A 17-year-old makes an unplanned trip through space and time to Europe 50,000 years ago where Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man engage in conflict for survival.

Into a world where monsters ruled...To make it his own, he had only the power in his limbs and his desire to wrest this primeval land from the beasts. He was Varnum, last vestige of strength in the jaded race of men. Adrift in a land untouched by technology, he found himself with the chance for which all men dream - to shape history!

Far From This Earth and Other Stories is volume 2 of a collection of Chad Oliver's SF, containing the following:StardustLet Me Live in a HouseField ExpedientTransformerIf Now You Grieve a LittleAnachronismNorth WindPilgrimageThe Wind Blows FreeOf CourseRite of PassageDidn't He Ramble?Second NatureGhost TownEnd of the LineJust Like a ManFar From This EarthK...

The human race faces extinction unless Earthmen can find mates on Mars!

A Star Above It and Other Stories is volume 1 of a collection of Chad Oliver's SF, containing the following:Blood's a RoverThe Land of Lost ContentThe Ant and the EyeArtifactAny More At Home Like You?Rewrite ManThe Edge of ForeverThe Boy Next DoorA Star Above ItThe Mother of NecessityNightTechnical AdvisorBetween the Thunder and the SunThe One That Got AwayTransfusionGu...

Charlie Buckner has spent years building a living in Elkhorn Valley. He knows tourists, he knows trout, and he knows exactly how fast a mountain town can dry up when visitors stop coming. But after a string of suspicious fires destroys one modern business after another, Charlie begins to suspect that somebody is protecting the valley from change. What he discovers beside Beaver Creek is far stranger than sabotage, and far more dangerous than anything the sheriff has imagined.The On...

The Wheels of Chance - A Bicycling Idyll follows the adventures of a draper's assistant who, having brought an ancient bicycle, sets off on a 2 week tour of the countryside. And his world will never be the same again.

Monte Stewart was an extremely intelligent, somewhat contentious anthropologist with a sense of humor and a nonconformist approach to life. As an expert in his field, he was chosen to approach the first apparently human-like form of life ever to be encountered on another planet.Here was the chance he had been waiting for all his life - an opportunity to make contact, to investigate, to ascertain the facts about an altogether new man-like species, with the added knowledge that the p...

Anthropologist Paul Ellery discovers that the small Texas town of Jefferson Springs is actually an imitation of small-town America created by the aliens who now offer him a chance to explore the universe.

BURNING SKY is a collection of twenty-seven short stories by award-winning author Rachel Pollack. These stories - many of which have remained almost wholly unknown until now - reflect the author's interests in unorthodox sexuality and subjectivity of experience, as well her wry sense of humor and impressive imagination.

An anthology of science fiction short stories by some of today's top authors to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet. Filled to the brim with provocative tales of worlds where humans were never meant to go.

For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulders lies the destiny of a Europe threatened by the depredations of an Infidel army more terrible than any nightmare.Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 2000