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Future Visions: Original Science Fiction Inspired by Microsoft
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Include books by the same authorHieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future
Ed Finn, Kathryn Cramer
Metatropolis: Original Science Fiction Stories in a Shared Future
John Scalzi, Jay Lake, Elizabeth Bear, Karl Schroeder, Tobias S. Buckell · 288 pages
" ... METAtropolis is the brainchild of five of science fiction's hottest writers ... who combined their talents to build a new urban future and then wrote their own stories in this collectively-constructed world. The results are individual glimpses of a shared vision ..."--Dust cover flap.
Brave New Worlds
Cory Doctorow, Paolo Bacigalupi, Orson Scott Card, Ursula K. Le Guin, M. Rickert, Kate Wilhelm, Geoff Ryman, Neil Gaiman, Bryan Talbot, J.G. Ballard, Carrie Vaughn, James K. Morrow, Alex Irvine, Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, Genevieve Valentine, Sarah Langan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Matt Williamson, P · 489 pages
Collects short stories on civilization invading and dictating citizens lives, from authors including Shirley Jackson, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Geoff Rymann.
Minority Report
Philip K. Dick · 304 pages
In the world of The Minority Report, Commissioner John Anderton is the one to thank for the lack of crime. He is the originator of the Precrime System, which uses "precogs"--people with the power to see into the future--to identify criminals before they can do any harm. Unfortunately for Anderton, his precogs perceive him as the next criminal. But Anderton knows he has never contemplated such a th
The A.I. Chronicles
Samuel Peralta, David Simpson, Chrystalla Thoma, Peter Cawdron, Patrice Fitzgerald, Susan Kaye Quinn, Julie Czerneda, Alex Albrinck, Sam Best, Angela Cavanaugh, E.E. Giorgi, A.K. Meek, Logan Thomas Snyder, Pavarti K. Tyler · 428 pages
A.I.: Artificial Intelligence. Even today, machines that mimic human thinking surround us. As the intellectual feats of computing machines grow more and more astounding, will there be a day when their apparent intelligence approaches, or even surpasses, that of human beings? And what if these machines then become conscious, self-aware? In this latest title in the acclaimed Future Chronicles ser
Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology
Pat Cadigan, Greg Egan, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Filippo, Elizabeth Bear, David Marusek, Mary Rosenblum, Cory Doctorow, Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, Gwyneth Jones, Jonathan Lethem, Charles Stross, Michael Swanwick, Walter Jon Williams, Christopher Rowe · 424 pages
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury · 222 pages
This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel about a future colonization of Mars. As the stories progress chronologically the author tells how the first humans colonized Mars, initially sharing the planet with a handful of Martians. When Earth is devastated by nuclear war the colony is left to fend for itself and the co
Welcome to the Monkey House
Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 308 pages
Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and The Atlantic Monthly, these superb stories share Vonnegut’s audacious sense of humor and extraordinary range of creative vision. Includes the following stories: “Where I Live” “Harrison Bergeron” “Who Am I This Time?
Where Futures End
Parker Peevyhouse · 289 pages
"Five interconnected stories that weave a subtle science-fictional web stretching out from the present into the future, presenting eerily plausible possibilities for social media, corporate sponsorship, and humanity, as our world collides with a mysterious alternate universe"--
My Name Is Legion
Roger Zelazny · 209 pages
With A Little Help
Cory Doctorow · 361 pages
With a Little Help is my first serious experiment in self-publishing. I’ve published many novels, short story collections, books of essays and so on with publishers, and it’s all been very good and satisfying and educational and so on, but it seems like it’s time to try something new. With a Little Help consists of 12 stories, all reprints except for “Epoch” (commissioned by Mark Shuttleworth) Thi
I, Robot
Isaac Asimov · 218 pages
I, Robot is a fixup novel of science fiction short stories or essays by American writer Isaac Asimov. The stories originally appeared in the American magazines Super Science Stories and Astounding Science Fiction between 1940 and 1950 and were then compiled into a book for stand-alone publication by Gnome Press in 1950, in an initial edition of 5,000 copies. The stories are woven together by a fra
Axiomatic
Greg Egan · 368 pages
AXIOMATIC is a collection of eighteen short stories including; THE HUNDRED LIGHT YEAR DIARY - Scientists can bounce messages from the future back to the present, but there's no guarantee they'll tell the truth... LEARNING TO BE ME - Crystalline minds may take the place of human brains, but where does the self really lie? CLOSER - Lovers exchange bodies and minds, but their experiments go
Burning Chrome
William Gibson · 220 pages
Burning Chrome collects Gibson's early short fiction from the late 70's and early 80's. Contents: Preface / by Bruce Sterling -- Johnny Mnemonic -- The Gernsback continuum -- Fragments of a hologram rose -- The belonging kind / by John Shirley and William Gibson -- Hinterlands -- Red star, winter orbit / by Bruce Sterling and William Gibson -- New Rose Hotel -- The winter market -- Do
Cyberabad Days
Ian McDonald · 279 pages
The Past Through Tomorrow
Robert A. Heinlein · 726 pages
Pump Six and Other Stories
Paolo Bacigalupi · 243 pages
Social criticism, political parable, and environmental advocacy lie at the center of Paolo Bacigalupi's work. Each of the stories herein is at once a warning and a celebration of the tragic comedy of the human experience. The eleven stories in Pump Six represent the best of Paolo Bacigalupi's work, including the Hugo nominee "Yellow Card Man," the Nebula-and Hugo-nominated story "The People of San
The Time Machine and The Invisible Man
H.G. Wells · 292 pages
Children of the New World
Alexander Weinstein · 234 pages
Introduces readers to a near-future world of social media implants, memory manufacturers, dangerously immersive virtual reality games, and alarmingly intuitive robots. Many of these characters live in a utopian future of instant connection and technological gratification that belies an unbridgeable human distance, while others inhabit a post-collapse landscape made primitive by disaster, which the
Johnny Mnemonic
William Gibson, Terry Bisson · 162 pages
To Hold Up the Sky
Liu Cixin · 336 pages
The Robot Chronicles
Hugh Howey, Deirdre Gould, A.K. Meek, Edward W. Robertson, Endi Webb, Matthew Mather, Samuel Peralta, Ann Christy, Nina Croft, W.J. Davies, Patrice Fitzgerald, Jason Gurley, David Simpson, David Adams · 398 pages
The Fourth Science Fiction Megapack
Philip K. Dick, Mary A. Turzillo, Isaac Asimov · 686 pages
Zora and the Land Ethic Nomads, by Mary A. Turzillo Food for Friendship, by E.C. Tubb The Life Work of Professor Muntz, by Murray Leinster Tiny and the Monster, by Theodore Sturgeon Beyond Lies the Wub, by Philip K. Dick Pictures Don't Lie, by Katherine MacLean The Big Trip Up Yonder, by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Storm Warning, by Donald A. Wollheim The Application of Discipline, by Jason Andrew