Rick Wilber, Alan Smale

Gebundenes Buch

The Wandering Warriors

Includes two bonus stories

Beschreibung

A Romp Through Time, Space, and Ancient Rome Two award-winning writers take us on an alternate-history adventure-a 1940s barnstorming baseball team, led by retired baseball player and spy Moe Berg, is transported from rural Illinois to Ancient Rome, just after the death of Emperor Septimius Severus. The Romans-who actually played a game called "small ball"-put the captured team to work teaching baseball to the gladiators for a major Colosseum event...that turns into an over-the-top, life or death finale. Baseball hijinks, a wild ride through Rome in a careening team bus, a hint of romance, and some viciously good hitting and fielding. Will the Wandering Warriors make it home? Will the widowed empress escape the fate her evil son has in mind for her? Will the rattletrap team bus make it way through time and space (and Roman roads) back to Illinois? Will Chicago White Sox owner Grace Comiskey show up to make an unlikely offer to the team's best player? "Wilber and Smale (are) two literary tricksters who present for your reading pleasure a fantastical romp featuring two cultures nobody but Rick and Alan had ever thought to let clash: barnstorming baseball players and Imperial Romans. You will believe in doubleheaders in the Coliseum. You will marvel at gladiators flailing at curve balls. And you will be tickled by the historical celebrities who take part in America's ... um ... Rome's Pastime. Fun is hereby decreed."-James Patrick Kelly, winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards

Autor

Rick Wilber has published a half-dozen novels and short-story collections, several college textbooks on writing and the mass media, a memoir about his father's life in baseball, and more than fifty short stories in major markets, including the Sidewise Award winning "Something Real," and the poignant "Today is Today," reprinted in the Best Science Fiction of 2019 (Prime Books, 2019) edited by Rich Horton. Both stories and seven more tales of determination are in this collection.Wilber is the editor of several reprint anthologies, including Field of Fantasies: Baseball Stories of the Strange and Supernatural, Future Media, and Making History: Classic Alternate History Stories, among others.Wilber's novel, Alien Morning, was a finalist for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel of 2016, and the sequel, Alien Day: Notes from Holmanville, will be out in 2020.The son of a major-league baseball player and coach, and a three-sport college scholarship athlete himself, Wilber often incorporates sports into his fiction. He is the father of a Down syndrome son and often incorporates the disabled in his fiction, as well. He is a Visiting Professor in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Western Colorado University, and he is he co-founder and co-judge with Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine Editor Sheila Williams of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing, awarded annually at the International Conference on the Fantastic in Orlando, Florida.He lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wordfire Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 463g
• ISBN-13: 9781680571240
• ISBN-10: 1680571249
• Artikelnr.: 59921846