**A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLERA jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today’s billionaires.**As the ultra-wealthy siphon off an ever-larger share of the world’s wealth, they now dominate us to a degree unimaginable even a decade ago. With their voracious consumption, unbridled resource exploitation, and relentless obstruction of climate action, they are rapidly undermining democracy and destroying the ...

Writing and America surveys the writing genres that have contributed to the American notions of America . Essays from scholars from both side of the Atlantic chart the range of responses to American nationhood from colonial times to the present and include dissenting responses from communities such as native American, black and feminist writers. Case studies from writers such as James Fenimore Cooper and William Carlos Williams provide a framework for discussions on topics such as...

The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is emerging as a vital lynch-pin in China's efforts to establish a maritime and continental zone of influence in the Indo-Pacific region. The Belt and Road Initiative and the Future of Regional Order in the Indo-Pacific interrogates to what extent BRI represents an achievable vision of a China-centric order in Asia and explores its major security implications for the region. The contributions to this volume provide up-to-date analysis of the effect of BRI...

Five stories from top writers of speculative fiction: science fiction, fantasy and the downright strange, stories from the heart, stories to make you think and wonder.The stories in this volume are:"Filming the Making of the Film of the Making of Fitzcarraldo" by Garry Kilworth"Flying to Byzantium" by Lisa Tuttle"Arrhythmia" by Neil Williamson"Dr Vanchovy's Final Case" by Stephen Palmer"The Girl Who Died for Art and Lived" by Eri...

Men want to be better fathers, and today they're trying harder than ever. They jog behind strollers, leave work early for parent-teacher conferences, and roughhouse with their kids before they've had a chance to change out of their suits.But many men aren't building the relationships with their sons that they'd hoped for. And sons are finding it hard to confide in fathers who must devote so much of their time to building careers that both keep them from their families and keep thei...

The November/December 2016 issue of the Hugo Award winning Uncanny Magazine.Featuring new fiction by Paul Cornell, Brooke Bolander, Jennifer Marie Brissett, Alex Bledsoe, Kat Howard, and Nalo Hopkinson, reprinted fiction by Amal El-Mohtar, essays by Alyssa Wong, Monica Valentinelli, Navah Wolfe, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Keidra Chaney, and Hao Jingfang (translated by Ken Liu), poetry by Neil Gaiman, Theodora Goss, and Sofia Samatar, interviews with Jennifer Marie Brissett and ...

The 11th Hour Audio Anthology is a collection of eleven macabre tales created by masters of modern audio drama to haunt and terrify you.Intensive Care by James ComtoisAlex Ericson is checked into a New England Hospital after a major car accident. The more he wakes up, the more Alex realizes his condition is more critical than he could ever believe.Heavenly Deception by Steve SchneiderWhen Prudence reunites with her older sister Zara after 18 month...

A missing child. A tormented detective. A ticking clock.Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed ‘Mister Whisper,’ earning himself a commendation, a drinking problem, and a broken marriage in the process.Now, he spends his days working in Glasgow’s Major Investigations Team, and his nights reliving the horrors of what he saw.And what he did.When another child disappears a hundred miles north in the Highlands, Jack...

Six months have passed since the onset of the Krenaran war, the E.D.F and their Solarian allies have managed to push back their brutal Krenaran assailants, although at a terrible cost. Many once proud colonies, stations and facilities now lie in ruins due to the ferocity of the fighting, and millions of lives have been lost.Michael Alexander; now a captain, and in full command of the Liberty, has been left a haunted man by the loss of his wife and son, he must now put the past behi...

Five years have passed since the great Krenaran war, and humanity have began to rebuild from the devastation wrought upon them.A love survey ship drops out of plasma drive on the fringes of the far flung Auriga system, searching for potential new colony worlds.As it ventures further in-system, the crew are excited to discover what appears to be an immense alien installation built upon the surface of one of the planets. An installation abandoned for some three hundred years....

They call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost space colonies. Alex Alexander, ship's biologist, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. The planet Floria initially appears to be one of the few Earth colonies that's actually prospered since its initial settlement. But underneath ...

Time travel is one of the staples of science fiction, right up there with aliens, space opera, and robots. Most science fiction authors have written at least one time travel story. This collection samples some of the best.TIME OUT, by Edward M. LernerTHESE STONES WILL REMEMBER, by Reginald BretnorPROJECT MASTODON, by Clifford D. Simak12:01 P.M., by Richard A. LupoffTIME CONSIDERED AS A SERIES OF THERMITE BURNS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, by Damien Broderick