The Good Old Stuff

Science Fiction routinely explores the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of time -- futures almost unimaginably distant. The Furthest Horizon collects 17 of the most inventive and audacious visions of the future by many acclaimed writers, including:

Brian Aldiss -- Poul Anderson -- Avram Davidson -- Joe Haldeman -- Alexander Jablokov -- Paul J. McAuley -- Ian McDonald -- Michael Moorcock -- Frederik Pohl -- Robert Reed -- Keith Roberts -- Robert Silverberg -- Cordwainer Smith -- James Tiptree, Jr. -- Jack Vance -- Walter Jon Williams -- Gene Wolfe

Contents

xv • Preface (The Good Old Stuff) • essay by Gardner Dozois

1 • The Rull • [Rull] • (1948) • novelette by A. E. van Vogt

27 • The Second Night of Summer • (1950) • novelette by James H. Schmitz

52 • The Galton Whistle • [Viagens Interplanetarias] • (1951) • novelette by L. Sprague de Camp

75 • The New Prime • (1951) • novelette by Jack Vance

99 • That Share of Glory • (1952) • novelette by C. M. Kornbluth

127 • The Last Days of Shandakor • (1952) • novelette by Leigh Brackett

155 • Exploration Team • [Colonial Survey] • (1956) • novelette by Murray Leinster

196 • The Sky People • [Maurai] • (1959) • novelette by Poul Anderson

235 • The Man in the Mailbag • [Dilbia] • (1959) • novelette by Gordon R. Dickson

261 • Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith

282 • A Kind of Artistry • (1962) • novelette by Brian W. Aldiss

304 • Gunpowder God • [Kalvan] • (1964) • novella by H. Beam Piper

346 • Semley's Necklace • (1964) • shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin (aka The Dowry of Angyar)

364 • Moon Duel • (1965) • shortstory by Fritz Leiber

375 • The Doors of His Face, the Lamps of His Mouth • (1965) • novelette by Roger Zelazny

406 • Mother in the Sky With Diamonds • (1971) • novelette by James Tiptree, Jr.