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Reposted with permission from my friend and colleague Michael A. Burstein. I’m looking into wholesale prices for this now, as this is almost certainly a title I want to carry.
—pmc2
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For release February 27, 2008
Apex Publications and award-winning writer Michael A. Burstein are pleased to announce that in September 2008, Apex will be publishing the book “I Remember the Future: The Award-Nominated Stories of Michael A. Burstein.”
“I Remember The Future” will be the first bound collection of Burstein’s fiction. It will contain all of Burstein’s Hugo and Nebula nominated stories, plus two new stories: “Empty Spaces,” the fourth, never-before-published story in the “Broken Symmetry” series; and “I Remember the Future,” which lends its title to the collection. The book will contain Burstein’s two most well-regarded stories, “Kaddish for the Last Survivor” and “Paying It Forward,” as well as his two Analytical Laboratory Award winners, “TeleAbsence” and “Sanctuary.”
The cover art will be a piece by Bob Eggleton that also served as the first ever cover art for a Burstein story. Stanley Schmidt, long-time editor of Analog magazine (where all of the reprinted stories in the collection first appeared), will provide an introduction.
Michael A. Burstein, winner of the John Campbell Award for Best New Writer, has been publishing award-nominated and award-winning science fiction stories since 1995. He has been nominated for the Hugo Award ten times and for the Nebula Award three times.
For more information on Apex Publications, see http://www.apexbookcompany.com. For more on Michael A. Burstein and his work, see http://www.mabfan.com.
I’m up early and trying to kick my brain into gear, and so am posting a science fiction literature poll. This was triggered by a comment by the sagacious Carol Chittenden at yesterday’s NECBA meeting, in describing a new YA novel as being better suited to magazine fiction in a publication like The New Yorker than to a pick-up-and-read book title on a bookstore shelf.
It spurred me to wonder how many others share my reading tastes, which were strongly shaped by reading short stories rather than novels.
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The table of contents from THEMES IN SCIENCE FICTION reads thus:
Themes in Science Fiction ed. Leo P. Kelley (McGraw-Hill 07-033504-4, 1972, tp); A Journey Into Wonder.
3 · The Last of the Romany · Norman Spinrad · ss Analog May ’63
14 · The Total Experience Kick · Charles Platt · ss New Worlds Dec ’66
28 · Shortstack [Willy Shorts] · Walt & Leigh Richmond · nv Analog Dec ’64
47 · Far from This Earth · Chad Oliver · ss The Year 2000, ed. Harry Harrison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970
63 · Maelstrom II · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Playboy Apr ’65
76 · Founding Father · Isaac Asimov · ss Galaxy Oct ’65
82 · Holdout · Robert Sheckley · ss F&SF Dec ’57
93 · The Cold Equations · Tom Godwin · nv Astounding Aug ’54
119 · The Father-Thing · Philip K. Dick · ss F&SF Dec ’54
131 · The Silk and the Song · Charles L. Fontenay · nv F&SF Jul ’56
155 · Eyebem · Gene Wolfe · ss Orbit 7, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1970
165 · Puppet Show · Fredric Brown · ss Playboy Nov ’62
174 · Look, You Think You’ve Got Troubles · Carol Carr · ss Orbit 5, ed. Damon Knight, G.P. Putnam’s, 1969
187 · Young Girl at an Open Half-door · Fred Saberhagen · ss F&SF Nov ’68
196 · The Man Who Came Early · Poul Anderson · nv F&SF Jun ’56
219 · Soldier [“Soldier from Tomorrow”] · Harlan Ellison · nv Fantastic Universe Oct ’57
239 · The Good Provider · Marion Gross · ss F&SF Sep ’52
247 · A Message from Charity · William M. Lee · ss F&SF Nov ’67
266 · Witch War · Richard Matheson · ss Startling Stories Jul ’51
271 · Gomez · C. M. Kornbluth · nv The Explorers, Ballantine, 1954
294 · Muse · Dean R. Koontz · ss F&SF Sep ’69
307 · The World of Myrion Flowers · Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth · ss F&SF Oct ’61
313 · X Marks the Pedwalk · Fritz Leiber · ss Worlds of Tomorrow Apr ’63
318 · EPICAC · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss Colliers Nov 25 ’50
325 · The Last Command [Bolo] · Keith Laumer · ss Analog Jan ’67
343 · Lost Memory · Peter Phillips · ss Galaxy May ’52
357 · The Survivor · Walter F. Moudy · nv Amazing May ’65
383 · The Post-Mortem People · Peter Tate · ss New Worlds Mar ’66
398 · The Travelin’ Man · Leo P. Kelley · ss F&SF Sep ’70
409 · One Love Have I · Robert F. Young · ss If Apr ’55
424 · Who Shall Dwell… · H. C. Neal · ss Playboy Jul ’62
[I can't actually do the "poll" function here, so just answer in the comments.]
* Have you read one or more of the authors in this anthology before?
* Have you read one or more of the stories in this anthology before?
* Do you actually own this book?
Kudos to those who actually own or have owned the original magazine issue or anthology in which these appeared.
—pmc2
