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Meeting Infinity (The Infinity Project)

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by John Barnes


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  James S.A. Corey is a pseudonym for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Corey’s current project is a series of nine science fiction novels called The Expanse, starting with Leviathan Wakes and followed to date by Caliban’s War, Abaddon’s Gate, Cibola Burn, and Nemesis Games. Corey has also written a Star Wars novel, Honor Among Thieves. The Expanse is being adapted for television by Syfy and is set to debut during 2015. James is Daniel’s middle name, Corey is Ty’s middle name, and S.A. are Daniel’s daughter’s initials.

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  Kameron is an award-winning author and advertising copywriter. She has degrees in historical studies from the University of Alaska and the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, specializing in the history of South African resistance movements. Her essay on the history of women in conflict “We Have Always Fought” was the first blog post to be nominated for and win a Hugo Award. She is the author of science-fantasy noir series God’s War, Infidel, and Rapture, which earned her the Sydney J. Bounds Award for Best Newcomer and the Kitschy Award for Best Debut Novel. She is the winner of two Hugo Awards, and has been a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke, Nebula, Locus, and BSFA awards. In addition to her writing, Hurley has been a Stollee guest lecturer at Buena Vista University and taught copywriting at the School of Advertising Art. Her latest novel, The Mirror Empire, is the first in a subversive new epic fantasy series.

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  Simon Ings was born July 1965 in Horndean, Hampshire, England. He attended King’s College in London, where he studied English. His first SF story was “Blessed Fields”. Debut novel Hot Head and sequel Hotwire were cyberpunk, of sorts. Other works of SF include City of the Iron Fish and Headlong. Painkillers is a thriller with some SF elements, while The Weight of Numbers andDead Water are big, ambitious literary works. He returned to SF with Wolves, about augmented reality. He also wrote non-fiction The Eye: A Natural History. Ings edits Arc, the SF magazine produced by New Scientist, where he also works as a culture editor.

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  Gwyneth was born in Manchester, England and is the author of more than twenty novels for teenagers, mostly under the name Ann Halam, and several highly regarded SF novels for adults. She has won two World Fantasy awards, the Arthur C. Clarke award, the British Science Fiction Association short story award, the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night award, the Philip K. Dick award, and shared the first Tiptree award, in 1992, with Eleanor Arnason. Recent books include novel Spirit, essay collection Imagination/Space, and story collection The Universe of Things. Her latest novel is The Grasshopper’s Child, a young adult novel in the Bold as Love sequence. She lives in Brighton, UK, with her husband and son, a Tonkinese cat called Ginger, and her young friend Milo.

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  Nancy Kress is the author of thirty-two books, including twenty-five novels, four collections of short stories, and three books on writing. Her work has won five Nebulas, two Hugos, a Sturgeon, and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. Most recent works are novella Yesterday’s Kin and the forthcoming Best of Nancy Kress. In addition to writing, Kress often teaches at various venues around the country and abroad; in 2008 she was the Picador visiting lecturer at the University of Leipzig. Kress lives in Seattle with her husband, writer Jack Skillingstead, and Cosette, the world’s most spoiled toy poodle.

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  Yoon Ha Lee’s short story collection Conservation of Shadows came out from Prime Books in 2013. His works have appeared in Tor.com, Lightspeed, Clarkesworld, and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. He lives in Louisiana with his family and has not yet been eaten by gators.

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  Ian McDonald lives in Northern Ireland, just outside Belfast. He sold his first story in 1983 and bought a guitar with the proceeds, perhaps the only rock ’n’ roll thing he ever did. Since then he’s written sixteen novels, including River of Gods, Brasyl, and The Dervish House, three story collections and diverse other pieces, and has been nominated for every major science fiction/fantasy award – and even won a couple. His current novel is Luna: New Moon (Tor, Gollancz). The second part, Luna: Moon Rising will follow in 2016.

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  Ramez Naam is a computer scientist and the H.G. Wells Award-winning author of four books: the near future science-fiction brain-hacking thrillers Nexus and Crux and the non-fiction books More Than Human and The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet. He’s a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and serves as Adjunct Faculty at Singularity University, where he lectures on energy, environment, and innovation. He lives in Seattle.

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  An (pronounce it “On”) is a neutrois author with a background in web development, linguistics, and weaving chainmail out of stainless steel fencing wire, whose fiction has appeared in a number of venues including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Lightspeed, and a handful of Year’s Bests. An’s interests range from pulsars and Cepheid variables to gender studies and nonstandard pronouns, with a plethora of stops in-between.

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  Benjanun Sriduangkaew writes love letters to strange cities, beautiful bugs, and the future. Her work has appeared in Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Phantasm Japan, The Dark and year’s bests. She has been shortlisted for the Campbell Award for Best New Writer and her debut novella Scale-Bright has been nominated for the British SF Association Award.

