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Also edited by Gordon Van Gelder
The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction: The 50th AnniversaryAnthology (with Edward L. Ferman) (1999)
One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction (2003)
In Lands That Never Were: Swords & Sorcery Stories from Fantasy & Science Fiction (2004)
Fourth Planet from the Sun: Tales of Mars from Fantasy & Science Fiction (2005)
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2009)
First printing 2011.
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Anthology selection 2011 Gordon Van Gelder.
Individual copyright credits:
Foreword copyright 2011 by Elizabeth Kolbert.
Introduction copyright 2011 by Gordon Van Gelder.
Benkoelen copyright 2011 by Brian W. Aldiss.
Damned When You Do copyright 2011 by Jeff Carlson.
The Middle of Somewhere copyright 2011 by Judith Moffett.
Not a Problem copyright 2011 by Matthew Hughes.
Eagle copyright 2011 by Gregory Benford.
Come Again Some Other Day copyright 2011 by Michael Alexander.
The Master of the Aviary copyright 2011 by Bruce Sterling.
Turtle Love copyright 2011 by Joseph Green.
The California Queen Comes A-Calling copyright 2011 by Pat MacEwen.
That Creeping Sensation copyright 2011 by Thranx, Inc.
The Men of Summer copyright 2011 by David Prill.
The Bridge copyright 2011 by George Guthridge.
FarmEarth copyright 2011 by Paul Di Filippo.
Sundown copyright 2011 by Chris Lawson.
Fish Cakes copyright 2011 by Ray Vukcevich.
True North copyright 2011 by M. J. Locke.
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Elizabeth Kolbert
Gordon Van Gelder
Brian W. Aldiss
Jeff Carlson
Judith Moffett
Matthew Hughes
Gregory Benford
Michael Alexander
Bruce Sterling
Joseph Green
Pat Macewen
Alan Dean Foster
David Prill
George Guthridge
Paul Di Filippo
Chris Lawson
Ray Vukcevich
M. J. Locke
We live at a time when everyone knowsor should knowthe future. A crucial, but often misunderstood fact about global warming is that the climate system runs on a time delay. Thus, from the concentration of greenhouse gases in the air today, it is possible to predict, with a fair degree of certainty, what average global temperatures will be like thirty or forty years from now. Ditto for sea levels and ice cover. Climate scientists refer to this as our commitment to warming. Were committed to warming long before we actually experience it.
How to represent this future that we are already committed to? Climate modelers tend to rely on charts and graphs to get the message across. The contributors to this volume offer something elsestories. The characters in these stories are made up and the situations invented. The events havent happened and, in a strict sense, never will. But the science behind these tales is all too real. (The true science fiction of our time, peddled on talk radio and in the halls of Congress, is that global warming is a myth.)
At the same time, there is a lot about global warming that we dont know. As the planet heats up, almost certainly some regions will experience more intense droughts, but which regions, exactly, and how intense will those droughts be? Monsoon patterns will shift, and produce flooding, but which cities will be submerged? Will new heat-resistant crops be developed, and new technologies invented to transport, like floating highways? The greatest unknown of all is, of course, how people, collectively, will respond. Will they be chastened? Genocidal? Or will they just muddle along, behind growing seawalls and shrinking coasts? Scienceeven social sciencecant answer questions like this, which is why we turn to science fiction. Welcome to the Greenhouse!
Elizabeth Kolbert
This month, negotiators will meet in Cancn for another round of international climate talks, and its a safe bet that, apart from the usual expressions of despair, nothing will come of them. It may seem that well just keep going around and around on climate change forever. Unfortunately, thats not the case: one day, perhaps not very long from now, the situation will spin out of our control.
Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 22 November 2010
I am, I readily admit, something of a contrarian. Its probably the result of having had a scientist for a father. Whatever the reason, if you present to me a truth that is universally acknowledged, Ill question it instinctively.
Ive largely sat on the sidelines during the global warming controversies that have raged over the past decade. Do I think Earths climate is warming? Yes. Do I know what the causes are? Cant say for certain that I do. In fact, I dont think anyone can say for certain that they know.
I suspect my position is a fairly common one.
However, as Elizabeth Kolbert points out, that sort of complacent attitude is likely to lead to chaos. Consequently, I asked a number of writers who speculate on the future to consider the subject of climate change. What might life be like in five, fifty, or five hundred years?
The results make for rewarding reading. In assembling the book, I tried to get a wide variety of responses to the issue of climate change, from the comic to the grave (one contributor told me, I cant find anything optimistic about global warming), from the hopeful to the despondent, from the realistic to the wildly imaginative. A couple of stories seek answers to the climate change issues that we face, but more of the stories ask questions.
Overall, I wanted stories that make the reader consider what sorts of futures might await us. They might not all be futures we like, but I think theyre all worth considering.
Gordon Van Gelder
Jersey City, December 2010
Yes, thats how I knew the place. Whether it or I still exist, it has to be Benkoelen. There it is or was, an isolated stone peg in the middle of the ocean, a round rocky desolation, no beaches, fifty miles from the southwest coast of Sumatra. No place like it anywhere on the planet.
You never heard of Benkoelen? My life has always been linked to it. My father, rather late in life, married a Sumatran-Chinese lady by the name of Trilm Ma. Between them, they devised a helicopter pad here which for some years served as a single physical communication link between the island and the mainland port of Padang. Padang was ruined by recent tsunamis. But my first sight of Benkoelen was in a photograph taken by Stan, my father. The view showed a bleak and steep stairway ascending from a no less bleak quayside. Why this drab depiction could have captured my imagination I cannot say, but so it was.
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