A press release from FoxAcre Press and author Edward M. Lerner:
Q: What’s Smaller Than an Atom… and Larger Than a Universe?
A: This book.
Frontiers of Space, Time, and Thought brings together more than a dozen of Edward M. Lerner’s most engaging short stories to take the reader on a grand tour of Big Ideas: from virtual reality to artificial intelligence to homicidal time-traveling grandchildren to troubled aliens wondering if they are alone. Journey along in these beguiling tales as we start by colonizing near-Earth space—and end up in the farthest reaches of the multiverse. Lerner’s novels and short fiction have intrigued fans around the world—and this collection will show you why.
But truth can be stranger than fiction—and Lerner is not just a writer; he’s a professional computer engineer and physicist. His fact articles have pride of place in this collection, and they pose some Really Big Questions. How can we protect Earth from asteroids? What will commercialized spaceflight be like in the post-shuttle era? What will privacy (or the lack thereof) mean in the Internet age? He lays out the why, where, and (perhaps the) how of faster-than-light travel; and the challenges of communicating with alien species. Expanded and updated with the latest information, and with full references and links to further reading, these essays will take you to and beyond the Frontiers of Space, Time, and Thought.
Table of contents:
Foreword: “The Big Questions”
     Are We Alone? (Life, the Universe, and Everyone)
Say What? Ruminations about Language, Communications, and Science Fiction
At the Watering Hole
RSCP
Unplanned-for Flying Object
     And If We Are Alone? (Being All We Can Be)
Blessed are the Bleak
Chance of Storms
A Time for Heroes
     If This Goes On
Beyond This Point Be RFIDs
Where Credit Is Due
     Of Space, Time, and Quantum Weirdness
Faster Than a Speeding Photon
Grandpa?
Great Minds
No GUTs, No Glory
Inside the Box
     Out of the Cradle
Rock! Bye-Bye, Baby
Lost in Space? Follow the Money
Small Business
     The Next Small Thing
Follow the Nanobrick Road
     Our Place in the Universe
A Matter of Perspective
Insignificance
Appendix: “Mapping of Themes to Novels and Collections”
The non-fiction all previously appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact. The fiction was previously published in Analog, Artemis, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Darker Matter, and Jim Baen’s Universe.