A collection of short stories and small novellas written by foreign authors across different years of the 20th and 21st centuries. There is no single common theme—the only thing that unites the works in this collection is that they are all fantastic. Writers realize their ideas and thoughts both in the near future and in the very distant future—something that is practically impossible to predict.
Here post-apocalypse lives side by side with space opera and science fiction; yet no matter how different the works are and how differently the authors approach their writing, everyone can be both interested and surprised.
Contents:
01. Paul Anderson — Treason
02. John Wright — Sleepless in Nights
03. Gregory Benford — Secret Knowledge
04. Roger Zelazny — A Moment of Storm
05. John Wright — The Guest’s Law
06. Phyllis Eisenstein — Sunstone
07. Robert Reed — Dragons of the Summer Crossing
08. Robert Young — In September, Thirty Days
09. Ted Chiang — The Merchant and the Enchanted Gates
10. Gordon Dickson — Lalangamena
11. Andre Norton — The Mouse Trap
12. Ian Banks — The Wasp Factory