2 Anthologies by Gardner R. Dozois (ed.)
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Overview: Gardner Raymond Dozois (born July 23, 1947) is an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He has won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction.
Genre: Science Fiction, Short Story Anthology
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 more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field. These are the stories of discovering those possibilities-the stories of the explorers and pioneers who push the envelope further out–exciting tales of alien landscapes and adventures on far distant shores that are the heart and soul of science fiction.
Contents:
The Sentinel by Arthur C. Clarke
Moonwalk by H. B. Fyfe
The Red Hills of Summer by Edgar Pangborn
The Longest Voyage by Poul Anderson
Hot Planet by Hal Clement
Drunkboat by Cordwainer Smith
Becalmed in Hell by Larry Niven
Nine Hundred Grandmothers by R. A. Lafferty
The Keys to December by Roger Zelazny
Vaster Than Empires and More Slow by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Meeting With Medusa by Arthur C. Clarke
The Man Who Walked Home by James Tiptree, Jr.
Long Shot by Vernor Vinge
In the Hall of the Martian Kings by John Varley
Ginungagap Michael Swanwick
Exploring Fossil Canyon by Kim Stanley Robinson
Promises to Keep by Jack McDevitt
Lieserl by Stephen Baxter
Crossing Chao Meng Fu by G. David Nordley
Wang’s Carpets by Greg Egan
A Dance to Strange Musics by Gregory Benford
Approaching Perimelasma by Geoffrey A. Landis
Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming
When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field.
These are the stories of the explorers and pioneers who transform their destinations in the image of their distant home–exciting tales of alien landscapes and the struggle to make them suit human desires.
Contents:
The Big Rain by Poul Anderson
When the People Fell by Cordwainer Smith
Before Eden by Arthur C. Clarke
Hunter, Come Home by Richard McKenna
The Keys to December by Roger Zelazny
Retrograde Summer by John Varley
Shall We Take a Little Walk? by Gregory Benford
The Catharine Wheel by Ian McDonald (aka The Catharine Wheel (Our Lady of Tharsis))
Sunken Gardens by Bruce Sterling
Out of Copyright by Charles Sheffield
A Place with Shade by Robert Reed
Dawn Venus by G. David Nordley
For White Hill by Joe Haldeman
The Road to Reality by Phillip C. Jennings
Ecopoiesis by Geoffrey A. Landis
People Came from Earth by Stephen Baxter
Fossils by William H. Keith, Jr.
A Martian Romance by Kim Stanley Robinson
Dream of Venus by Pamela Sargent
At Tide’s Turning by Laura J. Mixon
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