Contents ix • Introduction: Summation: 1986 • essay by Gardner Dozois1 • R & R • (1986) • novella by Lucius Shepard67 • Hatrack River • [The Alvin Maker Saga] • (1986) • novelette by Orson Scott Card91 • Strangers on Paradise • (
The stories in this collection imaginatively take readers far across the universe, into the very core of their beings, to the realm of the Gods, and to the moment just after now. Included are the works of masters of the form and the bright new talents of
A brief word from the characters: We seem to have a failure to communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached Number 3 on the Locus bestseller list, and everybody wanted more, please. But people, you need to
The first novel of War World. Three hundred years before, the last of the gene-engineered Soldiers and Cyborgs from the deathworld Sauron came to Haven. To the Saurons, humans were merely cattle--to be raided for tribute and breeding females. Now a new my
SUMMARY:Cut off from the rest of the Empire, the planet Haven has been bombed back to a pre-tech medievalism by the Sauron--a hideous race of "supermen"--who are now poised to achieve final domination. Features works by Harry Turtledove. Larry Niven, and
First entry in a new series with three big all new linked novellas from multiple best-sellers Harry Turtledove, John Ringo & Jody Lynn Nye, S.M. Stirling, and Michael Z. Williamson! After the extinction asteroid DOESN’T strike Earth, the dinosaurs
It is a nameless city somewhere between past and future, a mythic realm at the "heart of the world," where wicked Rat Lords have reduced all humankind to slaves, and god-daemons make the decision to end all existence. This energizes a compelling quest for
Alternate cover edition can be found here. The usual last battle of Good against Evil is about to begin?and Orc Captain Ashnak and his war-band know exactly what to expect. The forces of Light are outnumbered, full of headstrong heroes devoid of tactics,
There Is More Than One History Of The World...In the mid-fifteenth century there was Burgundy, the jewel of Europe - opulant and powerful, the undisputed center of an uncivilized world.In an epoch of war and madness there was Ash. A girl born in mud and d
