Microcosms

Award-winning author and scientist Gregory Benford has collected all-new, hard-science stories about miniature universes of every imaginable kind. These 13 stories will open portals into unforgettable universes that exist within or outside our own. With stories by Stephen Baxter, Pamela Sargent, Robert J. Sawyer Robert Sheckley, George Zebrowski, and other masters.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0756401712
• ISBN13: 9780756401719
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Daw Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A satisfyingly fascinating read

Contributions by Jack McDevitt, Stephen Baxter, Sheckley and other notables in the field provide a powerful collection which examines basic concepts of hard science physics in considering futures in which worlds have been created by man. The thirteen stories comprising Microcosms range from accounts of physicists who act as God in a variety of small microcosmic worlds to a God who decides to put a stop to man's creation efforts. A satisfyingly fascinating read.

Good anthology

Fans of movies like Fantastic Voyage or The Incredible Shrinking Man/Woman will appreciate this collection of thirteen tales set in a wide variety of microscopic realms. Each tale is unique, but share in common that the perspective of micro is in the eye of the beholder. Using advances in physics that make the previously mentioned movies seem dated; the anthology furbishes the audience with delightful tales that run the gamut from micro-creator to sentient atoms. Besides strong interesting tales, the key to the collection is that these tiny worlds seem real due to physical symmetry in their design, no mean feat for any contribution let alone a Baker's dozen. Fans of existing acceptable state of the science in their fiction will appreciate each contribution that not only provides effective insight into current theories and knowledge of inner space, but also does so within powerful tales that makes these realms seem so real.Harriet Klausner