''Bridging the Galaxies'' is a collection of
science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel uni ...
stories by American writer
Larry Niven
Laurence van Cott Niven (; born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer. His best-known works are '' Ringworld'' (1970), which received Hugo, Locus, Ditmar, and Nebula awards, and, with Jerry Pournelle, '' The Mote in God's E ...
, published in hardcover by
San Francisco Science Fiction Conventions in September 1993 for the
51st World Science Fiction Convention
The 51st World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon), also known as ConFrancisco, was held on 2–6 September 1993 at the ANA Hotel, Parc Fifty Five, and Nikko Hotels and the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California, United States. ...
(
ConFrancisco), held September 2–6, 1993 in
San Francisco, California
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.
The book contains four short stories, three essays, a planetarium script, and a poem, together with an introduction and a bibliography.
Contents
*"In Memoriam: Howard Grote Littlemead" (poem)
*"Introduction"
*"Procrustes"
*"Where Next, Columbus?" (essay) (with
Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Eugene Pournelle (; August 7, 1933 – September 8, 2017) was an American scientist in the area of operations research and human factors research, a science fiction writer, essayist, journalist, and one of the first bloggers. In the 1960s ...
)
*"The Color of Sunfire"
*"The Léshy Circuit: Unfinished Script for Planetarium Show"
*"Tabletop Fusion" (essay)
*"The South Los Angeles Broadcasting System"
*"It's Only a Story"
*"Intercon Trip Report: August 12, 1991" (essay)
*"All the Bridges Rusting"
*"Bibliography" (Tom Whitmore)
References
1993 short story collections
Short story collections by Larry Niven
Books illustrated by Alicia Austin
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