The forest was young when humanity was old, and now the forest was old... "It's a spring morning and I can love you like no one has loved for millions of years," she told him when they rested. "We aren't old; the stars are old. We're young. We are ten million years young and it's all just beginning." The planet shuddered in agreement, and some rocks fell in the distance. The saga of Mars after the Vikings is told by noted hard science fiction author G. David Nordley in a series of tales from the first landing in Martian Valkyrie; through a race to save a life in A Life on Mars; with...

A double-planet with a mind of its own Join noted hard science fiction author G. David Nordley Among the Stars in this collection of his stories previously published in Analog and Asimov's science fiction magazines. A world where down is out needs help from below, an ancient monarch is challenged to save the galaxy, and more. She gleefully concurred, so they willed their nanocells to take human form again, for the first time in ten million years. Trillions of submicroscopic hexagonal toroids arranged themselves to emulate skin, hair, flesh and bone; optical data links carefully arranged...

Schemes may unfold in one's mind in an instant, and be communicated in a few minutes. But when such schemes involve the rearrangement of the heavens, some time is required. What if you could warp spacetime in the laboratory, experiment with quantum gravity, and convert mass into energy with unprecedented efficiency? That's what you could do if you made a micro-black hole. But it won't come cheaply; you need mass and energy from four star systems, coordinated over light years and decades. You have to overcome fear mongers and the politicians who feed on them every step of the way. And if...

Join noted hard science fiction author G. David Nordley in this new collection of his stories of the exploration of the Solar System. FRIED Not knowing why Jupiter's magnetic field turned off hadn't put science in a very good position to predict when and how fast it would come back on again... The quiet years might have been decades, centuries, or millennia. They turned out to be seven years, three months and twenty-two days. The end, of course, had caught everyone by surprise. - from "Out of the Quiet Years" MAROONED I looked up toward the departing lander, now a blue-violet pinprick with a...

New Stories from the Brightest Stars of Silicon Valley Journeys define science fiction and fantasy, as epic heroes climb mountains and traverse deserts, or flaming rockets burst towards the heavens. It's the very mystery of the unknown that compels human imagination. Now speculative fiction authors in Silicon Valley join to offer a collection of these journeys - to alternate dimensions, back in time, up space elevators, and to dystopian futures. Mythic gods embark on hero-quests, aliens descend in flying saucers, telepaths try cosplay, and parodies of familiar characters join the excitement....