Too long to be always a short tale, too short to be a novel-welcome towards the surprisingly potent world of the novelette. The award-winningmagazine Orson Scott Card’s IntergalacticMedicine Display has been an internet haven for this effective type ofstorytelling since 2005. Now its editors have selected theirall-time favorite technology fiction novelettes from your magazine’s eight-yearhistory and reprinted them collectively in a single big publication of reading pleasure. Anythingthat is usually remotely possible-futures near and far, artificial cleverness and alienencounters, alternate timelines and alternate theories about creatinguniverses, planet-eating dark holes and lunar racetracks-is all right here underthe big tent of Orson Scott Card’s IntergalacticMedicine Display.

This anthology features stories by such award-winningauthors as Orson Scott Card, Wayne Wightman, Aliette de Bodard, Eric JamesStone, Mary Robinette Kowal, Stephen Kotowych, Jackie Gamber, Greg Siewert,Jamie Todd Rubin, Brad R. Torgersen, and Marina J. Lostetter, plus an all-newessay by Orson Scott Cards about writing the type of Ender.