Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe,
JUMP QUICK, MONKEY BOYAfter two unpleasant defeats at the hands of the humans from Earth - those rotten no good, sneaky monkeys with tools - the Kzin Third Fleet has decided a change of strategy is in order. Not scream and leap, but the more subtle and ul
A WINNING TRADITION...Welcome to the hottest pocket in Larry Niven's Known Space: the time of the assault on pacifist humanity by berserker felinoids from the planet Kzin. This time humanity's representatives to the Warrior Race are Donald Kingsbury, Greg
A loving homage to Asimov, and dialogue with him--a triumph of galactic-scaled SF that is destined to be recognized as a classic in its own rightEron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty. Not death, but the removal of his fam. Without the augmentation of hi
"Space opera", once a derisive term for cheap pulp adventure, has come to mean something more in modern SF: compelling adventure stories told against a broad canvas, and written to the highest level of skill. Indeed, it can be argued that the "new space o
