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In the Symmesian world of Pellucidar, David Innes searches the jungle for Dian the Beautiful and attempts to unify the various tribes of beast-men, animals and dinosaurs into a loose federation.

"When Rosemary Harper joins the crew of the Wayfarer, she isn't expecting much. The patched-up ship has seen better days, but it offers her everything she could possible want: a spot to call home, a chance to explore the far-off corners of the galaxy and some distance from her past. And nothing could be further from what she's known than the crew of the Wayfarer." --

"A biologist, a famous rapper, and a rogue soldier become the honor guard and interpreter of humanity's first contact with an alien ambassador in this thriller that combines magician realism and seemingly end-of-the-world high tension." --

"Super-intelligent hairy beach balls suddenly appear from another universe. Billy Morton's family come quickly to love the playful alien 'Louie'. But when Louie starts using their computer to hack into government and corporate accounts, learn all that the NSA knows, and steal millions from banks, the Government decides that all these aliens, even though most of them seem interested in only harmless play, are terrorists." --

"When Unit Four, a biological soft robot built and stored high above the Jovian atmosphere is activated for the first time...Aliens are attacking the Helium-3 mine it was created to oversee, and now its sole purpose is to defend Earth's largest energy resource from the invaders in ship-to-ship combat...Unit Four launches its ship and goes on the attack, but it has no idea it's about to get caught in a downward spiral of misinformation, reprogramming,...

"Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a mysterious biodome, its residents comprise the hopeful, the hungry, and the helpless--people eager for a glimpse inside the dome or a taste of its rumored healing powers. Kaaro is a government agent with a criminal past. A sensitive, he can navigate the massive psychic space created by the dome. But when something within the dome begins killing other sensitives, Kaaro must...

After Earth is conquered by aliens, a shipload of human slaves is exiled to a planet for an experiment in survival. There is a romance between one of the women slaves and an alien nobleman from the conquering race, exiled for killing one of his own. By the author of Lyon's Pride.

Complex biomechanical hybrids, made with alien gene-splicing techniques and spawned in an underground facility deep below New Mexico, threaten the world, while the U.S. president rages against the scientists who have kept him in the dark. Human science proves ineffectual against the hybrids, and humanity's only hope lies in the first generation of hybrids, Mark and Gina, who are unaware of their own origin and hidden superpowers.

This short fiction collection includes the Hugo Award-winning novella Cascade Point and eight stories previously unpublished in book form.