Cosmic Tales: Advantures in Far Futures

Book Overview

A collection of short fiction by some of science fiction's leading authors--including Gregory Benford, James P. Hogan, Eric Flint and DAve Freer, John Ringo, and others--explores a distant future... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743498879
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Baen
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.8" x 1.3" x 4.3"

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

An anthology of similar quality to the first Cosmic Tales book, although perhaps a little more consistent. There are multiple stories connected to other series, here, in these pieces about people on planets a long, long way from here in general. Cosmic Tales 2 : The Tree of Dreams - James P. Hogan Cosmic Tales 2 : Bring Out the Ugly - Mark L. Van Name Cosmic Tales 2 : On Suivi Point - Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald Cosmic Tales 2 : Genie Out of the Bottle - Dave Freer and Eric Flint Cosmic Tales 2 : Botany Bay - Paul Chafe Cosmic Tales 2 : Beyond Pluto - Gregory Benford Less paperwork to stay. 3 out of 5 I'm a machine, but let's do something. 3.5 out of 5 Dead Blonde blasting. 3 out of 5 Getting some Military Intelligence, with rat. 3.5 out of 5 Killer colony murder. 3 out of 5 Darksider High Flyer contact. 3.5 out of 5 3.5 out of 5

Delightful Collection of Stories

Toni Weisskopf is the Executive Director at Baen books, one of the premier Science Fiction publishers. She also appears to be a SiFi fan and has been collecting short stories to anthologize. In this Cosmic Tales series she first collected a series of stories about Adventures in Sol System. Now she has collected stories set further out. As she says in the Introduction - I share with you stories about what happens when we escape the Sun's pull and explore the galazy, fulfilling our destiny. About half of the authors come from the Baen stable of writers: James P. Hogan, Dave Freer, Eric Flint, Gregory Benford. Other writers are: Mark L. Van Name, Debra Doyle, James D. Macdonald, Paul Chafe. The stories have a broad range, with the only common thread being that they are located outside the orbit of Pluto, outside the Oort Cloud where the comets live. Enjoyable reading.