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Footprints in the Firmament: 15 Science Fiction Stories
To celebrate 15 years in science fiction publishing, Brad R. Torgersen has gathered 15 of his top science fiction stories, including three Analog magazine readers' choice winners, several multi-award winners and nominees, and several more which were previously included in different Years Best anthologies. All of them collected together here for the very first time. Fans of Torgersen's work from the pages of Analog and Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show e-magazine will recognize his signature combination of compelling everyman drama with solidly-grounded science fiction concepts. Fans of authors such as Larry Niven and Robert A. Heinlein will appreciate Torgersen's attention to science-backed detail, and also the investment he makes in his people. All of which are rendered thoroughly human by Torgersen's touch with emotional stakes, an eye for how the big picture affects ordinary people hurled into extraordinary predicaments, and a stubborn insistence that there are always possibilities. Even in the darkest and most dire circumstances.
543 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 21, 2025
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Brad R. Torgersen
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Brad R. Torgersen is a full-time healthcare tech geek by day, and United States Army Reserve Warrant Officer on weekends. He is a Writers of the Future winner, as well as a contributing author for Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine—the latter awarding him the “AnLab” readers’ choice prize for best novelette, 2010. Presently, Torgersen is a Campbell nominee for Best New Science Fiction writer, Hugo nominee, for his novelette, “Ray of Light,” and also a Nebula nominee, for the same novelette. Married, with one daughter, Brad is back home in the Rocky Mountain West, after spending fourteen years living and working in various places around the Puget Sound.
Brad R. Torgersen is a full-time healthcare tech geek by day, and United States Army Reserve Warrant Officer on weekends. He is a Writers of the Future winner, as well as a contributing author for Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine—the latter awarding him the “AnLab” readers’ choice prize for best novelette, 2010. Presently, Torgersen is a Campbell nominee for Best New Science Fiction writer, Hugo nominee, for his novelette, “Ray of Light,” and also a Nebula nominee, for the same novelette. Married, with one daughter, Brad is back home in the Rocky Mountain West, after spending fourteen years living and working in various places around the Puget Sound.
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January 13, 2026
A little bit of everything sci fi and what's not to love. This is one of the few anthologies I have read where I enjoyed every story and didnt want to skip to the next one.
Highly recommend to anyone who enjoys both short stories and indie authors.
Highly recommend to anyone who enjoys both short stories and indie authors.
September 14, 2025
The best hard scifi writer today
One killer story after another The last one teared me up, and I never cry from a book. Do yourself a favor and get this.
One killer story after another The last one teared me up, and I never cry from a book. Do yourself a favor and get this.
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