Arthur Granger, an aristocratic and unsuccessful novelist, betrays the ideals he prides himself on for the unrequited love of a young woman. And no ordinary woman, she, but an ethereal, goddess-like, nameless agent from a strange world.
a Message Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch;Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the Country and its Inhabitants,their Customs, Manners and Government.
A theoretical physicist and a programmer-turned-writer debate the nature of time. Through an imaginative conversation, the physicist explains to his friend that time does not flow, but is an illusion. Fascinated by the idea that the future already exists but he cannot remember it, the writer decides to capture this revelation in a story… although, in some “now” of the universe, he may have already written it.
A volume in the Earthbound Series Nykkyo Kyhana is an ordinary guy: He has a boss, a job that's a grind, a wife who doesn't understand him and a high-maintenance girlfriend on the side. He just happens to hail from another planet -- one 200 lightyears from Earth and with a history that's inextricably entwined with Earth's future. He is sent to Earth to gather plants for his homeworld's agriculture. That mission becomes far from mundane when he meets a woman and realizes his civilization's survival may hinge on her fate.