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The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4

Gwyneth Jones
3.8/5 ( ratings)
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An excellent anthology collection spotlighting the best hard science fiction stories published in 2019 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. Once again offering a definitive and incisive exploration of science fiction themes, trends, and traditions to delight the discernig science fiction reader.
Contents:
* Soft Edges / Elizabeth Bear: a coastal restoration researcher can help the police solve a murder but is conflicted over the unjust nature of the criminal justice system.
* By the Warmth of Their Calculus / Tobias S. Buckell, the captain of a dustship musters her crew to escape from a trap set by Hunter-Killers in a game of cat and mouse amid the rings of a giant planet.
* A Mate Not a Meal / Sarina Dorie: an arachnipede becomes wary of potential mates after she sees a male eat her mother . . . but she's lonely.
* The Slipway / Greg Egan, astronomers are hard-pressed to explain what appears to be a new cluster of stars that's growing by the hour.
* This is Not the Way Home / Greg Egan; abandoned at a lunar base after losing radio contact with Earth, a newlywed traverses the moon in a buggy with her newborn toward a skyhook on the farside.
* Cloud-Born / Gregory Feeley: children born on a ship from Earth become anxious as they begin to transition to their new lives as colonists of Neptune.
* On the Shores of Ligeia / Carolyn Ives Gilman: an astrobiology postdoc is called at the last minute to remotely navigate a robot searching for hydrogen-based life on Titan.
* Ring Wave / Tom Jolly: an engineer in a life pod is desperate to join a colony in space after an asteroid destroys Earth.
* The Little Shepherdess / Gwyneth Jones: a deep-sea mining company's operation is threatened by a crustacean scientist.
* Sacrificial Iron / Ted Kosmatka, a decades long mission to another star is threatened when the two men keeping watch over a frozen crew turn on each other.
* The Menace from Farside / Ian McDonald: a teenager seeks to maintain her "Captain" status among her non-traditional lunar family by leading her siblings on a dangerous trek to Neil Armstrong's first footprint on the moon.
* The Ocean Between the Leaves / Ray Nayler: the mind of a dying gardener is transferred to another body for three days of closure in a state-run experiment.
* At the Fall / Alec Nevala-Lee: a robot strives to maintain its energy reserves as it crosses thousands of kilometers underwater to find its way home.
* Winter Wheat / Gord Sellar: a Canadian farmer and his son are at odds on how to cope with a powerful agribusiness promoting its genetically modified wheat.
* Cyclopterus / Peter Watts: a resentful submarine pilot is ordered to an undersea research facility to assist with the mining survey of a formerly protected seabed.
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Format
Kindle Edition

The Year's Top Hard Science Fiction Stories 4

Gwyneth Jones
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
An excellent anthology collection spotlighting the best hard science fiction stories published in 2019 by current and emerging masters of the genre, edited by Allan Kaster. Once again offering a definitive and incisive exploration of science fiction themes, trends, and traditions to delight the discernig science fiction reader.
Contents:
* Soft Edges / Elizabeth Bear: a coastal restoration researcher can help the police solve a murder but is conflicted over the unjust nature of the criminal justice system.
* By the Warmth of Their Calculus / Tobias S. Buckell, the captain of a dustship musters her crew to escape from a trap set by Hunter-Killers in a game of cat and mouse amid the rings of a giant planet.
* A Mate Not a Meal / Sarina Dorie: an arachnipede becomes wary of potential mates after she sees a male eat her mother . . . but she's lonely.
* The Slipway / Greg Egan, astronomers are hard-pressed to explain what appears to be a new cluster of stars that's growing by the hour.
* This is Not the Way Home / Greg Egan; abandoned at a lunar base after losing radio contact with Earth, a newlywed traverses the moon in a buggy with her newborn toward a skyhook on the farside.
* Cloud-Born / Gregory Feeley: children born on a ship from Earth become anxious as they begin to transition to their new lives as colonists of Neptune.
* On the Shores of Ligeia / Carolyn Ives Gilman: an astrobiology postdoc is called at the last minute to remotely navigate a robot searching for hydrogen-based life on Titan.
* Ring Wave / Tom Jolly: an engineer in a life pod is desperate to join a colony in space after an asteroid destroys Earth.
* The Little Shepherdess / Gwyneth Jones: a deep-sea mining company's operation is threatened by a crustacean scientist.
* Sacrificial Iron / Ted Kosmatka, a decades long mission to another star is threatened when the two men keeping watch over a frozen crew turn on each other.
* The Menace from Farside / Ian McDonald: a teenager seeks to maintain her "Captain" status among her non-traditional lunar family by leading her siblings on a dangerous trek to Neil Armstrong's first footprint on the moon.
* The Ocean Between the Leaves / Ray Nayler: the mind of a dying gardener is transferred to another body for three days of closure in a state-run experiment.
* At the Fall / Alec Nevala-Lee: a robot strives to maintain its energy reserves as it crosses thousands of kilometers underwater to find its way home.
* Winter Wheat / Gord Sellar: a Canadian farmer and his son are at odds on how to cope with a powerful agribusiness promoting its genetically modified wheat.
* Cyclopterus / Peter Watts: a resentful submarine pilot is ordered to an undersea research facility to assist with the mining survey of a formerly protected seabed.
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Format
Kindle Edition

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