Is anybody out there?
By: edited by Nick Gevers and Marty Halpern
Contributors: Gevers, Nick; Halpern, Marty, 1950-
Series: DAW book collectors -- No. 1513
Publisher: DAW Books, Inc.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780756406196
Subjects: Extraterrestrial beings; Life on other planets; Fiction
Description: "Why is it that, in such a vast cosmos, with hundreds of billions of stars in this galaxy alone, and no doubt billions of Earth-like planets orbiting them, we have found no evident of intelligent alien life? No evidence that alien have ever visited Earth (other than discredited UFO mythology), no detectable signals...? The stories in this anthology offer intriguing explanations for this enigma, looking seriously or comically at solutions..."--P.[4] of cover.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Here comes everyone / Paul McAuley; title: The word he was looking for was hello /  Alex Irvine; title: Residue / Michael Arsenault; title: Good news from Antares /  Yves Meynard; title: Report from the field /  Mike Resnick and Lezli Robyn; title: Permanent fatal errors / Jay Lake; title: Galaxy of mirrors /  Paul Di Filippo; title: Where two or three /  Sheila Finch; title: Graffiti in the library of Babel / David Langford; title: The dark moon /  Kristine Kathryn Rusch; title: One big monkey /  Ray Vukcevich; title: The taste of night /  Pat Cadigan; title: Timmy, come home /  Matthew Hughes; title: A waterfall of lights /  Ian Watson; title: Rare Earth /  Felicity Shoulders and Leslie What; title: The vampires of paradox /  James Morrow.