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Edited by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, The Hard SF Renaissance (2002) is a thematic sequel to their 1994 anthology The Ascent of Wonder. The first anthology argued that "[t]here has been a persistent viewpoint that hard [science fiction] is somehow the core and the center of the SF field." The Hard SF Renaissance asserts that hard SF has truly become the heart of the genre and supports its assertion by assembling nearly a thousand pages of short stories, novelettes, and novellas originally published between the late 1980s and early 2000s. A different theory says hard SF stories are engineering puzzles disguised as fiction; The Hard SF Renaissance repudiates this theory in regard to modern hard SF. Most of the selections have strong prose and rounded characters, several are classics, and gadget-driven clunkers are mercifully few.

Contents

A Career in Sexual Chemistry • (1987) • novelette by Brian Stableford (aka Sexual Chemistry)
A Niche • (1990) • novelette by Peter Watts
A Walk in the Sun • (1991) • shortstory by Geoffrey A. Landis
An Ever-Reddening Glow • (1996) • shortstory by David Brin
Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars • (1999) • shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
Beggars in Spain • [Sleepless] • (1991) • novella by Nancy Kress
Bicycle Repairman • [Chattanooga] • (1996) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
Built Upon the Sands of Time • (2000) • shortstory by Michael F. Flynn [as by Michael Flynn ]
Different Kinds of Darkness • [Blit] • (2000) • shortstory by David Langford
Exchange Rate • (1999) • novella by Hal Clement
Fast Times at Fairmont High • (2001) • novella by Vernor Vinge
For White Hill • (1995) • novella by Joe Haldeman
Gene Wars • (1991) • shortfiction by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley ]
Genesis • (1995) • novella by Poul Anderson
Gossamer • [Xeelee] • (1995) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter
Great Wall of Mars • [Revelation Space] • (2000) • novelette by Alastair Reynolds
Griffin's Egg • (1991) • novella by Michael Swanwick
Halo • (1996) • shortstory by Karl Schroeder
Hatching the Phoenix • [Heechee] • (1999) • novella by Frederik Pohl
Immersion • (1996) • novella by Gregory Benford
Into the Miranda Rift • (1993) • novella by G. David Nordley
Introduction: New People, New Places, New Politics (The Hard SF Renaissance) • essay by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer
Kinds of Strangers • (1999) • novelette by Sarah Zettel
Madam Butterfly • (1997) • novelette by James P. Hogan
Marrow • [Marrow] • (1997) • novelette by Robert Reed
Matter's End • (1989) • novella by Gregory Benford
Microbe • (1995) • shortstory by Joan Slonczewski
Mount Olympus • (1999) • novelette by Ben Bova
On the Orion Line • [Xeelee] • (2000) • novelette by Stephen Baxter
Reality Check • (2000) • shortstory by David Brin
Reasons to Be Cheerful • (1997) • novelette by Greg Egan
Reef • (2000) • novelette by Paul J. McAuley [as by Paul McAuley ]
Sexual Dimorphism • (1999) • shortstory by Kim Stanley Robinson
Taklamakan • [Chattanooga] • (1998) • novelette by Bruce Sterling
The Good Rat • (1995) • novelette by Allen Steele
The Hammer of God • (1992) • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
The Lady Vanishes • (1996) • shortstory by Charles Sheffield
The Mendelian Lamp Case • [Dr Phil D'Amato] • (1997) • novelette by Paul Levinson
The Shoulders of Giants • (2000) • shortstory by Robert J. Sawyer
Think Like a Dinosaur • (1995) • novelette by James Patrick Kelly
Understand • (1991) • novelette by Ted Chiang
Wang's Carpets • (1995) • novelette by Greg Egan