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Overview

Humanity Among The Stars

What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars? Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field.

The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds and Peter Watts.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849976749
Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Publication date: 05/28/2014
Series: The Infinity Project , #3
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 352
Sales rank: 585,899
File size: 649 KB

About the Author

Jonathan Strahan is a World Fantasy Award award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. He has edited more than 70 books, is reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Tor.com, and co-host and producer of the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.


Jonathan Strahan is a World Fantasy Award award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. He has edited more than 70 books, is reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Tor.com, and co-host and producer of the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.
Ellen Klages (www.ellenklages.com) is the author of three acclaimed MG historical novels: The Green Glass Sea, which won the Scott O’Dell Award and the New Mexico Book Award; White Sands, Red Menace, which won the California and New Mexico Book awards; and Out of Left Field, which won the Children’s History Book Prize and the Ohioana Book Award. Her adult novel, a historical fantasy, Passing Strange, won the World Fantasy and British Fantasy awards in 2018. Her short fiction has been translated into a dozen languages and been nominated for or won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Mythopoeic, and World Fantasy awards. “Time Gypsy” was her first published story. Ellen lives in San Francisco, in a small house full of strange and wondrous things.
Adam Roberts was born in London two thirds of the way through the last century. He currently lives a little way west of London and teaches English and Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of sixteen SF novels, including New Model Army (Gollancz, 2010), Jack Glass (2012)-winner of the BSFA and Campbell awards-and Bete (2014). His most recent novel is The Thing Itself (2015). He is also the author of various works of literary criticism and review, including the recently expanded and updated History of Science Fiction (Palgrave, 2016)

Table of Contents

  • Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
  • Break My Fall, Greg Egan
  • The Dust Queen, Aliette de Bodard
  • The Fifth Dragon, Ian McDonald
  • Kheldyu, Karl Schroeder
  • Report Concerning the Presence of Seahorses on Mars, Pat Cadigan
  • Hiraeth: A Tragedy in Four Acts, Karen Lord
  • Amicae Aeternum, Ellen Klages
  • Trademark Bugs: A Legal History, Adam Roberts
  • Attitude, Linda Nagata
  • Invisible Planets, Hannu Rajaniemi
  • Wilder Still, the Stars, Kathleen Ann Goonan
  • ‘The Entire Immense Superstructure’: An Installation, Ken MacLeod
  • In Babelsberg, Alastair Reynolds
  • Hotshot, Peter Watts
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