This science fiction anthology contains a variety of the
latest tales. In 'Tom' by Paul Cornell, marine aliens
arrive and make themselves pleasantly at home, much like
dolphins that can live on land too, and we feel embarrassed
by pollution and quietly go and clean up the seas.
A less cheerful envisioned future tells of gated
communities living expensively in domes while poor people
and terrorists gather outside and plot vengeance. As a
lighter note in a further story, we see people studying
Lincoln via time travel and adding the data to Wikipedia.
Norman Spinrad is perhaps the best-known contributor, and
other writers include an Indian woman with a PhD in physics
and a woman who runs a witchcrafting store in England.
Allen Steele we are told in 2001, testified before the U.S.
House of Representatives in hearings regarding the future
of space exploration. SF has always tried to imagine and
address challenges for us, and SOLARIS RISING, edited by
Ian Whates, is good dip-into reading with a wide
variety of worlds.
Solaris Rising 2 showcases the finest new science fiction
from both celebrated authors and the most exciting of
emerging writers. Following in the footsteps of the
critically-acclaimed first volume, editor Ian Whates has
once again gathered together a plethora of thrilling and
daring talent. Within you will find unexplored frontiers as
well as many of the central themes of the genre – alien
worlds, time travel, artificial intelligence – made entirely
new in the telling. The authors here prove once again why SF
continues to be the most innovative, satisfying, and
downright exciting genre of all
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