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"YOU ARE GOING BACK." "I hope for your sake-and ours-that what you find is less terrible than what we have imagined. We activated an untried stardrive too close, too soon. Our leaving may have destroyed our homeworld." The green eyes stared into Lian's for another moment, and then faded. Lian...

1T..here was a stillness about the meadows.,'Insects stole nectar from flowers in the hedgerows, but < | * their drone was subdued, their movement lazy. Cows grouped together in shady places although the morning sun X ' was not yet full-blown; they chewed early-moming grass ^ while their tails...

IntroductionSCIENCE FICTION IS ALIVE AND WELLThis is the first volume of an annual year's best science fiction anthology, to be published each spring in a widely available mass market edition. In each volume the best science fiction of that year will be represented. Not fantasy. Not science...

ii - !,i ' I' 'The centuries recede, and the legend of Hari Seldonj )' ^ igrows: the brilliant man, wise man, sad man who| charted the course of the human future in the oldj j i ,;Empire. But revisionist views prosper, and cannot!j | :always be easily dismissed. To understand Seldon, wej'are...