Table of Contents: NATURE FUTURES Edited by Henry Gee
How in the world did I miss this?
Check out the MASSIVE table of contents for his/her/the upcoming anthology/collection Nature Futures: Science Fiction from the Leading Science Journal:
Here’s the book description:
This book brings together 97 short stories that seek to answer the question ‘what will the future look like?’ First published in the leading science journal Nature, these 900-word tales come from scientists, journalists and many of the most famous SF writers in the world.
Initially published in book form as Futures from Nature, this is the first time this collection has been available as an eBook. A unique blend of satires, vignettes, fictional book reviews, science articles and journalism, Nature Futures offers an eclectic mix of ideas and attitudes about the future.
With contributions from: Arthur C. Clarke; Bruce Sterling; Charles Stross; Cory Doctorow; Greg Bear; Gregory Benford; Oliver Morton; Ian Macleod; Rudy Rucker; Greg Egan; Stephan Baxter; Frederik Pohl; Vernor Vinge; Nancy Kress, Michael Moorcock, Vonda N. McIntyre; Kim Stanley Robinson; John M. Ford; and 79 more.
Here’s the table of contents…
- “Cognitive Ability and the Light Bulb” by Brian Aldiss
- “Don’t Imitate” by Gilles Amon
- “Check Elastic Before Jumping” by Neal Asher
- “Twenty2” by Nate Balding
- “Under Martian Ice” by Stephen Baxter
- “RAM SHIFT PHASE 2” by Greg Bear
- “A Life with a Semisent” by Gregory Benford
- “Damned If You Don’t” by Lucy Bergman
- “The Punishment Fits the Crime” by David Berreby
- “Toy Planes” by Tobias S. Buckell
- “A Concrete Example” by J. Casti, J.-P. Boon, C. Djerassi, J. Johnson, A. Lovett, T. Norretranders, V. Patera, C. Sommerer, R. Taylor, and S. Thurner
- “The Aching of Dion Harper” by Arthur Chrenkoff
- “Improving the Neighborhood” by Arthur C. Clarke
- “Omphalosphere: New York 2057” by Jack Cohen
- “Picasso’s Cat” by Ron Collins
- “My Grandfather’s River” by Brenda Cooper
- “Sandcastles: A Dystopia” by Kathryn Cramer
- “Adam’s Hot Dogs at the End of the World” by Jeff Crook
- “The Party’s Over” by Penelope Kim Crowther
- “Transport of Delight” by Roland Denison
- “The Perfect Lover” by Paul Di Filippo
- “Printcrime” by Cory Doctorow
- “A Brief History of Death Switches” by David Eagleman
- “Only Connect” by Greg Egan
- “At the Zoo” by Warren Ellis
- “The Liquidators” by Michael Garrett Farrelly
- “In the Days of the Comet” by john m. Ford
- “Ars Longa, Vita Brevis” by James Alan Gardner
- “Are We Not Men?” by Henry Gee
- “It Never Rains in VR” by John Gilbey
- “Gordy Gave Me Your Name” by Jim Giles
- “Nostalgia” by Hiromi Goto
- “Spawn of Satan?” by Nicola Griffith
- “Take Over” by Jon Courtenay Grimwood
- “Speak, Geek” by Eileen Gunn
- “Heartwired” by Joe Haldeman
- “The Forever Kitten” by Peter f. Hamilton
- “The Road to the Year 3000” by Harry Harrison
- “Operation Tesla” by Jeff Hecht
- “Making the Sale” by Fredric Heeren
- “Subpoenaed in Syracuse” by Tom Holt
- “Total Internal Reflection” by Gwyneth Jones
- “Ringing Up Baby” by Ellen Klages
- “Semi-autonomous” by Jim Kling
- “Product Development” by Nancy Kress
- “I Love Liver: A Romance” by Larissa Lai
- “Avatars in Space” by Geoffrey A. Landis
- “COMP.BASILISK FAQ” by David Langford
- “Gathering of the Clans” by Reinaldo José Lopes
- “Taking Good Care of Myself” by Ian R. Macleod
- “Undead Again” by Ken Macleod
- “Words, Words, Words” by Elisabeth Malartre
- “My Morning Glory” by David Marusek
- “Don’t Mention the “F” Word” by Neil Mathur
- “Meat” by Paul McAuley
- “The Candidate” by Jack Mcdevitt
- “A Modest Proposal for the Perfection of Nature” by Vonda N. Mcintyre
- “The Republic of George’s Island” by Donna Mcmahon
- “The Computiful Game” by Paul Steven Miller
- “Oscar Night, 2054” by Syne Mitchell
- “The Visible Men” by Michael Moorcock
- “The Albian Message” by Oliver Morton
- “Photons Do Not Lie” by Euan Nisbet
- “Stranger in the Night” by Salvador Nogueira
- “Tick-Tock Curly-Wurly” by Gareth Owens
- “Daddy’s Slight Miscalculation” by Ashley Pellegrino
- “Brain Drain” by Frederik Pohl
- “Great Unreported Discoveries No. 163” by Mike Resnick
- “Feeling Rejected” by Alastair Reynolds
- “The Trial of Jeremy Owens” by Peter Roberts
- “Prometheus Unbound, at Last” by Kim Stanley Robinson
- “Dreadnought” by Justina Robson
- “Falling” by Benjamin Rosenbaum
- “Panpsychism Proved” by Rudy Rucker
- “The Abdication of Pope Mary III” by Robert J. Sawyer
- “The Charge-up Man” by Catherine H. Shaffer
- “From the Desk of Jarrod Foster” by Biren Shah
- “Pluto Story” by Robert Silverberg
- “Madame Bovary, C’est Moi” by Dan Simmons
- “Tuberculosis Bacteria Join UN” by Joan Slonczewski
- “For He on Honeydew Hath Fed …” by Paul Smaglik
- “A Man of the Theater” by Norman Sprinrad
- “Ivory Tower” by Bruce Sterling
- “Play It Again, Psam” by Ian Stewart
- “MAXO Signals” by Charles Stross
- “Golden Year” by Igor Teper
- “Paratext” by Scarlett Thomas
- “Murphy’s Cat” by Joan D. Vinge
- “Win a Nobel Prize!” by Vernor Vinge
- “A Leap of Faith” by Theo Von Hohenheim
- “Nadia’s Nectar” by Ian Watson
- “Statler Pulchrifex” by Matt Weber
- “All Is Not Lost” by Scott Westerfeld
- “The Key” by Ian Whates
- “The Godmother Protocols” by Heather M. Whitney
- “The Great Good-bye” by Robert Charles Wilson
- “Pigs on the Wing” by K. Erik Ziemelis
I read the first collection from Nature & Gee several years ago (similar format: many stories, short lengths) and the were generally good (overall an excellent collection), so I have similar hopes for this.
Perhaps this time around this collection will be an eBook (and they’ll finally release the first collection as an eBook).
The link above is to a kindle version
Looks like the same volume that came out in TPB a few years ago. I recognize Forever Kitten and a few others. These are all short-shorts, hence the many titles.
I’m bummed my story isn’t in this! So read it here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v472/n7342/full/472254a.html