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Science Fiction

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Horton's elegiac anthology of 15 mostly hard SF stories illuminates a broad spectrum of grief over love thwarted through time, space, human frailty or alien intervention, from the gentle melancholy of Michael Swanwick's Triceratops Summer, which posits tame Technicolored time-warped dinosaurs in Vermont, to newcomer Leah Bobet's Bliss, an agonizing riff on near-future drug addiction. Several selections address current political-social issues, like Mary Rosenblum's Search Engine, which extrapolates today's technology to chilling, Big Brotherly results. The long closing story, Alastair Reynolds's Understanding Space and Time, however, presents a ray of cosmic hope: the sole survivor of a plague that decimated humanity is rescued and healed by intergalactic entities and lives out millennia while seeking ultimate truths, returning to see mankind regenerated.

"This anthology reflects the concerns of the genre today—and the apparent inability of our society to do anything about them." —Publishers Weekly


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Publisher: Wildside Press LLC Edition: 2006

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  • ISBN: 9781434442727
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Horton's elegiac anthology of 15 mostly hard SF stories illuminates a broad spectrum of grief over love thwarted through time, space, human frailty or alien intervention, from the gentle melancholy of Michael Swanwick's Triceratops Summer, which posits tame Technicolored time-warped dinosaurs in Vermont, to newcomer Leah Bobet's Bliss, an agonizing riff on near-future drug addiction. Several selections address current political-social issues, like Mary Rosenblum's Search Engine, which extrapolates today's technology to chilling, Big Brotherly results. The long closing story, Alastair Reynolds's Understanding Space and Time, however, presents a ray of cosmic hope: the sole survivor of a plague that decimated humanity is rescued and healed by intergalactic entities and lives out millennia while seeking ultimate truths, returning to see mankind regenerated.

"This anthology reflects the concerns of the genre today—and the apparent inability of our society to do anything about them." —Publishers Weekly


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  • Details

    Publisher:
    Wildside Press LLC
    Edition:
    2006

    Kindle Book
    Release date: January 13, 2014

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781434442727
    Release date: January 13, 2014

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781434442727
    File size: 444 KB
    Release date: January 13, 2014

    Open EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781434442727
    File size: 443 KB
    Release date: January 13, 2014

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  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
    Open EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English