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 | Not One of UsTed Chiang Nancy Kress Michael Swanwick Ian McDonald Gregory Benford James Patrick Kelly Paul McAuley Steve Rasnic Tem Robert Reed Molly Tanzer Ken Liu Carolyn Ives Gilman Judith Berman Cixin Liu Kelly Robson Naomi Kritzer Caroline M Yoachim Rich Larson Neil Clarke Alaya Dawn Johnson Keffy R M Kehrli A M Dellamonica ISBN: 9781597809573 Year of publication: 2018 NOT ONE OF US STORIES OF ALIENS ON EARTH Edited by Neil Clarke If you find a bit of yourself in these stories, this book is for you. Introduction Throughout the science fiction landscape, aliens have been used to illustrate our own best and worst traits, but from a distance that makes it more palatable than a closer look in the mirror. They are portrayed as invaders, refugees, saviors, observers, outsiders, opportunists, and sometimes as beings that barely notice our existence. Yet, outside of ... Keywords: |
 | The Final FrontierPeter Watts Carrie Vaughn Elizabeth Bear Nancy Kress Michael Swanwick Kristine Kathryn Rusch Michael Bishop James Patrick Kelly Gwyneth Jones Genevieve Valentine Greg Egan Jay Lake Tobias S Buckell Ken Liu An Owomoyela Vandana Singh Sean McMullen Carter Scholz Jack Skillingstead Neil Clarke Seth Dickinson Julie Novakova ISBN: 9781597809399 Year of publication: 2018 THE FINAL FRONTIER STORIES OF EXPLORING SPACE, COLONIZING THE UNIVERSE, AND FIRST CONTACT Edited by Neil Clarke For Johnny INTRODUCTION I consider this anthology to be a sister to Galactic Empires, which was published last year. During the preliminary reading for that project, I came across several great stories that werent quite right for the anthology, typically because the empire element was non-existent or too thin. As that list continued to grow, a theme began to develop around them: space ... Keywords: exploration human-alien encounters outer space |
 | Vergil Magus: King Without CountryMichael Swanwick Avram Davidson ISBN: Year of publication: 1998 Vergil Magus: King Without Country by Avram Davidson Michael Swanwick Illustration by Steve Cavallo Emericho, Count Mar, Master of the Ceremonies to the Emperor. Oria, Countess Mar, Wife to the Master of the Ceremonies to the Emperor. Count Mar came from a very high and noble family indeed, and was indeed the last of his line. There had indeed been one sole cousin, an heir to the shrunken meadows and the crumbling chastel and to the very many honors, privileges, and titles. And when he had in ... Keywords: |
 | Wild MindsMichael Swanwick ISBN: Year of publication: 1998 Wild Minds by Michael Swanwick Illustration by Shirley Chan I met her at a businesspersons orgy in London. The room was in the back of a pub that was all brass and beveled glass, nostalgia and dark oak. The doorkeeper hesitated when it saw how many times Id attended in the last month. But then I suggested it scroll up my travel schedule, and it saw that I wasnt acting out a sex-addiction script, but properly maintaining my forebrain and hindbrain balances. So it let me in. Inside, the light was ... Keywords: |
 | Other Worlds Than TheseCarrie Vaughn Stephen Baxter Stephen King Robert Silverberg Pat Cadigan John Joseph Adams Michael Swanwick Ian McDonald Orson Scott Card Ursula K Le Guin Gregory Benford George RR Martin Kelly Link Joyce Carol Oates Ross E Lockhart Alastair Reynolds Lev Grossman Paul McAuley Catherynne M Valente Tim Pratt Paul Melko Robert Reed Seanan McGuire John R Fultz E Catherine Tobler David Barr Kirtley Yoon Ha Lee Jeff VanderMeer Mercurio D Rivera Vandana Singh William Alexander Simon McCaffery Christie Yant ISBN: 9781597804349 Year of publication: 2012 OTHER WORLDS THAN THESE Stories of Parallel Worlds edited by John Joseph Adams Go then, there are other worlds than these. Jake Chambers, to Roland Deschain of Gilead from The Gunslinger by Stephen King FOREWORD LEV GROSSMAN When I read The Chronicles of Narnia as a child, it didnt so much introduce me to the idea that there was another world as confirm my already grave suspicions on the subject. Even at the tender age of eight I wasas I suspect you were, and are, if youre reading this bookone ... Keywords: |
 | The Year's Best Science Fiction, Volume 29Stephen Baxter Pat Cadigan Elizabeth Bear Maureen F McHugh Peter S Beagle Michael Swanwick Ian McDonald Ken MacLeod Gardner Dozois Michael F Flynn Geoff Ryman Karl Schroeder Alastair Reynolds Gwyneth Jones Kij Johnson Paul McAuley Catherynne M Valente Jay Lake Tobias S Buckell Ian R MacLeod Robert Reed Lavie Tidhar Damien Broderick Yoon Ha Lee Carolyn Ives Gilman David Moles John Barnes Paul Cornell Dave Hutchinson Tom Purdom David Klecha Jim Hawkins Alec Nevala-Lee Peter M Ball Chris Lawson ISBN: 9781250003546 Year of publication: 2012 THE YEARS BEST SCIENCE FICTION Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection Edited by Gardner Dozois Summation: 2011 Like last year, the big story in 2011 continues to be the explosion in e-book sales, which have been dramatic enough, and accrued fast enough, to make some commentators speculate that e-books will eventually drive physical print books out of existence altogether. I dont think thats going to happen anytime soon, if it ever does, but the e-book revolution has been impressive nevertheless, and ... Keywords: |
