Description
An ancient gypsy puts a curse on all mankind.
A cranky Martian Jew takes on the largest corporation in the Galaxy.
A Mason jar of home-made booze changes the course of history.
A mediocre artist is dragged off to serve jury duty--inside a berserk computer.
A two hundred year old child of the future revives the dead art of reading.
Plain people and strange people and non-people, sweethearts and maniacs, savants and bumblers--even heroes and villains--inhabit Joe Haldeman stories, stories that sweep through thousands of light-years or spin inside the confines of a man's skull. Here for the first time are the award-winning short stories, including the Hugo-winning "Tricentennial," by one of the most imaginative science fiction writers of our time.