How music begins / Aristotle OS / The last American / Memorare / Plotters and shooters / Repeating the past / No more stories / They came from the future / The tomb wife / An evening's honest peril / Induction / A blue and cloudless sky / Reasons not to publish / Objective impermeability in a closed system / Always / Who's afraid of Wolf 359? / Artifice and intelligence / Pirates of the Somali Coast / Sanjeev and Robotwallah / Third person / The bridge / As you know, Bob / The lustration / How music begins / James Van Pelt.
Summary:
The thirteenth annual collection of the previous year's finest short-form science fiction is at hand. Hitherto unexplored galaxies of the mind are courageously traversed by some of the most exciting new talents in the fieldĐwhile well-established masters rocket to remarkable new heights of artistry and originality.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.