SFWA Grand Master Frederik Pohl, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner, offers a dozen possible diverse futures in this collection of stories written with his usual acerbic wit and authoritative command of cutting-edge science. Meet a man who is well paid to experience both exhilarating experiences, and morbidly depressing ones, while unknown buyers electronically share his emotions. Follow a boy who has never before seen the world outside of a sealed-environment city and has to survive in the strange and deadly new environment. And more, including a short novel of the gigantic seafaring ships of the future—and what happens when the owner dies, and his landlubber business partner must take on responsibilities completely outside his experience.
SFWA Grand Master Frederik Pohl, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner, offers a dozen possible diverse futures in this collection of stories written with his usual acerbic wit and authoritative command of cutting-edge science. Meet a man who is well paid to experience both exhilarating experiences, and morbidly depressing ones, while unknown buyers electronically share his emotions. Follow a boy who has never before seen the world outside of a sealed-environment city and has to survive in the strange and deadly new environment. And more, including a short novel of the gigantic seafaring ships of the future—and what happens when the owner dies, and his landlubber business partner must take on responsibilities completely outside his experience.
SFWA Grand Master Frederik Pohl, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner, offers a dozen possible diverse futures in this collection of stories written with his usual acerbic wit and authoritative command of cutting-edge science. Meet a man who is well paid to experience both exhilarating experiences, and morbidly depressing ones, while unknown buyers electronically share his emotions. Follow a boy who has never before seen the world outside of a sealed-environment city and has to survive in the strange and deadly new environment. And more, including a short novel of the gigantic seafaring ships of the future—and what happens when the owner dies, and his landlubber business partner must take on responsibilities completely outside his experience.
