A security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment that only six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte can stop.

In a lab hidden inside the notorious Junk Moon, scientists on the Amphora Project strive to find the key to immortality from encoded data left behind long ago by the mysterious "Ancient Aliens." Stuart Landsmann, the project's chief scientist, tells Amphora's backers they must stop the research or risk bringing about the end of the world, but his warnings are ignored. Jockey Oldcastle, space pirate and rogue, teams up with mild-mannered biologist...

In 2070 Australia, a policeman investigating crooked experiments into the subconscious finds himself frozen for a hundred years. The setting is a world plagued by pollution, overpopulation and unemployment. By the author of The Destiny Makers.

"Privileged Syd and and his proxy, Knox, are thrown together to overthrow the system"--

"Destroying the Thulian North American Headquarters has not made life easier for ECHO, or the world. The Thulians continue their attacks against ECHO headquarters around the world. Belladonna's duties have increased a thousand-fold and now she has the responsibility for the lives of every metahuman in ECHO on her conscience. The Red Savior risks everything on a risky gambit of her own: send her 'wolves' to find the Thulian Headquarters, despite the...

A collection of the best science fiction stories of 1999 features the work of Tanith Lee, Ben Bova, Greg Egan, Robert Silverberg, Charles Sheffield, and Kim Stanley Robinson.