William F. Wu

Beyond Aurora awaits a brand new world...of robots! A man without memory named Derec, and a mysterious woman known as Ariel are trapped on the confusing, surprising, and sometimes deadly world of Robot City. Having solved the murder of an unknown human and proven to the robots that they are innocent, Derec and Ariel are faced with ever-growing emergencies. They discover that the City contains a cyborg that is dangerously insane, and learn of a new form of self-loathing called roboticide. Derec learns that Ariel is stricken with a disease that leads to fatal madness, and both are startled to learn that the robots' positronic consciousness has given rise to artistic expressions even as the city itself grows ever more deadly to all of its inhabitants.

In a future American West where most of the people and animals are partly mechanical, totally human cowboy Louie Hong tangles with bionic outlaws and bounty hunters who are blaming him for a recent bank robbery.

Beyond Aurora awaits a brave new world of robots... A man without memory, trapped in a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious woman who claims to know who he is, but who refuses to tell him. Together, they must find an insane cyborg stalking the streets of Robot City, a time bomb indistinguishable from ordinary robots. The young man's name is Derec. The identity of his female companion and the location of the cyborg are just two of the mysteries he must solve within the fantastic confines of a most unlikely metropolis.

When students gather at the nation's top high school jazz competition in San Antonio, Texas, the musicians at Xavier Desmond High, teenagers with strange abilities, start going wayward in their efforts to outplay their rivals.

The Yellow Peril is a significant contribution to the study of Chinese immigrants and their descendants as depicted in American fiction. Building upon the earlier work of Limin Chu and others, William F. Wu gathers and analyzes myriad pieces of fiction, much of it short fiction of marginal literary merit but deep cultural significance, in arguing that "The Yellow Peril is the overwhelmingly dominant theme in American fiction about Chinese-Americans" between 1850 and 1940.

Editor's Note - essay by Shawna McCarthy With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope - novella by Kate Wilhelm Alien Lover - short story by Ted Reynolds and William F. Wu Mud/Aurora - novelette by D. D. Storm The Dim Rumble - short story by Isaac Asimov Limits - short story by Larry Niven Johnny Beercans - short story by George Guthridge and Steve Perry [as by George Florance-Guthridge and Steve Perry] The Anatomy Lesson - short story by Scott Russell Sanders The Boarder - short story by Madeleine E. Robins [as by Madeleine Robins] A Spaceship Built of Stone - short story by Lisa Tuttle Renascence - novelette by Mary Kittredge The Invisible Foe - short story by Garry Kilworth The Day of the Trifles - short story by Jon L. Breen I Have a Winter Reason - short story by Melisa Michaels One Kidnapped Clicka - short story by John Kelly Improbable Bestiary: The Bug-Eyed Monster - poem by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre Slac// - novelette by Michael P. Kube-McDowell Headlines by the Dozens (Right in My Own Kitchen) - poem by David R. Bunch Playing for Keeps - short story by Jack C. Haldeman, II Coursing - short story by Barry N. Malzberg Conversion - novelette by Bob Shaw

xvi, 162 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : 17 cm