Bestselling author Peter Hamilton has taken the science fiction world by storm with his stunning, sweeping epics: Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist, and The Naked God. With this collection of six stories and a novella, Hamilton covers more than five centuries of future history of the already familiar genes of the affinity bond, the Edenists, the Adamists, the Xenos, the Saldana family and the starship Lady Macbeth. The anthology includes the short story "Emergency Exit," which was selected for Gardner Dozois's prestigious annual Best Science Fiction collection.