Anthologies
New Stories by Michael Bishop, Josephine Saxton, Carter Scholtz, Ian Watson, Carol Emshwiller, and Others.
Stories tell of a living Cro-Magnon, a little girl with magic powers, a search for living dodos, and the first human ambassador to an alien race
1 Her Habiline Husband novella by Michael Bishop 71 The Width of the World shortstory by Ian Watson 85 Stone Eggs shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson 94 The Widow and the Body Sitter shortstory by Bill Bickel 108 The Taylorsville Reconstruction novelette by Lucius Shepard 130 A Way Back shortstory by Leanne Frahm 145 Cicada Queen [Shaper/Mechanist] novelette by Bruce Sterling
This collection of stories spans fantasy writing through the decades. The collection includes the story of a boy who brings a whale to the parched surroundings of Arizona and the story of the parents who suffer agonies when their son deserts wizardry for accountancy.
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine April 1986 Vol 10 No. 4
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction magazine August 1987
Collects short stories exploring themes of time and space travel, self-discovery, and science and technology.
April 1990. Cover art by Wayne Barlowe, illustrating the story "The Hemingway Hoax" by Joe Haldeman. Gardner Dozois.
Be sure to check out the "collectible" offers for copies in best condition. Ace, 1991. Mass maket paperback original. Reprints stories from Asimov's Magazine. Includes: “Live from the Mars Hotel” (1988) by Allen Steele “The Difficulties Involved in Photographing Nix Olympica” (1986) by Brian W. Aldiss “Windwagon Smith and the Martians” (1989) by Lawrence Watt-Evans “Retrovision” (1988) by Robert Frazier “The Great Martian Railroad Race” (1988) by Eric Vinicoff “All the Beer on Mars” (1989) by Gregory Benford “The Catharine Wheel” (1984) by Ian McDonald “Mars Needs Beatniks” (1984) by George Alec Effinger “Green Mars” (1985) by Kim Stanley Robinson
A collection of science fiction stories featuring the planet Earth includes stories by Nancy Kress, Frederik Pohl, Marta Randall, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Rosenblum, Charles Sheffield, Dave Smeds, D. Alexander Smith, and Michael Swanwick. Original.
A collection of science fiction tales set in a futuristic African continent features the writing of Vernor Vinge, Gregory Benford, Bruce Sterling, Kim Stanley Robinson, Howard Waldrop, and Mike Resnick
Ernest Callenbach's classic novel Ecotopia sparked a movement that is growing rapidly around the world. Ecotopians embrace high technology as a tool for preserving and living gently within the natural environment of Planet Earth. Kim Stanley Robinson has gathered in this volume Future Primitive bright tales of Ecotopian futures, as well as a few cautionary ones. Writers and poets, from Gary Snyder to Ursula K. LeGuin to Ernest Callenbach himself have contributed their visions, along with many more.
A collection of stories--by Terry Bisson, Tony Daniel, Robert Reed, Geoffrey Landis, Kim Stanley Robinson, Allen Steele, and R. Garcia y Robertson--explores the mysterious secrets of Earth's satellite. Original.
June 1999. Cover art by John Foster. Stories include: "10 to 16 to 1" by James Patrick Kelly "Sexual Dimorphism" by Kim Stanley Robinson "Written in Blood" by Chris Lawson "Visit the Sins" by Cory Doctorow "Ladies in their Letters" by Gregory Feeley "Dirty Little Cowards" by William Sanders "The Wedding Album" by David Marusek plus poetry by Bruce Boston, Linda D. Anderson and David Sandner. Editor: Gardner Dozois
Distant planets, galaxies, alien races--the universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field, including: Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Greg Bear * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Hal Clement * Greg Egan * H. B. Fyfe * R. A. Lafferty * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ursula K. Le Guin * Jack McDevitt * Larry Niven * G. David Nordley * Edgar Pangborn * Kim Stanley Robinson * James H. Schmitz * Cordwainer Smith * Michael Swanwick * James Tiptree, Jr. * John Varley * Vernor Vinge These are the stories of discovering those possibilities-the stories of the explorers and pioneers who push the envelope further out--exciting tales of alien landscapes and adventures on far distant shores that are the heart and soul of science fiction.
An anthology of Nebula Award winning fiction selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America includes works by Eleanor Arnason, Greg Bear, Terry Bisson, Gardner Dozois, Linda Nagata, and Walter Jon Williams, accompanied by commentary on the current status of science fiction in the twenty-first century. Original.
