Alien Contact
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The thought war / Paul McAuley
How to talk to girls at parties / Neil Gaiman
Face value / Karen Joy Fowler
The road not taken / Harry Turtledove
The aliens who knew, I mean, everything / George Alec Effinger
I am the doorway / Stephen King
Recycling strategies for the inner city / Pat Murphy
The 43 Antarean dynasties / Mike Resnick
The gold bug / Orson Scott Card
Kin / Bruce McAllister
Guerrilla mural of a siren's song / Ernest Hogan
Angel / Pat Cadigan
The first contact with the gorgonids / Ursula K. Le Guin
Sunday night yams at Minnie and Earl's / Adam-Troy Castro
A midwinter's tale / Michael Swanwick
Texture of other ways / Mark W. Tiedemann
To go boldly / Cory Doctorow
If nudity offends you / Elizabeth Moon
Laws of survival / Nancy Kress
What you are about to see / Jack Skillingstead
Amanda and the alien / Robert Silverberg
Exo-skeleton town / Jeffrey Ford
Lambing season / Molly Gloss
Swarm / Bruce Sterling
MAXO signals / Charles Stross
Last contact / Stephen Baxter
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Best scifi anthology I have read so far (and I have read plenty, I love anthologies since I think the best form of scifi is the short prose).
From 26 stories there were 4 I did not like (one as expected, since I never ever could like a Doctorow story no matter how often I try), and all the rest were 4+/5 or full 5/5s. That is amazing for me - I do not give 5 stars easily, but obviously Halpern is my doppelganger from beyond the seas in regard to scifi taste - they were EXACTLY the scifi I want (realistic, logical, tangible, facts first, surprizing points of view, varied, original but still credible, extra-dark sometimes - no dreamy hippie metaphors here).
I will look for more of Halpern's selections (if there are more) and buy them all! Thank you, scifi doppelganger!
