EARTH IS BUT A STAR: Excursions through Science Fiction to the Far Future
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an Anthology edited by Damien Broderick
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UWA Press (Nedlands, WA), April 2001
Trade Paperback $34.95
isbn 1-8762-6854-9
Deep time: the ultimate frontier, tomorrow's most romantic landscape. Our sun is a vast, sullen wheel hanging at the horizon. Beings walk the dying world in its red light, but few are human. Robots return from the edges of the galaxy to mourn their lost ancestors. Mages weave plots, their science so advanced it is indistinguishable from magic. In the vastness of eternity, Earth is but a star.
Only science fantasy knows the paths into this wondrous realm. A remarkable blend of myth, science and pure dark imagination, science fantasy is a genre still little known to science fiction enthusiasts or critics. Here, for the first time, many of its key tales are gathered, together with new essays that illuminate their strange power - and provide a treasury of superb, unusual entertainment.
Our sun is a vast, sullen wheel hanging at the horizon. Beings walk the dying world in its red light, but few are human. Robots return from the edges of the galaxy to mourn their lost ancestors. Mages weave plots, their science so advanced it is indistinguishable from magic.
This anthology contains fiction by Pamela Zoline, Arthur C. Clarke, Poul Anderson, C.J. Cherryh, Robert Williams, Gene Wolfe, Brian W. Aldiss, Jack Vance, John Brunner, A.E. Van Vogt, Damien Broderick, Stephen Baxter, Robert Silverberg and Olaf Stapledon, plus essays by Russell Blackford, Brian Stableford, Elizabeth Billinger, George Zebrowski, John Clute, Jo Walton, Bruce Gillespie, Michael Andre-Driussi, Yvonne Rousseau & Guerry Simpson, Walter Minkel, Alice K. Turner, Paul Voermans, Claire Brialey, Stanislaw Lem, Anders Sandberg and Rosaleen Love.
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