A Fire upon the Deep is the big, breakout book that fulfills the promise of Vinge's career to date: a gripping tale of galactic war told on a cosmic scale.Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function. Nobody knows what strange force partitioned space into these "regions of thought," but when the warring Straumli realm use an ancient Transcendent artifact as a weapon, they unwittingly unleash an awesome power that destroys thousands of worlds and enslaves all natural and artificial intelligence.Fleeing the threat, a family of scientists, including two children, are taken captive by the Tines, an alien race with a harsh medieval culture, and used as pawns in a ruthless power struggle. A rescue mission, not entirely composed of humans, must rescue the children-and a secret that may save the rest of interstellar civilization.

    Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable planet are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens. Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling, the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up to Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light cruiser with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system.But the people out to get her have made one mistake.They've made her mad!

    But to the Martin family, their household robot NDR-113 is more than a trusted friend, a confidant, a member of the family. For through some unknown manufacturing glitch, Andrew has been blessed with a capacity for love and a drive toward self-awareness and devlopment that are almost...human.But almost is not enough. Andrew's dream is to become fully human. Facing human prejudice, the laws of robotics, and his own mechanical limitations, Andrew will use science and law in his quest for the impossible, arriving at last at a terrifying choice: to make his dream a reality, he must pay the ultimate price.

    Danlo the Wild, raised by far-off Alaloi neanderthal cave-dwellers, survived a plague that took all of his tribe. Now he must find who engineered the disease and how he can cure it. And what kind of man he will grow up into, as he enters the Order of Mystic Mathematicians and Other Seekers of the Ineffable Flame.His journey has only begun.

    Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous… you'll recognize it immediately.

    For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received.But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin--barely of age herself--finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.

    The tales are organized chronologically to give readers a sense of how the genre's range, vitality, and literary quality have evolved over time. Each tale offers a unique vision, an altered reality, a universe all its own. Readers can sample H.G. Well's 1903 story The Land Ironclads (which predicted the stalemate of trench warfare and the invention of the tank), Jack Williamson's The Metal Man, a rarely anthologized gem written in 1928, Clifford D. Simak's 1940s classic, Desertion, set on "the howling maelstrom that was Jupiter", Frederik Pohl's 1955 The Tunnel Under the World (with its gripping first line, "On the morning of June 15th, Guy Burckhardt woke up screaming out of a dream"), right up to the current crop of writers, such as cyberpunk's Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, whose 1982 story Burning Chrome foreshadows the idea of virtual reality, and David Brin's Piecework, written in 1990. In addition, Shippey provides an informative introduction, examining the history of the genre, its major themes, and its literary techniques.

    However a depleted gene-pool now means that a dying Earth has to be repopulated, quickly.

    Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, Anne McCaffrey, Orson Scott Card, and others.Contents: Introduction / Charles Sheffield --Sandkings / George R.R. Martin --The bicentennial man / Isaac Asimov --Enemy mine / Barry B. Longyear --The star / Arthur C. Clarke --The big front yard / Clifford D. Simak --"Repent, Harlequin!" said the Ticktockman / Harlan Ellison --Weyr search / Anne McCaffrey --Neutron star / Larry Niven --I have no mouth, and I must scream / Harlan Ellison --Flowers for Algernon / Daniel Keyes

    Is he a school kid on Earth? Or is he thousands of years in the future, on a giant spaceship called Deepwater?Deepwater is on a course to nowhere. Robbie must look for answers on Earth to the mystery of the spaceship and win his place in a crew of strangely-coloured teenagers, fighting for their lives against terrifying alien creatures in the unknown galactic jungle of Colour-space.Does he belong on Earth or in the spaceship? Is prexing just a fantastic dream? If not, then Robbie must solve the riddle of Deepwater, or he and his crewmates will be lost forever in the black depths of the universe...

    Peter LaNague and his Robin Hood underground had successfully toppled the tryanny of the repressive Imperium, only to enounter an even greater nemesis--an ancient alien enemy who planned to annihilate the human race altogether.

    Young Afsan is privileged, called to the distant Capital City to apprentice with Saleed the court astrologer. Buth when the time comes for Afsan to make his coming-of-age pilgrimage, to gaze upon the Face of God, his world is changed forever- for what he sees will test his faith... and may save his world from disaster!

    Dark They Were, and Golden-Eyed2. The Golden Apples of the Sun3. The Dragon4. Marionettes Inc.5. The Toynbee Convector 6. I, Rocket

    Successful in its efforts to create a glittering interstellar empire, founded on the use of an ultra-advanced computer and bioengineering technology, humankind becomes the prey of its own creation, the Aristoi.

