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Title:

Future on ice / edited by Orson Scott Card.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Tor,

Copyright Date:

1998

Description:

432 p. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Science fiction, American.

Other Authors:

Card, Orson Scott.

Notes:

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

Contents:

The fringe / Orson Scott Card. Portraits of his children / George R. R. Martin -- Tourists / Lisa Goldstein -- Blood music / Greg Bear -- Time's rub / Gregory Benford -- Shanidar / David Zindell -- Speech sounds / Octavia E. Butler -- Snow / John Crowley -- Klein's machine / Andrew Weiner -- Pots / C. J. Cherryh -- Press enter / John Varley -- Dinosaurs / Walter Jon Williams -- Face value / Karen Joy Fowler -- Cabracan / Lewis Shiner -- Rockabye baby / S. C. Sykes -- The pure product / John Kessel -- Out of all them bright stars / Nancy Kress -- The fringe / Orson Scott Card.

Summary:

Science fiction stories from the 1980s. The story, Out of All Them Stars by Nancy Kress, is on the cultural impact of visiting aliens, while in Portraits of His Children by George R. R Martin, an author's characters come to life.

ISBN:

9780312866945 (acid-free paper)
0312866941 (acid-free paper)

LCCN:

98023524

Locations:

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston) — SF Future

KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)