Robert Gu is a poet and recovering Alzheimer's patient. He is seventy-five years old, though by a medical miracle he looks much younger. When Robert begins to re-train at Fairmont High, he becomes part of a conspiracy to use technology as a tool for world domination. This conspiracy is something that baffles many security analysts.

One of the most celebrated science fiction writers in the world, this is the first collection of all his stories from 1965 to the present and contains two new stories never published before and the first publication of a novella.

Two novels - one massive story - epic SF from a master of the genre

The prequel to "A Fire Upon The Deep", this is the story of Pham Nuwen, a small cog in the interstellar trading fleet of the Queng Ho. The Queng Ho and the Emergents are orbiting the dormant planet Arachna, which is about to wake up to technology, but the Emergents' plans are sinister.

Two science fiction novels combined into one epic conveying the experience of travelling through millions of years of time.