The Hard SF Renaissance Author:David G. Hartwell (Editor), Kathryn Cramer (Editor) Something exciting has been happening in modern SF. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF"-science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. — Now, World Fantasy Award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn... more » Cramer present an immense, authoritative anthology that maps the development and modern-day resurgence of this form, argues for its special virtues and present preeminence-and entertains us with some spectacular storytelling along the way.
The Hard SF Renaissance will be an anthology that SF readers return to for years to come.
Table of contents:
* Gene Wars / Paul McAuley;
* Wang's Carpets / Greg Egan;
* Genesis / Poul Anderson;
* Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars / Kim Stanley Robinson;
* On the Orion Line / Stephen Baxter;
* Beggars in Spain / Nancy Kress;
* Matter's End / Gregory Benford;
* The Hammer of God / Arthur C. Clarke;
* Think Like a Dinosaur / James Patrick Kelly;
* Mount Olympus / Ben Bova;
* Marrow / Robert Reed;
* Microbe / Joan Slonczewski;
* The Lady Vanishes / Charles Sheffield;
* Bicycle Repairman / Bruce Sterling;
* An Ever-Reddening Glow / David Brin;
* Sexual Dimorphism / Kim Stanley Robinson;
* Into the Miranda Rift / G. David Nordley;
* The Shoulders of Giants / Robert J. Sawyer;
* A Walk in the Sun / Geoffrey A. Landis;
* For White Hill / Joe Haldeman;
* A Career in Sexual Chemistry / Brian Stableford;