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WORLDS ENOUGH AND TIME

Joe Haldeman

Enter the SF Gateway …

In the last years of the twentieth century (as Wells might have put it), Gollancz, Britain’s oldest and most distinguished science fiction imprint, created the SF and Fantasy Masterworks series. Dedicated to re-publishing the English language’s finest works of SF and Fantasy, most of which were languishing out of print at the time, they were – and remain – landmark lists, consummately fulfilling the original mission statement:

‘SF MASTERWORKS is a library of the greatest SF ever written, chosen with the help of today’s leading SF writers and editors. These books show that genuinely innovative SF is as exciting today as when it was first written.’

Now, as we move inexorably into the twenty-first century, we are delighted to be widening our remit even more. The realities of commercial publishing are such that vast troves of classic SF & Fantasy are almost certainly destined never again to see print. Until very recently, this meant that anyone interested in reading any of these books would have been confined to scouring second-hand bookshops. The advent of digital publishing has changed that paradigm for ever.

The technology now exists to enable us to make available, for the first time, the entire backlists of an incredibly wide range of classic and modern SF and fantasy authors. Our plan is, at its simplest, to use this technology to build on the success of the SF and Fantasy Masterworks series and to go even further.

Welcome to the new home of Science Fiction & Fantasy. Welcome to the most comprehensive electronic library of classic SFF titles ever assembled.

Welcome to the SF Gateway.

Contents

Title Page

Gateway Introduction

Contents

Author Note

Prologue: Transcript

0 Identities

YEAR 0.005

1. Earthwatch

2. A Chance to dream

3. Meeting of minds

4. Genesis and revelation

5. Grave image

6. Things that go bump in the night

7. Maneuvering

8. Big sister

9. The power to soothe

YEAR 1.00

1. About time

2. Happy new year

3. Torn between two lovers

4. From each according to his inclinations

5. In the dead vast and middle of the night

6. Options

7. Drifting

8. Divide and multiply

9. Dionysus meets Godzilla

10. Didn’t she ramble?

YEAR 1.33

1. Long-range plans

2. New beginnings

3. Untimely plucked

4. Blues

YEAR 1.88

1. Labor-saving device

2. From the cradle to the grave to the cradle

3. A modest proposal

4. Advice to the lovelorn

5. One part harmony

6. Two parts discord

YEAR 3.21

1. Leavings

2. Remembrance of things past

3. Translating

YEAR 5.71

1. Watershed, bloodshed

2. Night of the living dead

3. A woman of discrimination

4. That time of year thou mayest in me behold

5. Categories

YEAR 6.26

1. Auld Acquaintance

2. Sowing, reaping

3. Temperament

4. Bad seed

YEAR 8.36

1. Husbandry

2. Population explosion

YEAR 9.88

1. Homecoming

2. The burdens of faith

YEAR 11.07

1. Growing pains

2. Long-distance call

3. Four novels

AGE 55

1. In dreams awake

2. Up tempo

3. Juvenilia

2. Pool party

5. Interim report

6. Chances

7. Be all that you can be

8. Final approach

AGE 56

1. Day zero

2. First contact

3. Letter ‘home

4. Housekeeping

AGE 57

1. Settling, unsettling

2. The hunt

3. Final exam

AGE 100

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Dedication

Epilogue

Author Bio

Copyright

Author Note