Publisher Description

Featuring the original The Expanse story "Drive" by James S. A. Corey, the basis for Season 2, Episode 6, "Paradigm Shift" and Pat Cadigan's Hugo-winning "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi". One Giant Leap For MankindThose were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world. All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound. Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System.From the eerie transformations in Pat Cadigan's Hugo Award-winning "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi" to the frontier spirit of Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey's "The Road to NPS," and from the grandiose vision of Alastair Reynolds' "Vainglory" to the workaday familiarity of Kristine Kathryn Rusch's "Safety Tests," the thirteen stories in this anthology span the whole of the human condition in their race to colonise Earth's nearest neighbours.Featuring stories by Hannu Rajaniemi, Alastair Reynolds, James S. A. Corey, John Barnes, Stephen Baxter, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Elizabeth Bear, Pat Cadigan, Gwyneth Jones, Paul McAuley, Sandra McDonald, Stephen D. Covey, An Owomoyela, and Bruce Sterling,Edge of Infinity is hard SF adventure at its best and most exhilarating.

Author Biography

Jonathan Strahan is a World Fantasy Award award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. He has edited more than 70 books, is reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Tor.com, and co-host and producer of the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.

Table of Contents

• Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
• The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi, Pat Cadigan
• The Deeps of the Sky, Elizabeth Bear
• Drive, James S. A. Corey
• The Road to NPS, Sandra McDonald and Stephen D. Covey
• Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh, John Barnes
• Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden, Paul McAuley
• Safety Tests, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• Bricks, Sticks, Straw, Gwyneth Jones
• Tyche and the Ants, Hannu Rajaniemi
• Obelisk, Stephen Baxter
• Vainglory, Alastair Reynolds
• Water Rights, An Owomoyela
• The Peak of Eternal Light, Bruce Sterling

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