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Author:
Brin, David, author.
Title:
Insistence of vision : a short story collection / David Brin.
Publisher:
The Story Plant,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
374 pages ; 24 cm
Subject:
Social evolution--Fiction.
Speculative fiction.
Science fiction.
Short stories.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical information.
Contents:
Waging war with reality. Why we'll persevere. What we may become. Insistence of vision ; Transition generation ; Chrysalis ; Stones of significance ; News from 2035: a glitch in medicine cabinet 3.5 -- How we'll endure (tales of the Coss domination). The logs ; The tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss ; Eloquent elepents pine away for the moon's crystal forests -- When we overcome. Mars opposition ; A professor at Harvard ; I could've done better ; Paris conquers all ; A retrospective by Jules Verne -- Who we'll meet. Fortitude ; An ever-reddening glow ; The Diplomacy Guild ; The other side of the hill -- Where we will go. Temptation ; Avalon probes ; Six-word tales ; Reality check -- Why we'll persevere. Waging war with reality.
Summary:
"The future is a daunting realm, filled with real and imagined perils. So enter it prepared! Visit a chillingly plausible tomorrow, when prisoners may be sent to asteroidal gulags. Or might prisons vanish and felons roam, seeing only what society allows?" -- Amazon.com
ISBN:
1611882214
9781611882216
OCLC:
(OCoLC)930041102
Locations:
GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)

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