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Sturgeon Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in the anthology Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better World (2014), edited by Ed Finn and Kathryn Cramer. There are no other known publications availabe at this time.

Hugo Award winning short story. It originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1991. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual Collection (1992), edited by Gardner Dozois, The New Hugo Winners, Volume IV: (1992-94) (1997), edited by Gregory Benford, The Hard SF Renaissance (2002), edited by David G. Hartwell, and The Eagle Has Landed: 50 Years of Lunar Science Fiction, edited by Neil Clarke. It is included in the collection Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities (2001).

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This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1998, and was reprinted on infintiy plus, November 2001. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection (1999), edited by Gardner Dozois, Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons (2000), edited by Gardner Dozois, and The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction (2002), edtied by Mike Ashley. The story is inlcuded in the collection Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities (2001).

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This short story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2002. It can also be found in the anthologies Year's Best SF 8 (2003), edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, and The Time Traveler's Almanac (2014), edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer.

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Science Fiction Age, May 1997. The story can also be found in the anthology Worldmakers: SF Adventures in Terraforming (2001), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collection Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities (2001).

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, December 1984. It is included in the collection Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities (2001).

Hugo Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 2002. There are no other known publications available at this time.

Reading more like a news report from the future than contemporary fiction, this collection of short stories combines hard science with rich emotionalism to explore myriad realities. Stories in this collection include "Into the Blue Abyss," where the seas of Uranus are explored. There are stories detailing a space freighter and its encounter with space pirates, the "marsforming" of Mars, mathematical theorems from a very unlikely source, how Sherlock Holmes deals with a parasitic alien, the horrors of a hopeless war, and a voyage into a black hole.

Contents:

• A Walk in the Sun
• Impact Parameter
• Elemental
• Ecopoiesis
• Across the Darkness
• Ouroboros
• Into the Blue Abyss
• Snow
• Rorvik's War
• Approaching Perimelasma
• What We Really Do Here at NASA
• Dark Lady
• Outsider's Chance
• Beneath the Stars of Winter
• The Singular Habits of Wasps
• Winter Fire

By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has finally landed men on Mars-only to watch helplessly as the first two missions end in catastrophe and death.

With resources running out, a third-and perhaps final-mission to Mars is hastily mounted, with a crew of four men and two women. But from the moment of their arrival on Mars, everything begins to go wrong. The fuel tanks that were to have supplied their return trip are found corroded and empty. Their supplies are running out and their life support systems are beginning to fail. And any rescue mission won't reach them for months, or even years-if at all.

The crew's only hope for survival lies in a desperate plan: an agonizing trek halfway across the surface of Mars to a ship designed to carry only half their number. Torn by conflict and dissent, and troubled by secrets that endanger them all, they must embark on an ordeal that will test them to the limits of endurance.

Nebula Award winning and Hugo Award nominated short story. It was originally published in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, October 1988. The story can also be found in the anthologies The 1989 Annual World's Best SF (1989), edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha, Nebula Awards 25 (1991), edited by Michael Bishop and The Time Traveler's Almanac (2014), edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer.

This short story originally appeared on Sci Fiction, May 7, 2003. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-First Annual Collection (2004), edited by Gardner Dozois.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Science Fiction Age, September 1994 and can also be found in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighth Annual Collection (1995), edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.

This stort story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2002 and was reprinted in Lightspeed, September 2010. The story can also be found in the anthologies Science Fiction: The Best of 2002, edited by Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber, The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006) edited by Mike Ashley, and Lightspeed: Year One (2011), edited by John Joseph Adams.

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Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, April 1994. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 6 (1995), edited by Stephen Jones and The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2009), edited by John Joseph Adams. It is included in the collection Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities (2001).

Hugo- and Nebula-nominated, Sturgeon Award-winning Novella

Mars terraforming expert Dr Leah Hamakawa is inexplicably invited to Venus by the rich child who has inherited ownership of most of the planet's habitable floating cities. Her colleague David Tinkerman, who is secretly in love with her, convinces her to allow him to accompany her on the trip. But upon their arrival, Tinkerman finds himself bizarrely shunted aside as the child satrap attempts to woo his co-worker into marriage, despite the huge difference in their ages.

Left to his own devices, Tinkerman decides to explore the floating cities in the beautiful-but-toxic atmosphere - only to stumble upon a mysterious plot which is far more sinister than a January-December courtship.

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This short story originally appeared in Interzone, #115 January 1997. It can also be found in the anthology Year's Best SF 3 (1998), edited by David G. Hartwell.

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 1997. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection (1998) and the Nebula Awards Showcase 2000, edited by Gregory Benford. It has been collected in Impact Parameter and Other Quantum Realities (2001).

Table of Contents:

• 1 - Out of the Past: Myths, Legends, and True History - essay
• 5 - The River of Air, the Ocean of Sky - (1988) - short story
• 31 - The Tale of the Fish Who Loved a Bird - (1991) - short fiction
• 37 - Realm of the Senses - (1990) - short story
• 41 - One Big Wish - (1991) - short story
• 45 - Present: The Branching of a Fractal Tree - (1991) - essay
• 47 - Projects - (1990) - short story
• 65 - Vacuum States - (1988) - short story
• 75 - True Confessions - (1989) - short story
• 85 - In the Future: We Will All Be Legends - (1991) - essay
• 89 - Sundancer Falling - (1989) - short story
• 107 - To Live in Hell - (1987) - poem
• 109 - A Long Time Dying (A Love Story in Twelve Cantos) - (1991) - short story (variant of A Long Time Dying)

This short story originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2007. It can also be found in the anthology Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2008 Edition, edited by Rich Horton.