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Explorers: Sf Adventures to Far Horizons
Explorers Sf Adventures to Far Horizons
Distant planets, galaxies, alien races - the universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are twenty-three stories from the most inventive writers in the field, including: — Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Hal Clement * Greg Egan * H.B. Fyfe * R. ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780312254629
ISBN-10: 0312254628
Publication Date: 4/8/2000
Pages: 481
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Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Book Type: Paperback
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Contents

* ix Preface: SF Adventures to Far Horizons essay by Gardner Dozois
* 1 The Sentinel (1951) shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
* 9 Moonwalk (1952) novelette by H. B. Fyfe
* 41 Grandpa (1955) novelette by James H. Schmitz
* 60 The Red Hills of Summer (1959) novelette by Edgar Pangborn
* 90 The Longest Voyage (1960) novelette by Poul Anderson
* 115 Hot Planet (1963) shortstory by Hal Clement
* 133 Drunkboat [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1963) novelette by Cordwainer Smith
* 158 Becalmed in Hell [Known Space] (1965) shortstory by Larry Niven
* 169 Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1966) shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
* 178 The Keys to December (1966) novelette by Roger Zelazny
* 198 Vaster Than Empires and More Slow (1971) novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
* 222 A Meeting With Medusa (1971) novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
* 255 The Man Who Walked Home (1972) shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
* 268 Long Shot (1972) shortstory by Vernor Vinge
* 279 In the Hall of the Martian Kings (1977) novella by John Varley
* 313 Ginungagap (1980) novelette by Michael Swanwick
* 339 Exploring Fossil Canyon (1982) novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
* 359 Promises to Keep (1984) novelette by Jack McDevitt
* 374 Lieserl (1993) shortstory by Stephen Baxter
* 389 Crossing Chao Meng Fu (1997) novelette by G. David Nordley
* 416 Wang's Carpets (1995) novelette by Greg Egan
* 443 A Dance to Strange Music (1988) shortstory by Gregory Benford
* 462 Approaching Perimelasma (1998) novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis


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