Visions of the Future

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Visions of the Future is a collection of stories and essays including Nebula and Hugo award-winning works. In this anthology, you'll find stories and essays about artificial intelligence, androids, faster-than-light travel, and the extension of human life. You'll read about the future of human institutions and culture. But these literary works are more than just a reprisal of the classical elements of science fiction and futurism. At their core, each of these pieces has one consistent, repeated theme: us.
Contents:
Introduction (Visions of the Future ) • essay by J. Daniel Batt
The Shoulders of Giants / shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
Gift of a Useless Man / shortstory by Alan Dean Foster
Light and Shadow [Skolian Short Fiction • 6] / novelette by Catherine Asaro
Lungfish [Existence] / novelette by David Brin
The Birth of the Dawn / shortfiction by Nicole Sallak Anderson
The Weathermakers / novelette by Ben Bova
Last Day of Work / shortfiction by Douglas Rushkoff
I'm a What? / shortfiction by Frank White
The Listeners [The Listeners] / novelette by James E. Gunn
The Emperor of Mars [Near Space] / novelette by Allen Steele
Lunar One / shortfiction by Jasper T. Scott
My Father's Singularity / shortstory by Brenda Cooper
A Delicate Balance / shortstory by Kevin J. Anderson
More Than the Sum of His Parts / shortstory by Joe Haldeman
Lazarus Rising / shortstory by Gregory Benford
Unit 574 / shortfiction by Clayton R. Rawlings
Persistence / shortfiction by Keith Wiley
The Boy Who Gave Us the Star s / shortfiction by J. Daniel Batt
The Etiology of Infomania / shortfiction by Chris Hables Gray
Water / shortstory by Ramez Naam
Looking Forward: Dialogs with the Artilects / shortfiction by Frank W. Sudia
Teleporter /shortfiction by Jim Tankersley
The Spa / shortfiction by Donald Maclean
The Automated Ones / shortfiction by Hugh Howey
Afterword (Visions of the Future • essay by David Brin
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