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This adventure of alternate futures and tangled timelines features both 'Next Generation' and classic 'Star Trek' characters.

This is the sequel to The Mote in God's Eye. Humankind has spent 100 years agonizing over the threat posed by the only aliens they have ever threatened, the Moties. The three-armed aliens have been quarantined within the confines of their own solar system - until now.

In this title, astronaut hero Malenfant has the chance to reach out to where both universes cross, their origin, and at last make sense of life on Earth and elsewhere.

This novella and six stories are set in the same universe and time-line as the Night's Dawn trilogy.

In AD 2600, the human race is finally beginning to realize its full potential. Hundreds of colonized planets scattered across the galaxy host a multitude of prosperous and wildly diverse cultures. Genetic engineering has pushed evolution far beyond nature's boundaries, defeating disease and producing extraordinary spaceborn creatures.

French naturalist Professor Aronnax has joined a task force to rid the seas of a monster that is terrorizing shipping lanes. This work of the imagination shows the limitless possibilities of science and the dark depths of the human mind.

Though Elijah Baley is long dead, his name is enshrined in the foremost Settler planet - Baleyworld. And Earthmen who now trade amongst the stars watch hypervision cubes re-enacting his story; he freed Earth of its Spacer overlords.

Francis Sandow holds the key to the identity of Mr. H, a mysterious man with the power to heal or kill with a touch and who is desperately sought by countless people when the galaxy is plagued by an unidentifiable disease, in a novel accompanied by a bonus tale, A Dark Travelling. Reprint.

The author of Slaughterhouse 5 and Hocus Pocus satirizes the horrors of plastic, disposable America with a mixture of cartoons and comic outbursts against rules and reason.

In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that.

Amber is one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself, shadow worlds, that can be manipulated by those of the royal Amberite blood. But the royal family is torn apart by jealousies and suspicion, the disappearance of the Patriach Oberon intensifying the internal conflict.

Melange, the spice of spices grants psychic powers. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis, melange's source, is transferred from the Harkonnen House to House Atreides. The Harkonnens don't want to give up their privileges and so, they cast Duke Paul Atreides out into the planet's harsh environment to die. But, Paul might be a messiah.