New Skies

Edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden.

A new generation of science fiction fans is at hand. A new generation that is curious, smart, audacious, and experimental. It is for them that Patrick Nielsen Hayden – winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology – has selected these stories from the thousands published by contemporary SF writers over the past two decades.

Here are writers such as Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Jane Yolen, Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Gould, Connie Willis, Spider Robinson, and many more. Here is a careening adventure along the outside of a tower looming miles above the ground, and a tale of desperate survival on the deadly surface of the Moon. Here is a world in which children divorce their parents, and the story of a four-dimensional boy in a three-dimensional world. Here are future young people rebuilding after terrible disasters, and here is a story of the future development of baseball – on Mars.

Nightmarish or whimsical, irreverent or swashbuckling, each of these stories is an adventure in imagination. Journey from the here and now into New Skies.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Terry Bisson, "They're Made Out of Meat"
• Geoffrey A. Landis, "A Walk in the Sun"
• Steven Gould, "Peaches for Mad Molly"
• Spider Robinson, "Serpents' Teeth"
• Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, "Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen"
• Connie Willis, "A Letter from the Clearys"
• Will Shetterly, "Brian and the Aliens"
• David Langford, "Different Kinds of Darkness"
• Greg van Eekhout, "Will You Be an Astronaut?"
• Jane Yolen, "Cards of Grief"
• Greg Bear, "Tangents"
• Philip K. Dick, "The Alien Mind"
• Nancy Kress, "Out of All Them Bright Stars"
• Maureen F. McHugh, "The Lincoln Train"
• Kim Stanley Robinson, "Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars"
• Orson Scott Card, "Salvage"
• Robert Charles Wilson, "The Great Goodbye"