Seventeen hard technology fiction tales by today’s top authors

Hard science fiction may be the literature of change, rigorouslyexamining the impact-both helpful and dangerous-of science and technology onhumanity, the future, and the cosmos. As science advances, expanding ourknowledge from the universe, astounding new frontiers in storytelling start aswell.

In Carbide Tipped Pens,over a dozen of today’s most innovative imaginations explore these frontiers,carrying in the grand custom of such about Carbide Tipped Pens: Seventeen Tales of Hard Technology Fiction legendary experts as Isaac Asimov,Robert Heinlein, and John W. Campbell, while bringing hard research fiction intothe twenty-first hundred years by extrapolating from the latest scientificdevelopments and discoveries. Ranging from ancient China towards the external reachesof the solar system, this outstanding assortment of initial stories, writtenby a global roster of writers, finds wonder, terror, and gripping humandrama in topics as diverse as space exploration, artificial intelligence,biotechnology, climate change, alternate background, the search forextraterrestrial cleverness, interplanetary war, as well as the near future ofbaseball.

From tattoos that treat allergies to hazardous missions toMars and beyond, from the end of the world towards the farthest limits of humaninvention, Carbide Tipped Pens turnsstartling new suggestions into state-of-the-art technology fiction.

This collection includes stories by Ben Bova, GregoryBenford, Robert Reed, Aliette de Bodard, Jack McDevitt, Howard Hendrix, DanielH. Wilson, and many more!