This brief story was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Award. When her concerned parents investigate a treatment that could change her life forever, Hannah's world is thrown into turmoil. Unable to speak - at least not in ways most people can understand - Hannah struggles to face the question of...

From computers that invent God to minds that travel through time, electronic ghosts to enigmatic extraterrestrials, these stories will jump-start your imagination....

Within these pages, curses transmute into blessings, friends become enemies, possible futures collide with nonexistent pasts, and imaginary friends take on corporeal form....

A mysterious presence stalks the hallways of the Sky-King's palace, stealing dreams and condemning the king's dancers to a living death....

Popular entertainment has frequently been hailed as the harbingers of social downfall, but is it really that simple?...

This sampler pack brings together three stories by Hugo and Nebula nominee Nancy Fulda. From an isolated telepath who flees her destiny to a sentient computer struggling to behave ethically, this collection revisits questions initially posed by Asimov and Clarke, and casts the HAL 9000 story in...

Joseph Rannen is dead, and no one besides Morgan Kimball seems to believe he wasn't a traitor....

Six-year-old Jason doesn't want to be cloned, even if his parents think it's a good financial investment....

Kyle Ameus Waterbey is afflicted with a hideous illness. He would do anything to be rid of it....

An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland has gone hideously wrong....

Award-winning author Nancy Fulda presents five stories of ghosts, witches, vanishing chocolate, and haunted pumpkins....

A novelette by Nebula Nominee Nancy Fulda. Eugene Gutierez lost his wife, his pride, and part of his sanity during an undercover anti-terrorist operation in South America. When Eugene finds a cryptic message in a restaurant fortune cookie, he thinks his daughter's boyfriend is pulling a prank...

This novelette was a 2011 Jim Baen Memorial Award Winner. Norma Jean Goodwyn is 120 years old and the founder of a most unusual space station. She and her peers - healthy, vibrant, yet forced into retirement - built the Gary Hudson Exospheric Laboratory as a haven for senior citizens who refused...