Table of Contents: CRACKING THE SKY by Brenda Cooper

In August, Fairwood Press will publish Cracking the Sky a collection of short stories by Brenda Cooper with an introduction by James Van Pelt. Fairwood Press is taking pre-orders now.

Here’s the synopsis:

Award-winning author Brenda Cooper’s first science fiction only collection treats readers to human stories about the future. Meet a physicist who searches across timelines in a desperate attempt to travel across them herself, a young woman who tried to re-cover the magic of a trip on a river with her grandfather, a young couple who suspect their neighbor child is being raised by robots, and many more…

Here’s the table of contents:

1. The Robot’s Girl
2. Savant Songs
3. Riding in Mexico
4. The War of the Flowers
5. Trainer of Whales
6. Star of Humanity
7. My Father’s Singularity
8. The Trellis (with Larry Niven)
9. Second Shift
10. Blood Bonds
11. The Hebras and the Demons of the Damned
12. The Street of All Designs
13. My Grandfather’s River
14. Tea With Jillian
15. For the Love of Mechanical Minds
16. Entropy and Emergence
17. Alien Graveyards
18. A Hand and Honor
19. Mind Expeditions
20. For the Love of Metal Dogs
21. Cracking the Sky