Stories that range all the way from high fantasy to hard sf.- Avalon shimmers in the corners of your eyes while monsters forge you into a deadly weapon.- Your immortal lover is willing to sacrifice anything to pursue a walking city on a gigantic Alderson disc. Even you and your child.- Race across the silicon highways of a computer-chip, in a car no bigger than a microbe.- Stop Lovecraft before he wakes the Old Ones in their sunken cities or climb the Tower of Babel while Saddam Hussein aims his Space Cannon.