Futures from Nature
- ISBN-10
- 0765318059
- ISBN-13
- 9780765318053
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 321
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-11-13
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Henry Gee
Description
A collection of one hundred short stories--each about eight-hundred words long and originally published between 1999 and 2006 in Nature--by notable scientists, journalists, and science fiction authors offers speculation about the world of the future, in works by Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl, Stephen Baxter, Nancy Kress, Kim Stanley Robinson, and others. 30,000 first printing.
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