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Swift Thoughts
 

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Short Stories
Science Fiction

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 2002-04-01 Golden Gryphon Press  

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Blurb: 
Ranging from hard science fiction ("Godel"s Doom") to alternate history ("Lenin in Odessa") to first alien contact ("Bridge of Silence"), this collection delineates one of the unique voices writing science fiction today. In the tradition of Stanislaw Lem, each of the stories in this collection confronts the big questions of human existence. The detailed notes that follow each story provide insight into the author"s influences and include commentary from other noteworthy authors in the field. Contents:
  • The Writer as Philosopher by Gregory Benford (introduction)
  • The Word Sweep
  • Starcrossed
  • The Eichmann Variations
  • This Life and Later Ones
  • The City of Thought and Steel
  • Gödel's Doom
  • Lenin in Odessa
  • Sacred Fire
  • Stooges
  • Bridge of Silence
  • Swift Thoughts
  • The Idea Trap
  • Behind the Night
  • Wound the Wind
  • Rope of Glass
  • In the Distance,
    and Ahead in Time
  • Lesser Beasts
  • The Number of the Sand
  • Let Time Shape
  • Shrinkers & Movers
  • Augie
  • The Last Science Fiction Story
    of the 20th Century
  • Catch the Sleep Ship: The First Science Fiction Story of the 21st Century
  • The Holdouts
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