Welcome to an interstellar concert beyond your wildest imagining, as you rocket to distant worlds in twenty original science fiction tales powered by the music of the galaxies.

From a detective/choral singer whose perfect ear for music offers the only clue to catching a criminal who has been illegally selling sentient avians... to an isolated space beacon keeper for whom music may prove the only means to save a spaceship caught in an ion storm... to a photographer on a shoot in a desolate part of Africa whose search for the source of a distant melody carried on the desert winds could forever change his life - these are magnificent and evocative tales, memorable performances by today's finest masters of space and time.

Edited and with an introduction by Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

Contents:

• Introduction
• Bluesberry Jam by Gene Wolfe
• To Drive the Cold Winter Away by Marion Zimmer Bradley
• The Last Song of Sirit Byar by Peter S. Beagle
• Roundelay by Mary C. Pangborn
• Space Station Annie by Cynthia McQuillin
• Swan Song by Lyn McConchie
• Heavenside Song by Warren C. Norwood
• Drift by Steven Brust
• A Hole in the Sky by Margaret Ball
• The Impossible Place by Alan Dean Foster
• Ever After by Paula Lalish
• Soulfedge Rock by Suzette Haden Elgin
• Scarborough Fair by Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
• Thunderbird Road by Leslie Fish
• Our Father's Gold by Elisabeth Waters
• A Song of Strange Revenge by Josepha Sherman
• Songchild by Robin Wayne Bailey
• Saskia by Charles de Lint
• Calling Them Home by Jody Lynn Nye
• Bird in the Hand by Anne McCaffrey