Search Worlds Without End

Are we alone? From War of the Worlds to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, ET to Close Encounters, creators of science fiction have always eagerly speculated on just how the story of alien contact would play out. Editor Marty Halpern has gathered together some of the best stories of the last 30 years, by today's most exciting genre writers, weaving a tapestry that covers a broad range of scenarios: from the insidious, to the violent, to the transcendent.

Contents:

• Introduction: Beginnings... - (2012) - essay by Marty Halpern
• The Thought War - (2008) - shortstory by Paul J. McAuley
• How to Talk to Girls at Parties - (2006) - shortstory by Neil Gaiman
• Face Value - (1986) - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Road Not Taken - (1985) - novelette by Harry Turtledove
• The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything - (1984) - shortstory by George Alec Effinger
• I Am the Doorway - (1971) - shortstory by Stephen King
• Recycling Strategies for the Inner City - (1990) - shortstory by Pat Murphy
• The 43 Antarean Dynasties - (1997) - shortstory by Mike Resnick
• The Gold Bug - (2007) - novelette by Orson Scott Card
• Kin - (2006) - shortstory by Bruce McAllister
• Guerrilla Mural of a Siren's Song - (1989) - shortstory by Ernest Hogan
• Angel - (1987) - shortstory by Pat Cadigan
• The First Contact with the Gorgonids - (1992) - shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Sunday Night Yams at Minnie and Earl's - (2001) - novella by Adam-Troy Castro
• A Midwinter's Tale - (1988) - shortstory by Michael Swanwick
• Texture of Other Ways - (1999) - shortstory by Mark W. Tiedemann
• To Go Boldly - (2009) - shortstory by Cory Doctorow
• If Nudity Offends You - (1988) - shortstory by Elizabeth Moon
• Laws of Survival - (2007) - novelette by Nancy Kress
• What You Are About to See - (2008) - shortstory by Jack Skillingstead
• Amanda and the Alien - (1983) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• Exo-Skeleton Town - (2000) - novelette by Jeffrey Ford
• Lambing Season - (2002) - shortstory by Molly Gloss
• Swarm - (1982) - novelette by Bruce Sterling
• MAXO Signals: A New and Unfortunate Solution to the Fermi Paradox - (2007) - shortstory by Charles Stross (variant of MAXO Signals 2005)
• Last Contact - (2007) - shortstory by Stephen Baxter
• About the Contributors (Alien Contact) - (2012) - essay by uncredited