The art of writing great science fiction is that it challenges the imagination, pushing it to extreme limits and in this anthology, selecting some of the best modern science fiction from the last fifty years, twenty leading authors of the genre ask the question 'What if...?' and then give their own very personal views of the changes and surprises which may befall humanity in the centuries to come. In Ulla, Ulla Eric Brown recounts the first manned Martian expedition and discovers that H. G. Wells may have been right after all. In The Infinite Assassin Greg Egan polices the dimensions, seeking those who are taking over their alternate selves. Geoffrey A. Landis takes us into the depths of a black hole in Approaching Perimelasma. Is the ultimate Utopia heaven or hell? Robert Sheckley finds out in the classic A Ticket to Tranai. These and other stories by James White, Eric Frank Russell, Robert Reed, H. Beam Piper and H. Chandler Elliot make this one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking science fiction anthologies in lightyears.
New Skies...imaginative stories for a new generation of science fiction fans. Here are writers such as Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Jane Yolen, Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Gould, Connie Willis, Spider Robinson, and many more. Here is a careening adventure along the outside of a tower looming miles above the ground, and a tale of desperate survival on the deadly surface of the Moon. Here is a world in which children divorce their parents, and the story of a four-dimensional boy in a three-dimensional world. Here are future young people rebuilding after terrible disasters, and here is a story of the future development of baseball--on Mars. Nightmarish or whimsical, irreverent or swashbuckling, each of these stories is an adventure in imagination. Journey from the here and now into New Skies.
Edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, The Hard SF Renaissance (2002) is a thematic sequel to their 1994 anthology The Ascent of Wonder. The first anthology argued that "[t]here has been a persistent viewpoint that hard [science fiction] is somehow the core and the center of the SF field." The Hard SF Renaissance asserts that hard SF has truly become the heart of the genre and supports its assertion by assembling nearly a thousand pages of short stories, novelettes, and novellas originally published between the late 1980s and early 2000s. A different theory says hard SF stories are engineering puzzles disguised as fiction; The Hard SF Renaissance repudiates this theory in regard to modern hard SF. Most of the selections have strong prose and rounded characters, several are classics, and gadget-driven clunkers are mercifully few.Contents A Career in Sexual Chemistry (1987) novelette by Brian Stableford (aka Sexual Chemistry) A Niche (1990) novelette by Peter Watts A Walk in the Sun (1991) shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis An Ever-Reddening Glow (1996) shortstory by David Brin Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars (1999) shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson Beggars in Spain [Sleepless] (1991) novella by Nancy Kress Bicycle Repairman [Chattanooga] (1996) novelette by Bruce Sterling Built Upon the Sands of Time (2000) shortstory by Michael F. Flynn [as by Michael Flynn ] Different Kinds of Darkness [Blit] (2000) shortstory by David Langford Exchange Rate (1999) novella by Hal Clement Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) novella by Vernor Vinge For White Hill (1995) novella by Joe Haldeman Gene Wars (1991) shortfiction by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley ] Genesis (1995) novella by Poul Anderson Gossamer [Xeelee] (1995) shortstory by Stephen Baxter Great Wall of Mars [Revelation Space] (2000) novelette by Alastair Reynolds Griffin's Egg (1991) novella by Michael Swanwick Halo (1996) shortstory by Karl Schroeder Hatching the Phoenix [Heechee] (1999) novella by Frederik Pohl Immersion (1996) novella by Gregory Benford Into the Miranda Rift (1993) novella by G. David Nordley New People, New Places, New Politics (The Hard SF Renaissance) essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer Kinds of Strangers (1999) novelette by Sarah Zettel Madam Butterfly (1997) novelette by James P. Hogan Marrow [Marrow] (1997) novelette by Robert Reed Matter's End (1989) novella by Gregory Benford Microbe (1995) shortstory by Joan Slonczewski Mount Olympus (1999) novelette by Ben Bova On the Orion Line [Xeelee] (2000) novelette by Stephen Baxter Reality Check (2000) shortstory by David Brin Reasons to Be Cheerful (1997) novelette by Greg Egan Reef (2000) novelette by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley ] Sexual Dimorphism (1999) shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson Taklamakan [Chattanooga] (1998) novelette by Bruce Sterling The Good Rat (1995) novelette by Allen Steele The Hammer of God (1992) shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke The Lady Vanishes (1996) shortstory by Charles Sheffield The Mendelian Lamp Case [Dr Phil D'Amato] (1997) novelette by Paul Levinson The Shoulders of Giants (2000) shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer Think Like a Dinosaur (1995) novelette by James Patrick Kelly Understand (1991) novelette by Ted Chiang Wang's Carpets (1995) novelette by Greg Egan
