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Insistence of Vision
| Author: | David Brin |
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Story Plant, 2016 |
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Synopsis
What may we become? How will we endure? The future is a daunting realm, filled with real and imagined perils. So enter it prepared! Here are vivid tales about possible tomorrows, from the keen eye and colorful pen of David Brin, a modern master of speculative fiction. 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? Suppose, amid lavish success, we gain the superpower to fly! Will we even appreciate it... or will we find new reasons to complain? In "Mars Opposition," you'll experience an alien invasion like no other, confronting humanity with a stark and terrible choice... followed by several more tales of conquest from beyond, each of them wildly different. On the other hand, might fantastically potent new beings emerge out of ourselves, as revealed in "Chrysalis"? Featuring guest appearances by Gregory Benford, Jules Verne, and Galileo, this adventure takes you beyond the very singularity in "Stones of Significance," pondering what could happen after humans are like gods. And "Reality Check" asks one of you readers -- just one of you -- to wake up! Tomorrow awaits. We can face it and prevail. So long as our stance is brave INSISTENCE OF VISION.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - essay by Vernor Vinge
- The Heresy of Science Fiction - essay
- Insistence of Vision - (2013) - short story
- Transition Generation - (2014) - short story
- Chrysalis - (2014) - short story
- Stones of Significance - (1998) - novelette
- News from 2035: A Glitch in Medicine Cabinet 3.5 - (2003) - short story
- The Logs - (2013) - short story
- The Tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss - (2015) - novelette
- Eloquent Elepents Pine Away for the Moon's Crystal Forests - (2006) - short story
- Mars Opposition - (2005) - novelette
- A Professor at Harvard - (2003) - short story
- I Could've Done Better - (2007) - short story, with Gregory Benford
- Paris Conquers All - (1996) - short story, with Gregory Benford
- A Retrospective by Jules Verne - (1996) - short story, with Gregory Benford
- Fortitude - (1996) - short story
- An Ever-Reddening Glow - (1996) - short story
- The Diplomacy Guild - (1990) - short story
- The Other Side of the Hill - (1994) - short story
- Temptation - (1999) - novella
- Avalon Probes - (2014) - short story
- Six-Word Tales - (2006) - short story
- Reality Check - (2000) - short story
- Waging War with Reality - (1992) - essay
- Afterword & Book Notes - essay
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