A commune member boasting of a past life as a Sioux shaman is paid a visit of retribution.

In a future where left-brain thinking is out of fashion, a right-brain dominated society takes on a new view of death. Nebula Award® Nominee

Santa Barbara, 1844: Joseph's peaceful assignment as resident friar at the Mission is interrupted when another Immortal arrives to collect genetic material from the local grapevines. The operation i... more »

Jehan nervously awaits the dawn in a dark alley, watching for the boy she knows will assault her, unsure if she will use the dagger in her sleeve ... this decision will determine which of the many f... more »

A freelance technical writer notices that the moon is unusually bright. At first, he thinks it is some kind of atmospheric phenomenon, but soon he realizes he will be spending his last night alive. ... more »

One of Niven's most beloved characters, Beowulf Shaeffer, is forced to take a dangerous mission to explore a neutron star. The last group who went there never came back alive, but Shaeffer faces lif... more »

First in a series. A retired soldier has a pest problem with the corn in his garden and sends a letter to the government resource center for help. When he recieves a Temporal Displacement Unit with ... more »

Second in a series that began with "Pueblo, Colorado Has the Answers"--A hidden sphere is generating a temporal field that alters time in a Northern California coastal town. It is Sunday, January 21... more »

Arrin Gilden is discovered using his voyeur skills to spy on The Mentor, absolute ruler of Earth. As punishment he is given a choice of endless torture ... or risk his life on a mission to travel to... more »

A time travelling Hollywood agent seeks out Robert Louis Stevenson to develop a script outline for his next project.

Iran has lost interest in nuclear reactor technology, and the US government suspects they may have discovered cold fusion. Science-writer Christopher Dutton spent enough time there during the reign ... more »

A government scientist specializing in optics and material properties has done the impossible: she literally disappeared from the top-security research facility in Reston, VA; her ex-boyfriend is ca... more »

Two members of the Science Foundation are forced to test their faster-than-light spaceship in secrecy, but the successful twenty-minute journey to Mars and back captures the attention of an alien ra... more »

On the eve of the Nobel Prize ceremonies, physicist Giles Turnbull sketches notes for his acceptance speech while re-examining the tragic demise of an old friend and colleague; tomorrow he plans to ... more »

An unemployed man living off the land from a motor home in the California mountains dreams of hitting the big time with his karaoke Elvis routine ... and falls into a chance to perform at a fancy Ho... more »

While on vacation in a foreign country, an auto accident victim is exposed to the unkind mercies of a health care system out of control.

A biologist who specializes in self-sustaining ecospheres has disappeared, and the private investigator hired to find him discovers a secret society conducting dangerous experiments in the Colorado ... more »

It has been six years since the demise of Thomas Madison and his Glory of God church. His monolithic legacy, an 8-mile-high cross circling the earth in low orbit, has been approved by the government... more »

His master was an artist, but now the robot known only as Most Unworthy One waits helplessly in a pile of rubble for him to return... but his master was engaged in what might be the final war agains... more »

An abandoned lodge in the California woods becomes a timeslip to 1928 for a weary Christmas Eve traveller.

Eurobase One, 6th century B.C.: Simeon is a mortal working in the beautiful gardens of the Immortal stronghold. When he reaches the age of twenty two and becomes Master Gardener, the immortal Lords ... more »

A crystal-shaped capsule mysteriously appears at the National Physical Laboratory, and the jabbering old man trapped inside is obviously insane ... and moving backward through time. Hugo Award Nomin... more »

Millions of years in the future, a human ambassador makes a courtesy call on an alien planet populated by the Shar, a spacefaring species vastly inferior to the highly evolved human race. Billions o... more »

Two Hollywood record producers take drastic measures to reinvigorate the declining career of their recording star.

A jaunt to the casinos of France takes a nasty turn. You see, gambling for organs is legal in France. Nebula Award® Nominee