The subtitle for this book is 'SF Adventures to Far Horizons', and it definitely means it. Depending on the story this can be the Solar System, or somewhere much, much further away through other galaxies and other existences.
This is a very strong collection, with a 3.80 average, full of acknowledged masters and the occasional unknown older story like H. B. Fyfe. Fyfe it seemed laid down the 'man stuck on planet air running out' form.
Explorers : The Sentinel - Arthur C. Clarke
Explorers : Moonwalk - H. B. Fyfe
Explorers : Grandpa - James H. Schmitz
Explorers : The Red Hills of Summer - Edgar Pangborn
Explorers : The Longest Voyage - Poul Anderson
Explorers : Hot Planet - Hal Clement
Explorers : Drunkboat - Cordwainer Smith
Explorers : Becalmed in Hell - Larry Niven
Explorers : Nine Hundred Grandmothers - R. A. Lafferty
Explorers : The Keys to December - Roger Zelazny
Explorers : Vaster Than Empires and More Slow - Ursula K. Le Guin
Explorers : A Meeting with Medusa - Arthur C. Clarke
Explorers : The Man Who Walked Home - James Tiptree Jr.
Explorers : Long Shot - Vernor Vinge
Explorers : In the Hall of the Martian Kings - John Varley
Explorers : Ginungagap - Michael Swanwick
Explorers : Exploring Fossil Canyon - Kim Stanley Robinson
Explorers : Promises to Keep - Jack McDevitt
Explorers : Lieserl - Stephen Baxter
Explorers : Crossing Chao Meng Fu - G. David Nordley
Explorers : Wang's Carpets - Greg Egan
Explorers : A Dance to Strange Musics - Gregory Benford
Explorers : Approaching Perimelasma - Geoffrey A. Landis
Moon machine.
4 out of 5
Scared in a sea of rock.
3.5 out of 5
Big ol' beast ride.
4 out of 5
Demeter discovery.
3.5 out of 5
Navigational mathematics seems like magic, so a flying ship is just like, 'Wow!'
3.5 out of 5
Vulcan solution.
3.5 out of 5
Rage through space, really fast to dreams out of space.
4.5 out of 5
Ship brain Venus trip.
2.5 out of 5
Old Special Aspects.
3.5 out of 5
Cold place defense.
3 out of 5
Empathetic comeback.
3 out of 5
Jovian airship's robojock first contact radio days.
4 out of 5
Annual accidental time travel peepshow.
4 out of 5
Ship girl sent seeding.
3.5 out of 5
Local accomodations mostly plastic.
4 out of 5
Black hole alien visiting lady bomb is decapitated. Sense of self maintained, now becomes filthy rich spider liaision.
4.5 out of 5
Dead life discovery.
3 out of 5
Callisto christmas action tape vacation.
4 out of 5
Force grown sungirl intelligence.
3.5 out of 5
'But the milieu of the Gentleman Adventurer requires that one return from the adventure to recount it.'
4 out of 5
A conservative transhuman polis sets out to search for alien life on other planets. The planet they find surprises them in a bit way, as the carpetlike inhabitants seem to grow by a pattern described by an obscure mathematician. Their nature allows them to perform as a Turing machine, and they are running one pretty impressive simulation.
A story you might just have to read a bit of twice.
5 out of 5
Zap pow intrusion response broadcast communication.
4 out of 5
Black hole wormhole fun.
4.5 out of 5
4.5 out of 5
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