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Cover art: Richard Powers
Blurb: Features Octavia Butler’s Iconic sci-fi story.
EDITED BY DONALD A. WOLLHEIM
A man leaves the modern world behind to live in ancient Babylon, which has been re-created
- with its greatest historical epochs co-existing in time - somewhere in the Arizona desert....
Earth's hospitality is put to the supreme test when a race of well-meaning but insufferably opinionated
aliens
comes to call....
The
peaceful exploration of an alien world deteriorates into a full-scale war - all because of one native's total misinterpretation of the human visitors' behavior and motives.
With themes ranging from the serious to the darkly humorous, and contributors as gifted as Tanith Lee and Stephen R. Donaldson, the ten outstanding stories in this year's WORLD'S BEST SF anthology (four Nebula Award nominees among them raise the concept of speculative fiction to new heights. Consider, for example:
PRESS ENTER • by John Varley. To all appearances, Charles Kluge had committed suicide. His neighbor found the body slumped across a computer keyboard (Kluge's house was, in fact, a maze of keyboards, monitor screens, disc drives and such), and although his suicide note was unconventional - a complex computer program that ran when Detective Osborne pressed "Enter" - it seemed genuine.
Nonetheless, Osborne couldn't shake the feeling that Kluge had been murdered ... especially since the man, a true computer genius, had penetrated virtually every system in existence - reason enough for someone to kill him. So, hoping to learn the truth by unraveling Kluge's programs, the detective brought in a computer wizard of his
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