Far Horizons is an anthology

Anthology

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 of 11 science fiction

Science fiction

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 short stories

Short Stories

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 or novella

Novella

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s by major authors, who also provide introductions and sometimes afterwords for the stories; it is edited by Robert Silverberg. All of the stories make their first appearance in Far Horizons, but none is truly "original" in a sense, as they are all set in one of the particular author's most popular tried and true fictional universe

Fictional universe

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s. The idea was to perhaps cross introduce readers of one writer to the other authors and popular universes—in a word, marketing—grass roots style. It is the science fiction equivalent of Silverberg's (fantasy

Fantasy

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 genre) Legends

Legends (book)

Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy is a collection of 11 novellas by a number of noteworthy fantasy authors, edited by Robert Silverberg. All the stories were original to the collection, and set in the authors' established fictional worlds...

series.

Contents

• Introduction, by Robert Silverberg
• "Old Music and the Slave Women", Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula K. Le Guin
  Ursula Kroeber Le Guin is an American author. She has written novels, poetry, children's books, essays, and short stories, notably in fantasy and science fiction...
  
   (Ekumen
  Ekumen
  The Hainish Cycle consists of a number of science fiction novels and stories of Ursula K. Le Guin. Most of them are not set on the planet Hain, but have it as a distant background...
  
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• "A Separate War", by Joe Haldeman
  Joe Haldeman
  Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author.-Life :Haldeman was born June 9, 1943 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. His family traveled and he lived in Puerto Rico, New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Bethesda, Maryland and Anchorage, Alaska as a child. Haldeman married Mary Gay Potter, known...
  
   (The Forever War series
  The Forever War series
  The Forever War series is a series of science fiction novels by Joe Haldeman. Not all of them take place in the same future universe.Forever Peace, while thematically linked to the previous novel The Forever War, is an entirely separate work...
  
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• "Investment Counselor
  Investment Counselor (short story)
  "Investment Counselor" is a story by Orson Scott Card set in his Ender's Game universe. It tells the story of how Ender Wiggin first met the artificial intelligence Jane and became a speaker for the dead...
  
  ", Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card
  Orson Scott Card is an American author, critic, public speaker, essayist, columnist, and political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel Ender's Game and its sequel Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the...
  
   (Ender's Game series
  Ender's Game series
  The Ender's Game series is a series of science fiction books by Orson Scott Card. The series started with the novelette "Ender's Game", which was later expanded into the novel Ender's Game. It currently consists of eleven novels and ten short stories...
  
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• "Temptation", David Brin
  David Brin
  Glen David Brin, Ph.D. is an American scientist and award-winning author of science fiction. He has received the Hugo, Locus, Campbell and Nebula Awards.-Biography:...
  
   (Uplift universe
  Uplift Universe
  The Uplift Universe is a fictional universe created by science fiction writer David Brin. A central feature in this universe is the process of biological uplift.His books which take place in this universe:* Sundiver...
  
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• "Getting to Know the Dragon", Robert Silverberg
  Robert Silverberg
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   (Roma Eterna
  Roma Eterna
  Roma Eterna is a 2003 novel by Robert Silverberg which presents an alternate history in which the Roman Empire survives to the present day.-Plot introduction:...
  
  )
• "Orphans of the Helix
  Orphans of the Helix
  "Orphans of the Helix" is a 46-page short story by Dan Simmons set in his Hyperion Cantos fictional universe...
  
  ", Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons
  Dan Simmons is an American author most widely known for his Hugo Award-winning science fiction series, known as the Hyperion Cantos, and for his Locus-winning Ilium/Olympos cycle....
  
   (Hyperion Cantos
  Hyperion Cantos
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• "Sleeping Dogs", Nancy Kress
  Nancy Kress
  Nancy Kress is an American science fiction writer. She began writing in 1976 but has achieved her greatest notice since the publication of her Hugo and Nebula-winning 1991 novella "Beggars in Spain" which was later expanded into a novel with the same title...
  
   (The Sleepless)
• "The Boy Who Would Live Forever", Frederik Pohl
  Frederik Pohl
  Frederik George Pohl, Jr. is an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning over seventy years — from his first published work, "Elegy to a Dead Planet: Luna" , to his most recent novel, All the Lives He Led .He won the National Book Award in 1980 for his novel Jem...
  
   (Tales of the Heechee)
• "A Hunger for the Infinite", Gregory Benford
  Gregory Benford
  Gregory Benford is an American science fiction author and astrophysicist who is on the faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine...
  
   (the Galactic Center series)
• "The Ship That Returned", Anne McCaffrey
  Anne McCaffrey
  Anne Inez McCaffrey was an American-born Irish writer, best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series. Over the course of her 46 year career she won a Hugo Award and a Nebula Award...
  
   (The Ship Who Sang
  The Ship Who Sang
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• "The Way of All Ghosts", Greg Bear
  Greg Bear
  Gregory Dale Bear is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict , artificial universes , consciousness and cultural practices , and accelerated evolution...
  
   (The Way
  The Way (Greg Bear)
  The Way fictional universe is a trilogy of science fiction novels and one short story by Greg Bear. The first novel was Eon , followed by a sequel, Eternity and a prequel, Legacy...
  
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