Featuring stories by Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, James S. A. Corey, John Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Elizabeth Bear, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Paul McAuley, Sandra McDonald, Stephen D. Covey, An Owomoyela, and Bruce Sterling, Edge of Infinity is hard SF adventure at its best and most exhilarating.
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Table of Contents
Title
Also by Jonathan Strahan
The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Nine
Indicia
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Contents
Introduction
Black Dog
City of Ash
Jamaica Ginger
A Murmuration
Kaiju Maximus®: “So Various, So Beautiful, So New”
Water of Versailles
Capitalism in the 22nd Century, or A.I.R.
Emergence
The Deepwater Bride
Dancy vs. the Pterosaur
Calved
The Heart’s Filthy Lesson
The Machine Starts
Blood, Ash, Braids
Hungry Daughters of Starving Mothers
The Lily and the Horn
The Empress in her Glory
The Winter Wraith
Botanica Veneris: Thirteen Papercuts by Ida Countess Rathangan
Little Sisters
Ghosts of Home
The Karen Joy Fowler Book Club
Oral Argument
Drones
The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn
The Game of Smash and Recovery
Another Word for World
Copyright
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