A man is offered a bribe--a new body to replace his wheelchair-bound natural one--to help an alien race in the midst of politcal upheaval on earth.

This is the first of three acclaimed stories by Tom Purdom that trace the exploits of a character based on Giacomo Casanova, and who journeys throughout the solar system facing personal problems cau... more »

A surprise military assault on a space base in the asteroid belt and its affects on a small child whose parents are soldiers. Great action and the usual richly textured political landscape (or we sh... more »

A man boards a very special train and finds himself with a different life. A humorous exploration of relativity concepts.

A meeting of science fiction writers leads to a night of fun, confusion, and an unlikely outcome. Damon Knight tells us that every one of the characters in this humorous story is based on a real sci... more »

In the 50th century, a man tours a world he no longer recognizes--but longs to sail to Byzantium. A very visual, rich, textured story by Silverberg that took the 1985 Nebula Award®. Nebula Award® Wi... more »

This critically acclaimed story is difficult to describe but a joy to read. It consists of a set of mythical conversations between science fiction writer H.G. Wells, famous attorney Clarence Darrow,... more »

Langford is known for his comedy, but this story is more horrifying than funny. It traces the development of scientists in their youth, noting the dangerous games they tend to play, and extrapolates... more »

An inventor seems to be spending an awfully large amount of time living in his own virtual world, and complications ensue as a religious leader attacks the new technology.

A man is saved by expensive technology, but is he still a man? One of Knight's best-known works, short but packs a wallop. Nebula Award® Nominee

They said Mary wasn't like the others in her clan, that she should have never been hatched. But the elders knew best, after all.

A futuristic author uses a computer to write a short story. This story predates home computers by a dozen years and eBooks by a quarter century!

A fifteen year old girl is left alone on a planetoid to survey and mine it. Normally this would be no problem at all, except this time the enemy arrived.

If you thought the Internet stock price boom was nuts, try this one on for size. Connie Willis lists this as one of her favorite stories of all time.

A futuristic prison escape turns nightmarish as Protagoras spouts philosophy.

Artistic views of a man preparing for a long trip.

One of Malzberg's weirder picks. Sexuality seems just a bit stranger after you've read this one.

A machine is invented that can view any person, place, or thing at any time in the past or present anywhere in the universe. The implications for politics, personal privacy, crime and punishment, sp... more »

A tourist visiting another planet just can't seem to get all his momentos packed for the next leg of his journey. He comes upon an unusual solution.

The big man was the life of the party, until ... well, if I say much more you won't need to read this very short story. A great example of Knight's ability to paint a humorous scene with a mixture o... more »

Mind-blowing concept of how life would be if time flowed backwards. This is not like the myth of Merlin, who could see the future because he moved backwards in time, but rather a different view of h... more »

Everyone should have a second chance. And a third. And a fourth...

A perfect memory may lead to more problems than it's worth.

A writer struggles to overcome a crisis near the end of his career. Nebula Award® Nominee

A group of hunters decide on a new sport: seeing who can be first to drive a species into extinction.