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Engineering infinity / edited by Jonathan Strahan.

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Oxford : Solaris, c2011.

Science fiction, English.

Science fiction, American.

9781907519529 (pbk.)

1907519521 (pbk.)

391 p. ; 18 cm.

Beyond the Gernsback Continuum-- / Jonathan Strahan -- Malak / Peter Watts -- Watching the music dance / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Laika's ghost / Karl Schroeder -- The invasion of Venus / Stephen Baxter -- The server and the dragon / Hannu Rajaniemi -- Bit rot / Charles Stross -- Creatures with wings / Kathleen Ann Goonan -- Walls of flesh, bars of bone / Damien Broderick & Barbara Lamar -- Mantis / Robert Reed -- Judgement eve / John C. Wright -- A soldier of the city / David Moles -- Mercies / Gregory Benford -- The Ki-anna / Gwyneth Jones -- The birds and the bees and the gasoline trees / John Barnes.

"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, realizing 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..."--P. [4] of cover.

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