The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF

by Mike Ashley (Editor)

Mammoth Science Fiction

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Many readers are attracted to science fiction for that singular moment when a story expands your imagination, enabling you to see something in a new light. Not all SF works this way! This volume collects the very best of it that does, with 25 of the finest examples of mind-expanding and awe-inspiring science fiction.The storylines range from a discovery on the Moon that opens up vistas across all time to a moment in which distances across the Earth suddenly increase and people vanish. These show more are tales to take you from the other side of now to the very end of time - from today's top-name contributors including Stephen Baxter, Alastair Reynolds, Robert Silverberg, Gregory Benford and Robert Reed. show less

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Mike Ashley
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168+ Works 12,604 Members
Mike Ashley has specialized in the history of science fiction and fantasy for more than 30 years. He is the author and editor of over a hundred books that in total have sold over a million copies worldwide.

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Baxter, Stephen (Contributor)
Benford, Gregory (Contributor)
Bisson, Terry (Contributor)
Blish, James (Contributor)
Brooke, Keith (Contributor)
Brown, Eric (Contributor)
Clarke, Arthur C. (Contributor)
Creasey, Ian (Contributor)
Crowther, Peter (Contributor)
Di Filippo, Paul (Contributor)
Landis, Geoffrey A. (Contributor)
McCombs, Larry (Contributor)
Nordley, G. David (Contributor)
Reed, Robert (Contributor)
Reynolds, Alastair (Contributor)
Roberts, Adam (Contributor)
Silverberg, Robert (Contributor)
Swanwick, Michael (Contributor)
Varley, John (Contributor)
Watson, Ian (Contributor)
White, Ted (Contributor)
Zahn, Timothy (Contributor)

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Roberts, Joe (Cover artist)

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Mammoth Science Fiction
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Mammoth Books (Mammoth Books 179)

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Canonical title
The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF
Original publication date
2009
First words
What was it that first attracted you to science fiction? (Introduction)
Last words
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"You'd best decide quickly," he says, softly.

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.0876208 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Speculative fiction Science fiction Collections and anthologies Anthologies
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PS648 .S3 .M3658 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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