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Five novellas of hard research fiction by five modern masters of the form. From Nebula Award champion Gregory Benford comes this ambitious hard SF anthology that gathers five original novellas. Each one takes the very long view - each is placed at least ten thousand years in the future. The authors have a rigorously scientific view of such grand panoramas, confronting the greatest issues of cosmology, astronomy, development, and biology. The last moments of a universe beseiged occupy Greg Bear's Common sense Engine unit. Can something human matter at the very end of creation, as contorted matter ceases to obtain meaning and time itself stutters for an eerie halt? Genesis by Poul Anderson is defined a billion years in advance, when humanity has become extinct. Earth is threatened by the slowly and gradually warming sunlight, and vast machine intelligences opt to recreate humans. Donald Kingsbury contributes Historical Turmoil, a starting work on the prediction of the human future that troubles the foundations of psychohistory, as developed in Isaac Asimov's famous Foundation Trilogy. Joe Haldeman's For White Hill confronts mankind with hostile aliens who remorselessly grind down every security against them. A lone musician struggles to discover a devote this faraway, wondrous future when mankind seems doomed. In At the Eschaton by Charles Sheffield, a man tries to save his dying better half from oblivion by hurling himself forwards, in both space and time, to the very end of the universe itself.
