Short Science Fiction Collection 077

Twelve stories from an era when writers dared to imagine the unimaginable. These are tales of Mars and tomorrow, of machines that think and futures that never arrived. You'll find a scientist who speaks to the dead across the void of space, a empire-builder on an alien world, and a time traveler whose own history becomes his prisoner. Some of these futures look quaint now. Others feel like they were written this morning. What binds them is that old SF magic: the conviction that a single clever idea, properly explored, can rearrange how you see everything. This is science fiction before it became franchise and mythology, when it was still a literature of genuine speculation, of writers working out their private terrors and hopes in public. Perfect for readers who want stories that think as much as they propel.