Too long to be a short story, too short to be a novelwelcome to the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. The award-winningmagazine Orson Scott Card's IntergalacticMedicine Show has been an online haven for this powerful form ofstorytelling since 2005. Now its editors have selected theirall-time favorite science fiction novelettes from the magazine's eight-yearhistory and reprinted them together in one big book of reading pleasure. Anythingthat is remotely possiblefutures near and far, artificial intelligence and alienencounters, alternate timelines and alternate theories about creatinguniverses, planet-eating black holes and lunar racetracksis all here underthe big tent of Orson Scott Card's IntergalacticMedicine Show.This anthology features stories by such award-winningauthors as Orson Scott Card, Wayne Wightman, Aliette de Bodard, Eric JamesStone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Stephen Kotowych, Jackie Gamber, Greg Siewert,Jamie Todd Rubin, Brad R. Torgersen, and Marina J. Lostetter, plus an all-newessay by Orson Scott Card about writing the character of Ender.
