Edge of Infinity

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

John Barnes has commercially published thirty volumes of fiction, including science fiction, men’s action adventure, two collaborations with astronaut Buzz Aldrin, a collection of short stories and essays, one fantasy and one mainstream novel. His most recent books are science fiction novel Daybreak Zero, young adult novel Losers in Space, and political satire Raise the Gipper! He has done a rather large number of occasionally peculiar things for money, mainly in business consulting, academic teaching, and show business, fields which overlap more than you’d think. Since 2001, he has lived in Denver, Colorado, where he has a thoroughly wonderful wife, a wildly varying income, and an unjustifiably negative attitude, which he feels is actually the best permutation.


Stephen Baxter is one of the most important science fiction writers to emerge from Britain in the past thirty years. His ‘Xeelee’ sequence of novels and short stories is arguably the most significant work of future history in modern science fiction. He is the author of more than forty books and over a hundred short stories. His most recent books are Iron Winter, the final novel in the ‘Northland’ trilogy, Doctor Who: The Wheel of Ice, The Long Earth, the first of two novels co-written with Terry Pratchett, and new short story collection, Last and First Contacts.


Elizabeth Bear was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. She divides her time between Massachusetts, where she lives with a Giant Ridiculous Dog in a town so small it doesn’t even have its own Dunkin Donuts, and western Wisconsin, the home of her partner, Scott Lynch. Her first short fiction appeared in 1996, and was followed after a nearly decade-long gap by fifteen novels, two short story collections, and more than fifty short stories. Her most recent novels are Norse fantasy The Tempering of Men (with Sarah Monette) and an Asian-inspired fantasy, Range of Ghosts. Coming up is a new short story collection, Shoggoths in Bloom. Bear’s ‘Jenny Casey’ trilogy won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, and she won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 2005. Her stories ‘Tideline’ and ‘Shoggoths in Bloom’ won the Hugo, while ‘Tideline’ also won the Sturgeon award.


Pat Cadigan is the author of about a hundred short stories and fourteen books, two of which, Synners and Fools, won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. She was born in New York, grew up in Massachusetts, and spent most of her adult life in the Kansas City area. She now lives in London with her husband, the Original Chris Fowler, her Polish translator Konrad Walewski and his partner, the Lovely Lena, and co-conspirator, writer and raconteuse Amanda Hemingway; also, two ghosts, one of which is the shade of Miss Kitty Calgary, Queen of the Cats (the other declines to give a name). She is pretty sure there isn’t a more entertaining household.


James S. A. Corey is a pseudonym for Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck. Corey’s current project is a series of science fiction novels called The Expanse. The first two novels in the series are Leviathan Wakes and Caliban’s War. The third, Dandelion Sky, is scheduled to be released in 2013.


James is Daniel’s middle name, Corey is Ty’s middle name, and S. A. are Daniel’s daughter’s initials.


Stephen D. Covey received a Bachelor’s in Physics from Wabash College. As a software and Internet consultant, his clients included the Air Force, Army, and Navy. He was the Director of R&D for Applied Innovation Inc., and has authored several papers on topics ranging from “Optical Ethernet” to “Design Considerations for Space Settlements.” A speaker at various conferences, he has given multiple presentations related to capturing asteroids into Earth orbit. A member of the Asteroid Mining Group, Stephen will chair the Asteroid track at the 2013 International Space Development Conference in San Diego. His educational website about minerals (www.galleries.com) averages 300,000 visitors per month. He also writes science fiction, techno-thrillers, and the futurist (pro-space) blog RamblingsOnTheFutureOfHumanity.com.


Gwyneth Jones was born in Manchester, England, and is the author of more than twenty novels for teenagers, mostly under the name Ann Halam, and several highly regarded SF novels for adults. She has won two World Fantasy awards, the Arthur C. Clarke award, the British Science Fiction Association short story award, the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night award, the Philip K. Dick award, and shared the first Tiptree award, in 1992, with Eleanor Arnason. Her most recent books are novel Spirit, essay collection Imagination/Space, and story collection The Universe of Things. She lives in Brighton, UK, with her husband and son, a Tonkinese cat called Ginger, and her young friend Milo.


