Future Earths Under African Skies Author:Gardner Dozois (Editor), Mike Resnick (Editor) This kaleidoscope of science fictional futures set in a futuristic African continent are both tainted with blood and tinged with optimism. Variously shows the shifting political landscape after a limited nuclear and biochemical war destroys the superpowers; fear and revenge; redemption and a renewed sense of compassion and appreciation for... more » life; and much more.
Contents:
Introduction (Future Earths: Under African Skies) (1993) • essay by Mike Resnick
For I Have Touched the Sky [Kirinyaga • 3] (1989) / novelette by Mike Resnick
Apartness (1965) / novelette by Vernor Vinge
Termites (1987) / shortstory by Dave Smeds
The Finger (1980) / shortstory by Naomi Mitchison
The Lions Are Asleep This Night (1986) / novelette by Howard Waldrop
Etoundi's Monkey (1989) / shortstory by Judith Dubois
Dry Niger (1990) / shortstory by M. Shayne Bell
A Transect (1986) / shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
Of Space-Time and the River (1985) / novelette by Gregory Benford
Still Life with Scorpion (1984) / shortstory by Scott Baker
The Quiet (1981) / shortstory by George Guthridge
Dinner in Audoghast (1985) / shortstory by Bruce Sterling
A Passive Victim of a Random Genetic Accident (1983) / shortstory by Janet Berliner [as by Janet Gluckman]
The Pale Thin God (1993) / shortstory by Mike Resnick
Toward Kilimanjaro [Chaga] (1990) / novelette by Ian McDonald