The Hard SF Renaissance The Hard SF Renaissance

The Hard SF Renaissance

An Anthology

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Publisher Description

A major anthology of the "hard SF" subgenre-arguing that it's not only the genre's core, but also its future.

Something exciting has been happening in modern science fiction. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF"--science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present an immense, authoritative anthology that maps the development and modern-day resurgence of this form, argues for its special virtues and present preeminence-and entertains us with some spectacular storytelling along the way.

Included are major stories by contemporary and classic names such as Poul Anderson, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Greg Egan, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, Paul McAuley, Frederik Pohl, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, Karl Schroeder, Charles Sheffield, Brian Stableford, Allen Steele, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, and Vernor Vinge.

The Hard SF Renaissance is an anthology that SF readers will return to for years to come.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2003
October 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
960
Pages
PUBLISHER
Tor Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
1.5
MB

Customer Reviews

Feckless Idler ,

Monumental and Vital

If you love fiction which delivers all the wonder and awe essential to science fiction (with a capital "hard") you cannot do much better than this one, and at this price you are depriving yourself if you haven't grabbed a copy.

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