Paul McAuley worked as a research biologist in various universities, including Oxford and UCLA, and for six years was a lecturer in botany at St Andrews University, before he became a full-time writer. Although best known as a science-fiction writer, he has also published crime novels and thrillers. His SF novels have won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke, John W. Campbell, and Sidewise Awards; his story, ‘The Choice,’ won the 2012 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award. His latest titles are Cowboy Angels and In The Mouth Of The Whale. He lives in North London.


Sandra McDonald’s collection Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories won the Lambda Literary award, was a Booklist Editor’s Choice, and was an American Library Association ‘Over the Rainbow’ book. A military veteran and former Hollywood assistant, she is the author of several science fiction adventures, including Boomerang World, The Outback Stars, The Stars Down Under, and The Stars Blue Yonder. As Sam Cameron, she writes a young adult GLBTQ series of mysteries including Mystery of The Tempest, The Secret of Othello, and The Missing Juliet. Her short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and dozens of other publications. Four of her stories have been noted on the James A. Tiptree Award Honor List or Short List. Originally from Massachusetts, she currently lives in Jacksonville, Florida, and teaches college.


An Owomoyela is a neutrois author with a background in web development, linguistics, and weaving chain maille out of stainless steel fencing wire, whose fiction has appeared in a number of venues including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s, Lightspeed, and a pair of Year’s Bests. An’s interests range from pulsars and Cepheid variables to gender studies and nonstandard pronouns, with a plethora of stops in between. Se graduated from the Clarion West Writers Workshop in 2008, attended the Launchpad Astronomy Workshop in 2011, and doesn’t plan to stop learning as long as se can help it.


Hannu Rajaniemi was born in Ylivieska, Finland, in 1978. He read his first science fiction novel at the age of six – Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. At the age of eight, Hannu approached ESA with a fusion-powered spaceship design, which was received with a polite thank you note. Hannu studied mathematics and theoretical physics at the University of Oulu and completed a BSc thesis on transcendental numbers. He went on to complete Part III of the Mathematical Tripos at Cambridge University and a PhD in string theory at University of Edinburgh. Hannu is a member of an Edinburgh-based writers’ group which includes Alan Campbell, Jack Deighton, Caroline Dunford and Charles Stross. His first fiction sale was the short story ‘Shibuya no Love’ to Futurismic.com. Hannu’s first novel, The Quantum Thief, was published by Gollancz to great acclaim in 2011. The sequel, The Fractal Prince, is due shortly.


Alastair Reynolds was born in Barry, South Wales, in 1966. He has lived in Cornwall, Scotland, and – since 1991 – the Netherlands, where he spent twelve years working as a scientist for the European Space Agency. He became a full-time writer in 2004, and recently married his long-time partner, Josette. Reynolds has been publishing short fiction since his first sale to Interzone in 1990. Since 2000 he has published ten novels: the Inhibitor trilogy, British Science Fiction Association Award winner Chasm City, Century Rain, Pushing Ice, The Prefect, House of Suns, and Terminal World. His most recent novel is Blue Remembered Earth, first in the Poseidon’s Children series. His short fiction has been collected in Zima Blue and Other Stories, Galactic North, and Deep Navigation. Coming up is a new Doctor Who novel, The Harvest of Time. In his spare time he rides horses.


Kristine Kathryn Rusch started out the decade of the ’90s as one of the fastest-rising and most prolific young authors on the scene, took a few years out in mid-decade for a very successful turn as editor of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and, since stepping down from that position, has returned to her old standards of production here in the 21st Century, publishing a slew of novels in four genres, writing fantasy, mystery, and romance novels under various pseudonyms as well as science fiction. She has published more than twenty novels under her own name, including The White Mists of Power, The Disappeared, Extremes, and Fantasy Life, the four-volume Fey series, the Black Throne series, Alien Influences, and several Star Wars, Star Trek, and other media tie-in books, both solo and written with husband Dean Wesley Smith and with others. Her most recent books (as Rusch, anyway) are the SF novels of the popular Retrieval Artist series, which include The Disappeared, Extremes, Consequences, Buried Deep, Paloma, Recovery Man, and a collection of stories, The Retrieval Artist and Other Stories. Her copious short fiction has been collected in Stained Black: Horror Stories, Stories for an Enchanted Afternoon, Little Miracles: And Other Tales of Murder, and Millenium Babies. In 1999, she won Readers Award polls from the readerships of both Asimov’s Science Fiction and Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, an unprecedented double honour! As an editor, she was honoured with the Hugo Award for her work on The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and shared the World Fantasy Award with Dean Wesley Smith for her work as editor of the original hardcover anthology version of Pulphouse. As a writer, she has won the Herodotus Award for Best Historical Mystery (for A Dangerous Road, written as Kris Nelscott) and the Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Award (for Utterly Charming, written as Kristine Grayson); as Kristine Kathryn Rusch, she’s won the John W. Campbell Award, been a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and took home a Hugo Award in 2000 for her story ‘Millennium Babies,’ making her one of the few people in genre history to win Hugos for both editing and writing.


