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Microcosms (Daw Book Collectors)
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Microcosms (Daw Book Collectors)
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by Gregory Benford and Martin H. Greenberg
Sales Rank : 1533283
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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: DAW January 6, 2004
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0756401712
ISBN-13: 978-0756401719
Product Dimensions:
6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
From Booklist
Editor Benford challenged sf scribes to write about just what the title suggests, and they came up with interesting stories that run the gamut of possible responses, including, in Howard V. Hendrik's "Once out of Nature," a surprisingly thoughtful piece concerning the death of the main character's father. Geoffrey A. Landis provides an unnerving, if familiar, take on infinitely recursive computer simulations in "Ouroboros." Pamela Sargent contributes "Venus Blooms at Night," about employing virtual technology to further the dream of making another world habitable. Mike Resnick and Dean Wesley Smith's collection closer, "A Moment of Your Time," more or less neatly solves the familiar time-travel hitch of changing the future by interfering in the past by keeping those traveling from the future within a single moment of the past, free to move around but not to change anything. As Benford points out, sf writers have used microcosms for years, which accounts for why the quality of these works is so high. Regina Schroeder
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Product Description
Award-winning author and scientist Gregory Benford has collected all-new, hard-science stories about miniature universes of every imaginable kind. These 13 stories will open portals into unforgettable universes that exist within or outside our own.
With stories by Stephen Baxter, Pamela Sargent, Robert J. Sawyer Robert Sheckley, George Zebrowski, and other masters.
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