Solaris Rising 2

Ian Whates (editor)

ISBN 10: 1781080887 / ISBN 13: 9781781080887

Published by Solaris, Oxford, UK, 2013

About this Item

mass market paperback 446 pp. The book is unread and has been carefully stored for more than a decade. It is in as new condition and the gloss on the cover is intact. This anthology collects 18 original science fiction stories by some of the genre?s most promising talents. Includes: Tom by Paul Cornell; More by Nancy Kress; Shall Inherit by James Lovegrove; Feast and Famine by Adrian Tchaikovsky; Whatever Skin You Wear by Eugie Foster; Pearl in the Shell by Neil Williamson; The Time Gun by Nick Harkaway; When Thomas Jefferson Dined Alone by Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Bonds by Robert Reed; Ticking by Allen Steele, Before Hope by Kim Lakin-Smith; The Spires of Greme by Kay Kenyon; Manmade by Mercurio D. Rivera; The Circle of Least Confusion by Martin Sketchley; The Distant Suns by Norman Spinrad; Lighthouse by Liz Williams; The First Dance by Martin McGrath; Still Life with Skull by Mike Allen; and With Fate Conspire by Vandana Singh.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Solaris Rising 2
• Publisher: Solaris, Oxford, UK
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1781080887
• ISBN 13: 9781781080887
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Pye Parr (cover)
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: As New

About this title

Synopsis

The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction

Solaris Rising 2 showcases the finest new science fiction from both celebrated authors and the most exciting of emerging writers. Following in the footsteps of the critically-acclaimed first volume, editor Ian Whates has once again gathered together a plethora of thrilling and daring talent. Within you will find unexplored frontiers as well as many of the central themes of the genre – alien worlds, time travel, artificial intelligence – made entirely new in the telling. The authors here prove once again why SF continues to be the most innovative, satisfying, and downright exciting genre of all.

Featuring new writing by Allen Steele // Paul Cornell // Nancy Kress // James Lovegrove // Adrian Tchaikovsky // Neil Williamson // Nick Harkaway // Kay Kenyon // Kristine Kathryn Rusch // Mercurio D. Rivera // Eugie Foster // Vandana Singh // Kim Lakin-Smith // Robert Reed // Martin Sketchley // Norman Spinrad // Liz Williams // Martin McGrath // Mike Allen

About the Author

Ian Whates is a director of both the Science-Fiction Writers Association and the British Science-Fiction Association. He is also the proprietor and editor of NewCon Press. He has written two novels and edited three anthologies for Solaris.