The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction
Ashley, Mike (Ed) Dick, Philip K; Hamilton, Peter F; Robinson, Kim Stanley; Sheckley, Robert; Simak, Clifford & more
Language: English
Published by Carroll and Graf, USA, 2002
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Spine has a crease. Contents Introduction: The Next Step (The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction) • by Mike Ashley Ulla, Ulla • (2002) • short story by Eric Brown Deathday • [Confederation Universe Stories] • (1991) • novelette by Peter F. Hamilton The Infinite Assassin • (1991) • short story by Greg Egan Anachron • (1954) • short story by Damon Knight Firewatch • [Time Travel] • (1982) • novelette by Connie Willis (variant of Fire Watch) At the 'Me' Shop • (1995) • novelette by Robert Reed Vinland the Dream • (1991) • short story by Kim Stanley Robinson A Ticket to Tranai • (1955) • novelette by Robert Sheckley The Exit Door Leads In • (1979) • short story by Philip K. Dick What Have I Done? • (1952) • short story by Mark Clifton Finis • short story by Frank Lillie Pollock The Last Days of Earth: Being the Story of the Launching of the "Red Sphere" • (1901) • short story by Geo. C. Wallis Approaching Perimelasma • (1998) • novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis The Pen and the Dark • [Unorthodox Engineers] • (1966) • novelette by Colin Kapp Inanimate Objection • (1954) • novelette by H. Chandler Elliott The Very Pulse of the Machine • (1998) • short story by Michael Swanwick High Eight • (1965) • novelette by Keith Roberts Shards • (1962) • short story by Brian W. Aldiss Except My Life³ • (1991) • novelette by John Morressy (variant of Except My Life, Except My Life, Except My Life) Into Your Tent I'll Creep • (1957) • short story by Eric Frank Russell A Death in the House • (1959) • novelette by Clifford D. Simak Refugium • short story by Stephen Baxter. …
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- Title
- The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction
- Author
- Ashley, Mike (Ed) Dick, Philip K; Hamilton, Peter F; Robinson, Kim Stanley; Sheckley, Robert; Simak, Clifford & more
- Publisher
- Carroll and Graf, USA
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0786710047
- ISBN 13
- 9780786710041
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Oldies from the 1900s show Earth dying by ice and fire respectively. Peter F Hamilton evokes the dangers of hunting aliens; Greg Egan's hero spans all possible quantum worlds in "The Infinite Assassin"; Damon Knight does tricky things with time travel, also used by Connie Willis--whose "Firewatch" is a moving tale of saving St Paul's in the Blitz. Meeting your past self needs no time machine in Robert Reed's "At the 'Me' Shop".
Kim Stanley Robinson's "Vinland the Dream" imagines a gigantic historical hoax. Robert Sheckley and Philip Dick offer paired comedies: utopia with unnerving flaws, and an authoritarian state that secretly isn't. Hair-raising explorations include Geoffrey A Landis's mindboggling plunge into a black hole, Colin Kapp's "Unorthodox Engineers" assaulting a mystery object immune to nuclear blasts, and Michael Swanwick's doomed heroine trekking across Jupiter's moon Io, whose sulphur landscape speaks to her--this tale, "The Very Pulse of the Machine", won a Hugo.
Elsewhere, Keith Roberts imagines nightmare life in the electricity grid, Brian Aldiss seems to be writing surrealism until his shock punchline, John Morressy's four-clone team of identical private eyes investigates a murdered three-clone, Eric Frank Russell reveals the secret rulers of Earth, and Clifford Simak effectively blends alien contact with his trademark rustic nostalgia.
This is a meaty collection with almost no duds, recommended. --David Langford
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