Book
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Insistence of vision : a short story collection
Call Number
- SCIENCE FICTION BRIN (CEN)
Publication Information
Stamford, CT : The Story Plant, [2016]
Physical Description
374 pages ; 24 cm
Summary
"The future is a daunting realm, filled with real and imagined perils. So enter it prepared! Visit a chillingly plausible tomorrow, when prisoners may be sent to asteroidal gulags. Or might prisons vanish and felons roam, seeing only what society allows?" -- Amazon.com
Contents
- Introduction / by Vernor Vinge
- Insistence of vision ; Transition generation ; Chrysalis ; Stones of significance ; News from 2035: a glitch in medicine cabinet 3.5
- The logs ; The tumbledowns of Cleopatra Abyss ; Eloquent elepents pine away for the moon's crystal forests
- Mars opposition ; A professor at Harvard ; I could've done better ; Paris conquers all ; A retrospective by Jules Verne
- Fortitude ; An ever-reddening glow ; The Diplomacy Guild ; The other side of the hill
- Temptation ; Avalon probes ; Six-word tales ; Reality check
- Waging war with reality.