Jonathan Strahan (Editor)
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ISBN #
1907519521
Published
December, 2010
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The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with a sense of wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity.
Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light and, with it, the enormity of the universe, realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard science-fiction where sense of wonder is most often found and where science-fiction's true heart lies.
The exciting and innovation science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field including Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross and Greg Bear.
Mr. Strahan is putting together ENGINEERING INFINITY, an original hard SF anthology for Solaris Books, due out in 2011. To him I sold ‘Judgment Eve’, a retelling of Byron’s play HEAVEN AND EARTH, which in turn is a retelling of the story of the flood of Noah, but in inimitable Bryonesque fashion, he makes the fallen angels in love with the daughters of Eve the good guys, or, at least, the romantically doom-defiant protagonists. With considerably less poetry that his, I set the story in a post-nanotechnological future, where the star-creatures concern for the Dolphins, who are the legal owners of the Earth, requires they submerge the continents of man in a general deluge, for the benefit of the Dolphins, increasing their real estate.