Short Science Fiction Collection 085

Here are seventeen stories that don't waste your time. Each one arrives with a premise, builds toward a single devastating or delightful realization, and leaves you different than when you started. This is science fiction at its most concentrated: no subplots, no filler, just the raw machinery of imagination operating at full speed. You'll encounter first contacts, futures both glorious and terrifying, minds transferred into alien bodies, and questions about identity that have no easy answers. The authors span the early masters of the genre, each one reaching for something beyond the ordinary. These are the stories that made people look up at the stars and wonder what else might be out there. They move fast. They stick hard. A single one of these tales contains more ideas than most novels dare to approach.