First published 1980
Across the stars, these award-winning tales explore wondrous futures and bleak dystopias, alien encounters and human drama. In Varley's "The Persistence of Vision," a mind-bending tale of a man who can see the future, humanity grapples with the burden of knowing. Wolfe's "Seven American Nights" haunts with its vision of an oppressive, alien-ruled America. Yet beneath the speculative surfaces, these stories all capture the wonder and heartbreak of the human condition.
Genres: science-fiction, anthologies, 20th-century, aliens, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, mind-bending
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
Hardcover · Harper & Row