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  After discovering planetary wireless broadband, Bruce Sterling united his time between Turin, Belgrade, and Austin. He also began writing some design fiction and architecture fiction, as well as science fiction. However, this daring departure from the routine made no particular difference to anybody. Sterling then started hanging out with Augmented Reality people, and serving as a guest curator for European electronic arts festivals. These eccentricities also provoked no particular remark. Sterling went on a Croatian literary yacht tour and lived for a month in Brazil. These pleasant interludes had little practical consequence. After teaching in Switzerland and Holland, Sterling realized that all his European students lived more or less in this manner, and that nobody was surprised about much of any of that any more. So, he decided to sit still and get a little writing done, and this story was part of that effort. Prior to this he had written ten novels and four short story collections. His most recent books are novels The Caryatids and Love is Strange, major career retrospective Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, and collection Global High-Tech.

  Sean Williams is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of over forty award-winning novels, one hundred short stories, and the odd poem. He lives in Adelaide, South Australia. His latest book is Crashland, the second in the Twinmaker series in which “All the Wrong Places” is set.

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  The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light - and, with it, the enormity of the universe - realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard science-fiction where a sense of discovery is most often found and where science-fiction's true heart lies.

  This exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field, including Gwyneth Jones, Stephen Baxter and Charles Stross.

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  ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND


  Those were Neil Armstrong’s immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound.

  Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System. From the eerie transformations in Pat Cadigan’s “The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi” to the frontier spirit of Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey’s “The Road to NPS,” and from the grandiose vision of Alastair Reynolds’ “Vainglory” to the workaday familiarity of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s “Safety Tests,” the thirteen stories in this anthology span the whole of the human condition in their race to colonise Earth’s nearest neighbours.

  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.

  ‘A strong collection of stories that readers of science fiction will certainly enjoy.’

  Locus Magazine

  ‘Stands as a solid and at times striking contribution to “the ongoing discussion about what science fiction is in the 21st century.”’

  The Speculative Scotsman

  ‘If you want science fiction, rather than space opera, this is for you.’

  Total SciFi Online

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  HUMANITY AMONG THE STARS

  What happens when we reach out into the vastness of space? What hope for us amongst the stars?

  Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan brings us fourteen new tales of the future, from some of the finest science fiction writers in the field.

  The fourteen startling stories in this anthology feature the work of Greg Egan, Aliette de Bodard, Ian McDonald, Karl Schroeder, Pat Cadigan, Karen Lord, Ellen Klages, Adam Roberts, Linda Nagata, Hannu Rajaniemi, Kathleen Ann Goonan, Ken MacLeod, Alastair Reynolds and Peter Watts.

  “A strong collection of stories that readers of science fiction will certainly enjoy.”

  Locus Magazine on Engineering Infinity

  “One of the year’s most exciting anthologies.”

  io9 on Edge of Infinity

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  FEATURING GREG EGAN • YOON HA LEE • NEIL GAIMAN • E LILY YU • K J PARKER • GEOFF RYMAN • M BENNARDO • RAMEZ NAAM • TED CHIANG • PRIYA SHARMA • RICHARD PARKS • LAVIE TIDHAR • THOMAS OLDE HEUVELT • BENJANUN SRIDUANGKAEW • ELEANOR ARNASON • IAN R MACLEOD • SOFIA SAMATAR • AN OWOMOYELA • KARIN TIDBECK • MADELINE ASHBY • CAITLÍN R KIERNAN • ROBERT REED • IAN MCDONALD • VAL NOLAN

  From the inner realms of humanity to the far reaches of space, these are the science fiction and fantasy tales that are shaping the genre and the way we think about the future. Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan continues to shine a light on the very best writing, featuring both established authors and exciting new talents.

  Within you will find twenty-eight incredible tales, showing the ever growing depth and diversity that science fiction and fantasy continues to enjoy. These are the brightest stars in our firmament, lighting the way to a future filled with astonishing stories about the way we are, and the way we could be.

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  Science fiction and fantasy has never been more diverse or vibrant, and 2014 has provided a bountiful crop of extraordinary stories. These stories are about the future, worlds beyond our own, the realms of our imaginations and dreams but, more importantly, they are the stories of ourselves. Featuring best-selling writers and emerging talents, here are some of the most exciting genre writers working today.

  Multi-award winning editor Jonathan Strahan once again brings you the best stories from the past year. Within you will find twenty-eight amazing tales from authors across the globe, displaying why science fiction and fantasy are genres increasingly relevant to our turbulent world.

  FEATURING • KELLY LINK • HOLLY BLACK • KEN LIU • USMAN T. MALIK • LAUREN BEUKES • PAOLO BACIGALUPI • JOE ABERCROMBIE • GENEVIEVE VALENTINE • NICOLA GRIFFITH • CAITLÍN R. KIERNAN • GREG EGAN • K. J. PARKER • RACHEL SWIRSKY • ALICE SOLA KIM • GARTH NIX • KARL SCHROEDER • ELLEN KLAGES • KAI ASHANTE WILSON • MICHAEL SWANWICK • ELEANOR ARNASON • JAMES PATRICK KELLY • IAN MCDONALD • AMAL EL-MOHTAR • TIM MAUGHAN • ELIZABETH BEAR • THEODORA GOSS • PETER WATTS

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