"Card's selections are excellent and include an interesting range of approaches to science fiction."—School Library Journal
A provocative collection of short science fiction from the 1980s, edited by one of science fiction's best-known names. Of particular interest in Future on Fire are several stories from the cyberpunk school, as well as Pat Murphy's Nebula Award-winning "Rachel in Love'' and Ursula K. Le Guin's wonderful "Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight.''
CONTENTS
Orson Scott Card / Introduction: Science Fiction in the 1980s
Pat Murphy / Rachel in Love
Michael Swanwick and William Gibson / Dogfight
Michael Bishop / A Gift from the GrayLanders
Lucious Shephard / Fire Zone Emerald
Kim Stanley Robinson / Down and Out in the Year 2000
Rachel Pollack / Angel Baby
Susan Palwick / The Neighbor's Wife
Gregg Keizer / I Am the Burning Bush
Pat Cadigan / Pretty Boy Crossover
Ursula K. Le Guin / Buffalo Gals, Won't You Come Out Tonight
Connie Willis / All My Darling Daughters
Wayne Wightman / In the Realm of the Heart, In the World of the Knife
James Patrick Kelly / Rat
Felix C. Gotschalk / Vestibular Man
Bruce Sterling / Green Days in Brunei
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