Eines Tages im späten 21. Jahrhundert sieht sich die Menschheit mit einem Feind konfrontiert, den sie selbst erschaffen hat: Die als Mykora bezeichneten Organismen fegen in einer tödlichen Kettenreaktion über den Globus hinweg, so dass nur die Flucht von der Erde das Überleben sichert. Die Überreste ... more »

Summoned to Starfleet Headquarters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stunned to discover the legendary Iconians are offering to sell the secrets of their technology to the Federation. The reactivation of their Gateways has brought strife and chaos to the Alpha Quadrant. Picard seeks to discover the sinister ... more »

ENTANGLED STRANDS OF PAST AND PRESENT ENDANGER THE FUTURE A wake of destruction and loss threatens the U.S.S. Voyager â,,¢ as Chakotay assumes command. Grief over Janeway's impending death coupled with anxiety brought on by the disappearance of Paris, Kim, and the Doctor forces the crew to take increasingly ... more »

In just a few hours, Abner Hayes' wife and daughter are going to die, and the only way he can save their lives is to team up with a deadly computer virus and travel through time and space in a virtual universe that itself has only hours to live. Through suicidal game worlds, virtual landscapes that threaten ... more »

What if the Pope WEREN'T Catholic? What if she never HAD been? It's 1997, in a universe much like ours. But here the Pope is dead, and the conclave to elect the new head of the Catholic Church has chosen someone who is not a Cardinal--or even a Catholic--or even a man. Act of God? Fraud on the College ... more »

They'd been masters of space, moving from world to world through portals spanning the galaxy. They'd left their empire and technology behind. Colonel Kira Nerys and her crew fight to avert disaster as Lieutenant Nog and Ensign Thirishar ch'Thane seek to shut down the portals. Quark is involved in a final ... more »

Feverishly trying to eradicate memories of her past, Jade Darcy starts a new life for herself on Cablans, a society several light-years away from her native Earth. After her acceptance into the alien society, Jade finds employment as a bouncer at Rix's Place, an alien bar and restaurant. As a guardian ... more »

The Time? The future. Hours, days, weeks, months. A couple of years, maybe. The Place? Here, I guess. Wherever here is. Our computers and networks make the world a single place. It's all becoming one. Isn't it? The Digital Dream dramatizes the world made new by electronic intelligences that not only ... more »

Once again, the year's finest flights of speculative imagination are gathered in one extraordinary volume, compiled by acclaimed editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell. From some of the most renowned visionaries of contemporary SF -- as well as new writers who are already making an indelible mark ... more »

Physicist Leo Garfield's university project in time-reversal has successfully sent a few electrons into the unknown past, but the scientific barriers that prevent his work from progressing have Garfield suspecting that his life's work may never get past the starting gate. When a self-proclaimed time ... more »

An ancient network of interstellar portals has been reactivated, linking planets and civilizations. In the Delta Quadrant, the Starship Voyager and its crew are confronted with a flood of lost starships from all over the galaxy. Captain Kathryn Janeway holds together a fractious fleet of dislocated alien ... more »

From Earth to the edge of our galaxy and beyond, from the early days of warp flight to the latter half of the twenty-fourth century, humankind and its alien partners in the Federation have looked to their heroes to expand the limits of their knowledge. And as each generation's pantheon of heroes has ... more »