Federations table of contents

Holy cow! How often do you get to be betwen the covers with Lois McMaster Bujold, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, and Robert Silverberg? Woot!

John Joseph Adams has announced the line-up for his upcoming anthology Federations, and it's terrific (see below). I'm particularly pleased to note that the lead story is Orson Scott Card's "Mazer in Prison," which I'm a big fan of, and that my great friend James Alan Gardner is in the book, too, with a new story.

Here's the full list:

• "Mazer in Prison" by Orson Scott Card (reprint)


• "Carthago Delenda Est" by Genevieve Valentine


• "Life-Suspension" by L. E. Modesitt, Jr.


• "Terra-Exulta" by S. L. Gilbow


• "Aftermaths" by Lois McMaster Bujold (reprint)


• "Someone is Stealing the Great Throne Rooms of the Galaxy" by Harry Turtledove (reprint)


• "Prisons" by Kevin J. Anderson and Doug Beason (reprint)


• "Different Day" by K. Tempest Bradford


• "Twilight of the Gods" by John C. Wright


• "Warship" by George R. R. Martin and George Guthridge (reprint)


• "Swanwatch" by Yoon Ha Lee


• "Spirey and the Queen" by Alastair Reynolds (reprint)


• "Pardon Our Conquest" by Alan Dean Foster


• "Symbiont" by Robert Silverberg (reprint)


• "The Ship Who Returned" by Anne McCaffrey (reprint)


• "My She" by Mary Rosenblum


• "The Shoulders of Giants" by Robert J. Sawyer (reprint)


• "The Culture Archivist" by Jeremiah Tolbert


• "The Other Side of Jordan" by Allen Steele


• "Like They Always Been Free" by Georgina Li


• "Eskhara" by Trent Hergenrader


• "The One with the Interstellar Group Consciousnesses" by James Alan Gardner


• "Golubash, or Wine-War-Blood-Elegy" by Catherynne M. Valente

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