Clarke is the most celebrated science fiction author alive. He is—with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Robert A. Heinlein—one of the writers who define science fiction in our time. Now Clarke has cooperated in the preparation of a massive, definitive edition of his collected shorter works. From early work like "Rescue Party" and "The Lion of Comarre," through classics like "The Star," "Earthlight," "The Nine Billion Names of God," and "The Sentinel" (kernel of the later novel, and movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey), all the way to later work like "A Meeting with Medusa" and "The Hammer of God," this immense volume encapsulates one of the great SF careers of all time.

    On Earth, satanist Quinn Dexter possesses a new army of the damned, using them to initiate the annihilation of all Creation. At the same time, Joshua Calvert and Syrinx take their ships in search of an alien god which may hold the solution to the current crisis.

    Remember how Miri and Val Con first met? How about the trouble Priscilla was in before she met Shan? Who can forget the way that Edger and Sheather have of coming to a friend's rescue or contemplating the weave of a carpet?

    Its two tales are prequels to Partners in Necessity, the long-awaited reprinting of their first three novels, Conflict of Honors, Agent of Change, and Carpe Diem. You need not have read their other books before diving into this one. But be warned: you may read straight through until you've finished the sequel to Partners, Plan B. In Local Custom, Er Thom yos'Galen is at odds with his duty: to match with a proper Liaden bride, and provide clan Korval with an heir. His mother observes, You have consistently refused every contract-alliance the head of your line has brought to your attention for the past three years. Permit me to wonder why. Er Thom can't forget Terran scholar Anne Davis, though they agreed to part. Revisiting her one last time he finds Shan yos'Galen, his son. Shan needs Liaden training and Korval needs his skills. Anne loves Er Thom, and knows he risks his melant'i (honor, reputation) if he takes a Terran wife. But she won't be parted from her son. Er Thom and Anne are aided by

    To pay the bills, she became Captain of a rich old lady's interstellar luxury yacht, adding insult to injury. But Cecelia, the rich old lady, had more brains than most admirals Heris had known, and before it was all over, Heris would have a chance to rejoin her beloved space navy -- if she could manage to stop an invading armada.

    6 cassettes.

    Erdmann was given unprecedented access to every aspect of the production of Star Trek Deep Space Nine in order to compile this book which is considered, by some, the ultimate guide to Star Trek's grittiest and most complex series.

    Cherryh's classic adventure of interstellar politics, a spacefaring fugitive, and first contact with a strange race known as "humans."The pride of Chanur previously published by DAW in 1982 ; Chanur's venture previously published in 1985 ; The Kif strike back previously published in 1986.Includes a preview of Chanur's homecoming.

    A being with the ability to alter space and time. A being with a power that will never be fully understood. He is the reason Elfangor came to Earth. He is the reason the Earth now has a fighting chance. And though his actions never seem quite right or wrong, you can be certain they are never, ever what anyone expects.This is the beginning and the middle of the story. A story that needs to be told in order to understand what might happen to the future. The future of the Animorphs. The future of humanity. The future of Earth.He is called the Ellimist. And this is his story . . .

    Johnson, Donald Watt, William F. Touponce, Susan Spencer, and others discussing the novel as it relates to cultural history.

    Sister Lilith - Honoree Fanonne JeffersThe Comet - W.E.B. Du Bois Chicage 1927 - Jewelle GomezBlack No More (novel excerpt) - George S. Schuyler separation anxiety - Evie Shockley Tasting Songs - Leone RossCan You Wear My Eyes - Kalamu ya SalaamLike Daughter - Tananarive Due Greedy Choke Puppy - Nalo Hopkinson Rhythm Travel - Amiri Baraka Buddy Bolden - Kalamu ya SalaamAye, and Gomorrah... - Samuel R. Delany Ganger (Ball Lightning) - Nalo HopkinsonThe Becoming - Akua Lezli HopeThe Goophered Grapevine - Charles W. ChestnuttThe Evening and the Morning and the Night - Octavia E. Butler Twice, at Once, Separated - Linda Addison Gimmile's Songs - Charles R. Saunders At the Huts of Ajala - Nisi Shawl The Woman in the Wall - Steven Barnes Ark of Bones - Henry Dumas Butta's Backyard Barbecue - Tony Medina Future Christmas (novel excerpt) - Ishmael ReedAt Life's Limits - Kiini Ibura Salaam The African Origins of UFOs (novel excerpt) - Anthony JosephThe Astral Visitor Delta Blues - Robert Fleming The Space Traders - Derrick Bell The Pretended - Darryl A. Smith Hussy Strutt - Ama PattersonEssays. Racism and Science Fiction - Samuel R. DelanyWhy Blacks Should Read (and Write) Science Fiction - Charles R. Saunders Black to the Future - Walter MosleyYet Do I Wonder - Paul D. MillerThe Monophobic Response - Octavia E. Butler

    It follows a "What If" scenario where the follow-up expedition in Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness" has occurred, and inexorably fuses the Cold War and Cthulhu Mythos.

    Outcasts from society, the X-MEN are genetic mutants, born with superhuman powers, who harness their special abilities for the greater good. But the human race they fight to protect rejects and fears--even hates--them. Not all mutants seek to protect mankind. One terrorist group--led by the supremely powerful Magneto--seeks to strike first. Battling against prejudice and agents of intolerance, the X-MEN must establish a peaceful coexistence between mutant and mankind or they will surely perish . . .

    I was born at the end of the Reining Age, just as the Earth’s rotation was coming to a final halt.The Sun is about to unleash a helium flash, threatening to swallow all terrestrial planets in the solar system. On Earth, the Unity Government has erected Earth Engines. With them it plans to propel our planet out of the solar system, setting it on a journey into outer space in search of a new sun. The Earth begins its centuries-long, wandering travels through outer space.Just as we began our journey, my grandfather passed away, his burnt body ravaged by infection. In his final moments, he repeated over and over, “Oh, Earth, my wandering Earth...”China Galaxy Science Fiction Award of Year 2000.

