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| Title: | Fast Forward 1
: Future Fiction from the Cutting Edge |
| Author: | Lou Anders (ed) |
| ISBN: | 1591024862 : 9781591024866 |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 410 |
| Weight: | .547 Kg. |
| Published: | Prometheus Books (Pyr) - February 2007 |
| List Price: | 9.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Science fiction |
Science Fiction is the genre that looks at the implications of technology on society, which in this age of exponential technological growth makes it the most relevant branch of literature going. This is only the start, and the close of the 21st century will look absolutely nothing like its inception. It has been said that science fiction is an ongoing dialogue about the future, and the front line of that dialogue is the short story. The field has a long history of producing famous anthologies to showcase its distinguished short fiction, but it has been several years since there has been a prestigious all-original science fiction anthology series. 'Fast Forward' is offered in the tradition of Damon Knight’s prestigious and influential anthology series, Orbit, and Frederik Pohl’s landmark Star SF. 'Fast Forward' marks the start of a new hard science fiction anthology series, dedicated to presenting the vanguard of the genre and charting the undiscovered country that is the future.
Introduction: Welcome to the Future; YFL-500; The Girl Hero's Mirror Says He's Not the One; Small Offerings; They Came From the Future; Plotters and Shooters; Aristotle OS; The Something-Dreaming Game; No More Stories; Time of the Snake; The Terror Bard; p dolce; Jesus Christ, Reanimator; Solomon's Choice; Sanjeev and Robotwallah; S Smaller Government; Priced; I Caught Intelligence; Settlements; The Hour of the Sheep; Sideways from Now; Wikiworld.
"The solid, straightforward storytelling of the 19 stories and two poems that Anders (Futureshocks) gathers for this first in a projected series of all-original SF anthologies speculates on people's efforts to "make sense of a changing world." The contributors don't necessarily assume that humans will find it easy or even possible to cope with all the changes around and within them-but they'll try, which is just part of SF's continuing dialogue about the future. The collection's strongest pieces include Robert Charles Wilson's character study of an almost-artist in search of a muse ("YFL-500"), Mary A. Turzillo's dissection of love ("Pride"), Paul Di Filippo's witty extrapolation of electronic consumerism and democracy gone berserk ("Wikiworld") and Ken MacLeod's understated, moving report on the Second Coming ("Jesus Christ, Reanimator"). All the selections in this outstanding volume prompt thoughtful speculation about what kind of tomorrow we're heading toward and what we'll do when we get there." -- Publishers Weekly, January 1, 2007.
