For the first time, under one cover, a brilliant collection of the best science fiction novels and short stories of recent years! The most characteristic and...

Slonczewski adds a new chapter to her evolving saga of the pangalactic Fold (The Children Star; A Door into Ocean; Daughter of Elysium) with this provocat...

Explorers need all the help they can get—but they can’t anticipate everything.

The short story "Microbe", first published in Analog, is set in the same Elysium universe as Slonczewski's novels. It is based on the story of how a real-lif...