From Booklist
Futures is part of an ongoing series of novella anthologies. Contributing to this volume are Peter Hamilton, Stephen Baxter, Paul McAuley, and Ian McDonald. The stories are quintessential sf. Suspense they have aplenty, and action and space travel are givens. Conveying something about today's world as well as an alien future, "Tendeleo's Story," the most notable of the four, concerns Tendeleo's struggle to survive as the alien chaga takes over her world; it isn't lacking in thrills, but it's also a human story. "Making History" looks at an issue that obtains in our world, too: who writes history, and how do those writers arrive at their conclusions? Satisfying enough as sf, this quartet of tales lacks something if one is looking for pure literary pleasure. Regina Schroeder
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Book Description
This exciting volume contains four mind-expanding novellas of humanity's struggle for survival in the far future. Peter F. Hamilton's "Watching Trees Grow" In an era of immortality, murder is the ultimate crime, with no statute of limitations-but a relentless detective can pursue his quarry for centuries. Stephen Baxter's "Reality Dust" A young man vows to investigate war criminals from Earth's alien occupation- even after humanity's past has been erased and reality itself may no longer exist. Paul McAuley's "Making History" On a ravaged space colony, a historian from the winning side of The Quiet War sets out to chronicle the official story-but will history record the most important battle? Ian McDonald's "Tendeleo's Story" An alien technolife overruns the African savannah and infects its people-and a preacher's young daughter is at the center of its interstellar transformation.

ANNOTATION

Four acclaimed masters of modern science fiction share provocative, individual visions of the future in four short novellas.

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