Far Horizons - by Robert Silverberg (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Eleven master storytellers return to their greatest creations in eleven original journeys across the frontiers of space and imagination.

The universe of the mind is a limitless expanse of wonders, filled with worlds and secrets that cannot be fully explored within the pages of a single novel. Robert Silverberg assembles eleven visionary storytellers to illuminate the unseen corners and turning points of their most celebrated sagas.

Ursula K. Le Guin places an offworld envoy amid the slave revolts of Werel, while Joe Haldeman follows an amputee soldier separated by centuries from her wartime love.

This landmark volume charts the evolutionary depths of each fictional cosmos, exploring vast story arcs that stretch beyond any standalone adventure. Here, science fiction's most beloved and highly honored writers revisit their best-known worlds in perhaps the greatest concentration of science fiction ever in one volume.

• Space Opera: Dan Simmons follows the six hundred thousand sleeping colonists of the starship Helix as an unexpected detour confronts a colossal harvesting machine beside an alien orbital forest ring.
• SF Anthology: Orson Scott Card reveals the momentous first encounter between twenty-year-old Ender Wiggin and the mischievous computer intelligence Jane at a colonial starport.
• Space Exploration: Frederik Pohl sends two young Gateway prospectors plunging beyond the event horizon of the galactic core black hole into the hidden redoubt of the living Heechee.
• Short Story Collections: David Brin tracks uplifted neo-dolphins navigating the tropical shallows of Jijo as they uncover ancient alien habitats conducting strange illusions on the sea floor.
• Also by This Author: The Alien Years, Fantasy Hall of Fame and The King Of Dreams.

From the Back Cover

The universe of the mind is a limitless expanse of wonders, filled with worlds and secrets that cannot be fully explored within the pages of a single novel. Here, science fiction's most beloved and highly honored writers revisit their best-known worlds in perhaps the greatest concentration of science fiction ever in one volume.

Review Quotes

"A dream team of sf superstars." - Washington Post Book World