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(1977.Ace)The Isolation Station and Preserve on Antares IV had only one prisoner, a three-foot-tall gnome-like biped with skin like creased leather and eyes like great glass globes. His hair was silky white and reached down to his shoulders, and he usually went about the great natural park naked.The gnome was very old, but no one had yet determined quite how old. And there seemed no way to find out. The gnome had never volunteered any information about his past. In the one hundred years of his imprisonment he had never asked the caretaker for anything.The small staff of Earthmen and humanoids generally avoided him. Sometimes they would watch his small figure standing looking up at the giant disk of Antares hanging blood red on the horizon, and they would wonder what he was thinking.The most important fact about the alien was that sometime in the remote past he had been responsible for the construction of the solar system and the emergence of intelligent life on earth.—From Heathen God, only one of the fascinating stories in this outstanding collection

In this masterful collection of horror stories, George Zebrowski divides these nineteen tales into Personal, Political, and Metaphysical terrors?stories to scare you individually, stories to frighten you as a social animal, and stories that should terrify the entire human race. In ìI Walked with Fidel,î a young man encounters a once politically powerful zombie; ìJumperî focuses on a young woman with a dark and troubled past; while in ìThe Coming of Christ the Joker,î the light-hearted banter of a celebrity TV talk show becomes something far more serious. ìA Piano Full of Dead Spidersî is an eerie story of genius, its demands, and its delusions; in ìPassing Nights,î the truth behind a recurring nightmare is revealed; ìThe Soft Terrible Musicî depicts a man who must hide his past even from himself. And in the title story, the novella ìBlack Pockets,î Zebrowski asks: What happens to a man when his desire for revenge becomes all-consuming...

When an abandoned space habitat is found within a distant asteroid belt, the Starship Enterprise is sent to investigate. Captain Kirk and his crew discover an artificial world full of technological marvels -- and unexpected dangers. But wonder and curiosity give way to fear when the habitat's shifting orbit sends it on a collision course with an inhabited planet within the same solar system. Now Kirk and Spock must find a way to save the planet without destroying a treasure trove of alien science, and time is running out...

THE SUNSPACERS TRILOGY is a trio of novels of an alternate, earth-based civilization. In SUNSPACER, young and idealistic philosophy student Joe Sorby must come to terms with adulthood while negotiating the gross injustices of interplanetary commerce. In STARS WILL SPEAK, an alien signal is broadcast from the farthest reaches of the known galaxy...but will the scientists of earth decipher its warning in time? In BEHIND THE STARS, young Max Sorby returns to Earth after spending all of his life on a mobile space habitat, fearing that the only home he has ever known will be lost to him forever.

From acclaimed writer George Zebrowski, a tale of urban terrorWhat do you tell yourself when impossible things begin to happen? What can you say? You're a police detective, but maybe you're just not good enough and that's what you have to admit, whether you like it or not. You see evidence of things that can't be real, but you just don't observe well enough to explain it in any natural way. Can you ask rational questions and still be crazy? Does it help any that you know your mind is gone? You're trapped in a black comedy with a beautiful but fatal woman right out of an old poem by Keats, hoping to wake up from the nightmare, even if on a cold hillside - as long as you wake up sane.Detective William Benek is faced with an impossible crime; bodies are turning up without their brains, and without any indication of how the organs were removed. His only lead - an attractive woman - becomes more than a lead, and then drives him into a world of terror, where his sanity is questioned and he must stop a monster he can barely comprehend.Listed as a Best Book of 2009 by EDGE/Boston