The Good Old Stuff: Adventure SF in the Grand Tradition

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Science Fiction routinely explores the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of time -- futures almost unimaginably distant. The Furthest Horizon collects 17 of the most inventive and audacious visions of the future by many acclaimed writers, including: Brian Aldiss -- Poul Anderson -- Avram Davidson -- Joe Haldeman -- Alexander Jablokov -- Paul J. McAuley -- Ian McDonald -- Michael Moorcock -- Frederik Pohl -- Robert Reed -- Keith Roberts -- Robert Silverberg -- Cordwainer Smith -- James Tiptree, Jr. -- Jack Vance -- Walter Jon Williams -- Gene Wolfe

Contents
xv • Preface • essay by Gardner Dozois
1 • The Rull • [Rull] • • novelette by A. E. van Vogt
27 • The Second Night of Summer • • novelette by James H. Schmitz
52 • The Galton Whistle • [Viagens Interplanetarias] • • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp
75 • The New Prime • • novelette by Jack Vance
99 • That Share of Glory • • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth
127 • The Last Days of Shandakor • • novelette by Leigh Brackett
155 • Exploration Team • [Colonial Survey] • • novelette by Murray Leinster
196 • The Sky People • [Maurai] • • novelette by Poul Anderson
235 • The Man in the Mailbag • [Dilbia] • • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson
261 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
282 • A Kind of Artistry • • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss
304 • Gunpowder God • [Kalvan] • • novella by H. Beam Piper
346 • Semley's Necklace • • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
364 • Moon Duel • • shortstory by Fritz Leiber
375 • The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth • • novelette by Roger Zelazny
406 • Mother in the Sky With Diamonds • • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.