After discovering planetary wireless broadband, Bruce Sterling united his time between Turin, Belgrade, and Austin. He also began writing some design fiction and architecture fiction, as well as science fiction. However, this daring departure from the routine made no particular difference to anybody. Sterling then started hanging out with Augmented Reality people, and serving as a guest curator for European electronic arts festivals. These eccentricities also provoked no particular remark. Sterling went on a Croatian literary yacht tour and lived for a month in Brazil. These pleasant interludes had little practical consequence. After teaching in Switzerland and Holland, Sterling realized that all his European students lived more or less in this manner, and that nobody was surprised about much of any of that any more. So, he decided to sit still and get a little writing done, and this story was part of that effort. Prior to this he had written ten novels and four short story collections. His most recent books are novel The Caryatids, major career retrospective Ascendancies: The Best of Bruce Sterling, and collection Global High-Tech.


The universe shifts and changes: suddenly you understand, you get it, and are filled with wonder. That moment of understanding drives the greatest science-fiction stories and lies at the heart of Engineering Infinity. Whether it's coming up hard against the speed of light - and, with it, the enormity of the universe - realising that terraforming a distant world is harder and more dangerous than you'd ever thought, or simply realizing that a hitchhiker on a starship consumes fuel and oxygen with tragic results, it's hard science-fiction where a sense of discovery is most often found and where science-fiction's true heart lies.

This exciting and innovative science-fiction anthology collects together stories by some of the biggest names in the field, including Gwyneth Jones, Stephen Baxter and Charles Stross.


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Solaris Rising presents nineteen stories of the very highest calibre from some of the most accomplished authors in the genre, proving just how varied and dynamic science fi ction can be. From strange goings on in the present to explorations of bizarre futures, from drug-induced tragedy to time-hopping serial killers, from crucial choices in deepest space to a ravaged Earth under alien thrall, from gritty other worlds to surreal other realms, Solaris Rising delivers a broad spectrum of experiences and excitements, showcasing the genre at its very best.


‘What, then, are Solaris publishing? On the basis of this anthology, quite a wide-ranging selection of SF, some of it very good indeed.’

– SF Site on The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction


‘A cliché it may be, but there really is something for everyone here... an ideal bait to tempt those who only read novels to climb over the short fiction fence.’

– Interzone on The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Vol. 2


‘The stories presented in this latest volume are intended to showcase the diverse nature of science fiction. Does it succeed? Absolutely.’

– SF Signal on The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction, Vol. 3

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Following the enormous success of the critically-acclaimed Solaris Rising, Solaris are proud to announce they've commissioned a follow-up, Solaris Rising 2, due out in Spring 2013.


But you can't wait that long, and we honestly can't blame you! To that end, we present Solaris Rising 1.5, a short anthology of nine short stories from some of the most exciting names in science fiction today. From both sides of the pond - and further afield - these nine great writers offer you everything from a mystery about the nature of the universe to an inexplicable transmission to everyone on Earth, and from engineered giant spiders to Venetian palaces in space.


So settle in, and enjoy yet more proof of the extraordinary breadth and depth of contemporary SF.


“**** A well-presented buffet of tasty snacks.”

– SFX on Solaris Rising


“Essential reading.”

– BBC Focus Magazine on Solaris Rising


“One of the three or four best SF anthologies published this year.”

– Gardner Dozis, Locus on Solaris Rising


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