    Famine. Disease. Religous war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 2000 Things are going OK in Grantville, West Virginia, and everybody attending the wedding of Mike Stearn's sister (including the entire local chapter of the United Mine Workers of America, which Mike leads) is having a good time. THEN, EVERYTHING CHANGED.... When the dust settles, Mike leads a group of armed miners to find out what happened and finds the road into town is cut, as with a sword. On the other side, a scene out of Hell: a man nailed to a farmhouse door, his wife and daughter attacked by men in steel vests. Faced with this, Mike and his friends don't have to ask who to shoot. At that moment Freedom and Justice, American style, are introduced to the middle of the Thirty Years' War.

    This beautifully painted edition features the original, uncensored artwork and introduces the Metabaron's ancestors and reveals their origins. Suggested for mature readers.

    You can protect yourself from your enemies, but God save you from your allies!

    Here the multi-talented expert in karate and fast-change fast-talk artist narrates three great exploits. A Stainless Steel Rat Is Born describes how the lad graduates from Bit O'Heaven porcuswine farm to jail, finds and rescues a mentor, stowaways to slavery, then helps interplanetary League Navy Captain Varod defeat medieval Capos. Conscripted again in The Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted, he tries to help a planet of peace, inspired by the philosophy of logical robot Mark Forer IV, defend against the invading army, led by the sadistic killer of his mentor, The Bishop. In The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues, Jim, disguised as a futuristic rock-and-roller, must retrieve a missing alien artifact or lose his life.

    It was wrong that only they had access to the mysterious City, which he had always longed to enter. Above all, it was wrong for the Scholars to have sole power over the distribution of knowledge. The High Law imposed these restrictions and many others, though the Prophecy promised that someday knowledge and Machines would be available to everyone. Noren was a heretic. He defied the High Law and had no faith in the Prophecy's fulfillment. But the more he learned of the grim truth about his people's deprivations, the less possible it seemed that their world could ever be changed. It would take more drastic steps than anyone imagined to restore their rightful heritage. Although these three novels were originally published in hardcover as Young Adult books, the second and third are primarily of interest to older teens and adults; the omnibus editions have therefore been issued as adult science fiction.

    With the captain dead, a brave pilot performs a perilous crash landing. Other than three suns-which create perpetual light-and a slight oxygen deficiency, a search party discovers that the planet isn't much different from Earth...until they stumble across a ghostly settlement littered with the human remains of geologists who mysteriously perished exactly sixty years ago. And the most horrific discovery of all: below the surface of the soil, where darkness reigns, live hungry predators with a deadly appetite.Once every sixty years a solar eclipse darkens the skies and allows the blood-hungry creatures to escape from their underground tomb. With only hours before total blackout, everyone must unite in a race to raise the geologists' abandoned ship before becoming a long-awaited meal...

    John HarrisonHunting mother/ Sage WalkerMount Olympus/ Ben Bova Border guards/ Greg Egan Scherzo with tyrannosaur/ Michael SwanwickA hero of the empire/ Robert SilverbergHow we lost the moon, a true story/ Frank W. Allen & Paul J. McAuleyPhallicide/ Charles Sheffield Daddy's world/ Walter Jon WilliamsA Martian romance/ Kim Stanley RobinsonThe sky-green blues/ Tanith LeeExchange rate/ Hal ClementEverywhere/ Geoff Ryman Hothouse flowers/ Mike Resnick Evermore/ Sean Williams Of scorned women & causal loops/ Robert GrossbachSon observe the time/ Kage BakerHonorable mentions: 1999

    Those who have held command over vessels of every shape and era can meet there and relax. This omnibus edition contains all six volumes of the series.

    Modesitt that comprise a larger story unit, Timedivers Dawn and The Timegod (expanded from his first novel, The Fires of Paratime). They were formerly published in mass market original form and are now combined and published together for the first time, in trade paperback. They are somewhat reminiscent of the Change War stories of Fritz Lieber, and although they are science fiction, they contain intriguing connections to the fantasy universe of Modesitts Recluce novels.

    In "Selected Stories," thirteen of Sturgeon's very best tales have been gathered into one collection: Here are stories of love and darkness, transcendence and obsession, alien contact and human interaction. In the devastating wake of a nuclear holocaust, an actress performs her swan song before a small audience of survivors. A machine is possessed and intent upon destruction. Humankind's place in the vast cosmos is explored, as is the strange humanity of evil. In the author's acclaimed story "The Man Who Lost the Sea," a life is reconstructed in bizarre shattered fragments. And in "Slow Sculpture," Sturgeon's award-winning classic, a breast cancer patient surrenders to a healer's most unorthodox methods. Lyrical, often witty, frequently provocative, and always surprising, "Selected Stories" covers a wide range of human and inhuman emotion and experience, deftly traversing the borders between science fiction, dark fantasy, and horror. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Theodore Sturgeon including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the University of Kansas's Kenneth Spencer Research Library and the author's estate, among other sources.

    It is a dangerous stance to take.

