Worlds Enough & Time

Description

An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention, and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats.Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-lost "cousins"...and an ancient scourge.A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power.The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson about the persistence of the past.A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom is not human.At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous future.

First Sentence

This is a story about love, loss, betrayal, obsession, and middle-aged angst-in other words, your basic light romantic comedy.

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Other Editions

• Worlds Enough & TimeElectronic resourceHarperCollins2003-01-01
• Worlds enough & timeEos2002-01-01
• Worlds Enough & TimeSubterranean Press2002-03-21
• Worlds Enough and TimeHardcoverSubterranean Press2002-05-01
• Welten und Zeiten genugFesta Verlag2004-11-30