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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Godlike Machines
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'In science fiction, nothing says sensawunda like a Big Dumb Object–a colossal, extremely powerful machine of unknown purpose and origin. It's that feeling that editor Jonathan Strahan was after when he asked six of today's finest authors to write for Godlike Machines.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Contents indexed selectively.
  • The anthology contains six stories of which only two are by Australian authors. The other stories are:

    • Alone (Robert Reed)
    • Return to Titan (Stephen Baxter)
    • There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow/Now is the Best Time of Your Life (Cory Doctorow)
    • Troika (Alastair Reynolds)

Contents

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A Glimpse of the Marvelous Structure [and the Threat it Entails], Sean Williams , single work short story science fiction

'Sean Williams leads a spacer agent through a subterranean Structure ... and into space-time itself.'

Source: Back cover.

Hot Rock, Greg Egan , single work short story science fiction

'Greg Egan gives us an alien technology only he could imagine–a wandering world that's inexplicably warm enough to support life.'

Source: Back cover, Godlike Machines.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

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      Extent: 1v.p.
      Edition info: First SFBC Science Fiction Printing edition
      ISBN: 9781616647599, 1616647590
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