Earth Is but a Star: Excursions Through Science Fiction to the Far Future ed. Damien Broderick (University of Western Australia Press, 2001, 1-876268-54-9, A$34.95, xiv+466pp, tp, an)
- ix · The Golden Journey to Samarkand · James Elroy Flecker · ex (r)
- x · Foreword · Brian Aldiss · fw
- xiii · Acknowledgements · [uncredited] · ms
- 1 · Introduction · Damien Broderick · in
- 12 · The Heat Death of the Universe · Pamela Zoline · ss New Worlds #173, July 1967
- 28 · Transience · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Startling Stories July 1949
- 35 · Future Problematic: Reflections on The City and the Stars · Russell Blackford · ar (r)
- 47 · Far Futures · Brian Stableford · ar (r)
- 77 · The Only Death in the City · C. J. Cherryh · ss Sunfall by C. J. Cherryh, DAW, 1981
- 96 · After Earth: How Far Away Does the Far Future Have to Be? Estrangement and Cognition in Clarke and Butler · Elizabeth Billinger · ar (r)
- 107 · Final Chapter · Poul Anderson · ss (r)
- 130 · The Importance of Being Cosmic · George Zebrowski · ar (r)
- 138 · Robot’s Return · Robert Moore Williams · ss Astounding Science-Fiction September 1938
- 151 · On the Cusp of Far · John Clute · ar (r)
- 164 · Spectators at the End of Time · Jo Walton · ar (r)
- 168 · The Failed Men · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Science Fantasy #18, 1956
- 184 · A Valediction Forbidding Melancholy: Aldiss and the far future · Bruce Gillespie · ar (r)
- 197 · Master Ash’s Joke · Gene Wolfe · vi (r)
- 199 · Mazirian the Magician [Dying Earth] · Jack Vance · ss The Dying Earth by Jack Vance, Hillman, 1950
- 217 · Languages of the Dying Sun · Michael Andre-Driussi · ar The New York Review of Science Fiction #149, January 2001 [Ref. Jack Vance]
- 237 · Earth Is but a Star · John Brunner · na Science Fantasy #29, June 1958
- 325 · The Crimes and Glories of Cordwainer Smith · Alice Turner · ar (r)
- 333 · Ship of Darkness · A. E. van Vogt · ss Fantasy Book #2, February 1948
- 352 · Omega and the End of the World · Walter Minkel · ar (r)
- 357 · Players of the Last Trump: Herbert George Wells and Helen de Guerry Simpson · Yvonne Rousseau · ar (r)
- 364 · Billennium · Damien Broderick · ss (r)
- 369 · The Future’s Not Ours to See · Paul Voermans · ar The New York Review of Science Fiction #148, December 2000
- 382 · Dancers in the Time-Flux · Robert Silverberg · ss Heroic Visions ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, Ace, 1983
- 401 · Visions of the Far Future World: Human constants and cosmic change in Stephen Baxter’s Xeelee sequence · Claire Brialey · ar (r)
- 412 · On Stapledon’s Star Maker · Stanislaw Lem · ar (r)
- 422 · From Star Maker · Olaf Stapledon · ex Methuen, 1937
- 429 · The Vastening: The posthuman far future of David Zindell · Anders Sandberg · ar (r)
- 436 · Inherit the Earth · Stephen Baxter · ss New Worlds 2 ed. David S. Garnett, Gollancz, 1992
- 451 · Star Drover · Rosaleen Love · es (r)
- 460 · “To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence” · James Elroy Flecker · pm Thirty-Six Poems by James Elroy Flecker, The Adelphi Press, 1910
- 461 · Notes on Contributors · [uncredited] · bg
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