The Scapegoat - C.J. Cherryh How can humans and aliens end a war which neither wants, when their ideas about war and peace seem to have no point of contact? Seasons - Joe Haldeman It was supposed to be a peaceful anthropological study of an alien race, but it went hideously wrong. Cordon Sanitaire - Timothy Zahn The aliens were beyond primitive: they were animals never seen to use tools in the wild - so why were they using weapons far beyond any invented by men?

3 • The Election • (1983) • Robert Silverberg 73 • World War Last • (1985) • Norman Spinrad The hashish-smoking Sheik of Koram has a plan to trick America and Russia into war. 171 • When Winter Ends • (1985) • Michael P. Kube-McDowell

Three visions of tyranny by the best authors mankind has (and will) ever produce - ever. As Big As The Ritz - Gregory Benford Clayton Donnor grew up in a hard-working mining asteroid community, so when he went to Earth to study at UCLA, he thought all his dreams had come true. Earth was gaudy, effervescent and, above all, it was fun. Fugue State - John M. Ford Once you start forgetting, where do you stop? Chance - Nancy Springer As Lord's Warden, it is the orphaned bastard Chance's job to keep the vast forest of Wirral safe from poachers, spies, and the occasional murderer. But other creatures dwell here.