By Spider Robinson, Jeanne Robinson

Shara Drummond used to be a proficient dancer and a super choreographer, yet couldn't pursue her dream of dancing in the world, so she went to area, making a new artwork shape in 3 dimensions. Then the extraterrestrial beings arrived, and there has been just one strategy to end up that the human race deserved not only to outlive, yet to arrive the celebrities. the one wish was once Shara, along with her stardance.

By Kathryn Judson

ISBN-10: 1463759924

ISBN-13: 9781463759926

Oleevaba is the pampered breed consultant of the fledgling complicated Midstate manhattan breed of people - till she's kicked out of society for having an excessive amount of initiative. it's assumed she's going to quietly and dutifully starve to demise, like different expersons. in its place, she will get twisted up with a rebellious parallel society she didn't be aware of existed, one that's gotten adept at staying out of sight. as a rule, it's additionally turn into happy with simply staying out of sight. That's approximately to alter.

By Christie Golden

There's extra to Starfleet than exploring unusual new worlds. whilst severe technical knowledge is needed, Starfleet sends in an S.C.E. group, resembling the only stationed aboard the U.S.S. da Vinci. This topflight assemblage of engineers and technical experts is a mix of terribly proficient people and unique extraterrestrial beings, together with P8 Blue, an insectlike alien who makes a speciality of reading structural structures, and a unmarried, unpaired Bynar, certain between his species. less than the command of Captain David Gold, the staff of the da Vinci takes at the down-and-dirty, hands-on jobs that in simple terms they could handle.
HARD CRASH

An alien starship of unknown foundation has crashed right into a planet inhabited via a wide and populous civilization. observed through Geordi l. a. Forge, quickly on personal loan from the Starship Enterprise™, the S.C.E. investigates the mysterious vessel, in simple terms to find that the send used to be now not approximately as broken because it first appeared. Now the berserk send, which turns out to own its personal existence and intelligence, is on a rampage around the floor of the planet, and Captain Gold and his staff face the extraordinary problem of attempting to cease a starship long gone insane!

By Brian W. Aldiss

ISBN-10: 1497608112

ISBN-13: 9781497608115

Winner of 2 Hugo Awards, one Nebula Award, and named a Grand grasp by way of the technological know-how Fiction Writers of the USA, Brian W. Aldiss has, for over fifty years, endured to problem readers’ minds with literate, thought‑provoking, and artistic fiction.

In the yr 2093, human cognizance has extended to the purpose that guy can now trip to the prior utilizing a strategy referred to as “mind‑traveling.” Artist Edward Bush returns from a virtually three-year mind‑travel to discover that his executive has crumbled and society is now less than the management a brand new regime. Given Bush’s very good skill to mind‑travel, he's recruited via the regime to trace down and assassinate a scientist whose principles threaten to topple every little thing they've built.

This e-book comprises an advent by means of the writer.

By Terri Osborne

A different crossover occasion, bringing nice crews jointly in party of the 20 th anniversary of superstar Trek: the subsequent Generation™!

The da Vinci is distributed to Icaria major, the place a crew of archaeologists -- aided by means of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Lieutenant Commander info, and Lieutenant Christine Vale of the Starship Enterprise™ -- have discovered what could be the Krialta, a mythical Gretharan item from the time prior to they have been burnt up through the Letheans.

However, the dig is being affected by rampant apparatus mess ups, looters have raided the camp, and the folks are having shiny hallucinations of thoughts they'd particularly omit. whilst Commander Gomez attempts to find the reason for the malfunctions, Dr. Sarjenka needs to deal with the hallucinations -- yet she doesn't comprehend why Picard and information, whom she's by no means met, glance so regularly occurring to her...

THE FIRST OF AN EPIC TWO-PARTER!

By Dennis Danvers

ISBN-10: 1466889691

ISBN-13: 9781466889699

Grownup young ones of Alien Beings through Dennis Danvers is a technological know-how fiction novelette concerning the emotional trip of a guy looking the reality approximately his mom and dad, who have been consistently relatively ....odd, and his personal historical past.

By Ben Bova

ISBN-10: 0765330172

ISBN-13: 9780765330178

Orion, greater than human, below god, has fought throughout time and house on the whim of his vainglorious writer, Aten the Golden One, who desires Arthur lifeless and forgotten. Orion disagrees, and seeks Anya, the ageless Goddess who's his one real love

By Arthur C. Clarke

Le Vent qui vient du Soleil : Récits de l'ère spatiale
Recueil présenté et traduit par George W. Barlow

Petite nouvelle d’une vingtaine de pages, qui met en scène une direction Terre-Lune entre sept voiliers solaires.

By Poul Anderson

In the yr of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is amassing a military to affix King Edward III within the struggle opposed to France, a so much brilliant occasion happens: an incredible silver send descends throughout the sky and lands in a pasture beside the little village of Ansby in northeastern Lincolnshire. The Wersgorix, whose scouting send it's, are rather professional at taking up planets, and having decided from orbit that this one used to be compatible, they begin typical world-conquering strategy. Ah, yet this time it's no mere primitives the Wersgorix search to enslave-they've introduced their invasion opposed to Englishmen! after all, just one alien is left alive-and Sir Roger's grand imaginative and prescient is born. He intends for the creature to fly the send first to France to help his King, then directly to the Holy Land to conquer the infidel!

By Peter F. Hamilton

ISBN-10: 0345528077

ISBN-13: 9780345528070

An enormous selection of brief fiction from Peter F. Hamilton, long island occasions bestselling writer of Pandora’s big name, The Dreaming Void, and plenty of different epic technology fiction novels—including a brand-new novella starring detective Paula Myo

Fans of the Commonwealth Saga will benefit from the go back of Paula Myo, the genetically engineered police investigator whose single-minded pursuit of justice runs up opposed to a postwar citizenry wanting to put out of your mind outdated crimes. within the all-new novella “Manhattan in Reverse,” Paula is dispatched to the backwoods planet of Menard after a docile, supposedly nonintelligent alien species assaults peaceable human settlers. Menard could have to be evacuated—something the planet’s company proprietors and human population are ready to withstand . . . possibly with distinct aggression.

Violence hits in the direction of domestic in “The Demon Trap” within which Paula’s research of a grotesque act of terrorism leads into unforeseen political, technological, and philosophical waters, threatening the process human evolution.

Time go back and forth hasn't ever been so tricky—or so deadly—as it really is in “If in the beginning . . .,” within which Metropolitan Police detective David Lanson reveals himself matching wits with a sociopath who may well rather well be from the longer term . . . or, not less than, a future.

“Blessed by way of an Angel” is decided within the Commonwealth Universe of the Void trilogy and contours an alien customer who bargains the neighborhood human inhabitants an opportunity at paradise. yet one species’ paradise can be another’s hell.

Three different exciting items around out the collection—and exhibit Peter F. Hamilton’s skill to weave clinical hypothesis into very human storytelling.