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  Ishbok stood up, sighing, knowing what he would do. He would govern with all the help there was to be had. He had become someone else, a stranger who would daily startle his earlier self; there was terror in the thought.

  He knew that he would be lonely.

  ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  POUL ANDERSON is the author of over fifty books, including Brain Wave, The High Crusade, Three Hearts and Three Lions, and Tau Zero. His writing outside science fiction includes science fact, mystery, historical fiction, poetry, criticism, and translations. He has won five Hugo awards (given annually by the members of the World Science Fiction Conventions), two Nebula Awards (given each year by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America), a Cock Robin Award for a mystery novel, and other honors. He is also a past president of the Science Fiction Writers of America. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, poet and writer Karen Anderson.

  MICHAEL ORGILL is a freelance writer living in Glen Cove, New York. His short stories have appeared in a number of original collections, as well as in anthologies for young readers. He is the author of Anchored In Love, a biography of the Carter Family. At present he is working on an ambitious science fiction trilogy.

  JACK DANN was born and raised in upstate New York. He studied drama at Hofstra University and received his BA. in political science from the State University of New York at Binghamton (Harpur College). He studied law at St. John’s University and did graduate work in comparative literature at S.U.N.Y. at Binghamton. His short fiction has been published in ORBIT, NEW DIMENSIONS, THE LAST DANGEROUS VISIONS, NEW WORLDS, IF, FANTASTIC, GALLERY, and other magazines and anthologies. He is the editor of WANDERING STARS, FASTER THAN LIGHT (with George Zebrowski), FUTURE POWER (with Gardner R. Dozois), THE SPECULATIVE FICTION YEARBOOK (with David Harris), and IMMORTAL. He is the author of a novel, STAR-HIKER. Mr. Dann is currently at work on a novel based on his novella Junction, which was a Nebula Award finalist. He has taught science fiction at Cornell University and Broome Community College. He was Managing Editor of the BULLETIN of the SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS of AMERICA from 1970 to 1974. Mr. Dann resides in Johnson City, New York.

  GEORGE ZEBROWSKI is the author of more than thirty stories, articles and essays which have appeared in Fantasy and Science Fiction, New Worlds, Amazing, Galaxy, If, Current Science and other magazines, as well as in the many hardcover and paperback collections of original stories published since 1970. His novels include THE OMEGA POINT, STAR WEB, and MACROLIFE (forthcoming), a major novel on which he has spent most of a decade. He has been a Nebula Award Nominee in the short story. From 1970-1975 he was editor of the Bulletin of the SFWA. He is co-editor with Jack Dann of FASTER THAN LIGHT, HUMAN-MACHINES, with Thomas N. Scortia as well as the Planet Series of original collection from Unity Press in California. His interests include film, classical music, future studies, the philosophy of science, and chess. He lectures and has taught science fiction on the college level. Upcoming projects include a trilogy (of which THE OMEGA POINT is the central volume), and STAR WEB. He lives and works in upstate New York.