In the 21st century, the U.S. is lost in dreams of faded glory. But in one field it still reigns supreme: entertainment, which in this future means computer simulations. That is why it is in America that the final computer breakthrough is made--the simulation of genuine thinking, feeling personalities from the past. But these great figures of history just might remake their new world into something closer to their silicon hearts' desires!

• Enter a Soldier. Later: Enter Another • Robert Silverberg
• The Resurrection Machine • Robert Sheckley
• Statesmen • Poul Anderson
• The Rose and the Scalpel • Gregory Benford
• How I Spent My Summer Vacation • Pat Murphy

Edited by Robert Silverberg.