New frontiers
Subtitle: a collection of tales about the past, the present, and the future
By: Ben Bova
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780765376442; 9781466851368
Subjects: Fiction; Fantastische Erzahlung; FICTION; Adventure travel; Science Fiction; Abenteuererzahlung; Amerikanisches Englisch; Short Stories; Time travel
Work titles: Short stories
Description: "Fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from the six-time winner of the Hugo Award Frontiers can be found in all directions. Frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of science fiction's premier talents spans the length and breadth of history and the universe, while exploring thought-provoking new ideas and dilemmas. From the Baghdad of the Arabian Nights to a vast interstellar empire thousands of years in the future, from the Vatican to a one-man vessel drifting in the vast emptiness of the Asteroid Belt, from virtual reality duels to the subtle intricacies of time travel and a golf tournament on the Moon, here are tales of scoundrels and heroes, scientists and explorers, aliens and artificial intelligences, and even a young Albert Einstein. Each of them stands at the border of a new frontier and must venture out into unexplored territory--thanks to the limitless imagination of Ben Bova"--
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Table of contents: title: Sam below par --; title: A country for old men --; title: In trust --; title: The question --; title: "We'll always have Paris" --; title: Waterbot --; title: Moon race --; title: Scheherazade and the storytellers --; title: Duel in the Somme --; title: Bloodless victory --; title: Mars farts --; title: A pale blue dot --; title: Inspiration --; title: The last decision.