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An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons
possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while
tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb
quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction,
including "Orphans of the Helix," his award-winning return to the Hyperion
Universe -- that demonstrates the unique mastery, breathtaking invention,
and flawless craftsmanship of one of contemporary fiction's true greats.

Human colonists seeking something other than godhood encounter their long-
lost "cousins"...and an ancient scourge.

A devastated man in suicide's embrace is caught up in a bizarre cat-and-
mouse game with a young woman possessing a world-ending power.

The distant descendants of a once-oppressed people learn a chilling lesson
about the persistence of the past.

A terrifying ascent up the frigid, snow-swept slopes of K2 shatters
preconceptions and reveals the true natures of four climbers, one of whom
is not human.

At the intersection of a grand past and a threadbare present, an aging
American in Russia confronts his own mortality as he glimpses a wondrous
future.

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