Crime and Punishment—21st century style. An anthology of classic and critically acclaimed stories about the felonies and offenses law enforcement authorities will face in a future that's closer than we realize. High-tech identity theft that carries remarkable consequences... Mutant con men devising an ingenious alien scam... A private detective with headquarters on the moon... A world where being late is punishable by death... A lone cop battling a cyborg Mafia don... Art thieves operating on the blazing surface of Mercury...CRIME HAS AN INCREDIBLE FUTURE. At the dawn of the new millennium, the criminal world has become more high-tech, more complex, and more unpredictable. Now, take one small step forward into the future with these classic and acclaimed stories from a stellar and diverse group of masters who imagine - beyond all imagining - what"s waiting on the dark mean Streets of tomorrow. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
Future Washington is a collection of stories by noted science fiction writers from around the world, and the political spectrum, which looks at possible futures for the US capitol. Throughout the collection, Washington is faced with challenge after challenge, leading novelist and futurist Bruce Sterling to comment: " it sure was interesting that Washington is wrecked, drowned or comprehensively destroyed in practically every story in your collection." But thats not really surprising, because the future (and any good stories) is expected to be full of challenge. The important thing to take away from these stories is how the residents rise to meet those challenges, be they the rise of theocracy or the waters of the Potomac. Colleen Cahill (Recommending Officer for Science Fiction and Fantasy at the Library of Congress) wrote: "(these) stories take us to a D.C. that might be, with visions both light and dark, containing destruction, growth, humor and serious thought whether the US government is alive and well, transformed by time or a distant memory, all the stories include a hint of the D.C. of today, making this a book for those of us who have lived or currently live in or near the city. It is the great writing and interesting visions of the future that make this a work for any who enjoying good reading."
A collection of 10 “striking” short stories on the dangers of climate change—featuring works by Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Kim Stanley Robinson, and an introduction by Bill McKibben ( The Boston Globe ). The size and severity of the global climate crisis is such that even the most committed environmentalists are liable to live in a state of denial. The award-winning writers collected here have made it their task to shake off this nagging disbelief, bringing the incomprehensible within our grasp and shaping an emotional response to the deterioration of our global habitat. From T. C. Boyle’s account of early eco-activists, to Nathaniel Rich’s vision of a near future where oil sells for $800 a barrel—these ten provocative, occasionally chilling, sometimes satirical stories bring a human reality to disasters of inhuman proportions. Royalties from I’m With the Bears will go to 350-dot-org, an international grassroots movement working to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
Lightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales. In our April 2012 issue, we have original fantasy by Half-Life creator Marc Laidlaw (“Forget You”) and Eric Gregory (“The Sympathy”), along with fantasy reprints by Caitlín R. Kiernan (“The Steam Dancer (1896)”) and M. K. Hobson (“Domovoi”). For our original science fiction offerings, we’ll have Vandana Singh’s “Ruminations in an Alien Tongue” and Caroline M. Yoachim’s “Mother Ship,” and our SF reprints will include “Our Town” by bestselling, award-winning author Kim Stanley Robinson and, from my new anthology Armored, “Nomad” by Karin Lowachee. All that plus our artist showcase, our usual assortment of author spotlights, and feature interviews with bestselling authors William Gibson and Robin Hobb. And for our ebook exclusives this month, we’re pleased to present the award-nominated novella “The Political Officer” by C. C. Finlay, along with excerpts from Nancy Kress’s, After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall, her new novel coming out this month from Tachyon, and from Holly Black’s Black Heart, the new novel forthcoming from Simon & Schuster.
