It's the largest oil spill in history: a crashed supertanker in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage—and a PR disaster—the multinational oil company releases an untested "designer microbe" to break up the spill.An "oil-eating" mi
In this one-of-a-kind science fiction anthology, H. G. Wells's classic tale of Martian invasion serves as a takeoff point for a rare flight of the imagination. Here some of today's leading SF authors, including Connie Willis, George Alec Effinger, Robert
Sixteen stories from the most infamous cantina in the universe...by some of today's leading writers of science fiction.In a far corner of the universe, on the small desert planet of Tatooine, there is a dark, nic-i-tain-filled cantina where you can down y
With a U.S. and Russian crew, the shuttle Atlantis is about to make history.But as millions of viewers tune in to watch, there's nothing to indicate that what they're seeing is a pre-recorded show. Or that terrorists have taken over the Kennedy Space Cent
Nebula Award Nominee. The crew of Moonbase Columbus make an amazing discovery on the far side of the Moon a massive alien structure is erecting itself, built up atom by atom by living machines, microscopically small, intelligent, and unstoppable, consumin
Carbide Tipped Pens is an anthology of new hard SF stories that follow the classic definition of the genre, in which some element of science or technology is so central to the plot that there would be no story if that element were removed. The aim of the