Time Force homocide detective Mike Shaunessy travels back to 1994 to prevent Ray Rothke from committing the first of his 25 murders. Mike knows that if the first crime is prevented, the others usual... more »

Very strange story of an old man who is locked in a tall building overlooking the remains of a civilization falling into ruins. This story features extraordinary visual imagery through highly styliz... more »

Hard science fiction as only Benford does it. An African-American physicist undertakes a dangerous journey to a politically unstable India to investigate reports that proton decay has been detected ... more »

Reginri was just trying to make some extra cash, doing some off-planet work. He knew the risks, but he didn't know how his life would be changed forever by his contact with the huge aliens on a wate... more »

A physicist who has unlocked all the mysteries of subatomic particles is forced to face his own mortality and the questions for which physics provides no answers. This hard science fiction piece pro... more »

Gunnderson was a hobo, a bum, shut out from society because of his unusual psi power. But even he did not know their full extent, and now Earth's military leaders have asked him to perform an unthin... more »

Bart Chester was a small-time hustler. When the alien ship arrived in Times Square, he realized it was the chance of a lifetime to cash in.

The Discarded flew through space in their gloom. Hideously malformed, they could never live in society. Now their leader, Bedzyk, faces a rash of suicides among his disheartened people. more »

He didn't want to be afflicted by the passengers, his own body housing them against his will. This time the passenger seems to have been with a woman, and now the unwilling host is obsessed to find ... more »

The East coast is wiped away by rising ocean water, and a young boy who saw it happen must deal with his irrational feeling that he caused the great flood himself. Or is it irrational? Is there anyt... more »

Steve's pleasant trip to the carnival is interrupted when he finds his old friend Nathan's tattoo studio, and discovers Nathan's special gift for healing clients with his unusual methods. Year's Bes... more »

They found him guilty, and the punishment was one year of invisibility. Oh, yes, everyone could really see him, but by law they were not allowed to acknowledge his existence. His crime? Being "cold"... more »

In the 24th century there are 75 billion people on earth, and they live in monstrous high-rise buildings that are worlds unto themselves. Over 800 stories tall, the "Urban Monad" allows everyone to ... more »

In the mid-21st century, time travel is used to send political prisoners to Hawksbill Station, a prison camp in the late Cambrian Era. When the latest arrival suspiciously deflects questions about h... more »

Stephen met Esme on the R.M.S. Titanic's Promenade Deck as it pulled out of the Southampton dock. When they hit the iceberg, he wondered, would she live? Nebula Award® Nominee

The visitors appeared in the light streaming through the high living room windows; they shimmered like dust motes in the warm buttery effluence, then took shape, as so many rainbows after a sun show... more »

In the summer of 1959, two bored third-graders attend a funeral with the intention of talking to the deceased. Year's Best Science Fiction Pick

Kettridge was performing a routine survey. None of the data about this planet indicated that it contained nine foot tall carnivorous semi-intelligent beings...

Aliens have arrived and they are eager to help solve Earth's problems. After a few years, the world is indeed a better place ... if only the visitors weren't so annoying. Nebula Award® Nominee, Hugo... more »

A child's perfect world is interrupted when he learns his body died and his brainscan is just a computer program ... and his family is using an AI interface to pretend everything is normal. Nebula A... more »

Cruise missiles of a future war pass very slowly across an alternate Earth to escape detection, usually vanishing again but sometimes exploding, to the consternation of the inhabitants. Hugo Award N... more »

First in a series about the Immortals of Dr. Zeus, Inc., a for-profit company that gives eternal life to mortals and sends them on historic salvage missions. Vasilii Kalugin is an Immortal sent back... more »

Ireland, 507 A.D.: The Immortal Lewis is on a mission to transcribe ... and then hide ... the forbidden book Codex Driudae, the rituals, ceremonies, and history of the Druids. He enlists the help of... more »

Scientists experimenting in futurology rebuild the ancient city of Babylon in the Arizona Dessert. World's Best SF Pick

Catalina Island, 1894: Kalugin and his crew of Immortals attempt to recover a rare painting from a sunken ship, but first they must contend with one of the ship's survivors ... a mortal on a treasur... more »