The Edge of space Book

In Phyllis Gotlieb's Galactic Federation City, the crimson cats Khreng and Prandra consult the mysterious talking brains-in-a-bottle to help solve an outbreak of strange deaths. Read it in "The King's Dogs." The hero of Glenn Chang's "In the Blood" is the youngest of his "father's" clones--and hence the one whose duty it is to investigate the old man's death. Mark J. McGarry's protagonist in "Acts of Love" is engaged in a hunt for the source of a devastating intergalactic power that blew a hole through the Earth's crust at a place that used to be called Omaha. Acclaimed science fiction writer and editor Robert Silverberg, who compiled this anthology, believes that it is in the novella that the sci-fi write is best able to develop both ideas and character. And in these haunting tales, three young authors demonstrate how their contrasting styles make the most of a common theme.