Exploring the Horizons: Explorers, and The Furthest Horizon

by Gardner Dozois (Editor), Arthur C. Clarke (Contributor), Roger Zelazny (Contributor)

An anthology of 37 of the world's best short science fiction stories, put together by an editor who has won the Hugo Award eleven times for similar efforts.

Contents
1 • Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons • (2000) • anthology by Gardner Dozois
5 • Preface (Explorers) • (2000) • essay by Gardner Dozois
9 • The Sentinel • [2001] • (1951) • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
16 • Moonwalk • (1952) • novelette by H. B. Fyfe
46 • Grandpa • (1955) • novelette by James H. Schmitz
63 • The Red Hills of Summer • (1959) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn
91 • The Longest Voyage • (1960) • novelette by Poul Anderson
114 • Hot Planet • (1963) • shortstory by Hal Clement
131 • Drunkboat • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1963) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
154 • Becalmed in Hell • [Known Space] • (1965) • shortstory by Larry Niven
164 • Nine Hundred Grandmothers • (1966) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty
173 • The Keys to December • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny
192 • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow • (1971) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin
214 • A Meeting With Medusa • (1971) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke
244 • The Man Who Walked Home • (1972) • shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.
256 • Long Shot • (1972) • shortstory by Vernor Vinge
266 • In the Hall of the Martian Kings • (1976) • novella by John Varley
297 • Ginungagap • (1980) • novelette by Michael Swanwick
322 • Exploring Fossil Canyon • (1982) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson
341 • Promises to Keep • (1984) • novelette by Jack McDevitt
355 • Lieserl • (1993) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
369 • Crossing Chao Meng Fu • (1997) • novelette by G. David Nordley
395 • Wang's Carpets • (1995) • novelette by Greg Egan
420 • A Dance to Strange Musics • (1998) • novelette by Gregory Benford
438 • Approaching Perimelasma • (1998) • novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis
457 • The Furthest Horizon • (2000) • anthology by Gardner Dozois (aka The Furthest Horizon: SF Adventures to the Far Future)
463 • Preface (The Furthest Horizon) • (2000) • essay by Gardner Dozois
467 • Guyal of Sfere • [Dying Earth] • (1950) • novella by Jack Vance
496 • Old Hundredth • (1960) • shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
506 • Alpha Ralpha Boulevard • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1961) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith
528 • Day Million • (1966) • shortstory by Frederik Pohl
534 • Bumberboom • (1966) • novelette by Avram Davidson
559 • Coranda • (1967) • novelette by Keith Roberts
574 • Nightwings • [Nightwings] • (1968) • novella by Robert Silverberg
611 • Pale Roses • [Tales from the End of Time • 1] • (1974) • novelette by Michael Moorcock
637 • Anniversary Project • (1975) • shortstory by Joe Haldeman
646 • Slow Music • (1980) • novella by James Tiptree, Jr.
679 • The Map • [Solar Cycle] • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe
690 • Dinosaurs • (1987) • novelette by Walter Jon Williams
710 • The Death Artist • (1990) • novelette by Alexander Jablokov
733 • Sister Alice • [Sister Alice] • (1993) • novella by Robert Reed
774 • Recording Angel • (1995) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley
796 • Genesis • (1995) • novella by Poul Anderson
871 • The Days of Solomon Gursky • (1998) • novella by Ian McDonald

916 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2000

About the author

Gardner Raymond Dozois was an American science fiction author and editor. He was editor of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine from 1984 to 2004. He won multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, both as an editor and a writer of short fiction.
Wikipedia entry: Gardner Dozois

http://us.macmillan.com/author/gardne...

Reviews

[Florin Constantinescu · Rating 2 out of 5]

The premise for this omnibus (actually for the two related anthologies it contains) is very sound. Explorers? We love them. Far horizons? Yeap.

Unfortunately, the number of above-average stories here is very limited.
This should serve more to demonstrate the evolution of science fiction over 50 years or so.