A perfect seasonal gift
Via email from my colleague Henry Gee:
Futures from Nature is an anthology of 100 very short stories from Nature’s award-winning back-page Futures SF series … and it’s published today [13 November 2007], as a hardback from Tor, at 25 [US] dollars (or about two bob on old money), so with the usual discounts, they’re practically paying you to take it away. It's the ideal festive gift for the constipated, insomniac trekkie in your life.
As well as stories from journalists, scientists and writers trying SF for the very first time, Futures from Nature is a parade of SF greats, featuring stories from the likes of Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Kim Stanley Robinson, Dan Simmons, Alastair Reynolds, Charles Stross, Peter F. Hamilton, Vonda McIntyre and many more.
Here’s what Publisher’s Weekly said in their starred review: “Each vignette centers on a wondrous or devastating or simply mind-boggling what if, carried to an unsettlingly original logical conclusion—or left spinning in an extraterrestrial mental orbit… a perfect volume to awaken startling new thoughts on old SF themes, giant leaps into the future in delectably palatable tiny packages.”
Actually, I lied. The anthology doesn’t contain 100 stories, but 101. I wrote one extra, just for the book. Not that this alone makes the book an essential purchase, but, you know, every Greatest Hits package has to have its Bonus Track.
See here for the Amazon UK listing, and here for the Amazon US listing.
