Reading more like a news report from the future than contemporary fiction, this collection of short stories combines hard science with rich emotionalism to explore myriad realities. Stories in this collection include of Mars, mathematical theorems from a very unlikely source, how Sherlock Holmes deals with a parasitic alien, the horrors of a hopeless war, and a voyage into a black hole. Contents: A Walk in the Sun (1991) Impact Parameter (1992) Elemental (1984) Ecopoiesis (1997) Across the Darkness (1995) Ouroboros (1997) Into the Blue Abyss (1999) Snow (1998) Rorvik's War (1995) Approaching Perimelasma (1998) What We Really Do Here at NASA (1994) Dark Lady (1995) Outsider's Chance (1998) Beneath the Stars of Winter (1993) The Singular Habits of Wasps (1994) Winter Fire (1997)