Introduction / James Patrick Kelly & John Kessel -- wizard of West Orange / Steven Millhauser. ones who walk away from Omelas / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Ladies and Gentlemen, this is your crisis / Kate Wilhelm -- Descent of man / T. C. Boyle -- Human moments in World War III / Don DeLillo -- Homelanding / Margaret Atwood -- The nine billion names of God / Carter Scholz -- Interlocking pieces / Molly Gloss -- Salvador / Lucius Shepard -- Schwarzschild radius / Connie Willis -- Buddha nostril bird / John Kessel -- The ziggurat / Gene Wolfe -- The hardened criminals / Jonathan Lethem -- Standing room only / Karen Joy Fowler -- 10:16 to 1 / James Patrick Kelly -- 93990 / George Saunders -- The martian agent, a planetary romance / Michael Chabon -- Frankenstein's daughter / Maureen F. McHugh -- The wizard of West Orange / Steven Millhauser.
Summary:
"...[E]xploring an alternate history of science fiction, this ingenious anthology showcases eighteen brilliant authors leading the way to a new literature of the future...Two strangely-detached astronauts orbit Earth while a third world war rages on. A primatologist's lover suspects her of obsession with one of her simian charges. The horrors of trench warfare dovetail with the theoretical workings of black holes. A dissolving marriage and bitter custody dispute are overshadowed by the arrival of time travelers. An astonishing invention that records the sense of touch is far too dangerous for Thomas Edison to reveal."---p.[4] of cover.
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