An anthology collection spotlighting the "best of the best" science fiction stories published in 2017 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. Once again offering a definitive and incisive exploration of science fiction themes, trends, and traditions to delight the discernig science fiction reader.
Contents:
* My English Name / R. S. Benedict: an intelligent alien, who parasitizes an English teacher in China, falls in love.
* Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance / Tobias S. Buckell: after a victorious space battle, an indentured robot finds a refugee who makes an offer it can't refuse.
* The Moon is Not a Battlefield / Indrapramit Das: an Indian soldier retires on Earth after spending most of her life on the Moon.
* Dear Sarah / Nancy Kress: a young woman joins the U.S. Army to fight terrorists after aliens arrive on Earth bearing tech gifts unevenly dispersed to humans.
* An Evening with Severyn Grimes / Rich Larson: a gifted hacker uses cyberspace to extract pay-back on the rich businessman who put her in prison.
* The Chameleon's Gloves [Hexarchate Universe • The Machineries of Empire] / Yoon Ha Lee: an ex-Kel super soldier is enlisted to retrieve a weapon of mass destruction stolen by a rogue general.
* The Martian Obelisk / Linda Nagata: on a dying Earth, an architect remotely building a monument to mankind on Mars receives a message from an abandoned Mars colony.
* A Series of Steaks / Vina Jie-Min Prasad: a petty meat counterfeiter is blackmailed into forging T-bone steaks for an anonymous thug.
* The Residue of Fire [The Great Ship Universe] / Robert Reed: a torturer tries to cope with one of his alien victims who witnessed a pivotal moment in the lives of two immortals.
* Night Passage [Revelation Space] / Alastair Reynolds: a starship captain wakes from hibernation with her ship stalled next to an alien artifact and a mutiny in progress.
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An anthology collection spotlighting the "best of the best" science fiction stories published in 2017 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. Once again offering a definitive and incisive exploration of science fiction themes, trends, and traditions to delight the discernig science fiction reader.
Contents:
* My English Name / R. S. Benedict: an intelligent alien, who parasitizes an English teacher in China, falls in love.
* Zen and the Art of Starship Maintenance / Tobias S. Buckell: after a victorious space battle, an indentured robot finds a refugee who makes an offer it can't refuse.
* The Moon is Not a Battlefield / Indrapramit Das: an Indian soldier retires on Earth after spending most of her life on the Moon.
* Dear Sarah / Nancy Kress: a young woman joins the U.S. Army to fight terrorists after aliens arrive on Earth bearing tech gifts unevenly dispersed to humans.
* An Evening with Severyn Grimes / Rich Larson: a gifted hacker uses cyberspace to extract pay-back on the rich businessman who put her in prison.
* The Chameleon's Gloves [Hexarchate Universe • The Machineries of Empire] / Yoon Ha Lee: an ex-Kel super soldier is enlisted to retrieve a weapon of mass destruction stolen by a rogue general.
* The Martian Obelisk / Linda Nagata: on a dying Earth, an architect remotely building a monument to mankind on Mars receives a message from an abandoned Mars colony.
* A Series of Steaks / Vina Jie-Min Prasad: a petty meat counterfeiter is blackmailed into forging T-bone steaks for an anonymous thug.
* The Residue of Fire [The Great Ship Universe] / Robert Reed: a torturer tries to cope with one of his alien victims who witnessed a pivotal moment in the lives of two immortals.
* Night Passage [Revelation Space] / Alastair Reynolds: a starship captain wakes from hibernation with her ship stalled next to an alien artifact and a mutiny in progress.
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Language
English
Pages
333
Format
Kindle Edition
Publisher
AudioText
Release
June 19, 2018
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Tejas
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Nov 01, 2024
Perfect collection! Ends with Alistair Raynold's short story that tied into Chasm City I read some time ago!