Future on Ice

Future on Ice

Author	Orson Scott Card (ed.)
Country	United States
Genre	Science fiction
Publisher	Tor Books
Publication date	1998
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	432 pp
ISBN	0-312-86694-1
Preceded by	Future on Fire

Future on Ice (1998) is a science fiction anthology edited by Orson Scott Card, belated 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."

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 Rich Horton at SF Site
• Future on Ice title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database