Paradox

The Fermi Paradox is the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations' existence and the lack of contact with such civilizations.

In Paradox, some of the world's leading science fiction authors are joined by physicists, astronomers, and other scientists in writing original stories inspired by Fermi's famous paradox, which has to number among the most diverting and perplexing puzzles of modern existence, daring to ask...

Where Is Everybody?

Contents:
1.Introduction by Marek Kukula and Rob Edwards (of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich)
2.Catching Rays - David L Clements
3.The Big Next - Pat Cadigan
4.Baedecker's Fermi - Adam Roberts
5.Zeta Reticuli - Paul Cornell
6.The Ambulance Chaser - Tricia Sullivan
7.Lost to Their Own Devices - Adrian Tchaikovsky
8.In the Beginning - Gerry Webb
9.The Trail of the Creator, the Trial of Creation - Paul di Filippo
10.Stella by Starlight - Mike Resnick & Robert T Jeschoenek
11.Fermi's Doubts - George Zebrowski
12.Audiovisionary - Stephanie Saulter
13.Aether - Robert Reed
14.The End of the World - Keith Brooke & Eric Brown
15.The Worldmaker - Dr Rachel Armstrong
16.Atonement, Under the Blue-White Sun - Mercurio D Rivera
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Genre: Science Fiction