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Futures from nature

Gee, Henry, 1962- (Added Author).

Summary: Here are 100 very short stories on the subject of the future and what it might be like. The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous SF writers in the world. Futures from Nature includes everything from satires and vignettes to compressed stories and fictional book reviews, science articles, and journalism, in eight-hundred word modules. All of them are entertaining and as a group they are a startling repository of ideas and attitudes about the future. Appearing in book form fo the first time, these one hundred pieces were originally published in the great science journal, Nature, between 1999 and 2006, as one-page features. That proved very popular with the readers of the journal. This is a unique book, by scientists and writers, of interest to any reader who might like to speculate about the future. With stories from:Arthur C. Clarke; Bruce Sterling; Charles Stross; Cory Doctorow; Greg Bear; Gregory Benford; Oliver Morton; Ian Macleod; Rudy Rucker; Greg Egan; Stephan Baxter; Barrington J. Bayley; Brian Stableford; Frederik Pohl; Vernor Vinge; Nancy Kress, Michael Moorcock, Vonda N. McIntyr; Kim Stanley Robinson; John M. Ford; and eighty more. - Publisher.

Item details

  • ISBN: 9780765318053
  • ISBN: 0765318059
  • Physical Description: print
    320 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : TOR, 2007.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
"A Sci Fi essential book"--Jacket.
"A Tom Doherty Associates Book."
Formatted Contents Note: Introduction: nostalgia for the future / Henry Gee -- Cognitive ability and the light bulb / Brian Aldiss -- Don't imitate / Gilles Amon -- Check elastic before jumping / Neal Asher -- Twenty2 / Nate Balding -- Under Martian ice / Stephen Baxter -- Party smart card / Barrington J. Bayley -- Ram shift phase 2 / Greg Bear -- A life with a semisent / Gregory Benford -- Damned if you don't / Lucy Bergman -- The punishment fits the crime / David Berreby -- Toy planes / Tobias S. Buckell -- A concrete example / J. Casti ... [et al.] -- The aching of Dion Harper / Arthur Chrenkoff -- Improving the neighborhood / Arthur C. Clarke -- Omphalosphere: New York 2057 / Jack Cohen -- Picasso's cat / Ron Collins -- My grandfather's river / Brenda Cooper -- Sandcastles: a dystopia / Kathryn Cramer -- Adam's hot dogs at the end of the world / Jeff Crook -- The party's over / Penelope Kim Crowther -- Transport of delight / Roland Denison -- The perfect lover / Paul DiFilippo -- Printcrime / Cory Doctorow -- A brief history of death switches / David Eagleman -- Only connect / Greg Egan -- At the zoo / Warren Ellis -- The liquidators / Michael Garrett Farrelly -- In the days of the comet / John M. Ford -- Ars longa, vita brevis / James Alan Gardner -- Are we not men? / Henry Gee -- It never rains in VR / John Gilbey -- Gordy gave me your name / Jim Giles -- Nostalgia / Hiromi Goto -- Spawn of Satan? / Nicola Griffith.

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Subject: Science fiction, American
Future Fiction
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Genre: Science fiction.

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