Unleash your imagination as you embark on voyages to other worlds from the best new science fiction and fantasy writers of the year. Each of these seventeen creative and well-written stories will keep your attention riveted as you join these believable characters in a myriad of adventures that will make you wish you were there. The winning stories from the Writers of the Future Contest have been selected by luminaries in the field of science fiction and fantasy: Kevin J. Anderson, Doug Beason, Gregory Benford, Algis Budrys, Orson Scott Card, Hal Clement, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Eric Kotani, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Charles Sheffield, Robert Silverberg, K.D. Wentworth and Jack Williamson. Edited by Algis Budrys. You will also find illustrations by the winners of the Illustrators of the Future Contest. The winning art is judged by Edd Cartier, Leo and Diane Dillon, H.R. van Dongen, Bob Eggleton, Will Eisner, Vincent Di Fate, Frank Kelly Freas, Laura Brodian Freas, Shun Kijima, Ron Lindahn and Val Lakey Lindahn.