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Something exciting has been happening in modern SF. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF" - science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present an immense, authoritative anthology that maps the development and modern-day resurgence of this form, argues for its special virtues and present preeminence - and entertains us with some spectacular storytelling along the way.

Included are major stories by contemporary and classic names such as Poul Anderson, Stephen Baxter, Gregory Benford, Ben Bova, David Brin, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clement, Greg Egan, Joe Haldeman, Nancy Kress, Paul McAuley, Frederik Pohl, Alastair Reynolds, Kim Stanley Robinson, Robert J. Sawyer, Karl Schroeder, Charles Sheffield, Brian Stableford, Allen Steele, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, and Vernor Vinge.

"The Hard SF Renaissance" will be an anthology that SF readers return to for years to come.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: New People, New Places, New Politics - essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
• Gene Wars - (1991) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• Wang's Carpets - (1995) - novelette by Greg Egan
• Genesis - (1995) - novella by Poul Anderson
• Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars - (1999) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
• On the Orion Line - (2000) - novelette by Stephen Baxter
• Beggars in Spain - (1991) - novella by Nancy Kress
• Matter's End - (1989) - novella by Gregory Benford
• The Hammer of God - (1992) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Think Like a Dinosaur - (1995) - novelette by James Patrick Kelly
• Mount Olympus - (1999) - novelette by Ben Bova
• Marrow - (1997) - novella by Robert Reed
• Microbe - (1995) - shortstory by Joan Slonczewski
• The Lady Vanishes - (1996) - shortstory by Charles Sheffield
• Bicycle Repairman - (1996) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• An Ever-Reddening Glow - (1996) - shortstory by David Brin
• Sexual Dimorphism - (1999) - shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
• Into the Miranda Rift - (1993) - novella by G. David Nordley
• The Shoulders of Giants - (2000) - shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
• A Walk in the Sun - (1991) - shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
• For White Hill - (1995) - novella by Joe Haldeman
• A Career in Sexual Chemistry - (1987) - novelette by Brian Stableford
• Reef - (2000) - novelette by Paul J. McAuley
• Exchange Rate - (1999) - novella by Hal Clement
• Reasons to Be Cheerful - (1997) - novelette by Greg Egan
• Griffin's Egg - (1991) - novella by Michael Swanwick
• Great Wall of Mars - (2000) - novelette by Alastair Reynolds
• A Niche - (1990) - novelette by Peter Watts
• Gossamer - (1995) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• Madam Butterfly - (1997) - novelette by James P. Hogan
• Understand - (1991) - novelette by Ted Chiang
• Halo - (1996) - shortstory by Karl Schroeder
• Different Kinds of Darkness - (2000) - shortstory by David Langford
• Fast Times at Fairmont High - (2001) - novella by Vernor Vinge
• Reality Check - (2000) - shortstory by David Brin
• The Mendelian Lamp Case - (1997) - novelette by Paul Levinson
• Kinds of Strangers - (1999) - novelette by Sarah Zettel
• The Good Rat - (1995) - novelette by Allen Steele
• Built Upon the Sands of Time - (2000) - shortstory by Michael F. Flynn
• Taklamakan - (1998) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• Hatching the Phoenix - (1999) - novella by Frederik Pohl
• Immersion - (1996) - novella by Gregory Benford

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