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Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future
| Author: | Gardner Dozois |
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St. Martin's Press, 2002 |
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| Book Type: | Anthology |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Mind-expanding explorations of the future of the human form
Our 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 Zelazny
Table of Contents:
- Preface - essay by uncredited
- The Chapter Ends - (1954) - novelette by Poul Anderson
- Watershed - (1955) - shortstory by James Blish
- Slow Tuesday Night - (1965) - shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
- Aye, and Gomorrah - (1967) - shortstory by Samuel R. Delany
- Nobody's Home - (1972) - shortstory by Joanna Russ
- The Hero as Werwolf - (1975) - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
- Halfjack - (1979) - shortstory by Roger Zelazny
- Dancer's in the Time-Flux - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
- Spook - (1983) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
- Understand - (1991) - novelette by Ted Chiang
- None So Blind - (1994) - shortstory by Joe Haldeman
- Mortimer Gray's History of Death - (1995) - novella by Brian Stableford
- Brother Perfect - (1995) - novella by Robert Reed
- A Child of the Dead - (1997) - shortstory by Liz Williams
- Nevermore - (1997) - novelette by Ian R. MacLeod
- The Wisdom of Old Earth - (1997) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
- TOAST: A Con Report - (1998) - shortstory by Charles Stross
- The Gardens of Saturn - (1998) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
- Grist - (1998) - novella by Tony Daniel
- Fossil Games - (1999) - novelette by Tom Purdom
- The Wedding Album - (1999) - novella by David Marusek
- Steps Along the Way - (1999) - shortstory by Eric Brown
- Border Guards - (1999) - novelette by Greg Egan
- Epilogue - essay by uncredited
- Homo Sapiens Declared Extinct - (1999) - shortstory by Bruce Sterling
- A History of the Human and Post-Human Species - (2000) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
- The Great Goodbye - (2000) - shortstory by Robert Charles Wilson
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