Darwin's Bastards: Astounding Tales from Tomorrow - Softcover

."..sometimes cynical, sometimes melancholy and very often humorous looks at a social landscape not all that different from our own...Darwin's Bastards may not say much about the future, but it has plenty to tell us about the way we live today."--"Los Angeles Times"

."..one ideal kind of anthology...Gartner's introduction is an excellent entree into it, too, being finely balanced between intellect and humor."
--Booklist, Apr 13, 2010

."..beyond getting a glimpse of reality through the lens of the future fantastic, the best reason to read this collection is that it is damn entertaining, and funny too. ...there truly isn't a bad one in the bunch"
--The Globe and Mail

Collects stories of future times and parallel universes with characters including a one-legged International Actuarial Forensics specialist, a pharmaceutical guinea pig, and a far-sighted fetus.