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Future on Ice

1998 science fiction anthology

1998 science fiction anthology

FieldValue
nameFuture on Ice
imageOSCfutureonice.jpg
captionFirst edition
cover_artistThe Chopping Block, Inc.
countryUnited States
genreScience fiction
publisherTor Books
pub_date[1998](1998-in-literature)
media_typePrint (hardback & paperback)
pages432
isbn0-312-86694-1
preceded_byFuture on Fire
editorOrson Scott Card

Future on Ice (1998) is a science fiction anthology edited by American writer Orson Scott Card, belated 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.

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

References

  1. [https://web.archive.org/web/19990420123758/http://www.sfsite.com/11a/fut44.htm Review] by [[Rich Horton]] at [[SF Site]]
  2. "Books by Orson Scott Card - Future on Ice".
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