Twenty years after discovering Ringworld, Louis Wu returns, the captive of a non-human race. To survive on the planet, which is no longer stable, he must locate the control center of the engineers who built the planet.
Whandall Placehold grows to adulthood in the mean streets of Tep's Town, a city ruled by a voracious god of fire who periodically leads the citizens to set their own town ablaze, but his dreams of escape are hindered by the knowledge that freedom comes only at the hands of the sorcerer who killed his father.
Two Space Hab astronauts become the targets of a massive manhunt when they are shot down over the North Dakota Glacier by a hostile U.S. government dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology.
Contains twenty-six tales and vignettes set in the Draco Tavern, an establishment owned by Rick Schumann which caters to aliens visiting the spaceport at Mount Forel in Siberia.
In the distant future, when man has conquered space and colonized the planets, a space ship arrives from an alien world that threatens the future of man.
