Eternal Frontier
Earth's colonists have divided into the Swimmers, who spend their entire lives in zero-gravity and claim to be the next step in evolution, and the planet-dwelling Walkers. The Swimmers regard those who prefer to live on the surface of a planet as little better than unevolved apes, while the Walkers are not about to say farewell to the planets they grew up on, and think the Swimmers are not advanced at all, but merely deranged. Crowell, born a Swimmer but now a Walker by choice, is caught in the middle as the two sides prepare for war. Then he discovers the true cause of the altercation: a hidden alien race trying to provoke a war of extinction.
Contents:
- Adventures in time and Space (essay) by Guy Gordon and Eric Flint
- The Big Terrarium
- Summer Guests
- Captives of the Thieve-Star
- Caretaker
- One Step Ahead
- Left Hand, Right Hand
- Homo Excelsior (essay) by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon
- The Ties of Earth
- Spacemaster
- The Altruist
- Oneness
- Dark Visions (essay) by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon
- We Don't Want Any Trouble
- Just Curious
- Would You?
- These Are the Arts
- Clean Slate
- Time for Crime (essay) by Eric Flint and Guy Gordon
- Crime Buff
- Ham Sandwich
- Where the Time Went
- An Incident on Route 12
- Swift Completion
- Faddist
- The Eternal Frontiers
- Afterword by James H. Schmitz
- James H. Schmitz Chronography (essay) by Guy Gordon
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James H. Schmitz
James Henry Schmitz (1911–1981) was an American writer born in Hamburg, Germany of American parents.
Schmitz is best known as a writer of so-called "space opera", and for strong female characters (such as Telzey Amberdon and Trigger Argee) that didn't conform to the damsel in distress stereotype typical of science fiction during the time he was writing. His first published story was Greenface, published in August 1943 in Unknown.
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