About the Author

Ed Finn is the founding director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University, where he is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the Department of English. He has worked as a journalist at Time, Slate, and Popular Science.

Kathryn Cramer is a writer, critic, and anthologist, and was co-editor of the Year's Best Fantasy and Year's Best SF series. She has co-edited approximately 30 anthologies. She was a founding editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, and has a large number of Hugo nominations in the Semiprozine category to show for it. She won a World Fantasy Award for her anthology The Architecture of Fear. Kathryn grew up in Seattle. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics and a masters degree in American Studies, both from from Columbia University in New York. Recently, she has been a consultant for Wolfram Research, L. W. Currey, an antiquarian bookseller, and for ASU's Center for Science and the Imagination. She currently lives in Westport, New York in the Adirondack Park.

Reviews

"This collection could be the shot in the arm our imaginations need. It's an important book, and not just for the fiction." -- Wall Street Journal"[A]group of visionaries have banded together to offer stories that are more utopian, which they hope will contribute to a more positive future.... ...The stories still offer plenty of drama, death and destruction, but many have a sort of happy ending." -- New York Times"...Thought-provoking and fun." -- Pacific Standard magazine"This new anthology justly deserves to be ranked alongside the very best collections published within science fiction: Terry Carr's Universe, Damon Knight's Orbit, or Robert Silverberg's New Dimensions." -- LA Review of Books