Search Worlds Without End

This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, April-May 2011. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection (2012), edited by Gardner Dozois. The story is included in the collection Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons (2014).

This short story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2013. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2014, edited by Rich Horton.

This novella originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, October-November 2005. It can also be found in the anthology Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition, edited by Rich Horton.

This short story originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1997, and was reprinted in Clarkesworld, September 2015. The story can also be found in the anthology Year's Best SF 3 (1998), edited by David G. Hartwell.

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Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, February 1999. The story can also be found in the anthologies Year's Best SF 5 (2000), edited by David G. Hartwell and Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future (2002), edited by Gardner Dozois.

At long last, the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had come to an agreement about weapon controle, a genuine rediction in arms.

How was it maintained? By dedicated arms inspectors, backed by all teh technology available to determined governments.

But there were hawks on both sides wo resented the agreement, and were resolved to overturn in. Particularly in a Presidential election year.

In Russia, a famous microbiologist was confined to a mental home, in a planned environment of great complexity. Was it for real? Or was it a well-equipped laboratory in which he could steal a march on the U.S. - and bury the treaty.

Ralph Nicholson, psychotherapist to a psyched-out world, had discovered a terrible secret. Martin Boyd and his political machine were controlling all of Windham County by playing upon every psych technique in existence. Nicholson had only one way to combat Boyd's machine and, incidentally, save his own life. Ralph Nicholson must build a better psycho-political machine to make the world safe for humankind's collective mind. But Nicholson faced an established monster, and his only weapons consisted of his brain, his computer, his wife and finding the right dark horse candidate to be the puppet on his psychological strings. While Nicholson searched and computed, Boyd's machine was grinding ever closer to a final printout of humankind's destiny.

This novelette originally appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2007. It can also be found in the anthologies The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Fifth Annual Collection (2008), edited by Gardner Dozois, and Time Travel: Recent Trips (2014) edited by Paula Guran. The story is included in the collection Lovers & Fighters, Starships & Dragons (2014).

Demons' World

Gigantic were The Demons who terrorized the underground kingdom of Archon. Yet, who were they? Whence came their fantastic power? Why did they wage ruthless and relentless war against Archon? These were questions to which there was no answer until Stead arrived in Archon, apparently from nowhere.

Only after he had been a Forager for some months, and had experienced the spine-chilling dangers of The Outside did Stead arrive at a solution. Even then he had a difficult task convincing the Controllers, who, for generations, had insulated themselves against the harsh truth. Only those who had actually seen The Outside - the Foragers, Soldiers and Workers - could properly understand.

I Want the Stars

Where they cosmic teachers - or galactic plotters?

Five Against Arlane

Brain control and loss of psychological freedom await the opponents of Arlane's ruler.

Lord of the Green Planet

Diarmid O'Dowd, space explorer, was suddently an Off-worlder in an Old World legend. Since he had crashed his ship through the green barrier to this uncharted world, he found himself due to take a place in the Deel's song of ancient Ireland, living again on New Tara.

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