Future on Ice

Future on Ice (1998) is a science fiction anthology edited by Orson Scott Card, belated[1] companion to Future on Fire (1991). It contains eighteen stories written in the 1980s by different writers including "The Fringe" by Card himself.

A third volume, a collection of humorous or satirical sf called Future on Hold, was contemplated by Card. But he says that book is "unlikely to be published." "This long-awaited book completes Card's definitive collection of short science fiction of the 1980s, the decade in which Card read almost every short story published and reviewed much of it."[2]

Story list

Unless noted specifically, the length is short story.

• "Robot Dreams" (1986) by Isaac Asimov
• "Portraits of His Children" (1985) novelette by George R. R. Martin
• "Tourists" (1985) Lisa Goldstein
• "Blood Music" (1983) novelette by Greg Bear - 1983 Nebula Award - 1984 Hugo Award
• "Time's Rub" (1984) Gregory Benford
• "Shanidar" (1985) novelette by David Zindell
• "Speech Sounds" (1983) Octavia E. Butler
• "Snow" (1985) by John Crowley
• "Klein's Machine" (1985]) by Andrew Weiner
• "Pots" (1985) novelette by C. J. Cherryh
• "Press Enter []" (1984) novella by John Varley - 1984 Nebula Award
• "Dinosaurs" (1987) novelette by Walter Jon Williams
• "Face Value" (1986) by Karen Joy Fowler
• "Cabracan" (1986) Lewis Shiner
• "Rockabye Baby" (1985) novelette by S. C. Sykes
• "The Pure Product" (1986) novelette by John Kessel
• "Out of All Them Bright Stars" (1985) Nancy Kress - 1985 Nebula Award
• "The Fringe" (1985) novelette by Orson Scott Card - 1986 Hugo Award nomination

External links

• Review by Richard Horton at SF Site
• Future on Ice publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database