Author: Lou Anders
A 2007/2008 Hugo Award, 2007 Chesley Award, and 2006 World Fantasy Award nominee, Lou Anders is the editorial director of Prometheus Books’ science-fiction imprint, Pyr. He is the author of The Making of Star Trek: First Contact (Titan Books, 1996) and has published over five hundred magazine articles.
A Star Has Gone Out
A bone was hurled high into the air by a prehistoric hand. When it came down, it was a spaceship. All of human history was encapsulated between these two shots of that now-famous montage in the 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Even more amazing: all of human history was also being discounted as nothing …