A collection of career-launching short fiction by #1\u00a0<\/b>New York Times<\/i><\/b>\u2013bestselling author Timothy Zahn, including the Hugo Award\u2013winning novella\u00a0<\/b>Cascade Point<\/i><\/b>.<\/b><\/p>\n
Timothy Zahn shows an unparalleled mastership of science fiction in the fifteen tales gathered here.<\/p>\n
“The Price of Survival” features an alien ship that arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions but with a desperate need whose fulfillment could destroy humanity. “The Giftie Gie Us” tells the story of two lonely survivors who find love among the ruins of a post-apocalyptic United States. And in “Pawn’s Gambit,” a human and his alien opponent face off over a game that will decide which one of them will return home.<\/p>\n
This collection also includes the Hugo Award\u2013winning novella\u00a0Cascade Point<\/i>\u00a0and nine other works of science fiction, post-apocalyptic drama, and humorous fantasy previously unpublished in book form.<\/p>\n
Timothy Zahn is the author of the #1\u00a0New York Times<\/i>\u00a0bestseller\u00a0Star Wars: Heir to the Empire<\/i>\u00a0and has won multiple awards for his work. With nonstop action, suspenseful plots, and high-tech twists, the stories in\u00a0Pawn’s Gambit<\/i>\u00a0are science fiction at its best.<\/p>\n