Life Beyond Us — Anthology

19 September 202519 September 2025 By 5t4n5

Standalones

Hemlock on Mars — Eric Choi

Essay: Planetary Protection — Giovanni Poggiali

The Dog Star Killer — Renan Bernardo

Essay: That Cold Black Cloud — Stefano Sandrelli

Titan of Chaos — G. David Nordley

Essay: Flying Instead of Diving — Fabian Klenner

Cloudskimmer — Geoffrey A. Landis

Essay: Earth’s Sister Planet — Dennis Höning

The Lament of Kivu Lacus — B. Zelkovich

Essay: Robots in Space are Great — Ania Losiak

Heavy Lies — Rich Larson

Essay: Major Transitions — Stephen Francis Mann

The World of Silver — Tomáš Petrásek

Essay: Wet Wet Wet — William Bains

Spider Plant — Tessa Fisher

Essay: Signs of Life (and How to Find Them) — Tessa Fisher

This is How We Save Them — Deji Bryce Olukotun

Essay: Valuing Life — Erik Persson

The Far Side of the Door — Premee Mohamed

Essay: Space Agriculture — Raymond M. Wheeler

Ranya’s Crash — Lisa Jenny Krieg (translated by Simone Heller)

Essay: You are not Alone! — Jacques Arnould

Spiral — Arula Ratnakar

Essay: Spiraling into the Unknown — Tomáš Petrásek

The Last Cathedral of Earth, in Flight — Tobias S. Buckell

Essay: The Latest Black Hole Planet, in Formation — Amedeo Romagnolo

The Secret History of the Greatest Discovery — Valentin D. Ivanov

Essay: Cooperation without Communication — Valentin D. Ivanov

Human Beans — Eugen Bacon

Essay: Microbial Life and Belonging — Tony Milligan

The Mirrored Symphony — D.A. Xiaolin Spires

Essay: Mirror Images — Dimitra Demertzi

Lumenfabulator — Liu Yang (translated by Ladon Gao)

Essay: Crystal Green Persuasion — Nina Kopacz

Cyclic Amplification, Meaning Family — Bogi Takács

Essay: The Science of Xenolinguistics — Sheri Wells-Jensen

The Diaphanous — Gregory Benford

Essay: Life 2.0 — Geoffrey A. Landis

The Sphinx of Adzhimushkaj — Brian Rappatta

Essay: Finding Common Ground — Philippe Nauny

Defective — Peter Watts

Essay: How did They Know it was Agni? — Joanna Piotrowska

The Dangers We Choose — Malka Older

Essay: The Habitability of Water Worlds — Floris van der Tak

Third Life — Julie E. Czerneda

Essay: The Unveiled Possibilities of Biomaterials in Space — Martina Dimoska

Forever the Forest — Simone Heller

Essay: Astra Narrans — Connor Martini

Still as Bright — Mary Robinette Kowal

Essay: —And the Moon be Still as Bright — José A. Caballero

Devil in the Deep — Lucie Lukačovičová

Essay: Some Like It Hot — Natuschka Lee & Julie Nováková

Deep Blue Neon — Jana Bianchi

Essay: Destined for Symbiosis — Jan Toman

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Foundation’s Fear — Gregory Benford

24 May 202521 June 2025 By 5t4n5

Foundations Fear -- Gregory Benford The first book in a trilogy that was authorised by the Asimov estate to be written as a sequel to Foundation. I had expected it to be a continuation from where Foundation and Earth left off, but it isn’t.

This book picks up the story way back when Hari Seldon was being considered for the role of First Minister and the trilogy takes it from there. It’s like an alternative view on things giving us more story about the story we already got told.

All in all it’s a pretty good book, although i think a continuation from Foundation and Earth would have been much better. But if you’re a fan of the franchise then i’m sure you’ll still enjoy it.

Gregory’s Page Isaac’s Page

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Light Years and Dark — Anthology

27 September 202113 August 2024 By 5t4n5

Light Years and Dark -- Anthology

Light Years and Dark: Introduction — Michael Bishop

You and Me and the Continuum — J.G. Ballard

The Map — Gene Wolfe

Halfjack — Roger Zelany

Doing Lennon — Gregory Benford

Strangeness, Charm and Spin — Kate Wilhelm

Brown Robert — Terry Carr

The Bloomsday Revolution — Ian Watson

The Dybbuk Dolls — Jack Dann

Dancing Chickens — Edward Bryant

When the Music’s Over . . . — Michael Swanwick

Terrific Park — George Alec Effinger

The Tale of the (Man) Who (Met) (God) — Norman Spinrad

Four Poems — Robert Frazier

The Starry Message to Galileo Galilei

The Supremacy of Bacteria

“We cannot escape humility.”

Cetacean Dreams

Summer’s Lease — Joe Haldeman

The Nine Billion Names of God — Carter Scholz

Nor Limestone Islands — R.A. Lafferty

Fears — Pamela Sargent

SQ — Ursula K. Le Guin

Scrimptalon’s Test — Gerald W. Page and Michael Bishop

An Infinite Summer — Christopher Priest

The Man Who Was Pregnant — Elizabeth A. Lynn

Corridors — Barry Malzberg

Limits — Larry Niven

Crossing into Cambodia — Michael Moorcock

The Lecturer — John Kessel

Under the Hollywood Sign — Tom Reamy

The Lords of Misrule — M. John Harrison

Three Parodies — John Sladek

Ralph 4F by Hugogre N. Backs

Solar Shoe-Salesman by Chipdip K. Kill

The Sublimation World by J.G. B——

School Days — Suzette Haden Elgin

The Wanda Lake Number — Robert Thurston

Chambers of Memory — Gordon Eklund

Painwise in Yucatan — James Tiptree, Jr.

Dinner Party — Gardner Dozois

The Cure — Lisa Tuttle

Paradise Beach — Richard Cowper

Getting Away — Steven Utley

The Cabinet of Edgar Allan Poe — Angela Carter

Dead in Irons — Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Rock On — Pat Cadigan

The Death of Socrates — Thomas M. Disch

Helpless, Helpless — Howard Waldrop

Dogs’ Lives — Michael Bishop

The Eichmann Variations — George Zebrowski

#scifi #michaelbishop #gregorybenford #ianwatson #genewolfe #ursulakleguin #christopherpriest #larryniven #mjohnharrison #suzettehadenelgin #jamestiptreejr #patcadigan