The Final Frontier

Edited by Neil Clarke. Cover art by Fred Gambino.

The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them.

Generations of writers have explored these new frontiers and the endless possibilities they present in great detail. With galaxy-spanning adventures of discovery and adventure, from generations ships to warp drives, exploring new worlds to first contacts, science fiction writers have given readers increasingly new and alien ways to look out into our broad and sprawling universe.

The Final Frontier delivers stories from across this literary spectrum, a reminder that the universe is far large and brimming with possibilities than we could ever imagine, as hard as we may try.

Contents:

• “A Jar of Goodwill” by Tobias S. Buckell (Clarkesworld, May 2010)
• “Mono no aware” by Ken Liu (The Future is Japanese, edited by Nick Mamatas and Masumi Washington)
• “Rescue Mission” by Jack Skillingstead (The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Volume 3, edited by George Mann)
• “Shiva in Shadow ” by Nancy Kress (Between Worlds, edited by Robert Silverberg)
• “Slow Life” by Michael Swanwick (Analog, December 2002)
• “Three Bodies at Mitanni” by Seth Dickinson (Analog, June 2015)
• “The Deeps of the Sky” by Elizabeth Bear (Edge of Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
• “Diving into the Wreck” by Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Asimov’s, December 2005)
• “The Voyage Out” by Gwyneth Jones (Periphery: Erotic Lesbian Futures, edited by Lynne Jamneck)
• “The Symphony of Ice and Dust” by Julie Novakova (Clarkesworld, October 2013)
• “Twenty Lights to “The Land of Snow”” by Michael Bishop (Going Interstellar, edited by Les Johnson and Jack McDevitt)
• “The Firewall and the Door” by Sean McMullen (Analog, March 2013)
• “Permanent Fatal Errors” by Jay Lake (Is Anybody Out There? edited by Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern )
• “Gypsy” by Carter Scholz (PM Press, November 2015)
• “Sailing the Antarsa” by Vandana Singh (The Other Half of the Sky, edited by Athena Andreadis)
• “The Mind is Its Own Place” by Carrie Vaughn, LLC (Asimov’s, September 2016)
• “The Wreck of the Godspeed” by James Patrick Kelly (Between Worlds, edited by Robert Silverberg)
• “Seeing” by Genevieve Valentine (Clarkesworld, November 2010)
• “Travelling into Nothing” by An Owomoyela (Bridging Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan)
• “Glory” by Greg Egan (New Space Opera, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Gardner Dozois)
• “The Island” by Peter Watts (New Space Opera 2, edited by Jonathan Strahan and Gardner Dozois)