    in archaeology and decided to take a break from your crummy life for the summer by working on an archaeological dig in Israel?What if you met a great guy in Jerusalem who happened to be a world-famous theoretical physicist working on a crazy idea to build a wormhole that might make time-travel possible … someday?What if he had a nutball colleague who turned the theory into reality — and then decided to use YOU as a guinea pig to make sure it was safe?What if the nutball had a gun and went on a crazy, impossible mission to hunt down and kill the apostle Paul?It’s A.D. 57 when Rivka Meyers walks out of the wormhole into a world she’s only studied in books. Ancient Jerusalem is awesome! Rivka can’t believe her friend Ari Kazan’s theory actually worked. But when she runs into Ari’s wacko colleague, Damien West, in the Temple, Rivka starts to smell a rat. When Ari discovers that Damien and Rivka have gone through a wormhole that’s on the edge of collapse, he has to make a horrible choice: Follow them and risk never coming back — or lose the woman of his dreams forever.About The Book:Transgression is a time-travel suspense novel that mixes science, history, religion, romance, and suspense. It’s about learning to stand up for yourself, when you just want to be let alone. It’s about making hard decisions. It’s about asking whether life has meaning and whether God exists — and becoming a badass fighter for justice, even if you don’t have the answers. Transgression won the 2001 Christy award for best futuristic novel in Christian fiction. Transgression will take you on a wretched, miserable, dangerous vacation through the filthy, bandit-ridden streets of first-century Jerusalem. Transgression is the first novel in the City of God series:Book 1: Transgression (A.D. 57)Book 2: Premonition (A.D. 57-62)Book 3: Retribution (A.D. 62-66)Excerpt:Rivka turned and ran. “Ari!” she screamed. “Help!”She raced outside into the sunlight, sprinted madly through a dark grove of trees with gnarled branches. Her heart pounded in her chest. Her ragged breath rasped in her ears. Was he following? Faster! Tears fogged her eyes. Her leather sandals tore at her feet. Trying to look back over her shoulder, she tripped and fell. Dust flew up all around her.Coughing, she clambered to her feet and dared to look back. The man was nowhere in sight.Rivka panted until she caught her breath. Her left wrist throbbed from the fall. She massaged it while she squinted into the trees, afraid that the man might be lurking in the shadows. Nothing happened.Finally, she turned around to get her bearings.She blinked twice and then stared. Across a small valley massive stone walls rose. Herodian masonry. Jerusalem limestone. Towering white walls. It looked like…But that was impossible. She closed her eyes, breathed deeply three times, and opened them again. Absurd. Had she gone loony or something?Rivka had visited the Temple Mount twice and studied hundreds of pictures during three years of graduate school. But she had never seen it looking like this. So pure. So spotless.So new.

    Now one scientist, Dan Sylveste, will stop at nothing to solve the Amarantin riddle before ancient history repeats itself. With no other resources at his disposal, Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship Nostalgia for Infinity. But as he closes in on the secret, a killer closes in on him. Because the Amarantin were destroyed for a reason — and if that reason is uncovered, the universe—and reality itself — could be irrecoverably altered….

    But before that dawn there was a night, and it is in the darkness that souls are made...or broken.

    They must act as soldier/protectors of the far more civilized races who have long since turned away from war... — Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr was a battle-hardened professional. So when she and those in her platoon who'd survived the last deadly encounter with the Others were yanked from a well-deserved leave for what was supposed to be "easy" duty as the honor guard for a diplomatic mission to the non-Confederation world of the Silsviss, she was ready for anything.At first it seemed that all she'd have to contend with was bored troops getting into mischief, and breaking in the new Second Lieutenant who had been given command of her men.Sure, there'd been rumors of the Others - the sworn enemies of the Confederation - being spotted in this sector of space. But there were always rumors. The key thing was to recruit the Silsviss into the Confederation before the Others either attacked or claimed this lizardlike race of warriors for their own side. And everything seemed to be going perfectly. Maybe too perfectly...

    It amounts to the sudden and complete abolition of human privacy--forever. Then, as society reels, the same technology proves able to look backwards in time as well. What happens next is a story only Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter could tell. The Light of Other Days is a novel that will change your view of what it is to be human.

    J. Cherryh's upcoming new science fiction novel Hammerfall (Avon Eos, 7/01), is the perfect opportunity to revisit this author's strong backlist, including the latest book, Devil to the Belt (Warner, 12/00). Ranging from Earth to the asteroids and beyond, the acclaimed novels first published as Heavy Time and Hellburner are knife-edged thrillers of deadly intrigue in an era of dangerous transition. In the future world of the Merchanters and the Alliance, emerging new forces, including the Union and the Fleet, are challenging the strangle-holds of global governments and world-spanning corporate cartels. But it will be ordinary people -- the innocent and the unlucky -- who are trapped in the turmoil when interstellar powers collide.

    Designed to heighten interest in a fun and exciting topic, this book will lead readers to meaningful intellectual, social, and historic investigations. Contributing authors include Mary W. Shelly, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bram Stoker, Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jules Verne, Jack London, Ray Bradbury, and Kurt Vonnegut. For fans of science fiction, fantasy, and the stories presented here, who appreciate that they represent the best of humanity, and include potential warnings for where humanity is headed.

    How can Akiko head a rescue mission when she's afraid to be on the school's safety patrol? The team includes -- Spuckler Boach, Gax, Poog, and Mr. Beeba.

    He thought it might be easier if the Animorphs had never existed. If they'd never met Elfangor. If they all had the chance to be "normal" kids.Jake gets his wish.But things aren't quite as simple as they seem. Just because the Animorphs no longer exist doesn't mean the Yeerks no longer exist. Except now Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, and Marco can't morph. They don't even know the Yeerks are out there. And it's not such a wonderful life. . . .

    When it is uncovered, the very heart of the Federation will be ripped apart! Only the crew of Deep Space 9 can stop it but will they have time?

    Nineteen tales from Michael Swanwick's best short fiction of the past decade are gathered here for the first time, including the 1999 Hugo Award-nominated "Radiant Doors" and "Wild Minds" and that year's Hugo winning story, "The Very Pulse of the Machine." The collection also features "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O," written especially for this volume.Contents"A User’s Guide to Michael Swanwick" by Bruce Sterling“Ancient Engines”“Ice Age”“In Concert”“Microcosmic Dog”“Midnight Express”“Mother Grasshopper”“North of Diddy-Wah-Diddy”“Radiant Doors”“Radio Waves”“Riding the Giganotosaur”“Scherzo the Tyrannosaur”“The Changeling’s Tale”“The Dead”"The Mask”“The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O”“The Very Pulse of the Machine”“The Wisdom of the Old Earth”“Walking Out”“Wild Minds”

    

    Will this jeopardize the relationship between space colonies that have been solidifying over the years?Personal gain is the driving force behind the person controlling the chaos. His goal is to break the long-standing trade relationship and by doing so weakening the planets and their leaders. He stops at nothing and forces the governments to conform to his wishes. The spread of misleading information, espionage, and mysterious assassinations are paving his path to his goals of destruction.Spies and traitors disrupt the peacekeeping efforts and once trusted friends now become adversaries and terrorists become allies.The freighter ship New Horizon on a commercial mission is not immune from the mayhem. The crew struggles not only with the issues at hand but their past and how the decisions they make now will affect their future.Terrorists have infiltrated the New Horizon as well. The crew is faced with enemies both visible and invisible. Trust becomes a main focal point and betrayal is commonplace.Take a space adventure ride on the New Horizon to find out who is causing the chaos and why!

