New Legends
Subtitle: The Original SF Anthology of the 90s and Beyond
By: edited by Greg Bear, with Martin H. Greenberg.
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9781857238457
Copyright date: 1995
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;