Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this selection of uncollected and unpublished stories, newly edited and placed in chronological reading order.
From tales charting...
Pirates and Slavers Beware, the Space Mage is coming for you!
All Thorn wanted, was to be a Battle Mage.
He had the talent, and his whole future was before him.
On the day of Choosing, he finds things don't always go as planned. Suddenly Thorn's...
First published in the anthology Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW, 1995); authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle.
Winner of both the CompuServe Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum’s Sixth Annual...
First published in the anthology Sherlock Holmes in Orbit, edited by Mike Resnick and Martin H. Greenberg (DAW, 1995); authorized by Dame Jean Conan Doyle.Winner of both the CompuServe Science Fiction and Fantasy Forum’s Sixth Annual HOMer...
Captain Jason Matis is a lone Space Scout. His job, to scout and explore new star systems. But for his next trip he has a new crew member; Zena, a beautiful, totally realistic, female android. She is the result of a project to develop artificial...
Thousands of years from now, 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...