Description: Specially selected by award-winning editor Al Sarrantonio, these thirty extraordinary works encompass the expanding universe of speculative fiction, including hard and soft science fiction, fantasy, horror, and experimental and conventional literary fiction. This is the province of the mind-where the possibilities are endless and anything can happen. And these are the authors whose work has shaped the evolution of science fiction and will continue to influence the genre for years to come. Catherine Asaro * Neal Barrett, Jr. * Stephen Baxter * Gregory Benford * P. D. Cacek * Jack Dann * Paul Di Filippo * Thomas M. Disch * Elizabeth Hand * Joe Haldeman * Nina Kiriki Hoffman * James Patrick Kelly * Ursula K. Le Guin * Ardath Mayhar * Kathe Koja and Barry N. Malzberg * Michael Moorcock * David Morrell * Larry Niven * Joyce Carol Oates * Kit Reed * Rudy Rucker and John Shirley * Al Sarrantonio * Peter Schneider * Dan Simmons * Michael Marshall Smith * Harry Turtledove * Robert E. Vardeman * Catherine Wells * Laura Whitton * Gene Wolfe

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