Fivenovellas of hard technology fiction by five modern masters of the proper execution

From NebulaAward winner Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology thatcollects five original novellas. Each one takes the very very long view-all are setat least ten thousand years in the foreseeable future. The authors have a rigorouslyscientific look at of such grand panoramas, confronting the biggest problems ofcosmology, astronomy, development, and biology.

The lastmoments of the universe beseiged occupy Greg Bear’s Wisdom Engine..LEARNING MUCH MORE about Much Futures May something human being matter at the very end ofcreation, simply because contorted matter ceases to have meaning and time itself stuttersto an eerie halt?

Genesis by Poul Anderson is set a billion years ahead, when humanity is becoming extinct. Earth is normally threatened with the gradually warming sun, and vast machine intelligences opt to recreate humans.

DonaldKingsbury contributes Historical Turmoil,a starting work on the prediction of the human being future that difficulties thefoundations of psychohistory, while developed in Isaac Asimov’s famous FoundationTrilogy.

JoeHaldeman’s For Light Hill confrontshumanity with hostile aliens who remorselessly grind down every defense againstthem. A lone musician struggles to discover a put in place this faraway, wondrous future when humanity appears doomed.

In At the Eschaton by Charles Sheffield, aman tries to save his dying wife from oblivion by hurling himself forward, inboth space and period, to the very end of the universe itself.