    Trigger Argee is a crack shot, with reflexes that make lightning look lethargic, and also a top agent of the galaxy's Federation of the Hub. Separately, they have been making life miserable for human criminals, unfriendly aliens, and nefarious members of all species. But when a danger to the entire Hub civilization brought these two together, the galaxy would never be the same!

    Auden We live, as we dream -- alone.Joseph Conrad So begins the screenplay of one of the greatest movies of all time: Alien. For the first time the complete script of Ridley Scott's legendary film Alien has been cleared for publication. The package will be the complete script, including scenes filmed but not released into the theatres, hitherto unseen stills from the films, storyboards, a foreword by Ridley Scott and an introduction by Paul Sammon, author of the bestselling Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner .

    First and foremost, Pohl is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF stories, several hundred in all. Even while writing his bestselling triple-crown (Hugo, Nebula, Campbell Award) novel Gateway and the other Heechee Saga novels, he has always written short fiction.Now, for the first time, he has gathered together the best of his many stories. Spanning the decades, these tales are in their way a living history of science fiction. Because Frederik Pohl has been on the frontlines of the field since the halcyon days of the late 1930s, and has written short stories in every decade since. And because he has always been a keen observer of the human condition and the world that is shaped by it, his stories reflect the currents of political movements, social trends, major events that have shaken the world . . .Yet at their core, all his stories are most acutely concerned with people. All sorts of people. Some are people you'll love, some you'll hate. But you will need to find out what happens to the people who inhabit these stories. Because Frederik Pohl imbues his characters with a depth and individuality that makes them as real as people you see every day. Of course, he also employs a mind-boggling variety of scientific ideas and science fictional tropes with which his characters must interact. And he does it all with seemingly no effort at all. That's some trick. Not everyone can do that . . . but that's why he was named a Grand Master of Science Fiction by his peers in the Science Fiction Writers of America.Here are his two Hugo Award winning stories, "Fermi and Frost" and "The Meeting" (with C. M. Kornbluth), along with such classic novellas as the powerful "The Gold at the Starbow's End" and "The Greening of Bed-Stuy," and stories such as "Servant of the People," "Shaffery Among the Immortals," and "Growing Up in Edge City," all finalists for major awards. And dozens of other tales, like the wonderful "The Mayor of Mare Tranq" and the provocative "The Day the Martians Landed" and many others.Altogether, a grand collection of thought-provoking, entertaining science fiction by one of the all-time greats!

    Not only a telepath, but a xenotelepath, able to communicate mentally not just with humans, but with alien intelligences. And she turned out to be one of the most powerful telepaths in the history of the galactic civilization called the Hub. First she had to deal with an alien race that humans hadn't realized were intelligent, and who were about to eliminate those troublesome humans who thought they were colonizing an uninhabited world. Then, she had to fend off the secret psi agents of the Psychological Corps who took a dim view of any telepath, let alone one with Telzey's powers, operating outside of their control. Next, she stumbled across a telepathic serial killer, who used an unstoppable predator, under his mental control, to hunt and kill his victims -- and Telzey was to be the catch of the day. It was fortunate for the human race that she survived, since she next found herself in the middle of a secret war between two hidden races of genetically engineered humans. They called it the "Lion Game," and they made the mistake of thinking that in this clash of predators, Telzey was just a harmless kitten. But when the dust settled, Telzey would be the only one purring....

    When believers in Yeshua (Jesus) create a politically explosive situation that threatens the balance of peace between Israel and nearby countries, the Israelis must send a team of four elite soldiers back to film the theft of Jesus? body from the tomb and thus disprove Christianity. The team, consisting of a Special Forces soldier as leader, an ex-American astronaut as engineering specialist, an archaeologist, and a linguist, has exactly seventy-two hours to collect the video evidence. Drawn into a web of first century deception and death, the only way to escape is for the team to change the past. In the present, a traitor attempts to sabotage the mission and seize control of the military complex. The Special Forces leader operating in the past is the only one who can reveal him, but he is trapped two thousand years away. Even with a time machine, time is running out... * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Amy Deardon is a skeptic who was stunned by objective evidence supporting the resurrection of Jesus. Her novel presents some of this evidence in a fictional adventure that appeals to readers regardless of their religious affiliation or preconceptions. This is her first novel. *2009 PLUTO AWARD WINNER* In January 2010 "A Lever Long Enough" was awarded the annual Pluto award from the ezine Y30 Sci-Fi, a speculative fiction review site that highlights works respectful of Christian values. * WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING… “Who wouldn’t want to time-travel back to first century Jerusalem to see if the Resurrection really happened? Amy Deardon has given me the next best thing with her novel bringing old Jerusalem to life. I raced through the book at lighspeed and enjoyed it immensely. Strong characters and an unpredictable plot made this a book I’ll want to read again.” —RANDY INGERMANSON, Christy Award-Winning Author of "Transgression" and "Oxygen" * “If you could go back to Christ’s crucifixion, would you do it? What if the only way you could was by time-traveling with skeptics bent on proving Christianity is based on a lie? Author Amy Deardon tackles these provocative questions in her phenomenal debut novel: A Lever Long Enough. Readers will find themselves enveloped in the scope and import of this adventurous tale where love, loyalty, and faith will be tested in the crucible of first century Jerusalem.” —WAYNE THOMAS BATSON, Bestselling author of "The Door Within" trilogy, "Isle Of Swords," and "Isle Of Fire" * “Amy Deardon’s debut novel is compelling, intriguing and explosive! Fans of Michael Crichton, Mark Mynheir, and Creston Mapes will love the fast-paced, character-driven and suspense-filled plot. I cannot wait to see what else Deardon has in store for her fans!” —THOMAS PHILLIPS, Author of "The Molech Prophecy" * “Did Jesus rise from the dead? Deardon wrestles with this question in an exhilarating adventure full of high technology, romance, and treachery that excites the imagination. There are no easy answers, only compelling arguments that will challenge your beliefs—whatever they may be.” —RALPH HAMILTON MD, Professor of Surgery, Emeritus,University of Pennsylvania * “Whiz-bang twists in a never-ending series of surprises and subterfuge drag the reader right inside all the thrills.