    In Synthetic Men of Mars, Carter is joined in his adventure by Vor Daj, one of his courageous, young, ed warriors; together they venture into new lands in search of Rav Thavas-the mastermind of Mars-and perhaps the only one who can restore the beautiful Deja Thoris to health. Thavas, however, is preoccupied with sinister and dangerous plans of his own. In Llana of Gathol, the tenth adventure, Carter fi nds himself incarcerated in the Pits of Horz, with giant rats for company-then the dead rise from their tombs and the heroic exploits really begin.

    This new collection includes the story Jamie, a brilliant mainstream story about a mother's love for her newborn son.

    Clarke has been a household name since 1968, when the film 2001: A Space Odyssey rocketed him to popular fame. McAleer explores Clarke's personal vision and career as one of the 20th century's most popular and influential writers and reveals the life experiences and creative forces that have shaped the man behind the legend. 30 photographs.

    of For Love of Mother-Not 1983)Das Tar-Aiym Krang (trans. of The Tar-Aiym Krang 1972)Der Waisenstern (trans. of Orphan Star 1977)Der Kollapsar (trans. of The End of the Matter 1977)

    With a unique combination of foresight and perspective, Dozois continues to collect outstanding work by newcomers and established authors alike, reflecting the present state of the genre while suggesting its future directions. With the editor's annual summary of the year in the field, and his appendix of recommended reading, this book is indispensable for anyone interested in contemporary science fiction.Contents: *Summation: 1991 (1992) • essay by Gardner Dozois *Beggars in Spain [Sleepless] (1991) / novella by Nancy Kress *Living Will (1991) / novelette by Alexander Jablokov *A Just and Lasting Peace (1991) / short story by Lois Tilton *Skinner's Room [Bridge Trilogy] (1990) / short story by William Gibson *Prayers on the Wind (1991) / novella by Walter Jon Williams *Blood Sisters (1991) / short story by Greg Egan *The Dark (1991) / short story by Karen Joy Fowler *Marnie (1991) / novelette by Ian R. MacLeod *A Tip on a Turtle (1991) / novelette by Robert Silverberg *Ubermensch! (1991) / short story by Kim Newman *Dispatches from the Revolution (1991) / novelette by Pat Cadigan *Pipes (1991) / short story by Robert Reed *Matter's End (1991) / novelette by Gregory Benford *A History of the Twentieth Century, with Illustrations (1991) / novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson *Gene Wars (1991) / short story by Paul J. McAuley *The Gallery of His Dreams (1991) / novella by Kristine Kathryn Rusch *A Walk in the Sun (1991) / short story by Geoffrey A. Landis *Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1991) / novelette by Ian McDonald *Angels in Love (1991) / short story by Kathe Koja *Eyewall (1991) / novelette by Rick Shelley *Pogrom [Home Front] (1991) / short story by James Patrick Kelly *The Moat (1991) / short story by Greg Egan *Voices (1991) / short story by Jack Dann *FOAM (1991) / novelette by Brian W. Aldiss *Jack (1991) / novella by Connie Willis *La Macchina [The Holy Machine] (1991) / short story by Chris Beckett *One Perfect Morning, with Jackals [Kirinyaga • 1] (1991) / short story by Mike Resnick *Desert Rain (1991) / novella by Pat Murphy, Mark L. Van Name *Honorable Mentions: 1991 (1992) • essay by Gardner DozoisAlso published titled: The Year's Best Science Fiction: Ninth Annual CollectionAlso published titled: The Giant Book of Fantastic SF.

    In the bloody world of the neovikings, a powerful telepathic tyrant named Kazi is moving west against Europe with an irresistible army of Orcs at his back. The only hope of peace for the rest of the world is for Nils Jarnhann, the Yngling, to infiltrate Kazi's forces and assassinate him.But neither Nils nor Kazi are aware that men from a star colony established by Earth centuries ago are about to return from the stars--or whose side they will take in the coming clash. . . .

    A freak storm on Mars throws Tara, Princess of Helium and beautiful daughter of John Carter, wildly off course after she embarks on an imprudent flight. Gahan, Jed of Gathol, her new admirer, takes off in pursuit and they soon find themselves in a land of bodies without heads and heads without bodies. In Chessmen of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs once again whirls the reader into an entertaining maelstrom of breakneck action. The second novel in this book, Mastermind of Mars, introduces us to Ulysses Paxton. Whisked from the battlefields of the Great War to Mars, Ulysses is pitched into a nightmare world of brain and body transference underpinned by the high adventure we expect from the John Carter of Mars books. Burroughs fans will not be disappointed by this third volume in Leonaur's ongoing series.

