New Legends
Subtitle: The Original SF Anthology of the 90s and Beyond
By: edited by Greg Bear, with Martin H. Greenberg.
Contributors: Bear, Greg, 1951-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: TOR
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780312859305
Copyright date: 1995
Subjects: Science fiction, American
Description: A collection of 16 original stories. They include Sterling Blake's A Desperate Calculus, on population control, Poul Anderson's Scarecrow, on God and chaos, and Paul J. McAuley's Recording Angel, on genetic engineering.
Notes: "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
Table of contents: title: "Hard" science fiction -- SF that takes known scientific principles as its starting point -- is, for many readers, the durable core of the field. But it is also accused, of being, as Greg Bear puts it, "a restrictive genre without a soul". Here, Nebula Award winner Bear puts forth the counterargument: an original collection of new SF tales from the cutting edge of the field, each an example of "science fiction with a great soul".; title: In his introduction, Nebula and Hugo winner Bear makes some grand declarations about SF as "a pretty lofty pulpit from which to scream and shout and dance out semaphores of warning" to society. Questions of cultural clout aside, however, this is a solid anthology of original SF stories.; title: Contents: 16 Stories:; title: Elegy / Mary Rosenblum;; title: A Desperate Calculus / Sterling Blake;; title: Scenes from a Future Marriage / James Stevens-Arce;; title: Coming of Age in Karhide / Ursula K. LeGuin;; title: High Abyss / Gregory Benford;; title: Recording Angel / Paul J. McAuley;; title: When Strangers Meet / Sonia Orin Lyris;; title: The Day the Aliens Came / Robert Sheckley;; title: Gnota / Greg Abraham;; title: Rorvik's War / Geoffrey A. Landis;; title: Radiance / Carter Scholz;; title: Old Legends / Gregory Benford;; title: The Red Blaze is the Morning / Robert Silverberg;; title: One / George Alec Effinger;; title: Scarecrow / Poul Anderson;; title: Wang's Carpets / Greg Egan;