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New Skies: An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction
New Skies An Anthology of Today's Science Fiction Author:Patrick Nielsen Hayden cience fiction is perennially popular with young readers. But while many collections were assembled in the 1950s and 1960s with young readers in mind, it has been many years since the field has seen such a collection of modern SF. Selected entirely from stories published since 1980, New Skies fills that need. Here are stories by writers such as ... more »Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Jane Yolen, Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Gould, Connie Willis, Spider Robin-son, and many more. Here is a careening adventure along the outside of a tower looming miles above the ground, and a tale of desperate survival on the deadly surface of the Moon. Here is a world in which children divorce their parents, and the story of a four-dimensional boy in a three-dimensional world. Here are future young people rebuilding after terrible disasters, and here is a story of the future development of baseball-on Mars. Nightmarish or whimsical, irreverant or swashbuckling, each of these stories is an adventure in imagination. Journey from the here and now into New Skies.« less
ISBN-13: 9780606343329 ISBN-10: 0606343326 Reading Level: Young Adult Rating: