This is the tale of the many possible lives of Anastasia Valerie Stein which come to touch one another through a twist in the fabric of space-time: Ann, unhappy wife and mother in a world much like our own; Val, independent teacher in a timeline of s...
THE SHAPER EXILE, VOLUME II
Exiled from Earth for their radical experiments in the biogenetics, the Venn scientists took their illegal craft to a new world they called Llia. Here the immortal Venn redesigned mankind into races unlike anything the...
THE SHAPER EXILE, VOLUME III
The strange races of the planet Llia were created by the Venn, genetic engineers banished from Earth for tampering with human lives. Centuries later, the peoples of Llia have begun the struggle for control of their ow...
Nebula Award, 1998 - Best Novella Locus Online Recommended Reading 2001 A struggling linguist, a sheltered debutante, and a strangely silent child are running for their lives, trapped in the violent confluence of three species, only one of which is h...
In the year 2345, young heroes have been yanked from 1999 to battle an alien menace. Soon they must seek help from the more distant past....
The galaxy-wide Guild of Xenolinguists handles all cross-cultural communications by sending agents abroad to learn new languages and program translation computers. The travails of novice linguists animate these 11 stories as they face much more thanĀ...
Banished to an uninhabited planet, a handful of genetic scientists prepare to live out eternity. Here, beyond the reach of their accusers, theory becomes reality. Experimenting with stolen human germ plasm, they shape mankind into races unlike anythi...
A homesick, 16 year-old Roman girl and her illegitimate child, exiled by the Emperor Nero to Britannia. A middle-aged Celtic king of an insignificant tribe, trying to find middle ground between Celtic tradition and Roman rule and making enemies on...
In this action-packed science fiction adventure, teens from across time must save a scientific base from a destructive -- yet adorable -- threat. Twenty-fourth-century Earth is a utopia, but when crisis arises aboard a space station on the edge of th...