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The vast and mysterious universe is explored in this reprint anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year).

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The vast and mysterious universe is explored in this reprint anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke ( Clarkesworld magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year ).

The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them.

Generations of writers have explored these new frontiers and the endless possibilities they present in great detail. With galaxy-spanning adventures of discovery and adventure, from generations ships to warp drives, exploring new worlds to first contacts, science fiction writers have given readers increasingly new and alien ways to look out into our broad and sprawling universe.

The Final Frontier delivers stories from across this literary spectrum, a reminder that the universe is far large and brimming with possibilities than we could ever imagine, as hard as we may try.

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Table of Contents

Introduction by Neil Clarke

A Jar of Goodwill by Tobias S. Buckell

Mono no aware by Ken Liu

Rescue Mission by Jack Skillingstead

Shiva in Shadow by Nancy Kress

Slow Life by Michael Swanwick

Three Bodies at Mitanni by Seth Dickinson

The Deeps of the Sky by Elizabeth Bear

Diving into the Wreck by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

The Voyage Out by Gwyneth Jones

The Symphony of Ice and Dust by Julie Novakova

Twenty Lights to "The Land of Snow" by Michael Bishop

The Firewall and the Door by Sean McMullen

Permanent Fatal Errors by Jay Lake

Gypsy by Carter Scholz

Sailing the Antarsa by Vandana Singh

The Mind is Its Own Place by Carrie Vaughn

The Wreck of the Godspeed by James Patrick Kelly

Seeing by Genevieve Valentine

Travelling into Nothing by An Owomoyela

Glory by Greg Egan

The Island by Peter Watts

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Neil Clarke is the award-winning publisher and editor in chief of Clarkesworld magazine, winner of three Hugo Awards for Best Semiprozine, and the editor of many anthologies, including the annual Best Science Fiction of the Year series for Night Shade Books, as well as the standalone collections Galactic Empires and More Human than Human.

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