An engaged couple undergoes extensive genetic testing to ensure that their progeny will be above average. Short story that poignantly explores issues of genetic testing, parenthood, and issues that ... more »

In an age where travel is primarily by teleportation, a reporter must journey the old fashioned way (by train) to report on the annual meeting of a group of luddites who are against the use of telep... more »

A team of earth explorers have a difficult mission: to retrieve a spoonful of material from the center of a neutron star. They never expected to run into an alien starship orbiting the same system .... more »

A couple decides to adopt a starving refugee child from a war-torn city. The unusual thing is that the war-torn city happens to be on the moon. Nebula Award® Nominee, Sturgeon Award Nominee, Asimov'... more »

In the future, quantum mechanics has proven that magic really exists, and a new and very strange branch of science is born. Hugo Award Nominee

Two men fight for survival in the aftermath of a destructive war that neither can understand. Nebula Award® Winner

A strange tribe of aliens who migrate perpetually across the great cliff that is their universe suddenly find that a great wall of stone approaches their world. Year's Best Science Fiction Pick, Bri... more »

A remarkable clock flashes a message of seemingly divine origin to a young Arab, charging him with the task of creating a new race of intelligent machines. Year's Best Science Fiction Pick more »

Derr was the greatest hunter of them all, bagging game on a dozen planets. But his greatest challenge was the Ristable and the incomprehensible legends about it told by the natives.

A female homicide detective encounters an inexplicable case. The dead vagrant man seems to have a different biology than usual ... and a loyal following of beautiful supermodels who no longer want t... more »

He was just a working-man trying to keep his nuclear powered spacecraft in good running order. He wasn't going to make a big profit hauling his payload to the asteroid belts, but it was a living. Un... more »

In orbit, the first rule of survival is: act slowly. Your instincts might say to act quickly, but your instincts will kill you. When an accident ejected an orbital worker off the Sundancer, there wa... more »

A man employs Shrinkers and Movers, Inc. to move all his furniture using their matter-shrinking technology. Only things don't go strictly as advertised, either on his move or in his life. Charles Ha... more »

A Kirinyaga story. Koriba's counsel is rejected by the tribe, and they seek a quick-fix for their problem with jackals. Soon they face a killer even greater than the jackals, one who will tax all of... more »

A rare space-opera from Landis in which a plant-like alien must try to understand his (her? its?) human crew-mates on a dangerous mission to explore a black hole.

Astronomers think they have an equipment problem when a star seems to be out of its usual place. They have a problem, all right, a big problem, but it has nothing to do with their equipment. <... more »

They were fifth-generation sign-language chimps. Their intelligence seemed almost human at times, but they didn't quite understand what humans were all about. They thought of humans as immortal gods... more »

A Kirinyaga story. Koriba, tired after a long day of settling petty disputes, is driven to put a curse on his own people, plunging Kirinyaga into a devastating drought to force compliance with the l... more »

The last dog on earth runs into what might be the last man. Can they join forces and survive in a world of destruction?

A man comes up with a scheme to become rock legend John Lennon after emerging from cryogenic sleep. But can he fool the people in the year 2108 (or is it 2180?) and live out his dream. (This story c... more »

In the far future, time is considered so precious that it's a criminal offense to waste it. The dreaded Ticktockman (he hates it when people call him that) enforces the law. But then the man known o... more »

When Dad decides to try the new immortality method, his son doesn't object. But the technicians didn't tell them about the problems with the new technology, and the eternal nightmare it would become... more »

The aliens have landed, and now the world's governments and defense AI systems are completely confused about how to proceed. The accidental detonation of a nuclear bomb next to one ship didn't make ... more »

This story takes the concept of "road rage" to a new level. A man traveling on a freeway is threatened by another car, and now they are locked in a duel (fully sanctioned by the State) using all the... more »

An old man is haunted by strange ghostly beings whom he believes to be time travelers watching him. He was previously the leader of a movement that warned against man's rapid technological advances.... more »