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New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction
New Skies An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Editor) Anthology of 17 stories. Science fiction is perennially popular with young readers. But while many collections were assembled in the 1950s and 1960s with young readers in mind, it has been many years since the field has seen such a collection of modern SF. Selected entirely from stories published since 1980, New Skies fills that need. — Here are ... more »stories by writers such as Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Jane Yolen, Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Gould, Connie Willis, Spider Robinson, Terry Bisson, Geoffrey A. Landis, and many more. Here is a careening adventure along the outside of a tower looming miles above the ground, and a tale of desperate survival on the deadly surface of the Moon. Here is a world in which children divorce their parents, and the story of a four-dimensional boy in a three-dimensional world. Here are future young people rebuilding after terrible disasters, and here is a story of the future development of baseball--on Mars. Nightmarish or whimsical, irreverent or swashbuckling, each of these stories is an adventure in imagination. Journey from the here and now into New Skies.
CONTENTS:
Introduction ? Patrick Nielsen Hayden
They?re Made Out of Meat ? Terry Bisson
A Walk in the Sun ? Geoffrey A. Landis
Peaches for Mad Molly ? Steven Gould
Serpents? Teeth ? Spider Robinson
Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen ? Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald
A Letter from the Clearys ? Connie Willis
Brian and the Aliens ? Will Shetterly
Different Kinds of Darkness (Blit) ? David Langford
Will You Be an Astronaut? ? Greg van Eekhout
Cards of Grief ? Jane Yolen
Tangents ? Greg Bear
The Alien Mind ? Philip K. Dick
Out of All Them Bright Stars ? Nancy Kress
The Lincoln Train ? Maureen F. McHugh
Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars ? Kim Stanley Robinson
Cody S. (megatfreak) reviewed New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction on
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Amazing short science fictions stories for teens! Probably one of the best sci-fi books I've read that has a teen rating. Has a good mix of stories, all of which are well written.
This is a great colletion of science fiction. It has a very wide array of hard science fiction, stories that border on fantasy, comic aliens, and interesting "what ifs?" I especially liked "A Walk in the Sun" however "Cards of Grief" left me with a "huh?" feeling. Definitely not just a YA collection.