The development of robot technology to a state of perfection by future civilizations is explored in nine science fiction stories.

A masterful achievement that ranks with "Brave New World" and "1984", this mesmerizing tale of the terrible aftermath of nuclear war has captivated generations of readers since its first publication in 1959. "Prodigiously imaginative, richly comic, terrifyingly grim"--"Chicago Tribune."

As he watches his friends and family transform into immortal beings after expressing to the Traveller their wish to live forever, Oregon physician Matt Wheeler begins to suspect that the Traveller and his kind are up to no good. The Travelers, aliens orbiting the Earth, have offered humanity the chance to live forever, but is it such a good deal?

Mankind encounters conflicts among the inhabitants of the universe, as brave individuals prepare to journey into the boiling inferno of the sun.

Corran Horn, the grandson of a legendary Jedi hero, must draw upon his fledgling skills as a Jedi knight as well as his former training as an officer in the Corellian Security Force to help him find his wife who has disappeared while on a covert mission to locate a band of mysterious space pirates.

"Time is out of joint. The summer of peace and plenty, ten years long, is drawing to a close, and the harsh, chill winter approaches like an angry beast. Two great leaders--Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon--who held sway over an age of enforced peace are dead . . . victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns, as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms...