Impact Parameter & Other Quantum Realities

Reading more like a news report from the future than contemporary fiction, this collection of short stories combines hard science with rich emotionalism to explore myriad realities. Stories in this collection include “Into the Blue Abyss,” where the seas of Uranus are explored. There are stories detailing a space freighter and its encounter with space pirates, the “marsforming” of Mars, mathematical theorems from a very unlikely source, how Sherlock Holmes deals with a parasitic alien, the horrors of a hopeless war, and a voyage into a black hole.

“Science and the scientific world from a humanistic slant.”  —Gardner Dozois

Geoffrey A. Landis is a scientist with the Ohio Aerospace Institute. He has published over 50 short stories, many of which have been nominated for the Nebula and Hugo awards, including “A Walk in the Sun.” He lives in Berea, Ohio.

Introduction (by Joe Haldeman)
A Walk in the Sun
Impact Parameter
Elemental
Ecopoiesis
Across the Darkness
Ouroboros
Into the Blue Abyss
Snow
Rorvik’s War
Approaching Perimelasma
What We Really Do Here at NASA
Dark Lady
Outsider’s Chance
Beneath the Stars of Winter
The Singular Habits of Wasps
Winter Fire