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Are aliens really not interested in us at all? Is there a significant health benefit from drinking your own urine? Is loading your personality into a computer the best way to survive the death of the body? Is the death of the body really necessary? Here... (read more)

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Compiled in one volume are 14 award-nominated stories that acclaimed anthologist Strahan has assembled in his third annual survey of the best new science fiction stories of the year.... (read more)

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Returning again to the fertile ground of sex and identity, this third entry in a successful and controversial anthology series continues to celebrate thought-provoking and provocative fiction that explores and expands gender. Through their... (read more)

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Using selections from such noted writers as Margaret Atwood, James Tiptree, Jr. and Ursula K. Le Guin, this collection shows how the imagined worlds of science fiction create hold experiments for testing feminist hypotheses and for interpreting... (read more)

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Two of the most respected editors in the SF field select the best short stories of 2005 for this collection that contains new tales by Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, Bruce Sterling, and others. Original.... (read more)

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In the heart of the new millennium, worlds beyond our imagination have opened up, blurring the line between life and art. Embracing the challenges and possibilities of cyberspace, genetics, the universe, and beyond, the world of science fiction has... (read more)

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This work provides a look at the best of contemporary science fiction. The 67 stories in the collection offer evidence that science fiction is a source of the most thoughtful, imaginative and literary fiction being written today.... (read more)