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The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF
Author: | Mike Ashley |
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Robinson, 2008 |
Series: | The Mammoth Book of...: Book 17 |
10. The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction |
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Book Type: | Anthology |
Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Many readers are attracted to science fiction for that singular moment when a story expands your imagination, enabling you to see something in a new light. Not all SF works this way! This volume collects the very best of it that does, with 25 of the finest examples of mind-expanding and awe-inspiring science fiction.
The storylines range from a discovery on the Moon that opens up vistas across all time to a moment in which distances across the Earth suddenly increase and people vanish. These are tales to take you from the other side of now to the very end of time - from today''s top-name contributors including Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Silverberg, Gregory Benford and Robert Reed.
Table of Contents:
- vii - Acknowledgments (The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF) - (2009) - essay by uncredited
- ix - Introduction: That Sense of Wonder - (2009) - essay by Mike Ashley
- 1 - Out of the Sun - (1958) - short story by Arthur C. Clarke
- 9 - The Pevatron Rats - (2009) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
- 30 - The Edge of the Map - [Susanna and Ivo] - (2006) - short story by Ian Creasey
- 47 - Cascade Point - (1983) - novella by Timothy Zahn
- 105 - A Dance to Strange Musics - (1998) - novelette by Gregory Benford
- 131 - Palindromic - (1997) - short story by Peter Crowther
- 156 - Castle in the Sky - (2009) - novelette by Robert Reed
- 191 - The Hole in the Hole - [Wilson Wu and Irving - 1] - (1994) - novelette by Terry Bisson
- 224 - Hotrider - (1991) - short story by Keith Brooke
- 237 - Mother Grasshopper - (1997) - short story by Michael Swanwick
- 255 - Waves and Smart Magma - (2009) - novelette by Paul Di Filippo
- 282 - The Black Hole Passes - [Eight Worlds] - (1975) - novelette by John Varley
- 309 - The Peacock King - (1965) - short story by Larry McCombs and Ted White
- 325 - Bridge - [Cities in Flight] - (1952) - novelette by James Blish
- 355 - Anhedonia - (2009) - novelette by Adam Roberts
- 380 - Tiger Burning - (2006) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds (variant of Tiger, Burning)
- 407 - The Width of the World - (1983) - short story by Ian Watson
- 421 - Our Lady of the Sauropods - (1980) - short story by Robert Silverberg
- 438 - Into the Miranda Rift - (1993) - novella by G. David Nordley
- 504 - The Rest Is Speculation - (2009) - short story by Eric Brown
- 524 - Vacuum States - (1988) - short story by Geoffrey A. Landis
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