 | Year's Best SF 17Nnedi Okorafor Elizabeth Bear Neil Gaiman Nancy Kress Michael Swanwick Ken MacLeod Bruce Sterling Gregory Benford Karl Schroeder Gwyneth Jones Tony Ballantyne Genevieve Valentine Robert Reed Yoon Ha Lee Ken Liu Paul Park David G Hartwell Kathryn Cramer Mercurio D Rivera Charlie Jane Anders Judith Moffett Madeline Ashby Karen Heuler Pat MacEwen Carolyn Ives Gilman ISBN: Year of publication: 0 Years Best SF 17 Book 17 in the Years Best SF series An anthology of stories edited by Kathryn Cramer and David G Hartwell Introduction This is a book full of science fictionevery story in the book is clearly that and not something else. It is our opinion that it is a good thing to have genre boundaries. We have a high regard for horror, fantasy, speculative fiction, and slipstream, and postmodern literature. We Kathryn Cramer and David G. Hartwell edit the Years Best Fantasy as well, a ... Keywords: |
 | Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk AnthologyWalter Jon Williams Pat Cadigan Elizabeth Bear Paolo Bacigalupi Michael Swanwick Bruce Sterling Cory Doctorow Charles Stross William Gibson James Patrick Kelly Gwyneth Jones Greg Egan John Kessel David Marusek Paul Di Filippo Christopher Rowe Mary Rosenblum ISBN: 9781892391537 Year of publication: 2007 Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology Introduction 2007 by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel Sterling-Kessel Correspondence 2007 by John Kessel and Bruce Sterling William Gibson quotation 1999 from No Maps for These Territories. Used by permission of the author. Bicycle Repairman 1996 by Bruce Sterling. First appeared in Intersections, edited by John Kessel, Mark L. Van Name, and Richard Butner Tor: New York. Red Sonja and Lessingham in Dreamland 1996 by Gwyneth Jones. First appeared ... Keywords: |
 | Dancing with BearsMichael Swanwick ISBN: Year of publication: 0 Dancing with Bears Michael Swanwick SOMETIME EARLIER T he last man was led stumbling to the edge of the city. Long ago, Baikonur had been a bright jewel of human aspiration, a place from which ancient heroes rode tremendous machines beyon d the sky. Now it was a colony of Hell. The sun had set and the city was shrouded in smoke. But the red glow of furnaces and sudden gouts of gas flares lit up disconnected fragments of the incomprehensible structures that wound themselves about the ruins from ... Keywords: |
 | The Iron Dragon's DaughterMichael Swanwick ISBN: 0688131743 Year of publication: 1993 The Iron Dragons Daughter MICHAEL SWANWICK FOR TESS KISSINGER AND BOB WALTERS who didnt suspect I was stealing part of their story Acknowledgments The author is grateful to Greg Frost for his encouragement and suggestions and for spotting the significance of the shadow-boy, Bob and Tess for dirt on insurgencies and rich relations, Susan Duggan for help navigating Penn, Dr. David Van Dyke for the p-chem here misapplied and for electric pickles as well, Gardner and Susan for football yobboes, ... Keywords: |
 | The Dragons of BabelMichael Swanwick ISBN: Year of publication: 2008 The Dragons of Babel Michael Swanwick Acknowledgments As always, I owe thanks to more people than I have space or memory to acknowledge. However. I am particularly grateful to David Axler for assistance with folklore, Susanna Clarke for allowing me to borrow Ferie Minor, Nick Gevers for the tokoloshe and the Jeyes Fluid, Vlatko Juric Kokic for help with Croatian mythology, Greer Gilman for chimneysweepers and for vetting suspect passages, Boris Dolingo for introducing me to stone flowers, Ellen ... Keywords: |
 | Vacumn FlowersMichael Swanwick ISBN: Year of publication: 0 Michael Swanwick Vacumn Flowers For Gardner Dozois Thanks are due to Marianne for naming the Pequod, undifferentiating cells, and seeding a stagnant drop of water, to Jack Dann for the scripture from Pushkin, to Bob Walters for supplying plesiosaurs and designing Wyeths vacuum suit, to Greg Frost and Tim Sullivan for last-minute advice, to Tom Purdom for breakfast beer, to Gardner Dozois for the usual reasons, and to Virginia Kidd for patience. Financial support was provided by the M.C. Porter ... Keywords: |
 | Trojan HorseMichael Swanwick ISBN: Year of publication: 0 Michael Swanwick Trojan Horse Science fiction is for the most part a literature of rationalism, but this has never prevented its writers from speculating about matters that go beyond scientific knowledge. The subject of God turns up in a large number of thoughtful stories, from Arthur C. Clarkes The Star to Walter M. Millers A Canticle for Leibowitz and now in this intense novelette about human-computer interfacing on a future space station. Michael Swanwicks short fiction has often been ... Keywords: |
 | The Very Pulse of the MachineMichael Swanwick ISBN: Year of publication: 0 Michael Swanwick The Very Pulse of the Machine This story first appeared in Asimovs Science Fiction, February 1998. Nominated for Best Short Story. Click. The radio came on. Hell. Martha kept her eyes forward, concentrated on walking. Jupiter to one shoulder, Daedaluss plume to the other. Nothing to it. Just trudge, drag, trudge, drag. Piece of cake. Oh. She chinned the radio off. Click. Hell. Oh. Kiv. El. Sen. Shut up, shut up, shut up Martha gave the rope an angry jerk, making the sledge ... Keywords: |