Search Worlds Without End

Table of Contents:

• Foreword - (1968) - essay by Joseph Elder
• The Worm That Flies - (1968) - shortstory by Brian W. Aldiss
• Kyrie - (1968) - shortstory by Poul Anderson
• Tomorrow is a Million Years - (1966) - shortstory by J. G. Ballard
• Pond Water - (1968) - shortstory by John Brunner
• The Dance of the Changer and the Three - (1968) - shortstory by Terry Carr
• Crusade - (1968) - shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke
• Ranging - (1968) - shortstory by John Jakes
• Mind Out of Time - (1968) - shortstory by Keith Laumer
• The Inspector - (1968) - shortstory by James McKimmey, Jr.
• To the Dark Star - (1968) - shortstory by Robert Silverberg
• A Night in Elf Hill - (1968) - shortstory by Norman Spinrad
• Sulwen's Planet - (1968) - shortstory by Jack Vance

In a distant galaxy where immense danger threatens, desperate pirates travel to the outer limits of space, doing trade with the star colonies and encountering rivals, aliens, and strange human hybrids.

The Venus Asteroid Expedition is en route to the ""Mirror,"" an impenetrable membrane to another universe that holds all the riches of the Federation, but the only point of entry is the point through which Landolph and his men traveled long ago--with most of the men never returning.

Fending off a Federation attempt to take over her ship, intergalactic pirate captain Sarah Blythe vows to make the Federation President pay for her cargo losses and plans to join the Venus rebellion.

An astronaut's interstellar mission is a personal journey of a thousand second chances in an exhilarating short story by James S. A. Corey, the New York Times bestselling author of The Expanse series.

Roy Court and his crew are taking the trip of a lifetime--several lifetimes in fact--duplicated and dispatched across the galaxies searching for Earthlike planets. Many possibilities for the future. Yet for Roy, no matter how many of him there are, there's still just one painful, unchangeable past. In what world can a broken relationship be reborn? The universe is so vast, there's always room for hope.

An intergalactic luxury cruise to a distant port is a world unto itself in this piercing short mystery by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth.

Traveling faster than light, the transport ship Redundancy is cut off from communication as effectively as an ancient ocean liner. The isolation suits crew member Ace Vance just fine--she's got nowhere else to be. But when a wealthy passenger turns up dead during a routine voyage, Ace will have to connect with the passengers and crew to uncover the truth. Tragedy will strike again--it's only a matter of time.

A young man caught between two disparate worlds searches for his place in the universe in a wrenching short story by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Roanhorse.

Light-years from home, it's Ira's second chance. Just another anonymous student at a space station university. Not the orphan whose Earther heritage was erased. Not some social experiment put on display by his adoptive father. Not the criminal recruited by the human rebels. But when Ira's loyalties clash once again, two wars break out: one on the ground and one within himself. Which will Ira stand with? Which will take him down?

An inquisitive life-form finds there's more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative short story by New York Timesbestselling and Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Ann Leckie.

On a far-off colony, humans tower over the local species who grow the plants they need. Narr keeps the workers in line--someone has to. But when Narr learns just how short-lived their species is, the little alien embarks on a big mission: to find out why their people die and how to stop it. Stubborn and hopeful, Narr has a plan for the locals, for humans, and for the future.

A revolutionary experiment in space opens a woman's eyes to the meaning of solitude in a thought-provoking short story by New York Times bestselling, award-winning author Nnedi Okorafor.

Tornado Onwubiko is one of seven people on Earth paired with sentient ships to explore and research the cosmos for twenty million euros. A decade of solitary life for a lifetime of wealth. Five years into the ten-year mission of total isolation comes a consolation: a temporary meetup among fellow travelers. A lot can happen in a week. For Tornado, who left a normal life behind, a little company can be life-changing.

An artificial intelligence on a star-spanning mission explores the farthest horizons of human potential--and its own purpose--in a mind-bending short story by New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi.

Equipped with the entirety of human knowledge, a sentient ship is launched on a last-ditch journey to find a new home for civilization. Trillions of miles. Tens of thousands of years. In the space between, the AI has plenty of time to think about life, the vastness of the universe, everything it was meant to do, and--with a perspective created but not limited by humans--what it should do.