    Each of the three must decide if beings have the freedom to be true to themselves, even if it means destruction. An engrossing novel filled with intrigue and hints of romance.

    Collection of erotic gay and lesbian Science Fiction stories of dominance and S&M.

    The Galactic Alliance has prophesied the complete control of the local group of galaxies by the turn of the millennium. Huge, powerful mega-corporations run it all from behind the scenes. The twelve races of the Alliance work as caretakers, shaping and expanding the horizon of knowledge, extending to touch the farthest reaches of space. Frontier colonies populate neighboring galaxies: Andromeda, Fornax, Spirax, and the Magellanic Clouds. Outposts dot M32 and the cluster galaxy of Talcos in Ursa Major, some 200,000,000 light years from the Core Worlds. The battle rages onward to drive out the Arachnid presence. Strange reports of ghost ship sightings, robot warriors, and evidence of ancient human cultures all filter their way across the vast, empty stretches of nothingness to the hearts of the bold, strong, and curious. The mega-corporations have hired on a few good beings to get the job done; the Battlelords. They all have one thing in common: each believes that he, she, or it, can make a difference. They come from everywhere, from the vast savannahs of Cashoulis, to the infernal volcanic regions of Trishmag. From the methane hell of Eridine, to the great Seas of Pythos. They are energy controllers, bounty hunters, Swordsaints, and changelings, aliens from different worlds, with different agendas, thrown together in a morass of danger to carve out a common destiny. Loyalty is to the company, yet corporate devotion never exceeds allegiance to your friends. The mercenary team embodies everything that is valued in society: esprit de corps, honor, and valor. At least that is what the papers say! Your job is a simple one, do anything and everything to stay alive. The company gets all the press. You get to pick up a paycheck. No one cares about methods, but in the 23rd Century, everybody needs a hero!

    As the individuals in the asteroid mining town in Nunn's novel learn self-confidence, their lives change. And as the people organize, the social order changes. The establishment panics and looks for "the usual suspects"-the revolutionary agitators, the bomb-throwers, and entirely misses the secretaries, mothers, factory workers, and servants plotting radical change right under their noses.

    Annotations are lengthy, detailed, and evaluative, often comparing works to other similar titles. Approximately 160 of the 700 annotations are new to this edition; 50-100 others have been extensively revised. Fan publications, serials, periodicals with reference value and nongenre materials of interest to science fiction researchers are reviewed in addition to such standard tools as bibliographies, encyclopedias, dictionaries, directories, and indexes. Major online resources and printed guides to the Internet have been added on a selective basis. The book also features core collection lists for academic, public, and personal research libraries. Aimed at librarians in academic and large public libraries.

    Austin and Ben Bova• Biolog: A.J. Austin by Jay Kay Klein• Secret Names by Harry Turtledove• The Universal Robot by Hans Moravec• City of Dreams by Daniel Hatch• An Empty Wheelhouse by Sean McMullen• Taboos by Mary Caraker• TTCB by William Walling• Killer Asteroids and You by John G. Cramer• An Evening at Dempke's by Janet Lorimer• Contact in the Classroom by Greg Barr• Tranquillity Rose by Stephen L. Burns• The Reference Library by Thomas A. Easton•   Review: Harmony by Marjorie B. Kellogg by Thomas A. Easton•   Review: Lens of the World by R. A. MacAvoy by Thomas A. Easton•   Review: Slow Freight by F. M. Busby by Thomas A. Easton•   Review: Stranger Suns by George Zebrowski by Thomas A. Easton•   Review: Heads by Greg Bear by Thomas A. Easton•   Review: Inside the Funhouse by Mike Resnick by Thomas A. Easton•   Review: Alternate Presidents by Mike Resnick by Thomas A. Easton• Review of the software program "Rudy Rucker's Cellular Automata Laboratory" from Autodesk by Thomas A. Easton• Review of the software program "James Gleick's CHAOS, the Software" from Autodesk by Thomas A. Easton• Analog: A Calendar of Upcoming Events by Anthony R. Lewis

    Maddy, Keegan and Einstein rule their brand-new neighborhood. But then, just as they are getting bored of TV and their skateboards, all three realize that something's not quite right with Crestview Estates. Pets are disappearing. Construction sites are sinking into the ground. And a purple slime is surfacing... It's oozy, it's gooey, it's after them! And nothing's going to get in the way of this slimy sucker.

