23 stories from one of science fiction's up-and-coming stars, Rich
Larson. A selection of the Science Fiction Book Club. "One of the best
new writers to enter science fiction in more than a decade. His stories
are always exciting, inventive, evocative, and sometimes
profound."--Gardner Dozois, The Year's Best Science Fiction
Welcome to the Tomorrow Factory.
On your left, post-human hedonists on a distant space station bring
diseases back in fashion, two scavengers find a super-powered parasite
under the waves of Sunk Seattle, and a terminally-ill chemist
orchestrates an asteroid prison break.
On your right, an alien optometrist spins illusions for irradiated
survivors of the apocalypse, a high-tech grifter meets his match in
near-future Thailand, and two teens use a black-market personality mod
to get into the year's wickedest, wildest party.
This collection of published and original fiction by award-winning
writer Rich Larson will bring you from a Bujumbura cyberpunk junkyard to
the icy depths of Europa, from the slick streets of future-noir Chicago
to a tropical island of sapient robots. You'll explore a mysterious
ghost ship in deep space, meet an android learning to dream, and fend
off predatory alien fungi on a combat mission gone wrong.
Twenty-three futures, ranging from grimy cyberpunk to far-flung space
opera, are waiting to blow you away.
So step inside the Tomorrow Factory, and mind your head.
