Mike Liu: 9 books

This book is a step-by-step tutorial with clear instructions and screenshots to guide you through the creation of a multi-tier real-world WCF service solution. Configuration files, host applications, test clients, and WCF services for each solution will be available for download on this website for...

This book is a step-by-step tutorial to guide you through learning WCF and LINQ to Entities. You will be guided to create five WCF and LINQ solutions from scratch, of which three are multi-tiered real-world WCF service solutions, so you will not only be reading, but also be coding through the book, to...

This book is a step-by-step tutorial to guide you through learning WCF and Entity Framework. Clear step-by-step instructions and relevant screenshots will make sure you won't get lost in the new world of WCF and Entity Framework. Configuration files, host applications, test clients, and WCF services...

If you are a C#, VB.NET, or C++ developer and want to get started with WCF and Entity Framework, then this book is for you. Competence in Entity Framework will be needed to follow the examples in the book, but experience in creating WCF services using Entity Framework is not necessary. Developers and...

SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY, HUMOR  * Cranky Goblin Cooks  * Unscrupulous Chemists  * Lecherous Space Pirates  * Disagreeable Alien Symbiotes  * Soul-Searching Snot Elementals  The Unidentified Funny Objects series serves an annual dose of funny. zany, and...

Premios Hugo 2010 y 2014, Nebula 2013, British Science Fiction 2012 En A la deriva en el Mar de las Lluvias y otros relatos el lector podrá encontrar emotivas historias acerca del último viaje espacial de una madura mujer astronauta, de las consecuencias de comercializar muñecas capaces de superar...

Since 2006, Clarkesworld Magazine has been entertaining science fiction and fantasy fans with their brand of unique science fiction and fantasy stories. Collected here are all of the stories this Hugo Award-winning magazine published during the first half of their ninth year. Includes stories by Aliette...

Seventeen of the funniest science fiction stories published in the past decade (2005-2015), featuring alien invasions, global conspiracies, time travel, and even animal uprisings. Fiction by Hugo and Nebula award winners and nominees as well as talented newcomers. Stories were selected by the Unidentified Funny Objects series curator Alex Shvartsman.

Wanna date a dragon? How about defend yourself in court with an orc as your lawyer? Or maybe you want to just sit in your loft and have a couple beers with your imaginary friend, or follow Merlin on his final days as he fights to stay alive. No seriously, what if your girlfriend’s skin was...