Future on Ice
1998 science fiction anthology
0-312-86694-1Future on Ice (1998) is a science fiction anthology edited by American writer Orson Scott Card, belated[1] companion to Future on Fire (1991). It contains eighteen stories written in the 1980s by different writers including "The Fringe" by Card himself.
A third volume, a collection of humorous or satirical sf called Future on Hold, was contemplated by Card.[2]
Contents
Unless noted specifically, the length is short story.
- "Robot Dreams" (1986) by Isaac Asimov
- "Portraits of His Children" (1985) novelette by George R. R. Martin
- "Tourists" (1985) Lisa Goldstein
- "Blood Music" (1983) novelette by Greg Bear – 1983 Nebula Award – 1984 Hugo Award
- "Time's Rub" (1984) Gregory Benford
- "Shanidar" (1985) novelette by David Zindell
- "Speech Sounds" (1983) Octavia E. Butler
- "Snow" (1985) by John Crowley
- "Klein's Machine" (1985) by Andrew Weiner
- "Pots" (1985) novelette by C. J. Cherryh
- "Press Enter []" (1984) novella by John Varley – 1984 Nebula Award
- "Dinosaurs" (1987) novelette by Walter Jon Williams
- "Face Value" (1986) by Karen Joy Fowler
- "Cabracan" (1986) Lewis Shiner
- "Rockabye Baby" (1985) novelette by S. C. Sykes
- "The Pure Product" (1986) novelette by John Kessel
- "Out of All Them Bright Stars" (1985) Nancy Kress – 1985 Nebula Award
- "The Fringe" (1985) novelette by Orson Scott Card – 1986 Hugo Award nomination
References
External links
- Future on Ice title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- v
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- Dragons of Light
- Dragons of Darkness
- Future on Fire
- Future on Ice
- Masterpieces: The Best Science Fiction of the Century
- The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 1
- The Phobos Science Fiction Anthology Volume 2
- Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show