They include amendments and additions made during recordings, bits which were reluctantly cut for reasons of time, and notes on the writing and producing of the series by Douglas Adams and Geoffrey Perkins.For those who have always longed to know why, who, how, when, where, and what its all about, these scripts are essential reading.

    . . Razor sharp . . . piercingly profound." Once again, Ellison's writing defies all labels. These seventeen stories by a modern master are an "assembled artifact" of anger and faith - as bittersweet as a"jalapeno-laced cinnamon bear." The sixteen stories collected here are spread over the farthest stretches of time and space, but even the bleakest of them is warmed by a passionate faith in the endurance of life and its ultimate possibilities.

    Don’t miss the classic story that altered the DCU forever!

    This collection collects what he wrote under those conditions. He writes in a conversational voice, but he is impassioned, persuasive, abusive and hilarious by turns.

    Le Guin's Always Coming Home is a major work of the imagination from one of America's most respected writers. More than five years in creation, it is a novel unlike any other. A rich and complex interweaving of story and fable, poem, artwork, and music, it totally immerses the reader in the culture of the Kesh, a peaceful people of the far future who inhabit a place called the Valley on the Northern Pacific Coast. The author makes the inhabitants of the valley as familiar, as immediate, as wholly human as our own friends or family. Spiraling outward from the dramatic life story of a woman called Stone Telling, Le Guin's Always Coming Home interweaves wry wit, deep insight and extraordinary compassion into a compelling unity of vision.

    While her brothers have true Talents such as flying, mind-reading, and shape-shifting, Jinian's only minor ability is as a Footseer—even blind-folded, her feet can follow the Old Road as it winds through the lands of the True Game. Without a Talent, Jinian can only be a pawn in the Game, as she learns when her brother, Mendost, decides to marry her off to the rival lord of Dragon's Fire Demesne in order to make an alliance. Not willing to be a mere pawn, Jinian leaves the only home she has ever known and sets off on a journey of discovery—one that will reveal who she really is, her hidden Talent, and her role in the True Game....

    Recklessly headstrong, she is to become notorious in the lands of the True Game. With her brother, she leaves their home - a place of slavery and fear - only to have the boy's powers of beguilement lead them into danger. Rescued by the Wizard Himaggery, the shape-shift and man of magic make a vow. When twenty years have come and gone, they will meet again. But Himmagery has vanished, leaving only a letter of love behind for Mavin to find. If he were dead, she would know it: sorcerers could trace the scent of his trail, necromancers raise his bones from the dust. But he has disappeared - beyond the power of wizardy. And so the search of Mavin Manyshaped begins This is the first volume of Sheri S. Tepper's acclaimed The Chronicles of Mavin Manyshaped

    When a colony of ants awakens from winter's Long Sleep, they are shattered to learn killer red ants are destroying everything in their path. Can the tiny colony of ants save their world from the marauders?

    This is the tale of one such wanderer, who seeks her destiny on an odyssey of self-discovery amid humanity's many worlds. Arresting and visionary, Child of Fortune is a science-fictional On the Road.

    The book opens with Jim bungling a bank job so that he can be arrested and sent to prison, where he plans to learn the art of being a master criminal. Deciding that the Bishop should be his mentor, Jim sets about proving himself worthy of the master's attention. He eventually has to flee his home planet of Bit O' Heaven with the Bishop, but Garth, the Captain of the ship who promised them safe passage, sells them into slavery. The latter part of the book details Jim's adventures on the planet Spiovente, a semi-industrial world fighting feudal wars with weapons smuggled in (against League regulations) by Captain Garth.

    Read by Frank Muller.

    Isaac Asimov writes about actual and fictional scientists--from Archimedes in his bath to the alien astronomers on the far planet of Largesh--whose minds and discoveries have shaped our past, present, and future

    Ruthless, ancient forces of fire and ice engage in a titanic struggle with the oldest Nargun and his people.

    Forced to ally with two men, Silence is dragged into a deadly political struggle, and is tantalized by the hints of the legendary Earth, as well as the dread and the glory of Magi's power. Her dreams of having her own ship and of escape from the Hegemony's oppressions take on new direction and focus when she joins the crew of "The Sun-Treader"

    It requires Lucky's keen understanding of the Sirian menace and the Three Laws of Robotics to save the day.In LUCKY STARR AND THE MOONS OF JUPITER, the Sirians are at it again. Their cleverest spy scheme yet has put the secrecy of Project Agrav's prototype spaceship in jeopardy, and it's up to Lucky to stop the information leak before it's too late.Sirian boldness reaches a peak in LUCKY STARR AND THE RINGS OF SATURN. The aliens have invaded our solar system to put a base on Titan, and Lucky must outwit a whole Sirian fleet to stop them.

    Contents:Idris' Pig (1964)The Gardener (1949)Child of Void (1949)Hathor's Pets (1950)The Pillows (1950)The Listening Child (1950)Brightness Falls from the Air (1951)The Man Who Sold Rope to the Gnoles (1951)The Causes (1952)An Egg a Month from All Over (1952)Prott (1953)New Ritual (1953)Brenda (1954)Short in the Chest (1954)Horrer Howce (1956)The Wines of Earth (1957)The Invested Libido (1958)The Nuse Man (1960)An Old-Fashioned Bird Christmas (1961)Wryneck, Draw Me (1980)

    

    Butler 38 • The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule • [Griaule] • (1984) • novelette by Lucius Shepard 69 • Press Enter [] • (1984) • novella by John Varley 136 • New Rose Hotel • (1984) • shortstory by William Gibson 149 • The Greening of Bed-Stuy • [The Years of the City] • (1984) • novelette by Frederik Pohl 213 • The Lucky Strike • (1984) • novelette by Kim Stanley Robinson 252 • Morning Child • (1984) • shortstory by Gardner Dozois [as by Gardner R. Dozois ] 260 • The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything • (1984) • shortstory by George Alec Effinger 278 • A Cabin on the Coast • (1984) • shortstory by Gene Wolfe 292 • Dogs' Lives • (1984) • novelette by Michael Bishop 313 • The Eichmann Variations • (1984) • shortstory by George Zebrowski 323 • Love Song to Lucy • (1983) • poem by Helen Ehrlich 324 • Lucy Answers Back • (1983) • poem by Helen Ehrlich 325 • Saul's Death • (1983) • poem by Joe Haldeman 328 • Science Fiction Films of 1984 • essay by Bill Warren 355 • SFWA, the Guild • essay by Norman Spinrad

    

    His knee lifted to drive into Donnan's crotch. As the man bent over in pain, Colum struck him a savage blow across the back of the neck with a closed fist. Donnan dropped like a felled ox and lay still.But colum wasn't done with him yet. Still cursing, he grabbed a fistful of red hair and raised Donnan's head, meaning to pound it into the ground.Suddenly, it was Fergus he saw lying under him. This was no contest of champions. It was a blood-feud between the Ard-righ and himself - which could only end with the spilling of blood.'Stop.'The word lashed Colum, piercing the red-mists that bound his mind. He lifted his head and saw a tall manshape from whose brow twelve-tined antlers sprung. The eyes that fixed their gaze on Colum were ageless, deep and knowing. Silently they spoke to him.'Would you break Fair-truce, Colum, Donal's son, and so be outlawed in truth?'The mist cleared from Colum's gaze - quickly and sudden, like the long grass of Kerry's plains parting before a storm wind. The Fair in Emain Mancha originally appeared in Space and Time #68 in 1985. It was later released in 1990 as part of an omnibus: Ill Met in Lankhmar/The Fair in Emain Macha