The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows publishes today

Jonathan Strahan's new anthology, The Starry Rift: Tales of New Tomorrows, is being published by Viking Juvenile today. Strahan writes, on the book's web site that it "started with the idea that when people talked about science fiction for young adult readers they kept talking about the classic juveniles of the 1950s. Those books, novels like Robert Heinlein's The Door into Summer, are wonderful, but they were written by people born before the First World War and were published not that long after the Second. However great those books might be, I wondered if they could possibly be meaningful to someone who'd been born in 1995. It seemed to me that it would be worth asking today's best SF writers to write new stories that hopefully would resonate with readers today."

Strahan has posted the introduction here. The full table of contents is:

"Repair Kit" by Stephen Baxter
"Anda's Game" by Cory Doctorow
"Lost Continent" by Greg Egan
"The Dismantled Invention of Fate" by Jeffrey Ford
"Orange" by Neil Gaiman
"Sundiver Day" by Kathleen Ann Goonan
"Cheats" by Gwyneth Jones
"An Honest Day's Work" by Margo Lanagan
"The Surfer" by Kelly Link
"Incomers" by Paul McAuley
"The Dust Assassin" by Ian McDonald
"Infestation" by Garth Nix
"The Star Surgeon's Apprentice" by Alastair Reynolds
"Post-Ironic Stress Syndrome" by Tricia Sullivan
"Ass-Hat Magic Spider" by Scott Westerfeld
"Pinocchio" by Walter Jon Williams.

In addition to buying the book, you can win one of the five copies Strahan and Editor Sharyn November are giving away. In order to enter the contest, e-mail Strahan at thestarryrift at gmail dot com and "tell me the name of the last science fiction novel you loved and why."