First Chapter, First Paragraph: Tuesday Intros is a weekly meme hosted by Socrates Book Reviews where participants share the first paragraph of one of the books that they are currently reading, have read or are planning to read. According to Socrates, this meme is guaranteed to increase your TBR 
This week I'm participating with an anthology: The Final Frontier: Stories of Exploring Space, Colonizing the Universe, and First Contact edited by Neil Clarke, the first story of which is called "A Jar of Goodwill" by Tobias S. Buckell.
First Chapter, First Paragraph:
You keep a low profile when you're in oxygen debt. Too much walking about just exacerbates the situation anyway. So I was nervous when a stationeer appeared at my cubby and knocked on the door.
I slid out and stood in front of the polished, skeletal robot.
About the Book:
The vast and mysterious universe is explored in this reprint anthology from award-winning editor and anthologist Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year).
The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them.
Generations of writers have explored these new frontiers and the endless possibilities they present in great detail. With galaxy-spanning adventures of discovery and adventure, from generations ships to warp drives, exploring new worlds to first contacts, science fiction writers have given readers increasingly new and alien ways to look out into our broad and sprawling universe.
The Final Frontier delivers stories from across this literary spectrum, a reminder that the universe is far large and brimming with possibilities than we could ever imagine, as hard as we may try.
Source: Goodreads
What do you think? Would you read this one?
When I was young (starting around age 11), I read science fiction almost exclusively. I particularly relished Isaac Asimov's early short stories and novels which eventually led me to other authors such as Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke. My tastes eventually switched to crime fiction and I believe I have only read a single science fiction novel in the past decade (Andy Weir's The Martian and that only after seeing the movie first).
However, searching my calibre library for yesterday's #5OnMyTBR space-themed meme caused me to find The Final Frontier. The blurb enticed me enough to include it in the article and today I read that first story. The theme of exploring the unknown really excites me and the fact space exploration is on the verge of resuming (I may just live long enough to see the first manned mission to Mars!) is simply thrilling. Science fiction stories allow us to dream while awaiting the technology to catch up. It's time for me to dream again by adding more science fiction to my reading list.
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