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Understanding Entropy [MultiFormat]
eBook by Barry N. Malzberg
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eBook Category: Science Fiction Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Nominee
eBook Description: An entity not bound by space or time asks a dying man if the choices he made were worth it. Beautiful prose, disturbing concepts that call into question the nature of free will.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: Science Fiction Age, 1994
Fictionwise Release Date: June 2000
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [40 KB], eReader (PDB) [20 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [6 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [6 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [59 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [76 KB], hiebook (KML) [24 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [33 KB], iSilo (PDB) [5 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [7 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [34 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [12 KB]
Words: 2032
Reading time: 5-8 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
If you enjoy examining philosophical issues and prose of a quality seen only rarely in any genre, then "Understanding Entropy" is a prize for your collection. This story addresses profound issues that each of us have or may someday be forced to deal with--but from Barry N. Malzberg's unique style you find yourself examining the issues as though they were being presented for the first time. It's a short story that will keep you thinking--how would you answer the question? -Marcia Hanson, Fictionwise Recommender
Barry Malzberg gets more than his far share of "poor" ratings here on Fictionwise, in my humble opinion. His stories are uniformly excellent, ambitious, and stylistically inventive -- although I can certainly see why they're not to everyone's taste (which is quite a different thing to being poor stories). Malzberg has long been recognized as a writer's writer -- admired by almost everyone working in the SF field, but never making the mark with the general reading public that he deserves to. You'll see exactly why in this brilliant little piece about a man dying of AIDS: there's nothing easy or sugar-coated here, just some very powerful writing. -Robert J. Sawyer, Fictionwise Recommender
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