The highly-anticipated final volume of the critically-acclaimed science fiction anthology series
Life in space is hard, lonely and the only person you can rely on is yourself. Whether you’re living deep in the gravity well of humanity’s watery home, mucking out air vents in a city floating high in the clouds of Jupiter, or re-checking the filtration system on some isolated space station, life is hard and demanding, and life is small.
The stories of Infinity’s End are set in those empty spaces, in futures where planets have been disassembled and reused for parts, or terraformed and settled; where civilisations have risen and fallen; where far future people make their lives anywhere from colonies hanging in the clouds of Neptune or Venus to the repurposed cores of distant asteroids; on worldlets and asteroids, inside Saturn’s rings or distant spheres and wheels, on-board ships trucking from home to home, and port to port. They're set in a future that's lived in. And they make it clear that even if we never leave the Solar System, there's life enough and room enough to live out all of science fiction's dreams.
Infinity’s End is the future. The stories you’ll find here are the stories of your life.
Introduction, Jonathan Strahan
Foxy and Tiggs, Justina Robson
Intervention, Kelly Robson
Nothing Ever Happens on Oberon, Paul McAuley
Prophet of the Roads, Naomi Kritzer
Deaths Door, Alastair Reynolds
Swear Not by the Moon, Seanan McGuire
Last Small Step, Stephen Baxter
Once on the Blue Moon, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
A Portrait of Salai, Hannu Rajaniemi
Longing for Earth, Linda Nagata
The Synchronist, Fran Wilde
Talking to the Ghost at the Edge of the World, Lavie Tidhar
Cloudsong, Nick Wolven
Kindred, Peter Watts
Jonathan Strahan is a World Fantasy Award award-winning editor, anthologist, and podcaster. He has edited more than 70 books, is reviews editor for Locus, a consulting editor for Tor.com, and co-host and producer of the Hugo-nominated Coode Street Podcast.