The Hard SF Renaissance An Anthology [Paperback]

Something exciting has been happening in modern SF. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, hard SF -science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present an immense, authoritative anthology that maps the development and modern-day resurgence of this form, argues for its special virtues and present preeminence-and entertains us with some spectacular storytelling along the way.

Included are major stories by contemporary and classic names such as Poul Anderson, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Greg Egan, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, Paul McAuley, Frederik Pohl, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, Karl Schroeder, Charles Sheffield, Brian Stableford, Allen Steele, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, and Vernor Vinge.

The Hard SF Renaissancewill be an anthology that SF readers return to for years to come.

Introduction:New People, New Places, New Politics
Paul McAuley:Gene Wars
Greg Egan:Wang's Carpets
Poul Anderson:Genesis
Kim Stanley Robinson:Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars
Stephen Baxter:On the Orion Line
Nancy Kress:Beggars in Spain
Gregory Benford:Matter's End
Arthur C. Clarke:The Hammer of God
James Patrick Kelly:Think Like a Dinosaur
Ben Bova:Mount Olympus
Robert Reed:Marrow
Joan Slonczewski:Microbe
Charles Sheffield:The Lady Vanishes
Bruce Sterling:Bicycle Repairman
David Brin:An Ever-Reddening Glow
Kim Stanley Robinson:Sexual Dimorphism
G. David Nordley:Into the Miranda Rift
Robert J. Sawyer:The Shoulders of Giants
Geoffrey A. Landis:A Walk in the Sun
Joe Haldeman:l"