Matter's End Author:Gregory Benford From Nebula award-winning novelist and eminent physicist Gregory Benford comes this tour de force of the imagination. Here, collected for the first time, are twenty-one of Benford's most stunning, provocative, and powerful stories. — A man at a masquerade party discovers that one guest has come a long, long way to attend-and that some disguises r... more »eveal more secrets than they hide...
The red scare takes on chilling implications when a shrewd politician changes the course of American history...
The "big one" finally hits California, spelling unimaginable death and destruction-and a host of new opportunities for a chosen few...
Riots are a routine affair down on Burton Street, where the authorities have come up with the perfect solution to social discontent...
A man attempts to outwit his computer opponent in a complex board game without realizing that the result may well be a matter of life and death...
Long before 'Jurassic Park', two scientists discover a means to resurrect the Seismosaur: the largest land animal ever to walk the earth...
Vivid, visionary, and brilliantly inventive, this collection of short fiction represents the work of a master storyteller.« less