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Synopsis

A beautifully illustrated, fascinating exploration of the mysteries of the cosmos and beyond, featuring original fiction by award-winning science fiction authors and essays by the leading scientists in the field. In this book, we gather together the scientists, the intellectuals, and the artists, to learn about and speculate upon the cosmos. The world right now desperately needs both the physicist and the dreamer. G-d has blessed us with the most magnificent world imaginable. We have barely made the first steps in seeing all the light in the darkness. Perhaps it is the dreamer who will find out the nature of dark matter; perhaps it is the scientist who will find solutions to needless hunger and mindless war. For them both, the bounty of the Earth and the cosmos is the currency of hope. Humanity must use what it has been blessed with to survive. Then, as in Paul Simon s phrase, we all might be dancing together with diamonds on the soles of our shoes. They will be the diamonds of the stars and it will be a dance of peace.

Table of Contents:

• Frontier - essay by Byron Preiss
• The Universe: An Introduction - essay by Andrew Fraknoi
• What is the Universe? - essay by Isaac Asimov
• What is the Universe? - interior artwork by Darrel Anderson
• Art and Science Fiction: Unbuilt Cities / Realized Dreams - essay by Ray Bradbury
• Art and Science Fiction: Unbuilt Cities / Realized Dreams - interior artwork by Moebius
• Our Galaxy - essay by Eric J. Chaisson
• Mandikini - shortstory by Gregory Benford
• Mandikini - interior artwork by B. E. Johnson
• Star Birth and Maturity - essay by Martin Cohen
• To Touch a Star - shortstory by Ben Bova
• To Touch a Star - interior artwork by Pat Rawlings
• Supernovae: Creative Catclysms in the Galaxy - essay by David J. Helfand
• The Iron Star - novelette by Robert Silverberg
• The Iron Star [I] - interior artwork by Bob Eggleton
• The Iron Star [II] - interior artwork by Bob Eggleton
• The Black Hole - essay by William J. Kaufmann
• Schwarzschild Radius - shortstory by Connie Willis
• Schwarzschild Radius - interior artwork by Jim Burns
• Galaxies and Clusters - essay by Hyron Spinrad
• Bubbles - shortstory by David Brin
• Bubbles - interior artwork by David A. Cherry
• Quasars and Active Galaxies - essay by Harding E. Smith
• For Thus Do I Remember Carthage - shortstory by Michael Bishop
• For Thus Do I Remember Carthage - interior artwork by John Collier (artist)
• The Intergalactic Medium - essay by Wallace Tucker
• The Man Who Was a Cosmic String - shortstory by Rudy Rucker
• The Man Who Was a Cosmic String - interior artwork by Ron Miller
• Cosmology: The Quest to Understand the Creation and Expansion of the Universe - essay by Allan Sandage
• Requiem for a Universe - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• Requiem for a Universe - interior artwork by John Harris
• The New Physics and the Universe - essay by James Trefil
• All the Hues of Hell - shortstory by Gene Wolfe
• All the Hues of Hell - interior artwork by Kikuo Hayashi
• Who Will Speak for Earth? An Essay on Extraterrestrial Intelligence and Contact - essay by Donald Goldsmith
• The Dark Shadow - shortstory by Frederik Pohl
• The Dark Shadow - interior artwork by Lebbeus Woods

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