Lights in the Deep

Ten astounding tales by triple award nominee Brad R. Torgersen. Go on fantastic new adventures at the bottom of Earth's oceans and at the edge of the solar system. Meet humans who are utterly alien and aliens who are all too human. Originally featured in the pages of Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine as well as Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, these stories are gathered here for the first time, along with anecdotes and other commentary from the author.

Features the stories Ray of Light (2012 Hugo & Nebula nominee), Outbound (2011 Analog Readers Choice Award winner), and Exanastasis (2010 Writers of the Future Award winner).

Introductions by Stanley Schmidt, Mike Resnick and Allan Cole.

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First printing, 2013

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eISBN: 978-1-61475-075-8

Collection copyright 2013 by Brad R. Torgersen

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Introduction 1
Copyright © 2013 Stanley Schmidt

Introduction 2
Copyright © 2013 Mike Resnick

Introduction 3
Copyright © 2013 Allan Cole

“Outbound”
Copyright © 2010
(first appearance: Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, November 2010)

“Gemini 17”
Copyright © 2011
(to appear: Jim Baen Memorial Contest anthology, Baen Books, est. publication 2015)

“The Bullfrog Radio Astronomy Project”
Copyright © 2011
(first appearance: Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, October 2011)

“Exiles of Eden”
Copyright © 2011
(first appearance: Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue #22)

“Footprints” © 2002
(first) appearance: Licton Springs Review, 2002)

“The Exchange Officers”
Copyright © 2013
(first appearance: Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, February-March 2013)

“On the Growth of Fantasy and the Waning of Science Fiction”
Copyright © 2012
(first appearance: Writers of the Future web site)

“The Chaplain’s Assistant”
Copyright © 2011
(first appearance: Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, September 2011)

“The Chaplain’s Legacy”
Copyright © 2013
(first appearance: Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, July-August 2013)

“Exanastasis”
Copyright © 2010
(first appearance: L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers and Illustrators of the Future, vol. XXVI)

“Ray of Light”
Copyright © 2011
(first appearance: Analog Science Fiction and Fact magazine, December 2011)