Pandemonium The Lowest Heaven Author:Anne C. Perry (Editor), Jared Shurin (Editor) This is the solar system as you've never seen it before...string of murders on Venus; Saturn's impossible forest; Voyager I's message to the stars-returned in kind; Edible sunlight; and more... Each story in The Lowest Heaven is themed around a body in the Solar System, from the Sun to Halley's Comet. A portrait of the diff... more »erent voices and approaches in today's SF, The Lowest Heaven collects seventeen astonishing, never-before-published stories from award-winning authors and provocative new literary voices, and features extraordinary images drawn from the archives of the Royal Observatory Greenwich.
Contents:
Foldout Chart of the Solar System (The Lowest Heaven) • interior artwork by Joey Hi-Fi.
Introduction (The Lowest Heaven) • essay by Dr. Marek Kukula (Royal Observatory Greenwich).
Golden Apple / Sophia McDougall (The Sun)
A Map of Mercury / Alastair Reynolds (Mercury)
Ashen Light / Archie Black (Venus)
The Krakatoan / Maria Dahvana Headley (Earth)
An Account of a Voyage from World to World again, by Way of the Moon, 1726 / Adam Roberts (The Moon)
Wwbd / Simon Morden (Mars)
Saga's Children / E. J. Swift (Ceres)
The Jupiter Files / Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Jupiter)
Magnus Lucretius / Mark Charan Newton (Europa)
Air, Water and the Grove / Kaaron Warren (Saturn)
Only Human / Lavie Tidhar (Titan)
Uranus / Esther Saxey (Uranus)
From This Day Forward / David Bryher (Neptune)
We'll Always Be Here / Sarah Lotz and Louis Greenberg [as by S. L. Grey] (Pluto & Charon)
Enyo-Enyo / Kameron Hurley (Eris)
The Comet's Tale / Matt Jones (Halley's Comet)
The Grand Tour / James Smythe (Voyager I)
Contributors (The Lowest Heaven) • essay by uncredited.
National Maritime Museum, in exhibition June 2013, as part of Visions of the Universe, items from the Royal Observatory's collection of astronomical photography displayed, alongside images from world-class telescopes and recent space missions.« less