Humanity 20 Author:Alex Shvartsman (Editor) Collection of fifteen short stories showing the potential danger of meeting extraterrestrial intelligent beings and examine how interstellar flight might change humanity itself. What will it mean to be human in the future? How will we evolve in order to reach the stars? Will we choose to upload our minds into a singularity?&nbs... more »p; Enhance ourselves with alien DNA? Will our bodies remain the same, but our culture and societal norms adapt to accommodate for effects of time dilation, or become subsumed by advanced alien cultures?
Contents:
Foreword (Humanity 2.0) • essay by Alex Shvartsman
The Waves (2012) / novelette by Ken Liu
Justice and Shadow (2016) / short story by Angus McIntyre
Nexus (2016) / short story by Nancy Fulda
A Lack of Congenial Solutions (2016) / short story by Kenneth Schneyer
Green Girl Blues (2016) / short story by Martin L. Shoemaker
Mindjack (2016) / novelette by Jody Lynn Nye
Picnic on Nearside [Eight Worlds] (1974) / novelette by John Varley
An Endless Series of Doors (2016) / short story by David Walton
Angry Rose's Lament (2008) / short story by Cat Rambo
The Right Place to Start a Family (2016) / short story by Caroline M. Yoachim
The Iron Star (1987) / novelette by Robert Silverberg
eÊ°? (2016) / novelette by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro
The Hand on the Cradle (2016) / short story by Brenda Cooper
The Homecoming (2011) / short story by Mike Resnick
Star Light, Star Bright (2000) / short story by Robert J. Sawyer