    

    The Heretic is a new kind of story, blending high-speed action with the fantasy elements of virtual reality. In the shadows of the net, a battle rages among powerful programmers whom novices see as no less than wizards. The prize: control of the very fabric of reality.

    Collects the six futuristic adventures of Mok--whose knowledge of the Galilee Man offers hope to the poverty-stricken Welfaros--and his travels through virtual time.

    But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field, including:Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Greg Bear * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Hal Clement * Greg Egan * H. B. Fyfe * R. A. Lafferty * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ursula K. Le Guin * Jack McDevitt * Larry Niven * G. David Nordley * Edgar Pangborn * Kim Stanley Robinson * James H. Schmitz * Cordwainer Smith * Michael Swanwick * James Tiptree, Jr. * John Varley * Vernor VingeThese are the stories of discovering those possibilities-the stories of the explorers and pioneers who push the envelope further out--exciting tales of alien landscapes and adventures on far distant shores that are the heart and soul of science fiction.Contents ix • Preface (Explorers: SF Adventures to Far Horizons) • essay by Gardner Dozois1 • The Sentinel • [2001] • (1951) • shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke9 • Moonwalk • (1952) • novelette by H. B. Fyfe41 • Grandpa • (1955) • novelette by James H. Schmitz60 • The Red Hills of Summer • (1959) • novelette by Edgar Pangborn90 • The Longest Voyage • (1960) • novelette by Poul Anderson115 • Hot Planet • (1963) • shortstory by Hal Clement133 • Drunkboat • [The Instrumentality of Mankind] • (1963) • novelette by Cordwainer Smith158 • Becalmed in Hell • [Known Space] • (1965) • shortstory by Larry Niven169 • Nine Hundred Grandmothers • (1966) • shortstory by R. A. Lafferty178 • The Keys to December • (1966) • novelette by Roger Zelazny198 • Vaster Than Empires and More Slow • (1971) • novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin222 • A Meeting With Medusa • (1971) • novelette by Arthur C. Clarke255 • The Man Who Walked Home • (1972) • shortstory by James Tiptree, Jr.268 • Long Shot • (1972) • shortstory by Vernor Vinge279 • In the Hall of the Martian Kings • (1976) • novella by John Varley313 • Ginungagap • (1980) • novelette by Michael Swanwick339 • Exploring Fossil Canyon • (1982) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson359 • Promises to Keep • (1984) • novelette by Jack McDevitt374 • Lieserl • (1993) • shortstory by Stephen Baxter389 • Crossing Chao Meng Fu • (1997) • novelette by G. David Nordley416 • Wang's Carpets • (1995) • novelette by Greg Egan443 • A Dance to Strange Musics • (1998) • novelette by Gregory Benford462 • Approaching Perimelasma • (1998) • novelette by Geoffrey A. Landis

    

    You can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a library of sorrows...Table Of Contents: The Reflections Of Ghosts Pink Pills The Flaying Season Union Dick Wakizashi Dissecting The Soul Precious Metal Sisters Of No Mercy Heart for Heart’s Sake The Ballad Of Moosecock Lip Face The Pressman The Palace Of Nothingness The Rusted Gates Of Heaven Immolation Unlimited Daylight The Library Of Sorrows Nom de Guerre The Color Shrain

    The definitive reference and essential companion to the classic series Each spread contains a minutely detailed and annotated drawing.

    Each card is a careful reproduction of one of Giger's paintings, and is interpreted by philosopher-magician Akron in a booklet of instructions, included with the set. To Akron Tarot is like an inexhaustibe mine of symbols, suited to manifest Giger's aesthetics of apocalypse in literary style. Akron resorts to the tradition of the Tarot in order to convey the messages of Baphomet - a medieval secret symbol -- which is of special significance in Giger's work.H.R. Giger is a painter, Oscar-award winner and cult figure of an international artistic community, for which his aesthetics of the apocalypse represent inspiration and spiritual healing. His pictures are gripping, indeed sometimes shocking visions - they shake us from our unconsciousness as they relentlessly point to the hidden inner world of all things. The art of Giger is a journey to the most ancient destination of mankind: birth and death, love and war, hope and the destruction of life.

    But what will happen when she is presented with the choice to go back home or stay in a century she doesn't belong in? Read this complete Novel to find out. It's FREE!http://www.kimberleycomeaux.com/wish....

    Now learn the codes of Andorian honor, ancient ways of behavior enforced at knife point and exalted in song. Walk the glacier paths and fly above the towering moraines on ice-blue Andoria. Pilot the sleek, powerful ships of the Andorian Free Trader fleet, or serve proudly on the all-Andorian starship, the U.S.S. Eagle. Among the Clans: The Andorians contains detailed information on the history, planetology, and geography of Andoria and a guide to their colony worlds across the Andor Sector.

    This title contains many colour works which document their airbrush technique.

