Editor Marty Halpern writes to let us know “I have begun posting free fiction online from my anthology Is Anybody Out There?—co-edited with Nick Gevers, and forthcoming from DAW Books on 1 June.”
The first story is Pat Cadigan’s “The Taste of Night”; which will be posted in three parts, “hopefully every couple days.” The first part is currently online here.
The fifteen original stories included in Is Anybody Out There? “attempt to answer the Fermi Paradox: Why is it that, in such a vast cosmos, with hundreds of billions of stars in this galaxy alone, and no doubt billions of Earth-like planets orbiting them, we have found no evidence of intelligent alien life? No evidence that aliens have ever visited Earth (other than discredited UFO mythology), no detectable signals in all our SETI searches with radio telescopes…”