[Solaris Rising 02] • Solaris Rising 2

Following the exceptionally well received first collection, **Solaris Rising

2** brings even more best-selling and cutting edge SF authors together for

another extraodrinary volume of ground-breaking stories.Having re-affirmed

Solaris’s proud reputation for producing high quality science fiction

antologies in the first volume, Solaris Rising 2 is the next collection in

this exciting series. Featuring stories by Allan Steele, Kristine Kathryn

Rusch, Kim Lakin-Smith, Paul Cornell, Eugie Foster, Nick Harkaway, Nancy

Kress, Kay Kenyon, James Lovegrove, Robert Reed, Mercurio D. Rivera, Norman

Spinrad, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Liz Williams, Vandana Singh, Martin Sketchley,

and more. These stories are guaranteed to surprise, thrill and delight, and

maintain our mission to demonstrate why science fiction remains the most

exiting, varied and inspiring of all fiction genres. In Solaris Rising we

showed both the quality and variety that modern science fiction can produce.

In Solaris Rising 2, we'll be taking that much, much further.

Contents:

Extensions: an introduction / Ian Whates --

Tom / Paul Cornell --

More / Nancy Kress --

Shall inherit / James Lovegrove --

Feast and famine / Adrian Tchaikovsky --

Whatever skin you wear / Eugie Foster --

Pearl in the shell / Neil Williamson --

The time gun / Nick Harkaway --

When Thomas Jefferson dined alone / Kristine Kathryn Rausch --

Bonds / Robert Reed --

Ticking / Allen Steele --

Before hope / Kim Lakin-Smith --

The spires of Greme / Kay Kenyon --

Manmade / Mercurio D. Rivera --

The circle of least confusion / Martin Sketchley --

Far distant suns / Norman Spinrad --

Lighthouse / Liz Williams --

The first dance / Martin McGrath --

Still life with skull / Mike Allen --

With fate conspire / Vandana Singh.