New Frontiers ─ A Collection of Tales About the Past, the Present, and the Future

New Frontiers offersfourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from BenBova, six-time winner of the Hugo Award.Frontiers can be found in all directions-frontiers of timeand space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outerlimits of the human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one ofscience fiction's premier talents spans the length and breadth of history andthe universe while exploring thought-provoking new ideas and dilemmas.From the Baghdad of The Arabian Nights to a vastinterstellar empire thousands of years in the future, from the Vatican to aone-man vessel drifting in the vast emptiness of the asteroid belt, fromvirtual reality duels to the subtle intricacies of time travel and a golftournament on the moon, here are tales of scoundrels and heroes, scientists andexplorers, aliens and artificial intelligences, and even a young AlbertEinstein. Each of them stands at the border of a new frontier and must ventureout into unexplored territory-thanks to the limitless imagination of BenBova.