    Water supplies are being rationed in cities across the Northern Hemisphere, and political tensions everywhere are running high...In the storytelling tradition of Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy comes a tale of international climate-induced crisis sparked by the hottest year on record.When an ecological catastrophe changes the face of Northern China only the country's panicked leaders know the full extent of the disaster - and to ensure their survival they are going to do whatever they must to keep it that way...Fearing blame for the disaster's grisly toll, the Politburo gather in secrecy inside Beijing's famed Temple of Heaven - and issue instructions for the Army's top gene-technologist to initiate a startling plan of action.Across the Pacific in San Diego, Richard Kirby, a promising biochemist at Immunological Technologies prepares to announce a breakthrough in medicine. His introduction of a third strand into the double helix of Watson and Crick will unite organic chemistry with gene therapy, and ignite the imagination of millions...But when Kirby travels to Geneva to make public the news, he inadvertently sets in motion a chain of events that threatens to derail more than just Beijing's carefully scripted plans for the U.S. Kirby also impedes the White House's last-ditch strategy for dealing with Camilla Montoya - Mexico's troublesome first woman president - when he attracts the fiery leader's attention at the WHO conference.From the moment of that chance meeting, until Kirby and Montoya's eventful reunion at its biologically alarming conclusion, Ninth Day of Creation explores that rarely-glimpsed world borne of science and politics in full collision, and delivers a tale so convincingly detailed as to guarantee its unique placement among science thrillers.

    Little do they know that within the walls of the old church, a secret, ancient quest is reaching its final goal, and they are the crucial element that will bring it to an end. Continuing the epic saga of Soulwind, a tale spanning space, time, and all the boundaries of adventure.

    government freelancer, stays busy testing new psychotropics on himself and unsuspecting citizens. Walter's conscience never interferes with his work--until he's asked to help sabotage Bobby Kennedy's presidential campaign. The ghosts who've moved into his apartment aren't much comfort. Then two outre femmes fatales show up and frog-march Walter out of Max's Kansas City before the Velvet Underground can finish their first song. The ladies have a mission. They need to save New York--both his and theirs. Called "infernally clever" by Locus, Going, Going, Gone is a deeply entertaining novel that closes Jack Womack's acclaimed Ambient series and serves up an apt diagnosis of modern America. "Daringly, scaringly distinct in contemporary fiction."--Marjorie Preston, Philadelphia Weekly "The action moves with amphetamine quickness, and Womack's surefooted control over his material completely sucks us in."--Bruce Bauman, Bookforum

    Perhaps best known for the Liaden Universe® stories and novels co-written with Steve Miller, Lee's solo short fiction is also a treat.Endeavors of Will features eight early short stories -- including Balrog Award nominee "A Matter of Ceremony" form Amazing Stories -- as well as one of her rare poems.The stories here range from out-and-out adventure to subtle mood pieces. They first appeared in such varied magazines as Star Triad, Amazing Stories, Charles de Lint's Dragonfields, and Owlflight, as well as Fantasy Book, the SPWAO Showcase, and Times Lost, Worlds Forgotten.If you're in the market for a highly readable and somewhat unpredictable collection of fantasy and science fiction, with subtle humor, irony, and good story sense, Endeavors of Will by Sharon Lee may well be what you're looking for!Included in this collection are: Stolen Laughter, The Winter Consort, The Pretender, The Silver Pathway, Stormshelter, The Girl, The Cat and Deviant, A Matter of Ceremony, The Handsome Prince, and the poem Cards.

    Born and raised to withstand a zero-gravity environment, the floaters are considered the dregs of the universe -- an outcast society of space workers who have been ostracized and nearly enslaved.Murphy thought she could rise above her floater heritage. But then she was expelled from her military academy and forced to work as a test pilot for a powerful corporation. It's a job with many risks -- and questionable rewards. Because her mission requires her to steal something from a rival company -- a faster-than-light technology that could liberate floaters once and for all....

    Up until now, the pattern of Miss Keene's existence has been that of lying in her bed or sitting in her wheelchair reading books, listening to a radio, eating, napping, taking medication - and waiting for something different to happen. Miss Keene doesn't know it yet, but her period of waiting has just ended, for something different is about to happen to her, has in fact already begun to happen, via two most unaccountable telephone calls in the middle of a stormy night, telephone calls routed directly through - the Twilight Zone."This popular long-running series centered around paranoia, uncertainty and bizarre events, often with a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist. Series creator Rod Serling called The Twilight Zone, "a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man... a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It lies between the pit of man's fears, and the summit of his knowledge."

    The Correspondent's senses should have picked up the arrival of any normal human. Then the stranger spoke in the language of the Home Time, then their world went dark.

    His favorite TV commercials were the ones that showed just how much fun he would have teaching Little Brother™ to do all the things that he could already do himself. But every year, Mommy had said that Peter wasn't ready for a Little Brother™. Until this year.

    

    Somtow has produced the Ultimate, Ultimate, Ultimate Mallworld collection. Included are all the original stories (and the one story left out of the Starblaze trade edition), all the ads for the Mallworld products (left out in the TOR mass market re-printing), and all the original artwork by Karl Kofoed (the artwork was not included in the TOR edition) and Kofoed's cover art (left out of the Meisha Merlin edition!) With a new introduction by the author. Mallworld was an iconic science fiction novel of the 1980s and a pungent satire of the commercialism of the era as well as eerily prophetic. The Selespridar have locked us, the planet Earth, part of our solar system, and our sun up in a force field because the rest of the Galaxy plain and simple does not want to associate with us. Do we care? Not really. We have Mallworld, the shopping center the size of a planet! So come along and play human pinball at the arcades, order your custom-designed baby at Storkways, Inc., experience your ultimate death at the Way Out Suicide Parlors-death by vampire is a special way to go and just one of the three-hundred ways you can decide to end your life.

    I'vereleased this story, along with five others, under the terms of a CreativeCommons license that gives you, the reader, a bunch of rights that copyrightnormally reserves for me, the creator.I recently did the same thing with the entire text of my novel, "Down and Out inthe Magic Kingdom" (http://craphound.com/down), and it was an unmitigatedsuccess. Hundreds of thousands of people downloaded the book -- good news -- andthousands of people bought the book -- also good news. It turns out that, asnear as anyone can tell, distributing free electronic versions of books is agreat way to sell more of the paper editions, while simultaneously getting thebook into the hands of readers who would otherwise not be exposed to my work.I still don't know how it is artists will earn a living in the age of theInternet, but I remain convinced that the way to find out is to do basicscience: that is, to do stuff and observe the outcome. That's what I'm doinghere. The thing to remember is that the very *worst* thing you can do to me asan artist is to not read my work -- to let it languish in obscurity anddisappear from posterity. Most of the fiction I grew up on is out-of-print, andthis is doubly true for the short stories. Losing a couple bucks to people whowould have bought the book save for the availability of the free electronic textis no big deal, at least when compared to the horror that is being irrelevantand unread. And luckily for me, it appears that giving away the text for freegets me more paying customers than it loses me.

