The brightest names in science fiction pen all-new tales of space and wonder.Contents 1 • Introduction (The New Space Opera) • (2007) • essay by Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan6 • Saving Tiamaat • (2007) • shortstory by Gwyneth Jones24 •
The Barnes & Noble ReviewScience fiction as short fiction is perhaps my favorite form of the literary genre, and David G. Hartwell's Year's Best series is a collection -- full of humor, drama, style, and surprises -- that never disappoints. Here are j
THE TWENTY-NINE STORIES in this collection imaginatively take us far across the universe, into the very core of our beings, to the realm of the gods, and the moment just after now. Included here are the works of masters of the form and of bright new talen
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Matt Cairns is a 21st-century outlaw Programmer who takes on the shady jobs no one else will touch. Against his better judgment, he accepts an assignment to crack the Marshall Titov, a top-secret orbital station operated by the European Space Agency. But
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