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I've also published three collections of my most famous short stories, novellas, novelettes, and nonfiction articles. (Several other short fictions can be found online.)


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Purchase Tomorrow Happens from Amazon.com.Announcing the arrival of my third -- and newest -- collection, Tomorrow Happens. This special edition by NESFA Press contains nearly all of my stories that have appeared in magazines since Otherness, including Aficionado (which details the very beginnings of Uplift), plus a number of provocative essays. Also, several items never-before-seen, including a little tale about Galileo, written just for the occasion. This edition of Tomorrow Happens is unique, limited, and collectable!

CONTENTS:
Introduction by Vernor Vinge
Aficionado
Probing the Near Future
Stones of Significance
Go Ahead, Stand on My Shoulders!
Reality Check
Do We Really Want Immortality?
Paris Conquers All (with Gregory Benford)
The Self-Preventing Prophecy
Fortitude
The Future Keeps Surprising Us
The Diplomacy Guild
Goodbye, Mir! (Sniff!)
The Open-Ended Science Fiction Story
News from 2025
Seeking a New Fulcrum
A Professor at Harvard
The Robots and Foundation Universe
An Ever-Reddening Glow
We Hobbits Are a Merry Folk
The Other Side of the Hill


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Purchase Otherness from Amazon.com.In Otherness (WINNER: LOCUS Award for Best Collection 1995), humans and aliens encounter the secrets of the cosmos -- and of their own existence. In "The Giving Plague" (SECOND PLACE: 1989 Hugo Award for Best Short Story), a scientist discovers the horror of a new strain of virus. In "Dr. Pak's Preschool" a woman discovers that her baby has been called upon to work while still in the womb. In "NatuLife" a married couple finds their relationship threatened by the wonders of sex by simulation. In "Sshhh..." the arrival of benevolent aliens on Earth leads to frenzy, madness... and unimaginable joy. In "Bubbles" a sentient starcraft reaches the limits of the universe -- and dares to go beyond.

CONTENTS:
TRANSITIONS
The Giving Plague
Myth Number 21
Story Notes
Dr. Pak's Preschool
Detritus Affected
The Dogma of Otherness

CONTACT
Sshhh...
Story Notes
Those Eyes
What to Say to a UFO
Bonding to Genji
The Warm Space
Whose MiLLennium?

CONTINUITY
NatuLife ®
Piecework
Science versus Magic

COSMOS
Bubbles
Story Notes
Ambiguity
What Continues... and What Fails...

OTHERNESS
The Commonwealth of Wonder


Read a sample story from The River of Time.     Purchase The River of Time from Amazon.com.

Purchase The River of Time from Amazon.com.The River of Time brings together eleven short stories, including "The Crystal Spheres" (WINNER: Hugo Award Best SF Short Story 1985), and four new stories published here for the first time.

Here are powerful tales of heroism and humanity, playful excursions into realms of fancy, and profound meditations on time, memory, and our place in the universe.

CONTENTS:
DESTINY
The Crystal Spheres
The Loom of Thessaly
The Fourth Vocation of George Gustaf

RECOLLECTON
Senses Three and Six
Toujours Voir
A Stage of Memory

SPECULATION
Just a Hint
Tank Farm Dynamo
Thor Meets Captain America

PROPAGATION
Lungfish
The River of Time
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