The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9
Kaster, Allan; Banker, Ashok K; Davitt, Deborah L; Kritzer, Naomi; Larson, Rich; McDonald, Ian; McMullen, Sean; Merino, Faith; Spires, D.A. Xiaolin; Talabi, Wole
Language: English
Published by Infinivox, 2025
Series: Book 9 of 10 - The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
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- Title
- The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 9
- Author
- Kaster, Allan; Banker, Ashok K; Davitt, Deborah L; Kritzer, Naomi; Larson, Rich; McDonald, Ian; McMullen, Sean; Merino, Faith; Spires, D.A. Xiaolin; Talabi, Wole
- Publisher
- Infinivox
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1884612822
- ISBN 13
- 9781884612824
- Series
- Book 9 of 10: The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories
- “Antyesti for a Dead Ganesa” by Ashok K. Banker — An old-school cop is resurrected from deadsleep to solve the murder of a god clone in a future Mumbai.
- “Places You Have Never Been” by David Cleden — A city is threatened by invisible bubbles that take whatever is trapped inside them when they inexplicably collapse.
- “The Icy Wasteland at Her Feet” by Deborah L. Davitt — The sole survivor of a team of astronauts on Saturn’s moon, Enceladus, struggles to keep sane.
- “The Four Sisters Overlooking the Sea” by Naomi Kritzer — A contentious married couple, both scientists, move to a town overlooking Cape Cod Bay where men mysteriously disappear.
- “Barbarians” by Rich Larson — A rogue and a disembodied head are hired to take twins to explore a dead, planet-sized organism.
- “The Dark at the End of the Tunnel” by Edward M. Lerner — A graduate student investigates the disappearance of a distant galaxy.
- “Western Approaches” by Ian McDonald — A pilot is sent on a mission to explore a spinning storm approaching Scotland.
- “Mirrorstar” by Sean McMullen — A forensic pathologist investigates the death of a scientist in the focus cage of a space telescope.
- “There’s Nothing in the Attic” by Faith Merino — The women in a man’s life carry out physics experiments in his home.
- “Luminous Glass, Vibrant Seeds” by D.A. Xiaolin Spires — A glass artist and her bot are tasked with delivering a rare, viable seedling to its proper environ on a climate-damaged world.
- “Encore” by Wole Talabi — Twin AIs, created by now extinct humans, travel between star systems to make art for those who share its world of digital data.
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