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Overview
Like a cyborg and a spaceship, like an explorer and a time machine, travel and science fiction have always gone together. Not the Only Planet is a unique collection of stories about travelling both ends of the space-time continuum by internationally celebrated sf writers. A family takes a package tour to the Crucifixion; astronauts on Mars confront the difficulty of reporting on the unimaginable; and a phrasebook for tourists offers a hilariously skewed vision of travel to come. Hi-tech galaxies, tattered futures, the shiveringly strange and the uncomfortably familiar: when every corner of our current world is thoroughly described in guidebook after guidebook, Not the Only Planet offers a set of exotic post-cards from worlds that don't exist. Yet.Compiled by Damien Broderick, Not the Only Planet contains stories by: Brian W. Aldiss, Stephen Dedman, Greg Egan, Lisa Goldstein, Garry Kilworth, Paul J. McAuley, Joanna Russ, Robert Silverberg, John Varley and Gene Wolfe.
About the Editor
Damien Broderick is the author of several books, including The Dreaming Dragons which was listed among the best 100 sf novels. As well as editing a number of sf anthologies, he has published works about critical theory, postmodern science fiction and the impact of today's accelerating technologies. His most recent novel, The White Abacus, won the Aurealis Jury Award for the Best Novel of 1997. Damien lives in Melbourne, Australia.
Book Details
Published
November 1, 1998
Publisher
Melbourne ; Lonely Planet, 1998.
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780864425829