Full Spectrum 1

Here for the 1st time anywhere are 25 new stories from the leading edge of contemporary science fiction & fantasy. Bold, shocking, sly & visionary, these astonishing stories have one thing in common: they push the imagination to its limits. Spanning the full spectrum from Norman Spinrad's harrowing "Journal of the Plague Years," to the dreamy eloquence of Lisa Goldstein's "My Year With the Aliens," from Thomas M. Disch's hauntingly erotic "Voices of the Kill," to Kevin J. Anderson & Doug Beason's hard sf story "Reflections in a Magnetic Mirror," these daring excursions into the worlds of past, present & future represent the best of today's speculative fiction by both acknowledged masters & the most exciting new voices in the field. Filled with rich invention & vivid detail, with incredible fantasy & terrifying truth, Full Spectrum is one collection that no fan of science fiction & fantasy should be without.

CONTENTS:

Introduction / Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy

Voices of the kill / Thomas M. Disch

This is the year zero / Andrew Weiner

Proselytes / Gregory Benford

The fourth moxie branch / Jack McDevitt

Prayerware / Jack Massa

Mannequins / Charles Oberndorf

Moments of clarity / Elissa Malcohn

A gift of the people / Robert Samson

The last rainmaker song / Jeffrey J. Mariotte

Tinker to evers to chance / Steven Bryan Bieler

The farm system / Howard V. Hendrix

Ghost ship / Walton Simons

Phillipa's hands / Nancy Kress

Reflections in a magnetic mirror / Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason

Listening / Ronnie Seagren

My year with the aliens / Lisa Goldstein

Oz / Lewis Shiner

Dead men on tv / Pat Murphy

Once in a lullaby / Fred Bals

My imaginary parents / T.L. Parkinson

Bible stories for adults, no. 17: the deluge / James Morrow

Beyond the seventh sphere / Aaron Schutz

Magister Rudy / Richard Grant

The thing itself / Michael Blumlein

Journals of the plague years / Norman Spinrad

• Author
• Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Lou Aronica, Shawna McCarthy, Lewis Shiner, Pat Murphy, Jack McDevitt, Jack Massa, Jeff Mariotte, Charles Oberndorf, Elissa Malcohn, James K. Morrow, Robert Sampson, Howard V. Hendrix, Nancy Kress, Richard Grant, Michael Blumlein, Kevin J. Anderson, Norman Spinrad, Doug Beason, Thomas M. Disch, Andrew Weiner, Ronnie Seagren, Gregory Benford, Lisa Goldstein, Walton Simons, Fred Bals, Steven Bryan Bieler, Terry L. Parkinson, Aaron Schutz

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 483

• Series
• Full Spectrum

• Publisher
• Spectra

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780553274820

• Genres
• fantasy, fiction, anthologies

• Release date
• 1988