Burning Bright
by Melissa Scott | 
Voodoo Planet
by Andre Norton | 
Space Viking
by H. Beam Piper | 
Special Deliverance
by Clifford D. Simak | 
Rolling Thunder
by John Varley | 
The Masks Of Time
by Robert Silverberg | 
Taylor's Ark
by Jody Lynn Nye | 
Infoquake
by David Louis Edelman | 
The Collapsium
by Wil McCarthy | 
The Hemingway Hoax
by Joe Haldeman | 
The Lazarus Effect
by Frank Herbert | 
The Face of the Waters
by Robert Silverberg | 
The Descent of Anansi
by Larry Niven | 
Bio Rescue
by S. L. Viehl | 
Von Neumann's War
by John Ringo | 
The Paratwa
by Christopher Hinz | 
Anachronisms
by Christopher Hinz | 
Liege-Killer
by Christopher Hinz | 
Rendezvous with Rama
by Arthur C. Clarke | 
Contact
by Carl Sagan |
A quarter of a millennium ago, before the nuclear apocalypse forced the inhabitants of earth to flee their home planet, few humans could have imagined the course their path would take. Now, the orbital colonies are the final sanctuary of humanity and life is more dangerous than ever before. The colonists fear the return of their dreaded enemies, the Paratwa'??ferocious warriors who are genetically engineered to exist in two bodies which remain telepathically connected. The new generation of Paratwa is far deadlier than the old, forming a powerful caste of fighter known as the Ash Ock. A mysterious virus infecting the humans database signals the return of their most feared enemies'?¦