jon Pinnock and Geoff Nelder. About the authors Dave Haslett is the founder of ideas4writers, the ideas and inspiration website for writers. He won his first writing contest at the age of 7, and has judged several contests on the ideas4writers website that each attracted hundreds of entries. Geoff Nelder is an award-winning short story writer and novelist. He was the fiction judge for the Whittaker Prize in 2009 and 2012 and the FicFun international fiction contest in 2018.
Alien Retrograde Infectious Amnesia Today, Jack caught a bug at work. He catches a bus home. By the time he disembarks in the desert town of Rosamond, all the other passengers and the driver have fuzzy heads. Jack had caught an amnesia bug, and it's infectious. Imagine the ramifications: The passengers arrive home, infecting family; some shop en route infecting everyone they meet. The bus driver receives more passengers giving them change for last week's prices and today's amnesia. Some passengers work at the power plant, the water treatment works, the hospital, fire station. All shut down in weeks. One man, Ryder Nape, realizes what's going on, but can he persuade friends to barricade themselves in a secluded valley, hiding from the amnesia bug? ""Geoff Nelder inhabits Science Fiction the way other people inhabit their clothes."" - Jon Courtenay Grimwood ""Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction--the one about the true limits of personal responsibility."" -Brad Linaweaver Robert J. Sawyer calls ARIA a ""fascinating project."" ""ARIA has an intriguing premise, and is written in a very accessible style."" -Mike Resnick
The squashed nose on a wet pavement, followed by a brutal yet comic internment lead our hero to a gut-wrenching escape. A dangerous winter trek across the Northumberland Moors, even with a shocking surprising amorous interlude to raise the temperature a little, helps our criminal to survive however he can in the backstreets of Cumbrian towns. But he can't just hide, he has to find out who is after him and what he discovers is more than is good for him. Keeping just in front of a devious assassin, his frequently changed identity crosses to Amsterdam where he gets his friends into trouble. Can he find out what is really going on? Can you find out before him? The clues are all here.
Alien Retrograde Infectious Amnesia In 2015, a case found in the struts of the International Space Station is brought to Earth. It releases a virus giving people amnesia. They lose their memory at the rate of a year's worth every week. No one is immune. Infectious amnesia is unheard of. Industry breaks down as people forget where they work and how to perform their duties. People die as they forget their medication, and production ceases along with food, water supply, and energy. A few small groups realise what is happening in time and find isolated refuges. Ryder Nape takes a group to a secluded Welsh valley where safety from the virus is possible. Biologists call the virus ARIA: Alien Retrograde Infectious Amnesia. In this conclusion to the trilogy, Dr. Antonio Menzies arrives on Zadok. The ARIA-3 bomb had reached there two days previously, causing havoc. Surviving Zadokians consider a mass-migration to Earth to escape the effects of ARIA-3. Antonio's madness grows, and he makes disturbing discoveries in their laboratories. Meanwhile, Ryder's group is now on a Pacific island. His relationship with Jena is unstable and others have coruscating infatuations in tune with the increasingly desperate situation. When their island becomes unsustainable, and the alien-Earth hybrid weed gets out of control, where should they go? What was the Zadokian's real purpose with the ARIA viruses, and how does it all end? "ARIA "mingles the most optimistic calculations from the Drake Equation with a distopian outcome, creating a read that is as intriguing as it is fun."" -Magdalena Ball, owner of Compulsive Reader ""If you like your scifi offbeat, original, and backed by science, you're going to love ARIA."" -Kenyon Charboneaux, editor and writing tutor at Eros & Rust "ARIA: "a smart, entertaining gem."" -Dr. Ira Nayman, author of the Transdimensional Authority Series
When Reece and Zita become lovers, past and present collide as the spirits of their ancestors force them to relive one of the greatest battles of the 16th century. Xaghra's Revenge follows the fate of a sixteenth century abducted family, and of two contemporary lovers thrown together by the ancients. Reece and Zita are unaware that one descends from the pirates, the other from the abducted family. While ancient Gozo spirits seek revenge, so do the Ottoman Corsairs, who intend to roll back history, and this time win the siege of Malta. The history is real. The places are authentic. The tension and excitement are palpable. "A gripping tale, full of energy and mystery, keeping you wanting for more with every line you read." John Bonello, First-Prize Winner of the Malta National Book Award "I liked it. There's a foreground of interesting characters combined with a skilfully fed-in hint of weirdness." Jaine Fenn - Hidden Empire series.