    This text features over 250 colour plates of costume creations by more than 100 artists, including their personal statements on why and how they practice this art.

    

    Only a few were spared—the few who fled to powerful places like Four Corners and Ayers Rock, relearning the ancient wisdoms of organic foods and crystal meditation, handwork and holism.

    A collection of stories by Edward Bryant

    StraussIsaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, January 1992, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Whole No. 181)Gardner R. Dozois, editorCover art by Bob Eggleton

    In "The Pure Product" an amoral time-traveler embarks upon a harrowing joyride through the Midwest; "The Big Dream" is a 1920s hardboiled detective thriller in the Los Angeles of Raymond Chandler; while Faustfeathers" involves a head-on collision between Christopher Marlowe and the Marx Brothers. Dark visions both satiric and tragic, from the author of Good News from Outer Space: "The Pure Product, " "Mrs Schummel Exits A Winner, " "The Big Dream, " "The Lecturer, " "Hearts Do Not in Eyes Shine, " "Faustfeathers, " "A Clean Escape, " "Not Responsible! Park and Lock It!, " "Man, " "Invaders, " "Judgment Call, " "Buddha Nostril Bird, " "Another Orphan, " and "Buffalo."

    An alien race simultaneously slaughters Commonwealth diplomats and command officers while attacking a partially completed Fifth Foreign Legion fortress. The surviving troops try to reach the League's primary base, where they plan to consolidate and attack the aliens (in Book #2).

    In First Strike, the Freedom Force must destroy a genetically created mistake called "Spider", who rapes human women to produce an army of inhuman spawn. In Outlands Strike, the Reptiloids, a vile race of human-eating mutants, hold the Outlands of Oregon in their slimy grasp--but Blade is coming for dinner!

    Povídky:- Zpívající zvon (The Singing Bell)- Mluvící kámen (The Talking Stone)- Umírající noc (The Dying Night)- Smrtící čerň (The Dust of Death)- Cožpak na jméně záleží? (What's in a Name?)- Ztroskotání u Vesty (Marooned of Vesta)- Výročí (Anniversary)- Minulost nemá žít (The Dead Past)- Nekrolog (Obituary)- Kulečníková koule (The Billiard Ball)- Zrcadlový obraz (Mirror Image)

    Earth has kept its rebirth a secret for some time, but when colonists throughout the stars begin to long for contact with the mother world, violence and greed could once again threaten the planet.

    

    

    

    Chronicling the making of television's most important genre shows located on the outskirts of explored space. The book begins by looking at the history of space stations in science fact and fiction, followed by an indepth analysis of the creation of Deep Space Nine.

    McHugh"Straw for the Fire" by S. A. Stolnack"Love Walked In" by Diane MapesPoetry"Half Sisters" by Ace G. Pilkington"To Rebecca Cann and Mary Leakey, the Search Goes On:" by Sandra J. Lindow"Sunflower" by David LundeDepartments"Editorial: The Queen's English" by Isaac Asimov"Letters""On Books" by Baird Searles"SF Conventional Calendar" by Erwin S. StraussIsaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1992, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Whole No. 183)Gardner R. Dozois, editorCover art by Bob Eggleton

    

    

    Harris - CartoonJoyce Thompson - SynecdocheGregory Benford - A Scientist's NotebookVance Aandahl - The First InventionTanith Lee - OndralumeDoug Grundy - CartoonMarina Fitch - JessicaJohn Jonik - CartoonRay Aldridge - WinedarkHenry Martin - CartoonMarc Laidlaw - The Vulture MaidenCover by Terry Smith for "The Vulture Maiden"

    Borne on the tides of melting polar caps, wafting in the smoke of burning rain forests, the hot wind of death has left its fiery kiss on every nation's cheek. Some are building Arks, self-contained biomes intended to preserve as many species as possible. And others are seeking to destroy them. But one scientist, Stefan Li, refuses to allow his government to complete its destruction of the Earth. Against orders, he activates Liberty, an undersea Ark, and staffs it with as many refugees as he can before its ports are sealed. Li pays for this act of defiance with his life -- his human life. For on board the Ark a computer genius transfers Li's persona into Matrix 101, Liberty's computer net, and Li becomes the Ark. For some 600 years, he will serve as advisor, technician, and unwilling god to the remnants of a once-lovely planet. And his greatest challenge -- and greatest sacrifice -- is yet to come.