    CambiasJeremiah - Jack CadyShort StoriesHeat - Dale BaileyPolitics - Mark W. TiedemannPoop - Ray VukcevichFidelity: A Primer - Michael BlumleinPandora's Box—Open with Care - Robert SheckleyNor Unbuild the Cage - Sheila FinchDepartmentsBooks To Look For - Charles de LintBooks - Elizabeth HandFilm: The Quantum Physics of Lost Chances - Kathi MaioA Scientist's Notebook: Risks and Realities - Gregory BenfordComing AttractionsCuriosities - Paul Di FilippoArtTom Cheney, Mark Heath, Frank CothamCover "Saturn from Iapetus" by Chesley Bonestell

    This collection of short stories by Elisabeth Vonarburg presents works of vivid imagery and emotional intensity, set in the same future as the award winning novels The Silent City and The Maerlande Chronicles.Contains: Band ohne Ende -- In the pit -- Janus -- ...Stay thy flight -- Home by the sea -- The knot -- The slow engine of time -- Chambered Nautilus.

    Developing arguments about specific texts and movements throughout the twentieth-century, the book is a readable discussion of this most popular of genres. It also uses the extreme conditions offered by science fiction to develop new insights into the language of the literary context. The discussion ranges from a detailed investigation of new words and metaphors, to the exploration of new worlds, from pulp science fiction to the genre's literary masterpieces, its special effects and poetic expression. Speculations and extrapolations throughout the book engage the reader in thought-experiments and discussion points, with selected further reading making it a useful source book for classroom and seminar.

    chronicles the events of the far future... the golden age of the Third Imperium. Now this award-winning series is again available... the rules, the adventures, the supplements, the source books, and the board games, compiled into convenient individual reference volumes.Volume One in the Classic Traveller Reprint series contains all nine original rules books.0- Introduction to Traveller1- Characters and Combat 2- Starships3- Worlds and Adventures4- Mercenary 5- High Guard6- Scouts7- Merchant Prince8- Robots"

    A comprehensive guide to all thirty-two TV episodes and the two feature films, with information about regular cast and guests, together with notes and fascinating asides.

    Wollheim - The Rag ThingPhilip Jose Farmer - Sail on! Sail on!Alfred Bester - Fondly FahrenheitArthur C. Clarke - The Next TenantsPoul Anderson - Call Me JoeJ.G. Ballard - The 1000 Dreams of StellavistaGordon R. Dickson - Computers Don´t ArgueStephen Goldin - Sweet Dreams, MelissaLarry Niven - Inconstant MoonPiers Anthony - In The BarnUrsula K. Le Guin - Nine LivesJames Tiptree Jr. - The Psychologist Who Wouldn´t Do Awful Things to RatsFrancois Camoin - Some Of My Friends Are AmericansWilliam Gibson - The Gernsback ContinuumBruce Sterling - Spider RoseKim Stanley Robinson - The Lucky StrikeJohn Varley - Press EnterMichael F. Flynn - EifelheimConnie Willis - Schwarzschild RadiusPat Murphy - Rachel in LoveMarc Laidlaw - Bruno´s ShadowRobert Silverberg - Enter A Soldier. Later:Enter Another David Brin - Dr. Pak´s PreschoolJudith Moffet - Tiny TangoGreg Egan - The CaressJoe Haldeman - PassagesIan McDonald - Toward KilimanjaroMaureen McHugh - ProtectionAll in German translation.

    It was to be the flagship story of a fiction/non-fiction anthology depicting a positive future, and was to include a list of specific technologies. I had never before written a story to anyone's specifications, but surprisingly, it was both a fun and interesting experience. The story was finished, but the anthology was canceled, so I re-wrote the novella, taking out the parts that were of little interest to me, and honing the rest to suit my own taste.The result, now entitled Goddesses, sold to Ellen Datlow at SciFi.com, where it was published in serial form beginning July 4, 2000. It went on to become the first e-fiction to win a Nebula Award, and as a result, finally saw hardcopy publication in the Nebula Awards Showcase 2002.--Linda Nagata, from the Mythic Island Press e-book preface

    If so, what is to become of those doomed permanently to the unemployment lines? How will the government deal with them? The answers to these questions are the focus of Down To A Sunless Sea, a powerful, thought-provoking new science fiction novel. Set against an international backdrop, the story opens with Alex Kinkade, former British army officer. It is the year 2036, and he is in charge of WE FEED Camp 114, a refugee camp deep in the jungles of war-torn Brazil. Alex Kinkade's heroic but unorthodox humanitarianism finally comes to the attention of Dr. Paul Vogel, famed American sociologist. Creator of PROJECT EDEN--his 'final solution' to the unemployment crisis--Vogel sees in the idealistic Englishman the one man who can make of it a success. Kinkade has different ideas, however. He sees Vogel as a man to be stopped--at any cost. Coming to the aid of a small Texas town whose unemployed citizens are about to be hauled away by US army troops, Alex Kinkade makes his final stand against a world gone mad.

    The millennium didn't really get underway until January 1, 2001. You thought you were safe? Think again! Something much, MUCH, MUCH worse is ahead. The new millennium will bring nothing but disaster and destruction. As six unique people rush feverishly to resolve catastrophes both personal and otherwise, they cannot ignore the loudly ticking clock that will bring THE END OF THE WORLD. And this time its no psychic premonition; it s more real than you ve ever dreamed.

