Edge of infinity strahan epub

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Learn more about possible network issues or contact support for more help. Hawaii State Public Library System. Search Search Search Browse menu. Jonathan Strahan. Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Those were Neil Armstrong's immortal words when he became the first human being to step onto another world.

All at once, the horizon expanded; the human race was no longer Earthbound. Edge of Infinity is an exhilarating new SF anthology that looks at the next giant leap for humankind: the leap from our home world out into the Solar System. Publisher: Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Availability can change throughout the month based on the library's budget. You can still place a hold on the title, and your hold will be automatically filled as soon as the title is available again.

The OverDrive Read format of this ebook has professional narration that plays while you read in your browser. Learn more here. You've reached the maximum number of titles you can currently recommend for purchase. Your session has expired. Please sign in again so you can continue to borrow titles and access your Loans, Wish list, and Holds pages. If you're still having trouble, follow these steps to sign in. It is about stellar politics - the inner "Dirt" planets versus the outer sushi planets and in-between Jupiter.

But also about tolerance and racism - only featherless bipeds are allowed to work as medicines and on the other hands it is fashionable to be a nautilus as a lawyer. These two themes get into the moving when a large comet is expected to hit the gas planet and one former beauty queen wants to get surgically transformed to sushi-form.

I love Cadigan's relaxed characterizations and atmosphere sprinkled with jargon and interesting ideas that make you think a while after closing the last page. Cadigan seems to write way out of her usual comfort zone but she does manage it formidable.

A grand world-building, nice prose and very good tension arc. As I heared , Cadigan is currently working on a novel based on the novelette.

I'll definitely buy that one. After all, I love sushi! Merged review: GR doesn't handle short stories well enough, so I've outsourced my story reviews to my blog.

If you're curious, please follow the links to detailed reviews of each story. Summary: 18 views at a " industrialised, colonised Solar System during a time when starflight is yet to emerge, and imagines life in the hottest places close to our star, and in the coldest, most distant corners of our home. It is Strahan's second anthology installation of what he calls "Fourth Generation of SF" which started with Engineering of Infinity and was carried on with Reach for Infinity All of the stories feel plausible and are different.

I seldom find anthologies containing no bad story at all. I liked nearly all of the stories, some were great. That deserves 5 stars. An anthology of stories that I bought, and read, pretty much on the basis of the James S. Corey story, Drive. I'm loving Corey's Expanse series but I'm reading them faster than he's writing them, so the opportunity to pick up another one of his prequel short-stories with a bunch of other authors that I hadn't read before was too good to miss.

The third story in the book, Drive is a human-interest story revolving around the relationship between Solomon Epstein yes, that Solomon Epstein and his partner, Caitlin Esquibel. Epstein is the inventor of the Epstein drive — a frequently mentioned technology in the novels and the key to the colonisation of the Asteroid Belt. Then the story of his relationship is played out through a series of flashbacks as he tries to avoid his new engine crushing him into his seat on it's first test flight.

At no point did this story disappoint, almost worth the price of the entire paperback. The rest of the stories are all centred around a similar theme: man's early steps into the Solar System.

Each story tackles the idea in a slightly different way, and as with any anthology, I found some more successful than others. But, it's a rare collection where the disappointing stories are so heavily outweighed by the fantastic ones, and even some of the disappointing ones maybe are only so by comparison.

There should be at least one story in here for everyone. They can elect to undergo radical surgery to match them to the role they have chosen. The new humans are referred to as Sushi, the old as bipeds. Having had the surgery, are they still human? The interesting take here is that the Sushi don't seem to think of themselves as the same any more. The only complaint here is a determined effort by the author to use 'futuristic' terminology for time which kept distracting me as I tried to translate.