When the Music's Over
Author: | Lewis Shiner |
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Bantam Spectra, 1991 |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Science-Fiction / Fantasy |
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Synopsis
This is a book about possibilities: a collection of eighteen stories that challenge our most basic assumptions, set forth promising new realities, and after hope for the future. Each story deals with desperate people embroiled in conflict, who choose to turn away from violence or war, who realize that humans --- and other races --- can learn to live in peace.
When the Music's Over is a grand tour of the hopeful side of the speculative imagination, conducted by eighteen of science fiction's brightest talents.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Lewis Shiner
- Peace of Mind - shortstory by Nancy Kress
- Prayers on the Wind - novella by Walter Jon Williams
- Burning Up - shortstory by Mark L. Van Name
- The Prince - novelette by John Shirley
- The Mirror Planet - shortstory by Yuri Glazkov (trans. 1986)
- Bugs - novelette by James P. Blaylock
- The Invisible Country - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
- Von Neumann's Second Catastrophe - shortstory by Robert Anton Wilson
- Final Weapon - shortstory by Wayne Wightman
- Smile - interior artwork by Marian Henley
- Jim and Irene - novelette by Bruce Sterling
- Empty Flames - shortstory by Richard Butner
- Date with Destiny - novelette by Jack McDevitt
- War in the Ponrappe Islands - shortstory by Yoshio Aramaki
- Caruso - shortstory by Sherry Coldsmith
- In the Dark - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
- One Man's Meat - shortstory by Walton Simons
- You Have the Tools - shortstory by Don Webb
- Afterword: Peacework - essay by Richard Kadrey
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