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(2.9) | None | A collection of all original stories inspred by the Fermi Paradox, written by some of science fiction's biggest names and scientists, with an introduction by the astronomer Marek Kukula (Royal Observatory, Greenwich). Full contents: 1.Introduction by Marek Kukula 2.Catching Rays - Dave Clements 3.The Big Next - Pat Cadigan 4.Baedecker's Fermi - Adam Roberts 5.Zeta Reticuli - Paul Cornell 6.The Ambulance Chaser - Tricia Sullivan 7.Lost to Their Own Devices - Adrian Tchaikovsky 8.In the Beginning - Gerry Webb 9.The Trail of the Creator, the Trial of Creation - Paul di Filippo 10.Stella by Starlight - Mike Resnick & Robert T Jeschoenek 11.Fermi's Doubts - George Zebrowski 12.Audiovisionary - Stephanie Saulter 13.Aether - Robert Reed 14.The End of the World - Keith Brooke & Eric Brown 15.The Worldmaker - Rachel Armstrong 16.Atonement, Under the Blue-White Sun - Mercurio D Rivera… (more) |
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None ▾Book descriptions A collection of all original stories inspred by the Fermi Paradox, written by some of science fiction's biggest names and scientists, with an introduction by the astronomer Marek Kukula (Royal Observatory, Greenwich). Full contents: 1.Introduction by Marek Kukula 2.Catching Rays - Dave Clements 3.The Big Next - Pat Cadigan 4.Baedecker's Fermi - Adam Roberts 5.Zeta Reticuli - Paul Cornell 6.The Ambulance Chaser - Tricia Sullivan 7.Lost to Their Own Devices - Adrian Tchaikovsky 8.In the Beginning - Gerry Webb 9.The Trail of the Creator, the Trial of Creation - Paul di Filippo 10.Stella by Starlight - Mike Resnick & Robert T Jeschoenek 11.Fermi's Doubts - George Zebrowski 12.Audiovisionary - Stephanie Saulter 13.Aether - Robert Reed 14.The End of the World - Keith Brooke & Eric Brown 15.The Worldmaker - Rachel Armstrong 16.Atonement, Under the Blue-White Sun - Mercurio D Rivera ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description |
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David L. Clements - Catching rays
A research project based on the Moon finds something they did not expect....
Pat Cadigan -The big next
A mother and daughter realise they are different...
Adam Roberts - Baedecker's Fermi
A tour of Europe seems to be hijacked by images from early science fiction...
Paul Cornell- Zeta Reticuli
The first alien abduction, seen from the other side.
Tricia Sullivan - The ambulance chaser
An alien saves a human but gets stuck in the body it inhabits...
Adrian Tchaikovsky - Lost to their own devices
Very weak and cliched.
Gerry Webb - In the beginning
Cliched story which changes at the last minute to fit a theme collection
Paul de Felippo - The trail of the Creator, trail of Creation
Very funny tale about of the most evil beings alive wanting to find and kill the Creator...
Mike Resnick and Robert T. Jeschoenek - Stella by starlight
Rather corny tale about a misfit finding how special they are
George Zebrowski - Fermi's doubts
Runs through the issues in a dialogue and cops out at the end.
Stephanie Saulter - Audiovisionary
A boy in a mental home hears voices in his head - one doctor starts to take him seriously...
Robert Reed - Aether
Very neat, ironic tale about an astronomer searching for alien life and what he finds...
Keith Brooke and Eric Brown - The end of the world
Trite plot about saving the world after an alien invasion.
Rachel Armstrong - The Worldmaker
Wow, one of best short stories I have ever read, weird, romantic, and full of cutting edge science.
Mercurio D. Rivera - Atonement under the blue-white sun
Rather trite story of two bitter enemies, human and alien, re-united on an alien planet... (