Of all the sports played across the globe, none has more curses, superstitions, or supernatural events like baseball, America’s national pastime. While some of these can easily be explained, there are just as many that cannot. Field of Fantasies delves right into that superstition with short stories written by several key authors about baseball and the supernatural. Whether it’s a frozen curveball, a robot pitcher, or fantasy outcomes (the Cubs winning the World Series!), these terrific stories are ones that fans of science fiction will enjoy, while fans of baseball will find strangely believable. Included in this wonderful anthology are stories from such prolific authors as: Stephen King Jack Kerouac Karen Joy Fowler Rod Serling W. P. Kinsella And many more! Never has a book combined the incredible events of baseball and science fiction like Field of Fantasies does. Whether you’re a sport or science fiction fan, these stories will appeal not only to your fandom, but also to your appreciation and acceptance of the unknown taking place on the baseball diamond. If you’ve ever held a bat or glove in your hand (or just watched the game on TV), you’ll be enthralled by these terrific tales that range from the sandlot to the sold-out stadium.
Collected by the editor of the award-winning Lightspeed magazine, the first, definitive anthology of climate fiction—a cutting-edge genre made popular by Margaret Atwood. Is it the end of the world as we know it? Climate fiction, or cli-fi, is exploring the world we live in now—and in the very near future—as the effects of global warming become more evident. Join bestselling, award-winning writers like Margaret Atwood, Paolo Bacigalupi, Kim Stanley Robinson, Seanan McGuire, and many others at the brink of tomorrow. Loosed Upon the World is so believable, it’s frightening.
A collection of some of the best original science fiction and fantasy short stories published on Tor.com in 2015. Includes short fiction by Nino Cipri, Seth Dickinson, Jeffrey Ford, Yoon Ha Lee, Maria Dahvana Headley, David Herter, Kameron Hurley, Noah Keller, David D. Levine, Michael Livingston, Usman T. Malik, Haralambi Markov, Daniel José Older, Malka Older, Kim Stanley Robinson, Kelley Robson, Veronica Schanoes, Priya Sharma, Brian Staveley, Sabrina Vourvoulias, and Ray Wood. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
A compelling, fully illustrated account of the real science behind the worldwide phenomenon of science fiction as depicted in film, literature, and art. Drawing on a wide range of examples from the literary and visual canons―short stories, novels, films, television programs, video games, graphic novels, artworks, and more―in both cult and popular culture, this extensively illustrated book examines how science fiction has provided a human response to science, exploring every reaction from complacency to exhilaration, and from hope to terror. Across five chapters, this volume reviews the role played by science fiction in exploring our world and a multitude of ideas about our relationship with the human condition. Science Fiction encompasses a fascinating range of themes: machines, travel, aliens (the Other), communication, threats, and anxiety. Edited by Glyn Morgan and featuring a range of essays by experts on the subject, as well as interviews with well-known science fiction authors and reproductions of classic ephemera, graphics, and objects throughout, it also focuses on the darker elements of this fascinating genre: the anxieties, fears, dystopias, monsters, and apocalypses that have populated science fiction from the beginning. Ultimately, science fiction asks what makes us human, and what lies in the future to test, threaten, and even destroy humanity. This publication has these questions at its core, making it especially relevant for contemporary readers in an age preoccupied with climate change, the coronavirus pandemic, the development of nuclear missiles and military technologies, and other global challenges. 209 color illustrations
The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward. Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for reforming democratic institutions as a prerequisite for avoiding climate chaos and adapting governance to how Earth works as a physical system. To survive in the “long emergency” ahead, we must reform and strengthen democratic institutions, making them assets rather than liabilities. Edited by David W. Orr, this vital collection of essays proposes a new political order that will not only help humanity survive but also enable us to thrive in the transition to a post–fossil fuel world. Orr gathers leading scholars, public intellectuals, and political leaders to address the many problems confronting our current political systems. Few other books have taken a systems view of the effects of a rapidly destabilizing climate on our laws and governance or offered such a diversity of solutions. These thoughtful and incisive essays cover subjects from Constitutional reform to participatory urban design to education; together, they aim to invigorate the conversation about the human future in practical ways that will improve the effectiveness of democratic institutions and lay the foundation for a more durable and just democracy. Contributors William J. Barber III, JD, William S. Becker, Holly Jean Buck, Stan Cox, Michael M. Crow, William B. Dabars, Ann Florini, David H. Guston, Katrina Kuh, Gordon LaForge, Hélène Landemore, Frances Moore Lappé, Daniel Lindvall, Richard Louv, James R. May, Frederick W. Mayer, Bill McKibben, Michael Oppenheimer, David W. Orr, Wellington Reiter, Kim Stanley Robinson, Anne-Marie Slaughter