Humanity 2.0

✍ Scribed by Alex Shvartsman (ed)

• Publisher: Phoenix Pick
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 183 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1612423094

✦ Synopsis

What will it mean to be human in the future? How will we evolve in order to reach the stars?

Fifteen short stories collected in this book examine how interstellar flight might change humanity itself. Will we choose to upload our minds into a singularity? Enhance ourselves with alien DNA? Will our bodies remain the same, but our culture and societal norms adapt to accommodate for effects of time dilation, or become subsumed by advanced alien cultures?

Hugo and Nebula award winning authors, bestsellers, and some of the hottest new writers in the field of hard science fiction imagine an array of possible futuresfrom bright to dystopianand different permutations of what's in store for us as a species.

Includes stories by Robert J. Sawyer, John Varley, Robert Silverberg, Brenda Cooper, Ken Liu, Mike Resnick, Jody Lynn Nye and many more.

contents

FOREWORD

Alex Shvartsman

THE WAVES

Ken Liu

JUSTICE AND SHADOW

Angus McIntyre

NEXUS

Nancy Fulda

A LACK OF CONGENIAL SOLUTIONS

Kenneth Schneyer

GREEN GIRL BLUES

Martin L. Shoemaker

MINDJACK

Jody Lynn Nye

PICNIC ON NEARSIDE

John Varley

AN ENDLESS SERIES OF DOORS

David Walton

ANGRY ROSES LAMENT

Cat Rambo

THE RIGHT PLACE TO START A FAMILY

Caroline M. Yoachim

THE IRON STAR

Robert Silverberg

e^h

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

THE HAND ON THE CRADLE

Brenda Cooper

THE HOMECOMING

Mike Resnick

STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT

Robert J. Sawyer

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