A Rusalka—the spirit of a maiden drowned by accident or force—will return as a ghost to haunt the river and woods where she met her death. The locale for this fantasy by SF writer Cherryh (Downbelow Station) is pre-Christian Russia. Two young...
Come la principessa troiana anche la protagonista di questo racconto vede il futuro senza essere creduta, ed anche la speranza muore presto nel futuro che ci aspetta.
Vincitore del premio Hugo per il miglior racconto breve (Short...
They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors, the elite, the...
Discovered alone and without his memory on his drifting ship, pilot Paul Dekker is accused of the murder of his crew members and he must rely on the help of renegade miner Morris Bird to learn the...
This is the second, after *Turning Points* (2002), in another series of collections of new stories about the city of Sanctuary, originally the creation of editor Abbey and Robert Asprin in their Thieves' World, now long a setting exploited by a...