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Summary
(From the publisher):
Something exciting has been happening in modern SF. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF"-science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present an immense, authoritative anthology that maps the development and modern-day resurgence of this form, argues for its special virtues and present preeminence-and entertains us with some spectacular storytelling along the way.
Table of contents:
- Gene Wars by Paul McAuley
- Wang's Carpets by Greg Egan
- Genesis by Poul Anderson
- Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- On the Orion Line by Stephen Baxter
- Beggars in Spain by Nancy Kress
- Matter's End by Gregory Benford
- The Hammer of God by Arthur C. Clarke
- Think Like a Dinosaur by James Patrick Kelly
- Mount Olympus by Ben Bova
- Marrow by Robert Reed
- Microbe by Joan Slonczewski
- The Lady Vanishes by Charles Sheffield
- Bicycle Repairman by Bruce Sterling
- An Ever-Reddening Glow by David Brin
- Sexual Dimorphism by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Into the Miranda Rift by G. David Nordley
- The Shoulders of Giants by Robert J. Sawyer
- A Walk in the Sun by Geoffrey A. Landis:
- For White Hilll by Joe Haldeman
- A Career in Sexual Chemistry by Brian Stableford
- Reef by Paul McAuley
- Exchange Rate by Hal Clement
- Reasons to Be Cheerful by Greg Egan
- Griffin's Egg by Michael Swanwick
- Great Wall of Mars by Alastair Reynolds
- A Niche by Peter Watts
- Gossamer by Stephen Baxter
- Madam Butterfly by James P. Hogan
- Understand by Ted Chiang
- 0Halo by Karl Schroeder
- Different Kinds of Darkness by David Langford
- Fast Times at Fairmont High by Vernor Vinge
- Reality Check by David Brin
- The Mendelian Lamp Case by Paul Levinson
- Kinds of Strangers by Sarah Zettel
- The Good Rat by Allan Steele
- Built Upon the Sands of Time by Michael Flynn
- Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling
- Hatching the Phoenix by Frederick Pohl
- Immersion by Gregory Benford
Original languages:
English
Quotes:
Genre: Fiction→ Science Fiction→ Hard Science
The following works are contained within this one:
Beggars in Spain (1991) [Novella]
Author: Nancy Kress
Wang's Carpets (1995) [Short Story]
Author: Greg Egan
Bicycle Repairman (1996) [Novelette]
Author: Bruce Sterling
Reef (2000) [Short Story]
Author: Paul J. McAuley
Fast Times at Fairmont High (2001) [Novella]
Author: Vernor Vinge
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