Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future

by Gardner Dozois (Editor)

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Mind-expanding explorations of the future of the human form Our bodies and minds are malleable, and only the imagination is the limit to the possible improvements. From genetics to artificial enhancements, humanity will alter the course of its own evolution. Included here are more than twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field, including: Poul Anderson * James Blish * Eric Brown * Ted Chiang * Tony Daniel * Samuel R. Delany * Greg Egan * Joe Haldeman * Geoffrey A. Landis show more * Paul McAuley * Ian MacLeod * David Marusek * Tom Purdom * Robert Reed * Joanna Russ * Robert Silverberg * Brian Stableford * Bruce Sterling * Charles Stross * Michael Swanwick * Liz Williams * Gene Wolfe * Roger Zelazny Mind-expanding explorations of the future of the human form Our bodies and minds are malleable, and only the imagination is the limit to the possible improvements. From genetics to artificial enhancements, humanity will alter the course of its own evolution. Included here are more than twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field, including: Poul Anderson * James Blish * Eric Brown * Ted Chiang * Tony Daniel * Samuel R. Delany * Greg Egan * Joe Haldeman * Geoffrey A. Landis * Paul McAuley * Ian MacLeod * David Marusek * Tom Purdom * Robert Reed * Joanna Russ * Robert Silverberg * Brian Stableford * Bruce Sterling * Charles Stross * Michael Swanwick * Liz Williams * Gene Wolfe * Roger Zelazny. show less

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Great collection of short stories on the post-human theme. I later bought books by several of the included authors.

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Gardner Dozois was born in Salem, Massachusetts on July 23, 1947. After working as an Army journalist, he became a science fiction and fantasy editor and author. He was the founding editor of The Year's Best Science Fiction anthologies and editor of Asimov's from 1984 until 2004. His work as an editor received more than 40 Hugo Awards, 40 Nebula show more Awards, and 30 Locus Awards. He received the Hugo Award for Best Professional Editor 15 times between 1988 and his retirement from Asimov's in 2004. He wrote books including Strangers and short stories including The Peacemaker and Morning Child, which won the Nebula Award for Short Story in 1983 and 1984, respectively. He also collaborated with George R. R. Martin on a series of themed anthologies including Songs of the Dying Earth, Old Mars, Dangerous Women, and Rogues. In 2011, Dozois was inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. He died on May 27, 2018 at the age of 70. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Anderson, Poul (Contributor)
Blish, James (Contributor)
Brown, Eric (Contributor)
Chiang, Ted (Contributor)
Daniel, Tony (Contributor)
Delany, Samuel R. (Contributor)
Egan, Greg (Contributor)
Haldeman, Joe (Contributor)
Lafferty, R. A. (Contributor)
Landis, Geoffrey A. (Contributor)
Macleod, Ian R. (Contributor)
Marusek, David (Contributor)
McAuley, Paul J. (Contributor)
Purdom, Tom (Contributor)
Reed, Robert (Contributor)
Russ, Joanna (Contributor)
Silverberg, Robert (Contributor)
Stableford, Brian (Contributor)
Sterling, Bruce (Contributor)
Stross, Charles (Contributor)
Swanwick, Michael (Contributor)
Williams, Liz (Contributor)
Wolfe, Gene (Contributor)
Zelazny, Roger (Contributor)

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Stathopoulos, Nick (Cover artist)

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2002

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
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813.0876208Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in EnglishBy typeGenre fictionAdventure fictionSpeculative fictionScience fictionCollections and anthologiesAnthologies
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PS648 .S3 .S87Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureCollections of American literatureProse (General)
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