I remember the future : the award-nominated stories of Michael A. Burstein

the Award-nominated Stories In This Collection Will Bring Memories Of The Future Fl Ooding Back. Two New Stories And All-new Afterwords Enliven The Past With A Touch Of The Present And That Which Is Yet To Come. you Don't Need A Collection Of Antique Spaceships Or A Carefully Calibrated Time Machine To Share The Memories Of The Final Holocaust Survivor. You Don't Have To Jump Through The Gate Between Universes In Search Of A Lost Friend. All You Have To Do Is Open Your Eyes. you'll Remember The Future. the Future Remembers You. publishers Weekly this Hard Sf Collection Wears Its Heart On Its Sleeve, Along With The Various Passions (the Holocaust, Education, Moral Dilemmas) Of Its Author. Characters Must Reconcile Their Rational Objectives With Their Emotional Judgment, Intervening To Save History's Victims (time Ablaze) Or Pleading For Humanity's Ability To Grow Up (decisions). The Writing Is Often Colorless, Like The Transparent Prose Of The Classic Sf Writers Burstein Idolizes, And The Tone Is Elegiac And Nostalgic, But The Feelings Are Real If Awkwardly Expressed. Original Material Adds To One Connected Series And Completes Burstein's Homages To Asimov, Heinlein And Clarke. Burstein May Be Too Close To His Models To Keep Younger Readers Satisfied, But Older Fans Will Admire His Dedication To Remembering And Honoring The Past. (nov.) copyright © Reed Business Information, A Division Of Reed Elsevier Inc. All Rights Reserved. The award-nominated stories in this collection will bring memories of the future flooding back. Two new stories and all-new afterwords enliven the past with a touch of the present and that which is yet to come. You don't need a collection of antique spaceships or a carefully calibrated time machine to share the memories of the final Holocaust survivor. You don't have to jump through the gate between universes in search of a lost friend. All you have to do is open your eyes. You'll remember the future. The future remembers you. Contents: Absent Friends (1998) Broken Symmetry (1997) Cosmic Corkscrew (1998) Decisions (2004) Empty Spaces (2008) I Remember the Future (2008) Kaddish for the Last Survivor (2000) Paying It Forward (2003) Reality Check (1999) Sanctuary (2005) Seventy-five Years (2005) Spaceships (2001) TeleAbsence (1995) TelePresence (2005) Time Ablaze (2004)