Contents:

• Introduction
• Homefaring • na Amazing Nov ’83
• Basileus • ss The Best of Omni Science Fiction, No. 5, ed. Don Myrus, Omni, 1983
• Dancers in the Time-Flux
• Gate of Horn, Gate of Ivory • ss Universe 14, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1984
• Amanda and the Alien • ss Omni May ’83
• Snake and Ocean, Ocean and Snake [“The Affair”] • ss Playboy Jun ’84
• Tourist Trade • nv Playboy Dec ’84
• Multiples • ss Omni Oct ’83
• Against Babylon
• Symbiont • nv Playboy Jun ’85
• Sailing to Byzantium • na IASFM Feb ’85
• Sunrise on Pluto • ss The Planets, ed. Byron Preiss, Bantam, 1985
• Hardware • ss Omni Oct ’87
• Hannibal’s Elephants • ss Omni Oct ’88
• The Pardoner’s Tale
• The Iron Star • nv Universe, ed. Byron Preiss, Bantam Spectra, 1987
• The Secret Sharer • na IASFM Sep ’87
• House of Bones
• The Dead Man’s Eyes • ss Playboy Aug ’88
• Chip Runner • ss The Microverse, Byron Preiss, Bantam, 1989
• To the Promised Land • nv Omni May ’89
• The Asenion Solution
• A Sleep and a Forgetting • ss Playboy Jul ’89
• Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another