Earth is But a Star

Excursions Through Science to the Far Future

By: Damien Broderick

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Deep time: the ultimate frontier, tomorrow's most romantic landscape. Our sun is a vast, sullen wheel hanging at the horizon. Beings walk the dying world in its red light, but few are human. Robots return from the edges of the galaxy to mourn their lost ancestors. Mages weave plots, their science so advanced it is indistinguishable from magic. In the vastness of eternity, Earth is but a star. Only science fiction knows the paths into this wonderous realm. A remarkable blend of myth, science and pure dark imagination, science fantasy is a genre still little known to science fiction critics. Here for the first time, many of its key tales are gathered, together with new essays that illuminate their strange power - and provide a treasury of superb, unusual entertainment.

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From 'The Golden Journey to Samarkand' James Elroy Flecker	p. ix
Foreword	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Heat Death of the Universe	p. 12
Transience	p. 28
Future Problematic: Reflections on The City and the Stars	p. 35
Far Futures	p. 47
The only Death in the City	p. 77
After Earth: How far away does the far future have to be? Estrangement and cognition in Clarke and Butler	p. 96
Final Chapter	p. 107
The Importance of being Cosmic	p. 130
Robot's Return	p. 138
On the Cusp of Far	p. 151
Spectators at the End of Time	p. 164
The Failed Men	p. 168
A Valediction Forbidding Melancholy: Aldiss and the far future	p. 184
Master Ash's Joke	p. 197
Mazirian the Magician	p. 199
Languages of the Dying Sun	p. 217
Earth is but a Star	p. 237
The Crimes and the Glories of Cordwainer Smith	p. 325
Ship of Darkness	p. 333
Omega and the End of the World	p. 352
Players of the Last Trump: Herbert George Wells and Helen de Guerry Simpson	p. 357
Billennium	p. 364
The Future's Not Ours to See	p. 369
Dancers in the Time-Flux	p. 382
Visions of the Far Future World: Human constants and cosmic change in Stephen Baxter's Xeelee sequence	p. 401
On Stapledon's Star Maker	p. 412
From Star Maker	p. 422
The Vastening: The posthuman far future of David Zindell	p. 429
Inherit the Earth	p. 436
Star Drover	p. 451
'To a poet a thousand years hence' James Elroy Flecker	p. 460
Notes on Contributors	p. 461
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