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9780312275693

Supermen Tales of the Posthuman Future

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312275693

  • ISBN10:

    0312275692

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-01-15
  • Publisher: Griffin

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Summary

Mind-expanding explorations of the future of the human formOur bodies and minds are malleable, and only the imagination is the limit to the possible improvements. From genetics to artificial enhancements, humanity will alter the course of its own evolution. Included here are more than twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field, including:Poul Anderson * James Blish * Eric Brown * Ted Chiang * Tony Daniel * Samuel R. Delany * Greg Egan * Joe Haldeman * Geoffrey A. Landis * Paul McAuley * Ian MacLeod * David Marusek * Tom Purdom * Robert Reed * Joanna Russ * Robert Silverberg * Brian Stableford * Bruce Sterling * Charles Stross * Michael Swanwick * Liz Williams * Gene Wolfe * Roger ZelaznyAUTHORBIO: GARDNER DOZOIS edits the Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and Asimov's SF magazine from his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor many times.

Author Biography

Gardner Dozois edits the Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and Asimov's SF magazine from his home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has won the Hugo Award for Best Editor many times.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
The Chapter Ends
1(17)
Paul Anderson
Watershed
18(8)
James Blish
Slow Tuesday Night
26(6)
R. A. Lafferty
Aye, and Gomorrach
32(9)
Samuel R. Delany
Nobody's Home
41(13)
Joanna Russ
The Hero as Werwolf
54(12)
Gene Wolfe
Halfjack
66(5)
Roger Zelazny
Dancers in the Time-Flux
71(14)
Robert Silverberg
Spook
85(12)
Bruce Sterling
Understand
97(28)
Ted Chiang
None so Blind
125(8)
Joe Haldeman
Mortimer Gray's History of Death
133(48)
Brian Stableford
Brother Perfect
181(42)
Robert Reed
A Child of the Dead
223(6)
Liz Williams
Nevermore
229(17)
Ian R. Macleod
The Wisdom of Old Earth
246(9)
Michael Swanwick
Toast: A Con Report
255(12)
Charles Stross
The Gardens of Saturn
267(27)
Paul J. McAuley
Grist
294(46)
Tony Daniel
Fossil Games
340(33)
Tom Purdom
The Wedding Album
373(40)
David Marusek
Steps Along the Way
413(8)
Eric Brown
Border Guards
421(19)
Greg Egan
Epilogue 440(2)
Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct
442(2)
Bruce Sterling
A History of the Human and Post-Human Species
444(5)
Geoffrey A. Landis
The Great Goodbye
449
Robert Charles Wilson

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