- Hardcover: 406 pages
- Publisher: Legend; First Edition edition (4 May 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099318814
- ISBN-13: 978-0099318811
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 4 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,470,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of science-fiction stories collected by the author of "Eon". The authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Greg Benford, Robert Silverberg, Robert Sheckley, Mary Rosenblum, Paul J. McAuley and Greg Egan.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
If you liked "Child of the River" or "Diaspora" try it.
17 Dec 1998
Format:Hardcover
This contained "Wang's Carpet" which I believe became part of "Diaspora" & "Recording Angel" which is set in the world of "Child of the River". It also contains other good stories enjoy!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
The SF of science-related fields
22 April 2008
Format:Paperback
This collection of SF explores many fields of science like a collection of short stories has never done before. Each story sheds like onto some science related topic, some newly written about and some reworked. What follows is the story title, science explored and synopsis
Elegy
Neurology
Squid neurons in human brains
Desperate Calculus
Epidemiology
Superflu infects 97% of humans
Future Marriage
Psychology
Couple argue after losing game show
Coming of Age in Karhide
Xenosociology
Nostalgic coming-of-age for alien
High Abyss
Xenometerology
Victorious king takes scientific flight
Recording Angel
"Chrono-sociology"
Ancient human disrupts future society
When Strangers Meet
"Xenomonarchology"
The One commontates on New Year ritual
The Day the Aliens Came
"Interxenosexology"
Alien neighborhood orgies on Earth
Gnota
Transgenetics
Soldier struggles with inplant and donor
Rorvik's War
Military technology
Drafted soldier fights Russians
Radiance
Experimental physics
Team struggles to build weapon for government
Red Blaze is the Morning
Archeology
Telepathis alien talks to man at dig site
One
Explorative astronomy
Isolated couple explore solar systems
Scarecrow
Theology
Couple stranded on Saturn moon
Wang's Carpet
Xenobiology
Post-human faction explores new planet
Elegy
Neurology
Squid neurons in human brains
Desperate Calculus
Epidemiology
Superflu infects 97% of humans
Future Marriage
Psychology
Couple argue after losing game show
Coming of Age in Karhide
Xenosociology
Nostalgic coming-of-age for alien
High Abyss
Xenometerology
Victorious king takes scientific flight
Recording Angel
"Chrono-sociology"
Ancient human disrupts future society
When Strangers Meet
"Xenomonarchology"
The One commontates on New Year ritual
The Day the Aliens Came
"Interxenosexology"
Alien neighborhood orgies on Earth
Gnota
Transgenetics
Soldier struggles with inplant and donor
Rorvik's War
Military technology
Drafted soldier fights Russians
Radiance
Experimental physics
Team struggles to build weapon for government
Red Blaze is the Morning
Archeology
Telepathis alien talks to man at dig site
One
Explorative astronomy
Isolated couple explore solar systems
Scarecrow
Theology
Couple stranded on Saturn moon
Wang's Carpet
Xenobiology
Post-human faction explores new planet
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Not Free SF Reader
3 Aug 2007
Format:Paperback
A fine anthology that Bear put together here. There is also a reminiscence he wrote about a group of right wing sf writers being asked to talk to the government about space weapons etc. meeting Arthur C. Clarke while discussing this and telling him off for having the temerity to actually disagree with them, because he was not American, with Heinlein the ringleader. Friendly bunch. Bit insecure too, by the sound of it.
New Legends : Elegy - Mary Rosenblum
New Legends : A Desperate Calculus - Sterling Blake
New Legends : Scenes from a Future Marriage - James Stevens-Arce
New Legends : Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb of Rer in Karhide on Gethen - Ursula K. LeGuin
New Legends : High Abyss - Gregory Benford
New Legends : Recording Angel - Paul J. McAuley
New Legends : When Strangers Meet - Sonia Orin Lyris
New Legends : The Day the Aliens Came - Robert Sheckley
New Legends : Gnota - Greg Abraham
New Legends : Rorvik's War - Geoffrey A. Landis
New Legends : Radiance - Carter Scholz
New Legends : The Red Blaze is the Morning - Robert Silverberg
New Legends : One - George Alec Effinger
New Legends : Scarecrow - Poul Anderson
New Legends : Wang's Carpets - Greg Egan
Scientist use squid neurons against Alzheimer's, may have found a surprising relationship as a consequence.
4 out of 5
Population control by epidemic.
3.5 out of 5
Taking gameshows way too seriously.
2.5 out of 5
Puberty gender blues cured by dedicated fracking and food, even if the flavor can be a crapshoot.
4 out of 5
Large scale type war.
3 out of 5
Personality variations don't quite cut it, universal aims are worth a shot though.
4 out of 5
Better understand the local entertainment customs.
3 out of 5
Trading with the long way out of towners is quite odd.
4 out of 5
Hard, life or death choices, with pigs like us.
4.5 out of 5
Drafted into simulation.
4.5 out of 5
Space missile defense politics, physics and prevarication.
3.5 out of 5
Archaeologist time swap.
4 out of 5
Astronomically improbable flop gets robots religion, and they are guided to the irrational light.
3.5 out of 5
A conservative transhuman polis sets out to search for alien life on other planets. The planet they find surprises them in a bit way, as the carpetlike inhabitants seem to grow by a pattern described by an obscure mathematician. Their nature allows them to perform as a Turing machine, and they are running one pretty impressive simulation.
A story you might just have to read a bit of twice.
5 out of 5
New Legends : Elegy - Mary Rosenblum
New Legends : A Desperate Calculus - Sterling Blake
New Legends : Scenes from a Future Marriage - James Stevens-Arce
New Legends : Coming of Age in Karhide by Sov Thade Tage em Ereb of Rer in Karhide on Gethen - Ursula K. LeGuin
New Legends : High Abyss - Gregory Benford
New Legends : Recording Angel - Paul J. McAuley
New Legends : When Strangers Meet - Sonia Orin Lyris
New Legends : The Day the Aliens Came - Robert Sheckley
New Legends : Gnota - Greg Abraham
New Legends : Rorvik's War - Geoffrey A. Landis
New Legends : Radiance - Carter Scholz
New Legends : The Red Blaze is the Morning - Robert Silverberg
New Legends : One - George Alec Effinger
New Legends : Scarecrow - Poul Anderson
New Legends : Wang's Carpets - Greg Egan
Scientist use squid neurons against Alzheimer's, may have found a surprising relationship as a consequence.
4 out of 5
Population control by epidemic.
3.5 out of 5
Taking gameshows way too seriously.
2.5 out of 5
Puberty gender blues cured by dedicated fracking and food, even if the flavor can be a crapshoot.
4 out of 5
Large scale type war.
3 out of 5
Personality variations don't quite cut it, universal aims are worth a shot though.
4 out of 5
Better understand the local entertainment customs.
3 out of 5
Trading with the long way out of towners is quite odd.
4 out of 5
Hard, life or death choices, with pigs like us.
4.5 out of 5
Drafted into simulation.
4.5 out of 5
Space missile defense politics, physics and prevarication.
3.5 out of 5
Archaeologist time swap.
4 out of 5
Astronomically improbable flop gets robots religion, and they are guided to the irrational light.
3.5 out of 5
A conservative transhuman polis sets out to search for alien life on other planets. The planet they find surprises them in a bit way, as the carpetlike inhabitants seem to grow by a pattern described by an obscure mathematician. Their nature allows them to perform as a Turing machine, and they are running one pretty impressive simulation.
A story you might just have to read a bit of twice.
5 out of 5
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