Matter's End - Softcover

* #27 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. * Winner of the Nebula and John W. Campbell Awards. * 'Science fiction at its very best' Anthony Burgess * ' . . . a rarity: a scientist who writes with verve and insight, not only about black holes and cosmic strings, but about human desires and fears' New York Times * 'In the rapidly shrinking world of hard SF, Benford is justa bout the best now at work' Th

Benford, long one of the recognized luminaries of science fiction, especially for his hard sf novels, in this collection demonstrates again that he is equally adept at short fiction. The stories, taken from the entire span of his 30-year writing career, range from the whimsical, youthful fantasy of "Stand-In" to mature meditations like "Mozart on Morphine" and the title story. Benford is accomplished at everything, from a single character's introspection to the hardest of hard sf. Underlying it all is wry humor; in his afterword, Benford says that short stories should be fun. Fun is the outstanding quality inherent in all these tales. Dennis Winters