Far Futures

Bear, Greg

ISBN 10: 1483031993 ISBN 13: 9781483031996

Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB, 2014

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Reseña del editor:

Fivenovellas of hard science fiction by five modern masters of the formFrom NebulaAward winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology thatcollects five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view—all are setat least ten thousand years in the future. The authors take a rigorouslyscientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the largest issues ofcosmology, astronomy, evolution, and biology.Genesis by Poul Anderson is set abillion years ahead, when humanity has become extinct. Earth is threatened bythe slowly warming sun, and vast machine intelligences decide to recreatehumans.The lastmoments of a universe beseiged occupy Greg Bear's Judgment Engine. Can something human matter at the very end ofcreation, as contorted matter ceases to have meaning and time itself stuttersto an eerie halt?DonaldKingsbury contributes Historical Crisis,a starting work on the prediction of the human future that challenges thefoundations of psychohistory, as developed in Isaac Asimov's famous FoundationTrilogy.JoeHaldeman's For White Hill confrontshumanity with hostile aliens who remorselessly grind down every defense againstthem. A lone artist struggles to find a place in this distant, wondrous future when humanity seems doomed.In At the Eschaton by Charles Sheffield, aman tries to rescue his dying wife from oblivion by hurling himself forward, inboth space and time, to the very end of the universe itself.

Biografía del autor:

Gregory Benford is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Irvine. A Woodrow Wilson Fellow and a member of Phi Beta Kappa, he received the Lord Prize for contributions to science in 1995 and the Asimov Memorial Award for popularizing science in 2007. He has written numerous works of science fiction, receiving a Nebula Award and a John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his novel Timescape.

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• Verlag: BLACKSTONE PUB
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1483031993
• ISBN 13: 9781483031996
• Einband: CD MP3
• Herausgeber: Benford Gregory