In a future where sporting competitions take place on distant planets, a Hawaiian surfer seeks to reclaim her fame and followers while defeating her nemesis once and for all. But once she hears the songs of the Thalassa, she'll discover that winning might not be the most important thing.

The Kumulipo is the sacred creation chant of a family of Hawaiian alii, or ruling chiefs. Composed and transmitted entirely in the oral tradition, its 2000 lines provide an extended genealogy proving the family's divine origin and tracing the family history from the beginning of the world.

'A classic tale of sporting rivalry' Observer 'The tales are gripping ... surfing emerges as a dangerous, solitary and potential fatal obsession' Telegraph 'A fascinating glimpse into obsession' Independent A gripping true story of a tragic and bitter rivalry in the world of surfing Winter. Mid-eighties. Hawai'i. Two surfers are battling for supremacy at Waimea Bay, home to the biggest waves in the world. Old-school, and some say too old, Ken Bradshaw commands respect with his fearlessness and fearsome temper. Mark Foo is the new kid on the block. Icon of the younger generation, this photogenic Chinese-American wows the crowds with his lightning repertoire of cool moves. One perfect day at Sunset Beach, Foo audaciously steals a wave from under Bradshaw's nose, sparking a bitter feud that is to last for over ten years and end in tragedy.

Award-winning artist Whelan has illustrated the work of almost every major author in speculative fiction. Here are featured all the artist's major recent paintings, as well as a series of 25 never-before-seen works produced especially for this book. Over 100 full-color reproductions.

Bathroom Songs: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet is the first book of essays to consider the poetry of one of the twentieth- and early twenty-first-century's most important literary, affect, and queer theorists. Acclaimed as one of the "truly innovative" poets of her generation, by Maud Ellmann, Sedgwick's work as a poet is, perhaps, less well known, but is no less compelling than her ground-breaking trilogy of queer theoretical texts: Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire, Epistemology of the Closet, and Tendencies. The book includes seven, specially commissioned essays considering Sedgwick's published poetry and writing about poets, by Angus Brown, Meg Boulton, Mary Baine Campbell, Jason Edwards, Kathryn R. Kent, Monica Pearl, and Benjamin Westwood, that range across the complete range of Sedgwick's work, from her earliest published lyrics through her first collection of poetry, Fat Art, Thin Art, to her part-haiku, part-prose autobiography, A Dialogue on Love, and beyond. In addition, the book contains over forty of Sedgwick's previously uncollected poems, ranging from her earliest poem on T.E. Lawrence to her final poem 'Death', introduced and contextualized in a second essay by Edwards. TABLE OF CONTENTS // Part I. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet Jason Edwards - Introduction: Bathroom Songs? Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick as a Poet Angus Connell Brown - Look with Your Hands Ben Westwood - The Abject Animal Poetics of 'The Warm Decembers' Kathryn R. Kent - Eve's Muse Mary Baine Campbell - 'Shyly / as a big sister I would yearn / to trace its avocations', or, Who's the Muse? Monica Pearl - Queer Therapy: On the Couch with Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Meg Boulton - Waiting in the Dark: Some Musings on Sedgwick's Performative(s) Part II. The Uncollected Poems Jason Edwards - Introduction: Someday We'll Look Back with Pleasure Even on is: Sedgwick's Uncollected Poems Poems Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit - Death - Bathroom Song - Pandas in Trees - Untitled (Blake panda poems) - Tru-Cut - Valentine - 2/81 - Lost Letter - The Palimpsest - Explicit - Hank Williams and a Cat - Jimmy Lane - Jukebox - Die Sommernacht hat mir's angetan - Phantom Limb - Two P.O.W. Suicides - Once There Was a Way to Get Back Homeward - The Ring of Fire - The Prince of Love in the Desert Night - Artery - A Death by Water - Yellow Toes - Soutine - Another Poem from the Creaking Bed - Cain - The City and Man - Lullaby - No More Dusk - Ribs of Steel - To a Friend - When in Minute Script - To a Swimmer - Untitled ('Wonder no more upon the mysteries') - From an Ending for ' e Triumph of Life' - T.E. Lawrence and the Old Man, His Imagined Tormentor - Movie Party, Telluride House, Ithaca, New York - Falling in Love over The Seven Pillars - Calling Overseas - What the Poet ought And What She Found in the Telluride Files: - Epilogue: Teachers and Lovers - The Last Poem of Yv*r W*nt*rs - Saul at Jeshimon [First Variant] - Saul at Jeshimon [Second Variant] - Siegfried Rex von Munthe, Soldier and Poet, Killed December, 1939, on the German Battleship Graf Spee - Lawrence Reads La Morte D'Arthur in the Desert

Earth refugees threaten a peaceful space settlement in this influential novel from the Golden Age science fiction author of 2001: A Space Odyssey. More than two thousand years in the future, a small human colony thrives on the ocean paradise of Thalassa—sent there centuries ago to continue the human race before Earth’s destruction. Thalassa’s resources are vast—and the human colony has lived a bucolic life there. But their existence is threatened when the spaceship Magellan arrives on their world—carrying one million refugees from Earth, fleeing the dying planet. Reputed to be Arthur C. Clarke’s favorite novel, The Songs of Distant Earth addresses several fascinating scientific questions unresolved in their time—including the question of why so few neutrinos from the sun have been measured on Earth. In addition, Clarke presents an inventive depiction of the use of vacuum energy to power spacecraft—and the technical logistics of space travel near the speed of light. “Clarke’s simple, musical style never falters in this sobering yet far from bleak commentary on humanity’s longing for the stars. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal

Meriel is an orphan, and her earliest memories are of a place too wonderful to be real. When the benign but strict rules governing the ownership of property threaten to take away the boat she lovingly coaxed back into use, she is forced to make an impossible decision.