Exit, Pursued by a Bee is driven by a Southern-belle heroine-astronaut, involves a Palaeolithic mongrel called Kur, Glastonbury Festival chaos, steamy sex in space, a mean-momma loose-cannon journalist and an out-of-control general who'd fix anything by nuking it. They are all involved in the attempt to overcome time-quake calamities created when alien artifacts depart from Earth, oblivious to the chaos they leave behind.
Since 2009, The Horror Zine has published exceptional horror fiction by emerging talent and today's leading authors. Editor Jeani Rector selects only the most inventive and captivating tales for each issue. In addition to short fiction, The Horror Zine features horror-themed poetry and artwork. Now The Horror Zine brings you the dark delights from the ezine into a print magazine.This Spring 2013 issue of The Horror Zine Magazine features Geoff Nelder, C. Wait, Christopher S. Nelson, Richard Hill, Ashby McGowan, Kip Hanson, Bruce Memblatt, Lisa Cromwell, David Elliott, Daniel Davis, Philip Michael Roberts, Jagjiwan Sohal, Troy Banyan, David F. Daumit, Jack Veasey, Betsy A. Riley, Kristen Houghton, Paul Uriaz, John Carney, Stephanie Smith, Scott Lesperance, Dennis Bagwell, Scott Urban, Elizabeth Prasse, Pedro Silva, Eliza van Veen, Heather Russell, and Vikki Yeates.
The Sturgeon General is an anthology of comedic writing, compiling short works of fiction and non-fiction and other miscellany for the hilarious good of all. Each issue features the work of a single comedy writer. This edition is a collection of non-fiction articles from writer Geoff Lemon. It includes his article from 2011 'You Shut Your Goddamn Carbon Taxin Mouth' – an hilarious rant against the nay-sayers of the proposed carbon tax, which was a viral phenomenon. The collection also includes an array of inspired and witty political and travel writing, including an epic series of misadventures in South America.
Statistical analysis is ubiquitous in modern medical research. Logistic regression, generalized linear models, random effects models, and Cox's regression all have become commonplace in the medical literature. But while statistical software such as SAS make routine application of these techniques possible, users who are not primarily statisticians must take care to correctly implement the various procedures and correctly interpret the output. Statistical Analysis of Medical Data Using SAS demonstrates how to use SAS to analyze medical data. Each chapter addresses a particular analysis method. The authors briefly describe each procedure, but focus on its SAS implementation and properly interpreting the output. The carefully designed presentation relegates the theoretical details to "Displays," so that the code and results can be explored without interruption. All of the code and data sets used in the book are available for download from either the SAS Web site or www.crcpress.com. Der and Everitt, authors of the best-selling Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using SAS, bring all of their considerable talent and experience to bear in this book. Step-by-step instructions, lucid explanations and clear examples combine to form an outstanding, self-contained guide--suitable for medical researchers and statisticians alike--to using SAS to analyze medical data.
Updated to reflect SAS 9.2, A Handbook of Statistical Analyses using SAS, Third Edition continues to provide a straightforward description of how to conduct various statistical analyses using SAS. Each chapter shows how to use SAS for a particular type of analysis. The authors cover inference, analysis of variance, regression, generalized linear mo
Written with medical statisticians and medical researchers in mind, this intermediate-level reference explores the use of SAS for analyzing medical data. Applied Medical Statistics Using SAS covers the whole range of modern statistical methods used in the analysis of medical data, including regression, analysis of variance and covariance, longitudinal and survival data analysis, missing data, generalized additive models (GAMs), and Bayesian methods. The book focuses on performing these analyses using SAS, the software package of choice for those analysing medical data. Features Covers the planning stage of medical studies in detail; several chapters contain details of sample size estimation Illustrates methods of randomisation that might be employed for clinical trials Covers topics that have become of great importance in the 21st century, including Bayesian methods and multiple imputation Its breadth and depth, coupled with the inclusion of all the SAS code, make this book ideal for practitioners as well as for a graduate class in biostatistics or public health. Complete data sets, all the SAS code, and complete outputs can be found on an associated website: http://support.sas.com/amsus
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