Fedrin finds a mysterious young girl stowed aboard his spaceship. She presents him with an unusual problem about life and immortality. What sort of tradeoffs do you need to make to live forever?more »

The aliens were no bigger than insects, they looked like insects, and they had their own agenda. No one had ever been able to communicate with them, but Abbey had a bright idea.

A stubborn man, believing a mountain to be the permanently imprisoned and petrified form of an ancient dragon, attempts to awaken it with all of his will and yearning and arcane knowledge of human m... more »

Captain Conrad Ehl's ship and crew, bearing precious Colonialis cargo in the corpulent form of a mysterious woman called an Oracle, get more than they bargained for, upon entering orbit over Saturn'... more »

Bhengarn the Traveler, a supernatural worm-like descendent of man living millions of years in the future, accidentally conjures Olivier van Noort from his home in 1598 Holland. The disoriented Dutch... more »

What if you can go back in time to fix your life--but only once? Jayne wants out of her marriage, but the result has serious repercussions--and she needs to find a way to make another change. ... more »

In the distant alien ruins of Nakin'sii, city of dreams, a woman discovers that finding her place in the universe sometimes requires creating one.

A long and lonely flight through space without a ship or even a space suit is the latest holiday rage for the wealthy. As long as all that new technology works the way it's supposed to. Aurora Award... more »

A crazed view of the commercial future of a mouse of a country lying beside an elephant of a country.

Revenge is sweet when you have time to think about it.

A space-faring woman and her intelligent ship travel through many dangers, often needing to rely on their ship's ability to "undo" the last few minutes of time by invoking a special form of backward... more »

They were strangers in the night, and one of them was strange.

She had left Russia when she was a little girl. And now she was returning for a brief visit, sixty years later. There were only two short weeks to see the house of her birth for the last time before... more »

Joe Dipano returns home to a house and family he scarcely knows. Modern medicine has cured him of Alzheimer's Disease, but its scars remain, in more than his mind. Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award® ... more »

Charles Benhaim, a private investigator, is asked to track down Albert Einstein, whose death may have been a ruse. His grandfather's brief friendship with Einstein gives him the clues to find out ab... more »

A thousand miles apart, a woman shares her partner's final moments of life through a neuro-crosslink in order to fulfil her last request of seeing her hometown one last time.

At a hospice, a young woman recently released from prison struggles through her rehabilitation (an artificial conscience) as she attempts to understand her crime.

[Also available in the May 2002 issue of Analog] Trying to keep two murderous races apart was no easy challenge, that is, if it weren't for the mafia, the State Department, his boss, a promoter with... more »

An offer to end constant pain just brings more pain. But to leave behind gravity and the ever-present crush of people is a tempting idea.

Set in the same world as Rusch's Homer- and Stoker-nominated story, "The Women of Whale Rock," "Strange Creatures" is the story of what looks like small town crime--the murder of a seal pup on the b... more »

Chollie and Fazio are grunts in the long war against the alien Ovoids. The Ovoids use a nasty biological weapon called a synsym, which invades its victim's nervous system in a particularly nasty way... more »

A time-traveling scientist is stranded for good among Cro-Magnon people, and has to come to terms with their society. He never really grasps their minds, but learns an intriguing lesson on their hum... more »

A grieving mother finds communion with the ancient life force she awakens in the Martian ruins.

What do you do when you are literally witnessing the last moments of an art you have devoted your life to?

A has-been/never-was TV star of the 50s is yanked into a frightening future that holds his torch high.