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The editors of Full Spectrum have gathered here original speculative fiction that is astonishing both in range and quality. From medieval sorcery to dystopian futures, from computer-generated virtual realities to space research outposts, from idol worship to scientific philosophy, the volume shows off the best of well-known (Stephen Donaldson, Ursula Le Guin) and not so well-known SF and fantasy authors.

Dave Smeds conjures a future where regeneration and eternal youth are made possible through biotechnology; his story tells what happens to a dysfunctional mother and daughter in a world where suicide is a hobby and murder a misdemeanor. A. R. Morlan's men and women have changed social roles due to a disease that has reduced male births to less than 15%. David Brin and L. Timmel Duchamp also weigh in with reproduction stories, Brin through a highly technical story of a future in which cloning has made men unnecessary, Duchamp through a tale of an infectious hermaphrodite from another world. The focus on women throughout and the general excellence of the stories should give this volume broad appeal. -- Publishers Weekly

Table of Contents:

• Fragments from the Women's Writing - essay by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Fragments from the Women's Writing - poem by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Motherhood, Etc. - (1993) - novelette by L. Timmel Duchamp
• The Saints - (1993) - shortstory by Bonita Kale
• The Best Lives of Our Years - (1993) - shortstory by A. R. Morlan
• Embodied In Its Opposite - (1993) - shortstory by John M. Landsberg
• Foreigners - (1993) - shortstory by Mark Rich
• The Googleplex Comes and Goes - (1993) - shortstory by Del Stone, Jr.
• The Beauty Addict - (1993) - novella by Ray Aldridge
• In Medicis Gardens - shortstory by Jean-Claude Dunyach (trans. of Dans les jardins Médicis 1986)
• The Woman Who Loved Pigs - (1993) - novella by Stephen R. Donaldson
• The Story So Far - (1993) - shortstory by Martha Soukup
• Suicidal Tendencies - [Nanodocs] - (1993) - novelette by Dave Smeds
• The Mind's Place - (1993) - novelette by Gregory Feeley
• Ah! Bright Wings - (1993) - novelette by Howard V. Hendrix
• Vox Domini - (1993) - novelette by Bruce Holland Rogers
• The Erl-King - (1993) - novelette by Elizabeth Hand
• The Death of John Patrick Yoder - (1993) - shortstory by Nancy Kress
• Human, Martian - One, Two, Three - (1993) - novelette by Kevin J. Anderson
• What Continues, What Fails ... - (1991) - novelette by David Brin
• Roar at the Heart of the World - (1993) - shortstory by Danith McPherson

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