Donald Kingsbury

Diana's ambition to get a job on the moon started the same day she learned from a child's book of mythology that her namesake was the moon goddess. The time is the late 1980s. The Russians have secretly lofted a full-scale space station that dwarfs the one the U.S. hopes to build in the '90s. The American response - as it was in the late 1950s - is a crash program to overtake and surpass the Soviet effort, by 2010, their efforts have succeeded. A burgeoning space industry has resulted in an economic boom unprecedented in U.S. history - and man will never again be confined to Earth.

Eron Osa a subi le châtiment suprême : on lui a retiré son fam, une sonde psychique qui décuple les capacités du cerveau. En cette année 14810 de l'Ere galactique, dans Sublime Sagesse, la planète capitale de la Voie lactée, chaque citoyen dépend uniquement de son fam pour évoluer dans un univers hautement technologique. Eron, privé de la plupart de ses souvenirs, va découvrir l'enfer de sa nouvelle condition. Est-il au coeur d'un complot à l'échelle de la Galaxie? Pourtant, perdue au fond de sa mémoire, se trouve la clé qui pourrait changer le destin galactique de l'humanité.

Born with the Dead, 1974, Robert Silverberg The Moon Goddess and the Son, 1979, Donald Kingsbury Tin Soldier, 1974, Joan D. Vinge In the Problem Pit, 1973, Frederik Pohl Riding the Torch, 1974, Norman Spinrad Mouthpiece, 1974, Edward Wellen ARM, 1975, Larry Niven The Persistence of Vision, 1978, John Varley The Queen of Air and Darkness, 1971, Poul Anderson The Monster and the Maiden, 1976, Gordon R. Dickson

Profession - novella by Isaac Asimov Who Goes There? - novella by John W. Campbell, Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart] For I Am a Jealous People! - novella by Lester del Rey The Mortal and the Monster - novella by Gordon R. Dickson (variant of The Monster and the Maiden) Time Safari - novella by David Drake In the Western Tradition - novella by Phyllis Eisenstein The Alley Man - novella by Philip José Farmer The Sellers of the Dream - novelette by John Jakes [as by John W. Jakes] The Moon Goddess and the Son - novella by Donald Kingsbury Enemy Mine - novella by Barry B. Longyear Flash Crowd - novella by Larry Niven In the Problem Pit - novella by Frederik Pohl The Desert of Stolen Dreams - novella by Robert Silverberg

This anthology collects five original novellas that take the very long view, all set at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues of cosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.