New Skies : An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction
by Nielsen Hayden, PatrickEdition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-09-13
Publisher(s): Tor Teen
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Summary
cience fiction is perennially popular with young readers. But while many collections were assembled in the 1950s and 1960s with young readers in mind, it has been many years since the field has seen such a collection of modern SF. Selected entirely from stories published since 1980, New Skies fills that need. Here are stories by writers such as Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Jane Yolen, Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Gould, Connie Willis, Spider Robin-son, 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, irreverant or swashbuckling, each of these stories is an adventure in imagination. Journey from the here and now into New Skies.
Author Biography
Patrick Nielsen Hayden is Senior Editor, Manager of Science Fiction, at Tor Books. He has worked in the science fiction field as an editor, reviewer, publisher, and in other capacities, since the mid-1970s. The Washington Post has called him "one of the most literate and historically aware editors in science fiction."
His original anthology series Starlight has won the World Fantasy Award, while individual stories from it have won the Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. His other anthologies include the YA reprint collections New Skies and New Magics and Up. A frequent speaker at science fiction conventions and writing workshops, he also plays guitar with a variety of ensembles and maintains a popular weblog about politics and culture. He lives with his wife and collaborator, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, in Brooklyn, New York.
His original anthology series Starlight has won the World Fantasy Award, while individual stories from it have won the Hugo, Nebula, and other awards. His other anthologies include the YA reprint collections New Skies and New Magics and Up. A frequent speaker at science fiction conventions and writing workshops, he also plays guitar with a variety of ensembles and maintains a popular weblog about politics and culture. He lives with his wife and collaborator, Teresa Nielsen Hayden, in Brooklyn, New York.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | 11 | (4) | |
| Terry Bisson, "They're Made Out of Meat" | 15 | (4) | |
| Geoffrey A. Landis, "A Walk in the Sun" | 19 | (24) | |
| Steven Gould, "Peaches for Mad Molly" | 43 | (32) | |
| Spider Robinson, "Serpents' Teeth" | 75 | (18) | |
| Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, "Uncle Joshua and the Grooglemen" | 93 | (14) | |
| Connie Willis, "A Letter from the Clearys" | 107 | (18) | |
| Will Shetterly, "Brian and the Aliens" | 125 | (16) | |
| David Langford, "Different Kinds of Darkness" | 141 | (16) | |
| Greg van Eekhout, "Will You Be an Astronaut?" | 157 | (12) | |
| Jane Yolen, "Cards of Grief" | 169 | (16) | |
| Greg Bear, "Tangents" | 185 | (24) | |
| Philip K. Dick, "The Alien Mind" | 209 | (4) | |
| Nancy Kress, "Out of All Them Bright Stars" | 213 | (10) | |
| Maureen F. McHugh, "The Lincoln Train" | 223 | (20) | |
| Kim Stanley Robinson, "Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars" | 243 | (14) | |
| Orson Scott Card, "Salvage" | 257 | (28) | |
| Robert Charles Wilson, "The Great Goodbye" | 285 |
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