A collection of incredible stories by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author and editor Gardner Dozois. His work has been compared to the best of Robert Silverberg, J.G. Ballard, and Harlan Ellison. He has won an unprecedented twelve Hugo Awards as the year's best editor, and two Nebula Awards for his own short fiction. And now writer Gardner Dozois brings his considerable talents to bear in one volume that spans the length of his amazing career. Included among these fifteen classic science fiction stories are: the Nebula Award-winners Morning Child and The Peacemaker; such Nebula and Hugo finalists as A Special Kind of Morning, A Dream at Noonday, Chains of the Sea, Disciples, and A Kingdom by the Sea; and collaborations with Jack Dann and Michael Swanwick.