"Card's selections are excellent and include an interesting range of approaches to science fiction."--School Library Journal

A provocative collection of short science fiction from the 1980s, edited by one of science fiction's best-known names. Of particular interest in Future on Fire are several stories from the cyberpunk school, as well as Pat Murphy's Nebula Award-winning "Rachel in Love'' and Ursula K. Le Guin's wonderful "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight.''

CONTENTS

Orson Scott Card / Introduction: Science Fiction in the 1980s

Pat Murphy / Rachel in Love

Michael Swanwick and William Gibson / Dogfight

Michael Bishop / A Gift from the GrayLanders

Lucious Shephard / Fire Zone Emerald

Kim Stanley Robinson / Down and Out in the Year 2000

Rachel Pollack / Angel Baby

Susan Palwick / The Neighbor's Wife

Gregg Keizer / I Am the Burning Bush

Pat Cadigan / Pretty Boy Crossover

Ursula K. Le Guin / Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight

Connie Willis / All My Darling Daughters

Wayne Wightman / In the Realm of the Heart, In the World of the Knife

James Patrick Kelly / Rat

Felix C. Gotschalk / Vestibular Man

Bruce Sterling / Green Days in Brunei

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About the Author

Born in Richland, Washington in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for Ender's Game and then for the sequel Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina.


Title: Future on Fire
Author(s): Orson Scott Card
Volume: 1
ISBN: 9781429965170
Copyright 1991
Release Date: February 15, 1991
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Countries: United States, Canada | Learn more about available countries
Language: English
Format: ePub,mobi | Learn More about our supported formats
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