The team at Solaris have revealed the fabulous cover for Meeting Infinity, the fourth volume of the Infinity Project. Since it lists all of the contributors for the book, I thought I’d add to the fun by doing a full release of the table of contents for the book.  I really like this book, and think it’s the best ‘Infinity’ so far.

Look into the future and see what you might become….

Dark age barbarian princesses, Mexican ninja zombie soldiers, icy interrogators of networked intellects, searchers for eternal youth, warrior families hiding in the corners of a future haunted by machines bent on our destruction, and distant deepspace protectors of humanity’s future.

Whether it’s the day after tomorrow or a million years into the deep future, there are moments when humanity stares into the abyss and faced with possibility extinction follow Darwin’s theory – change, adapt, alter, evolve. Take on a different body, engineer a new intellect, become something completely different to preserve whatever is most human about us.

Meeting Infinity, the fourth book of the Infinity Project, presents  exciting new stories from sixteen award winners and acclaimed writers 

Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
“Memento Mori”, Madeline Ashby
“My Last Bringback”, John Barnes
“Aspects: A Galactic Centre Story”, Gregory Benford
“Rates of Change”, James S.A. Corey
“In Blue Lily’s Wake”, Aliette de Bodard
“Body Politic”, Kameron Hurley
“Drones”, Simon Ings
“Emergence”, Gwyneth Jones
“Cocoons”, Nancy Kress
“The Cold Inequalities”, Yoon Ha Lee
“The Falls: A Luna Story”, Ian McDonald
“Exile from Extinction”, Ramez Naam
“Outsider”, An Owomoyela
“Desert Lexicon”, Benjanun Sriduangkaew
“Pictures from the Resurrection”, Bruce Sterling
“All the Wrong Places”, Sean Williams

Meeting Infinity will be in-store December 2015. Get ready to pre-order it. Plans are also underway for Infinity 5!

A quick reminder, should you be interested, that we do have Coode Street merchandise! T-shirts. Lovingly designed, criminally undersold, these wonderful designs with original Coode St logos, attractive layout, and witty sayings could be yours.  Pretty much entirely non-profit, we nonethless commend them to the keen Coode Street listener.  

I hope to start posting here a lot more regularly. I know most everyone has given up on the blog – readers are down to an understandably pitiful but deeply appreciated few – but I do have some plans that might make it a bit more interesting in coming months.

I hope to talk a bit more about projects that are in train, and about what I’m reading, even if just for my own record.  While I’m working on finishing Meeting Infinity, getting started on The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 10, and editing/acquiring some novellas for Tor.com, I’m also reading away and making plans for next year.

In the meantime, though, there’s a lot to read out there. My pal Tempest Bradford continues to recommend great stories on io9.com, James Bradley has an excellent new novel out  (someone in the US needs to buy this!), and my friend Joe just bought and exciting new novel by the astoundingly wonderful Frances Hardinge.  Not bad days at all.

Coming up this weekend in episode 222 of the Coode Street Podcast, Deborah Biancotti, Margo Lanagan, and Scott Westerfeld join us to talk about their exciting new project, Zeroes, collaborating, superheroes and why Australia doesn’t make a good setting for genre fiction.