Paradox Author:Ian Whates (Editor) Paradox: stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox. A concept question, Fermi's Paradox asks: if the universe is full of planets which possess equal potential for intelligent life as Earth, why hasn't contact been made? Thus the stories in Paradox look not only at the ideological rigor underpinning ... more »9;potential', but also the larger context of aliens, first contact, and alien encounters.
Contents:
Fermi Paradox: An Introduction • essay by Marek Kakula and Rob Edwards
Catching Rays / shortfiction by David L. Clements
The Big Next / shortfiction by Pat Cadigan
Baedeker's Fermi / shortfiction by Adam Roberts
Zeta Reticuli / shortfiction by Paul Cornell
The Ambulance Chaser / shortfiction by Tricia Sullivan
Lost to Their Own Devices / shortfiction by Adrian Tchaikovsky
In the Beginning / shortfiction by Gerry Webb
The Trial of the Creator, The Trial of the Creation / shortfiction by Paul Di Filippo
Stella by Starlight / shortfiction by Mike Resnick and Robert T. Jeschonek
Fermi's Doubts / shortfiction by George Zebrowski
Audiovisionary / shortfiction by Stephanie Saulter
Aether / shortfiction by Robert Reed
The End of the World / shortfiction by Keith Brooke and Eric Brown
The Worldmaker / shortfiction by Rachel Armstrong
Atonement, Under the Blue-White Sun / shortfiction by Mercurio D. Rivera