When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field:
Poul Anderson
Cordwainer Smith
Arthur C. Clarke
Richard McKenna
Roger Zelazny
John Varley
Gregory Benford
Ian McDonald
Bruce Sterling
Charles Sheffield
Robert Reed
G. David Nordley
Joe Haldeman
Phillip C. Jennings
Geoffrey A. Landis
Stephen Baxter
William H. Keith, Jr.
Kim Stanley Robinson
Pamela Sargent
Laura J. Mixon
These are the stories of the explorers and pioneers who transform their destinations in the image of their distant home--exciting tales of alien landscapes and the struggle to make them suit human desires.
