
This new edition of Brian Aldiss classic anthology brings together a diverse selection of science fiction spanning over sixty years from Isaac Asimovs Nightfall" first published in 1941 to the 2006 story " Friends in Need" by Eliza Blair. Including authors such as Clifford Simak Harry Harrison Bruce Sterling A. E. Van Vogt & Brian Aldiss himself these stories portray struggles against machines epic journeys genetic experiments time travellers & alien races. From stories set on Earth to uncanny far distant worlds & ancient burnt-out suns the one constant is humanity itself compelled by an often fatal curiosity to explore the boundless frontiers of time space & probability."