This anthology contains fourteen intriguing stories by active research
scientists and other writers trained in science.
Science is at the heart of real science fiction, which is more than just
westerns with ray guns or fantasy with spaceships. The people who do
science and love science best are scientists. Scientists like Isaac
Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and Fred Hoyle wrote some of the legendary
tales of golden age science fiction. Today there is a new generation of
scientists writing science fiction informed with the expertise of their
fields, from astrophysics to computer science, biochemistry to rocket
science, quantum physics to genetics, speculating about what is possible
in our universe. Here lies the sense of wonder only science can deliver.
All the stories in this volume are supplemented by afterwords commenting
on the science underlying each story.