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Colliding Worlds, Vol. 6: A Science Fiction Short Story Series
Colliding Worlds Vol 6 A Science Fiction Short Story Series Author:Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith The Final Volume in the Acclaimed Series! For more than four decades, New York Timesand USA Today bestselling writers Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith wrote professional science fiction short stories that won awards and sold millions of copies. Now, for the first time, they collect together 120 of their science fiction sh... more »ort stories into a six-volume set called Colliding Worlds. Sixty stories total from each author, with ten stories from Rusch and ten from Smith in every volume.
Volume 6 closes the series with a space opera theme, a genre both Rusch and Smith excel in. Smith starts the volume with "The Tragic Tale of a Man in a Duster" about a cowboy floating alone in the vast reaches of space, who finds solace in cooking trout over an open fire. Rusch closes the volume with "The Spires of Denon", a novella from her award-winning Diving Universe.
Contents:
The Tragic Tale of a Man in a Duster (2013) / short story by Dean Wesley Smith
Dreaming Large [The Seeders Universe] (2015) / short story by Dean Wesley Smith
If Sex Is All a Dream, Then Who Cleans Up the Mess (2021) / short story by Dean Wesley Smith (variant of If Sex Is All a Dream, Then Who Cleans Up the Mess? 2014)
Music in Time (2010) / short story by Dean Wesley Smith
Don't Rust on Me Now (2015) / short story by Dean Wesley Smith
Squatter's Rights on the Street of Broken Men (2015) / short story by Dean Wesley Smith
As the Robot Rubs (1998) / short story by Dean Wesley Smith
The Gift of a Dream [Captain Brian Saber / Earth Protection League] (2001) // short story by Dean Wesley Smith
Cold Comfort (2007) / short story by Dean Wesley Smith
Dreams of a Moon [Captain Brian Saber / Earth Protection League] (2014) / short story by Dean Wesley Smith
The Impossibles [Retrieval Artist] (2011) / novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Transport (2019) / novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Matilda (2016) / novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Echea (1998) / novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Boz (2005) / short fiction by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
SeniorSource (2008) / short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Homecoming (2003) / short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Skylight (2013) / novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Defect (2009) / novelette by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
The Spires of Denon [Diving Universe] (2009) / novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch