OUT FROM THE GREEN WORLD: Humans had colonized the planets & lost its birthright. Civilization was a lonely chain of space stations linked by terror. The Empire kept the pioneers enslaved with a weapon that shattered any protest into screaming...
A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just...
THE YEAR IS 2336 For twelve years, she was captain of the Federation's flagship. But while her exploits as commander of the "U.S.S. Enterprise" NCC-1701-C are legend, little has been revealed about Rachel Garrett, her vessel, or the unusual men...
The mythology of another country also touches Ray Aldridge's «Winedark». The story is set off the coast of Greece, and that country's ancient and sometimes terrible beauty flavors each line. Ray's story «The Gate of Faces», from our April 1991...
Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief.
At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the...
Finalist for the Hugo Award • “Ofelia—tough, kind, wise and unwise, fond of food, tired of foolish people—is one of the most probable heroines science fiction has ever known.”—Ursula K. Le Guin
For forty years, Colony 3245.12 has...