John Joseph Adams is editing an original sf anthology for Prime Books, to be entitled Seeds of Change. The book is scheduled to be published in August 2008. The cover copy describes the book, and the contents are listed below:
Imagine the moment when the present ends, and the future begins—when the world we knew is no more and a brave new world is thrust upon us. Gathering stories by nine of today’s most incisive minds, Seeds of Change confronts the pivotal issues facing our society today: racism, global warming, peak oil, technological advancement, and political revolution. Many serve as a call to action. How will you change with the future?
These nine stories sow seeds of change across familiar and foreign territory, from our own backyards to the Niger Delta to worlds not yet discovered. Pepper, the mysterious mercenary from Tobias S. Buckell’s Crystal Rain and Ragamuffin, works as an agent for change—if the price is right—in “Resistance.” Ken MacLeod envisions the end-game in the Middle East in “A Dance Called Armageddon.” New writer Blake Charlton imagines a revolutionary advance in cancer research in “Endosymbiont.” Award-winning author Jay Lake tackles technological change and the forces that will stop at nothing to prevent it in “The Future by Degrees.” Other stories by K.D. Wentworth, Jeremiah Tolbert, Mark Budz, Ted Kosmatka, and Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu range from the darkly satirical to the exotic. All explore the notion that change will come.
Will you be ready?
Table of Contents:
“Introduction” by John Joseph Adams
“N-Words” by Ted Kosmatka
“The Future by Degrees” by Jay Lake
“Drinking Problem” by K.D. Wentworth
“Endosymbiont” by Blake Charlton
“A Dance Called Armageddon” by Ken MacLeod
“Arties Aren’t Stupid” by Jeremiah Tolbert
“Faceless in Gethsemane” by Mark Budz
“Spider the Artist” by Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu
“Resistance” by Tobias S. Buckell