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The European Astrobiology Institute presents 54 SF Stories and Science Essays on life, from microbial to macro, from automatic to sagacious. Each story is followed by an essay illuminating the scientific underpinnings of the story.
Brief description: Stephen Baxter was born in England in 1957. He worked as a teacher of maths and physics, and in information technology. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, and a Vice-President of the HG Wells Society. Stephen has been a full-time author since 1995, and his science fiction novels have been published in the UK, the US, Germany, Japan, France, and elsewhere, and have won several awards. His non-fiction includes Deep Future, Omegatropic, TheScience of Avatar, and Revolutions in the Earth: James Hutton and the True Age of the World.
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Previous anthologies by Laksa Media (Strangers Among Us, The Sum of Us, Where the Stars Rise, Shades Within Us, Seasons Between Us) have been recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist (American Library Association), Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Locus, Foreword Reviews, and Quill & Quire.