With his wife dead, and life nearly over at 75, John Perry joins the army. Better known as the Colonial Defense Force (CDF), Perry's service-of-choice has extended its reach into interstellar space to pave the way for human colonization of other planets while fending off marauding aliens.

Some 10 million years in the future, 1000 humans and their cloned offspring have been granted a power so that may preserve a peace that has endured for eons: to build worlds wherever they wish and terraform any wasteland. But a woman as old as the peace itself brings warning of an ancient crime.

Robert Reed's novel returns to the epic universe featured in Marrow .

The Sun is about to go Nova. Earth and Moon have ceased their axial rotation and present one face continuously to the sun. The bright side of Earth is covered with carnivorous forest. This is the Age of vegetables. Gren and his lady - not to mention the tummybelly men - journey to the even more terrifying Dark side.

This first major retrospective collects Kelly's finest short fiction from a 20-year career and includes a dazzling array of work, from hard science fiction and Twilight Zone-inspired fantasies to stark futuristic horror. The grim fable Pogrom presents a near-futuristic scenario in which internecine warfare has broken out between the ageing boomer generation and a youthful dispossessed ...

Presents two stories, one, where a renegade misfit conquers the dragons and renews the threat of nuclear chaos aboard Springplace, a man-made repository for old reactor cores, dirty plutonium, and dismantled bombs. Another story is a sprawling intergalactic epic that takes place aboard a starship.