It’s a long time till June 2014. That’s when Reach for Infinity, the third volume of what I’ve come to think of as the “Infinity Project” will be published by the totally brilliant team at Solaris Books. It follows on from Engineering Infinity and the Locus Award winning Edge of Infinity, and which I think will be a worthy successor to that book.
Where Edge focussed its attention on an industrialised pre-starflight Solar System, Reach concentrates on that period when we’re trying to get off Earth and into space. Stories aren’t due in until January, so it’ll be a while before I have a table of contents to announce or even a final lineup. I do have a list of people who have agreed to write for the book and some of their names appear on the incredible cover mockup that Solaris just sent me.  While the names are subject to change without notice, the cover design is final and Adam Tredowski‘s cover art is definitely the beez neez.  Hope you all love it as much as I do!
So this is an even trickier high wire act, since the problems and challenges of Earth and getting a presence in space are going to be foreground and matter, rather than backstory. I look forward to the stories that you get, Jonathan.
And, yes, spiffy cover.
Likewise, I’m really looking forward to this. It’s a great idea for an anthology, an area of SF that’s always intrigued me. And the cover art looks gorgeous.
Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy!