Search Worlds Without End

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Universe 14 (1984), edited by Terry Carr. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Second Annual Collection (1985), edited by Gardner Dozois, The Norton Book of Science Fiction: North American Science Fiction, 1960-1990 (1993), edited by Ursula K. Le Guin and Brian Attebery, and The Secret History of Science Fiction (2009), edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel. The story is included in the collection Unforeseen: Stories (2019).

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2002. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twentieth Annual Collection (2003), edited by Gardner Dozios, The Best of the Best: 20 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction (2005), edited by Gardner Dozois, Aliens: Recent Encounters (2012), edited by Alex Dally MacFarlane, Alien Contact (2012), edited by Marty Halpern and the Nebula Awards Showcase (2005), edited by Jack Dann. The story is included in the collection Unforeseen: Stories (2019).

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Vren, exiled into the dark forest outside the Gates, finds a new life with a friendly weather-worker, until their gentle existence is disrupted by a spellbinder misusing his power.

This short story originally appeared in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1990. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighth Annual Collection (1991), edited by Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection Unforeseen: Stories (2019).

The Dazzle of Day is a brilliant and widely celebrated mixture of mainstream literary fiction and hard SF. Molly Gloss turns her attention to the frontiers of the future, when the people of our over-polluted planet Earth voyage out to the stars to settle new worlds, to survive unknown and unpredictable hardships, and to make new human homes. Specifically, it is a story about people who have grown up on a ship that is traveling to a new world, and about the society and culture that have evolved among them by the time they arrive at their new home planet.

Sturgeon Award winning novelette. It originally appeared on Strange Horizons, 3 September and 10 September 2012. The story can also be found in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Seven (2013), edited by Jonathan Strahan. It is included in the collection Unforeseen: Stories (2019).

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Award-winning and critically acclaimed author Molly Gloss's career retrospective collection, Unforseen, includes sixteen celebrated short stories that have never be published together before and two new stories.

Table of Contents:

• "Interlocking Pieces"
• "Joining"
• "Seaborne"
• "Wenonah's Gift"
• "Personal Silence"
• "Lambing Season"
• "Downstream"
• "The Visited Man"
• "Unforeseen"
• "The Grinnell Method"
• "The Presley Brothers"
• "Dead Men Rise Up Never"
• "Eating Ashes"
• "Personal Silence"
• "A Story"
• "Little Hills"
• "The Everlasting Humming of the Earth"

Set among lava sinkholes and logging camps at the fringe of the Northwest frontier in the early 1900s, WILD LIFE charts the life — both real and imagined — of the free-thinking, cigar-smoking, trouser-wearing Charlotte Bridger Drummond, who pens popular women"s adventure stories. One day, when a little girl gets lost in the woods, Charlotte anxiously joins the search and embarks on an adventure all her own. With great assurance and skill, Molly Gloss quickly transforms what at first seems to be pitch-perfect historical fiction into a kind of wild and woolly mystery story, as Charlotte herself becomes lost in the dark and tangled woods and falls into the company of an elusive band of mountain giants. Putting a surprising and revitalizing feminist spin on the classic legend of Tarzan and other wild-man sagas, Gloss takes us from the wilds of the western frontier to the wilds of the human heart.