Like much of Niven's work, the story is heavily influenced by the setting: a gas torus, a ring of air around a neutron star. The gas giant Goldblatt's World (abbreviated "Gold") orbits this star just outside its Roche sphere. Thus, Gold's gravity...
Extraterrestrial life has led Earth's population to the verge of extinction – and humanity's future hangs in the balance. It seems that only Jason Wander has the experience, and the guts, to do what must be done. But he will sure need some...
In this weird little alternative history novella, acclaimed futurist Charles Stross takes the familiar clashes of the Cold War and stretches and warps them to fit a flattened Earth where the emergence of new continents incites competitive...
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Features stories by: Esther M. Friesner
Brenda Cooper
Kevin J. Anderson
P. R. Frost
Mike Resnick and James Patrick Kelly
Lisanne Norman
Dean Wesley Smith
Irene...
An award-winning novel set in the post-apocalyptic future follows a young woman who travels the earth healing the sick with the help of her alien companion, the dreamsnake, pursued by two implacable followers. Nuclear war, biotechnology,...
Two species lived in peaceful coexistence on the planet Demoth until a deadly plague wiped out millions of the winged Ooloms while leaving humans untouched, helpless to do more than ease the suffering of their alien friends and neighbors. Faye...
Raven Strigoi, M.D. must do battle with a clever sorcerer known as Courtier de Sang. The sorcerer has developed a virus designed to kill shape shifters, and Ravens lover has become infected. As she races against time, the virus jumps species, and...