    RickertThe Mandrake Garden - Brian StablefordSeven Sisters - Rick WilberDave Dickel's Historic Interview with the Father of the Hart Cart - Nancy EtchemendyDepartmentsBooks to Look For - Charles de LintBooks - James SallisPlumage from Pegasus: The Factchecker Only Rings Once - Paul Di FilippoA Scientist's Notebook: When Technology Fails - Gregory BenfordComing AttractionsCuriosities - David LangfordArtTom Cheney, S. Harris, Danny Shanahan, Benita EpsteinCover by David A. Hardy for "Mad for the Mints"

    FriesnerChromosome Circus - Amy Sterling CasilThe Anencephalic Fields - Dale BaileyShort StoriesThe Way, the Truth . . . - John WhitbournThe Vampires Who Saved Christmas - S.N. DyerTales from the Net: The Prince of Love - Rand B. LeeDifferent Kinds of Darkness - David LangfordDepartmentsBooks to Look For - Charles de LintBooks - Elizabeth HandPlumage from Pegasus - Paul Di FilippoA Scientist's Notebook: Watching the Future on TV - Gregory BenfordIndex to Volumes 96 & 97 Curiosities - Paul Di FilippoArtBill Long, John Jonik, S. Harris, Frank CothamCover by Kent Bash for "Chromosome Circus"

    Her friends bring her back to the place to prove to her that it was all just an illusion--only to make a stunning discovery. This novella is a great example of Wilhelm's ability to mix philosophical and emotional themes with high tension science fiction ideas.

    Question everything.Deus Ex, the remarkable new action/RPG from Eidos, envelops PC gamers in a dark and disturbing world. It's the new millennium, five minutes before the apocalypse, and chaos runs rampant. From this maelstrom of violence and suffering, an ancient conspiracy bent on world domination emerges from the shadows of legend. No one believes they exist–no one but you. Deus Ex: Prima's Official Strategy Guide gives you all the crucial information to succeed as a nanotechnology-augmented operative, infiltrate the conspirators' world of lies and betrayal, and uncover the truth. Prima shows you how to travel the globe while developing your alter ego, unique skills, and nanotech augmentations, and while building a network of allies. You'll learn to employ strength, strategy, or action where appropriate. Question everything . . . except Deus Ex: Prima's Official Strategy Guide . The guide includes:• Step-by-step walkthrough of each mission• Hints and tips to overthrow the conspiracy• Maps for every mission• Rundown of characters and organizations• Pointers on developing your character with skills, augmentations, weapons, and upgrades• Tactics for defeating the enemy• Special section that exposes the truth behind the action

    In a little while, supposedly, the ship will be landed and specimens taken: vegetable, mineral and, if any, animal. These will be brought back to overpopulated Earth, where technicians will evaluate them and, if everything is satisfactory, stamp their findings with the word 'inhabitable' and open up yet another planet for colonization. These are the things that are supposed to happen... Picture of the crew of the spaceship E-89: Captain Ross, Lieutenant Mason, Lieutenant Carter. Three men who have just reached a place which is as far from home as they will ever be. Three men who in a matter of minutes will be plunged into the darkest nightmare reaches of the Twilight Zone."This popular long-running series centered around paranoia, uncertainty and bizarre events, often with a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist. Series creator Rod Serling called The Twilight Zone, "a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man... a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It lies between the pit of man's fears, and the summit of his knowledge."

    N. Dyer - Sunrise BluesFrank Cotham - CartoonCharles de Lint - Books to Look ForJames Sallis - BooksAlbert E. Cowdrey - MoshLucius Shepard - FilmsRobert Loy - A Billboard Lovely as a TreeSteven Utley - Cloud by Van GoghPaul Di Filippo - Plumage from PegasusEsther M. Friesner - The Godsman and the GoblinPeter Atkins - CuriositiesCover by Vincent Di Fate for "Mosh"

    Collected fiction and non-fiction of the pioneer Russian science-fiction writer.

    He's the millionaire owner of an internationally famous Computer Generated Entertainment company. Everything in his life is vintage millennium cool. But his world is about to take a bizarre turn.

    The Concordance to Cordwainer Smith lists and identifies all the people, places, and things in his huge future history. Where known, the origin of the name, place, or thing is given. Many previously unknown references have been added as well as entries from the revised version of "War No. 81- Q.". The book also includes an annotated timeline of the Instrumentality, and an expanded and updated bibliography to the fiction of Paul M. A. Linebarger (Cordwainer Smith, et al.).

    The sentient races of the Galactic community want him, fear him, despise him and idolize him. That’s news to Alexander—he doesn’t even believe in extra-terrestrials. Go figure.Alexander is a nobody. He had his chance in the NFL, but injuries forced him out into the real world. He drones about the planet in his airliner, shuffling people from point A to point B, thinking he was meant for more than this.So do the Scythians.The Scythians, a smallish, semi-telepathic sentient race, think they've found their man. The Scythians are on the verge of economic hegemony over the Galaxy, but the warrior race of Chem stand in their way. Having no military of their own, the Scythians use that brilliant, adolescent and violent race from Terra--Humans--as cudgel. After all, every Galactic child knows the violent history of Terra. Terrans are the most physically powerful sentient beings in the Galaxy and their propensity to technological growth—from cart to nuclear bomb in a century—is unheard of and terrifying. Then there was Alexander the Great, who looked to the stars and saw in them more worlds to conquer.The Galactics took him seriously.The Scythians think Alexander, properly manipulated, could be the heir to Alexander the Great. Their equation is simple—submit to Scythian economic domination, or Alexander and his legions will be unleashed on the Galaxy!Alexander Thorsson is about to become the most famous and infamous sentient in the Galaxy. From her seat in the forests of Chem, Nazeera of the Triumvirate hears rumor of Alexander’s heir. She sets off for Terra with the intent of cutting Alexander’s career short and settling the Terran threat once and for all.Read more about Alexander at www.dragons-and-dreadnoughts.com or read the author's blog at www.christopherlanderson.wordpress.com