A Little Human Ingenuity

By WILLIAM HUGGINS

The Rake, the last great champion of the Game--a bloodsport recreating mankind's battles against alien foes--is given an opportunity to face those old foes once again

The Burning Fish

By JIM BREYFOGLE

Seeking out the Burning Fish for a client, Mangos and Kat instead find a strange cult of folk devoted to a simple life--who would kill before giving up their secrets

For I Have Felt a Fire in the Head

By ADRIAN SIMMONS

Irish prince Maenach MacScannal faces the hordes of the Danes on the bloody fields of mag s liathdaimh, armed with his faith and his blade, Takes-The-Hand

La Molejera

By MARIE BRENNAN

An anthropologist seeks to solve the mystery of Chalchihuitlan's "grinding woman." What's her significance? What is it that she grinds? For what does she wait?

Pale Moon's Bride

By VILLE MERIL INEN

Her parents have been driven to madness, and her siblings are dead by their own hand--what unearthly curse has afflicted Amanda Corrine Dubois' family?

Pawn to the Queen

By CHRISTINE LUCAS

At his mentor's dying request, the High Priest of Anubis must right a dreadful wrong--recover and return the canopic jars of Queen Tetisheri to end a curse

People of Fire

By JENNIFER R. POVEY

A sinkhole swallows a research expedition in Siberia, and only one woman survives Beneath the earth's crust, in halls of fire, Peri finds a lost civilization

Blue-Like-The-Sky

By SPENCER E. HART

Slayer-Of-Wolf's hunting party is alarmed when a mysterious fire falls from the sky--stranger still is the mysterious blue woman he finds where the fire has landed

Doomsday Shard

By KEN MCGRATH

Serenity Deadline has been hired to jack the Doomsday Shard, a deadly piece of hardware that could end the world--but she's not the only woman after it

Titan

By REBECCA DEVENDRA

The colonists of Titan have been a fierce and independent lot since breaking away from Earth--some with a grudge might even resort to murder to stay independent

The Handover of the Scepter of Greatest Regret

By HAL Y. ZHANG

The war and killing is finally over, and all that's left is the ceremony to commemorate the peace--except the alien ambassador has died just before showtime