The Good New Stuff: Adventure in SF in the Grand Tradition

This collection assembles seventeen science fiction adventure stories from contemporary writers. The stories evoke the style of classic pulp science fiction, a genre that fell out of favor during the 1960s and early 1970s but has seen a resurgence in recent years. Editor Gardner Dozois gathers works from Stephen Baxter, Tony Daniel, R. Garcia y Robertson, Peter F. Hamilton, Janet Kagan, George R. R. Martin, Paul J. McAuley, Maureen F. McHugh, G. David Nordley, Robert Reed, Mary Rosenblum, Bruce Sterling, Michael Swanwick, George Turner, John Varley, Vernor Vinge, and Walter Jon Williams. The stories feature alien landscapes, imaginative worlds, unfamiliar forms of life, and explorations of the human experience. They demonstrate that science fiction writers continue to produce galaxy-spanning adventures comparable to those of earlier eras.