Worlds Enough & Time: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction - Dan Simmons
\nAn extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including Orphans of the Helix, his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats.\n \n- \nHuman colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost cousins...and an ancient scourge.\n \n\n \n \n \n- A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power. \n\n \n \n \n- The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past. \n\n \n \n \n- A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human. \n\n \n \n \n- At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future. \n\n