Redshift : extreme visions of speculative fiction

On K2 With Kanakaredes / Dan Simmons -- The Building / Ursula K. Le Guin -- Froggies / Laura Whitton -- What We Did That Summer / Kathe Koja And Barry N. Malzberg -- A Slow Saturday Night At The Surrealist Sporting Club / Michael Moorcock -- In Xanadu / Thomas M. Disch -- Commencement / Joyce Carol Oates -- Unique Visitors / James Patrick Kelly -- Black Tulip / Harry Turtledove -- Belief / P.d. Cacek -- In The Un-black / Stephen Baxter -- Weeping Walls / Paul Di Filippo -- Anomalies / Gregory Benford -- Captive Kong / Kit Reed -- Feedback / Robert E. Vardeman -- Between Disappearances / Nina Kiriki Hoffman -- Resurrection / David Morrell -- Cleopatra Brimstone / Elizabeth Hand -- Burros Gone Bad / Peter Schneider -- Pockets / Rudy Rucker And John Shirley -- Ave De Paso / Catherine Asaro -- Road Kill / Joe Haldeman -- Ting-a-ling / Jack Dann -- 'bassador / Catherine Wells -- Ssoroghod's People / Larry Niven -- Two Shot / Michael Marshall Smith -- Billy The Fetus / Al Sarrantonio -- Viewpoint / Gene Wolfe -- Fungi / Ardath Mayhar -- Rhido Wars / Neal Barrett, Jr. Edited By Al Sarrantonio. If we hadn't decided to acclimate ourselves for the K2 attempt by secretly climbing to the eight-thousand-meter mark on Everest, a stupid mountain that no self-respecting climber would go near anymore, they wouldn't have caught us and we wouldn't have been forced to make the real climb with an alien and the rest of it might not have happened. Thirty works of speculative fiction, including hard and soft science fiction, fantasy, horror, and experimental and conventional literary fiction. These recognized "authors have shaped the evolution of science fiction and will continue to influence the genre for years to come." An anthology of works of speculative fiction encompasses contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin, Joyce Carol Oates, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford, Gene Wolfe and other acclaimed authors.