Redshift:
Subtitle: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction
Publisher: Roc
Published: December 3, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 665
ISBN-13: 9780451459046
First sentence: If we hadn't decided to acclimate ourselves for the K2 attempt by secretly climbing to the eight-thousand-meter mark on Everest, a stupid mountain that no self-respecting climber would go near anymore, they wouldn't have caught us and we wouldn't have been forced to make the real climb with an alien and the rest of it might not have happened.