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The morning after Neil Armstrong's funeral, a ghostly Saturn V rocket launches from Cape Canaveral. It shakes the ground and rumbles with all the fury of a real launch, sending back telemetry all the way to the moon, stopping at the point where a human would have to take control to land. NASA is shocked when this ghost launch becomes a monthly experience. When humanity loses interest, the rocket becomes near invisible. When we pay attention, Jerry Oltion's expanded Nebula Award-winning novella shows us that reality is what we make of it.

Nebula Award winning and Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, December 1996. The story is included in the anthology Nebula Awards 33 (1999), edited by Connie Willis. It was later expanded to the full novel Abandon in Place (2000).

Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction & Fact, November 1991. There are no other known printed publications available at this time.

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July-August 1999. It is included in the collection With Stars in Their Eyes (2003).

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - (2003) - essay by Stanley Schmidt
• The Astronaut from Wyoming - (1999) - novella by Jerry Oltion and Adam-Troy Castro
• If You Wish Upon a Star... - (1988) - shortstory by Jerry Oltion
• Crisis on Ward H! - (1998) - shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro
• Suicide - (1990) - novelette by Jerry Oltion (variant of Suicide by UFO)
• Jesus Used a Paper Cup - (1994) - shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro
• Unfamiliar, Foreign, Outré - (1995) - shortstory by Jerry Oltion
• The Adventure of the Garrulous Codger - (2003) - shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro

BEYOND ROBOT CITY, BEYOND AURORA, AWAITS A BRAVE NEW GALAXY OF ROBOTS AND ALIENS

His name is Derec. He has restored the original Robot City, but can he make it last? Three shape-changing, renegade robots threaten to destroy the city his father built. They urge the other robots not to obey Derec's or Dr. Avery's orders. Can they disobey the Three Laws of Robotics? a robot revolution hangs in the balance.

The human must convince the renegade robots that an alliance, not a revolution, is in their best interest. But these are robots with their own desires. Can Derec and Ariel convince them of who is human ans who is not?

The futures of mankind and robotkind wait for the answer!

For the first time in his distinguished career, Isaac Asimov has opened up his world of robots to challenge today's hottest new science fiction talents. The traps Asimov has set for them will astound you. In a mystery governed by the Laws of Robotics, the finest minds in science fiction enter the most futuristic landscape in robot history!

BEYOND ROBOT CITY, BEYOND AURORA, AWAITS A BRAVE NEW GALAXY OF ROBOTS AND ALIENS

Amnesiac Derec, on a galaxy-wide quest for his identity, stumbles upon Ariel Burgess and Dr. Avery, the same man who had obliterated his memory.

For the first time in his distinguished career, Isaac Asimov has opened up his world of robots to challenge today's hottest new science fiction talents. The traps Asimov has set for them will astound you. In a mystery governed by the Laws of Robotics, the finest minds in science fiction enter the most futuristic landscape in robot history!

Contents:

• 1 - War Dragons - [The Captain's Table - 1] - (1998) - novel by Julia Ecklar and Karen Rose Cercone [as by L. A. Graf]
• 195 - Dujonian's Hoard - [The Captain's Table - 2] - (1998) - novel by Michael Jan Friedman
• 387 - The Mist - [The Captain's Table - 3] - (1998) - novel by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch
• 529 - Fire Ship - [The Captain's Table - 4] - (1998) - novel by Diane Carey
• 749 - Once Burned - [The Captain's Table - 5] - (1998) - novel by Peter David
• 915 - Where Sea Meets Sky - [The Captain's Table - 6] - (1998) - novel by Jerry Oltion
• 1111 - Biographies (The Captain's Table, Books 1-6) - (2000) - essay by uncredited

There's a bar called "The Captain's Table", where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it's all in the family, more or less. Just remember, the first round of drinks is always paid for with a story... fishy or not.

Years before Kirk took command, Captain Christopher Pike guided the Starship Enterprise on a five-year mission. Pike's journey took him to many new and unexplored realms, none more strange or perilous than a devastated star system where huge, space-faring lifeforms, vital to the survival of one inhabited star system, wreak havoc on the humanoid inhabitants of the other. Captain Pike must thrust the Enterprise into deadly danger as he fights to save one innocent civilization without dooming the other.

Unlike most planets, Rimillia does not spin upon its axis, so its day and night sides are subjected to perpetual extremes of hot and cold. Habitation has only been possible on a thin band of the planet's surface, until now. Using gigantic impulse engines of unimaginable power, the alien Dumada intend to start Rimillia rotating, rendering the entire world fit for colonization. Yet some fear the enormous stresses involved may instead tear the planet apart. Assigned to assist the Dumada, Captain Kirk must rescue a kidnapped scientist vital to the rotation project. But, once the giant engines are activated, Scotty must save Rimillia, and the U.S.S. Enterprise from total destruction.

After millennia of warfare, the planets Prastor and Distrel may have finally achieved a lasting peace. Investigating on behalf of the Federation, Captain Kirk is shocked to find out that the architect of the peace is none other than that notorious con artist, Harcourt Fenton Mudd!

Mudd claims to be a changed man, but Kirk has his doubts. He knows that Mudd has to be running some sort of scam, but what is he up to? Kirk must find out soon--before the peace gives way to unending war.

Beyond the borders of the Federation, Kirk must bring peace and security to the final frontier. His new mission: to defend an isolated human colony an a newly discovered world, deter aggression from neighboring alien races, and ensure the survival of a brave new Earth! The Flaming Arrow Belle Terre's stubborn colonists have survived the countless hardships and natural disasters of their new home, only to face a deadly foreign enemy. The alien Kauld, intent on claiming the world's unique resources for their own are determined to destroy the human settlements at any cost. Months away from any hope of Starfleet reinforcements, the "Starship Enterprise" is all that stands between Belle Terre and an all-out alien invasion. But Kirk and his valiant crew may not be enough to save the planet from a relentless assault by the ultimate superweapon!