Future on Fire: Volume 1

Orson Scott Card

Feb 1991 · Future on Fire Book 1 · Sold by Macmillan

About this ebook

"Card's selections are excellent and include an interesting range of approaches to science fiction."--School Library Journal

A provocative collection of short science fiction from the 1980s, edited by one of science fiction's best-known names. Of particular interest in Future on Fire are several stories from the cyberpunk school, as well as Pat Murphy's Nebula Award-winning "Rachel in Love'' and Ursula K. Le Guin's wonderful "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight.''

CONTENTS
Orson Scott Card / Introduction: Science Fiction in the 1980s
Pat Murphy / Rachel in Love
Michael Swanwick and William Gibson / Dogfight
Michael Bishop / A Gift from the GrayLanders
Lucious Shephard / Fire Zone Emerald
Kim Stanley Robinson / Down and Out in the Year 2000
Rachel Pollack / Angel Baby
Susan Palwick / The Neighbor's Wife
Gregg Keizer / I Am the Burning Bush
Pat Cadigan / Pretty Boy Crossover
Ursula K. Le Guin / Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
Connie Willis / All My Darling Daughters
Wayne Wightman / In the Realm of the Heart, In the World of the Knife
James Patrick Kelly / Rat
Felix C. Gotschalk / Vestibular Man
Bruce Sterling / Green Days in Brunei


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About the author

Born in Richland, Washington in 1951, Orson Scott Card grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He lived in Brazil for two years as an unpaid missionary for the Mormon Church and received degrees from Brigham Young University (1975) and the University of Utah (1981). The author of numerous books, Card was the first writer to receive both the Hugo and Nebula awards for best novel two years in a row, first for Ender's Game and then for the sequel Speaker for the Dead. He lives with his wife and children in North Carolina.