Mike Resnick is according to Locus the all-time leading award winner living or dead for short science fiction. This includes 5 Hugo Awards and a record 34 Hugo nominations 29 of them for short fiction. This is the fourth of five volumes of Mike's Hugo-winning and Hugo-nominated short fiction. "Resnick occupies a peak all his own in the mountains of science fiction." - Analog "Mike Resnick is one of the finest writers the field of science fiction has ever produced." - Robert J. Sawyer "Nobody spins a yarn better than Mike Resnick. Best of all when the story's over you find that he's left something in your memory for you to draw on again and again." - Orson Scott Card "There is truth in these stories and tragedy and remembrance of how hard it can be to want something anything with passion and struggle." - Nancy Kress "Resnick grabs you at the start and doesn't let go." — The Milwaukee Journal.