A weird, wild ride that pushes the boundary between SF and fantasy. A good old-fashioned SF adventure novel. Instant transportation lures a computer hacker to a colony world inhabited by many races and secretly threatened by humans' plans for it. Another Africa-inspired SF novel, this time about a journalist's quest to locate a great medical researcher gone missing in the jungles of the primitive planet Bushveld. A colorful tale of exploration and obsession.
Several stories are award winners.
This sequel to The Sparrow further explores the role of evil and pain in God's vale of tears, as far-future Jesuits travel to alien worlds. Two original stories and 14 never before collected, by a master of the short form. A year's best from the land down under, home of a surprising number of first-caliber writers. Here's your chance to sample the best, including Greg Egan, Terry Dowling, Lucy Sussex, and more. Mind-bending, cyberpunkish SF novel full of jazz, drugs, and attitude.