The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sanddespite the fact that the fierce alien enemy that they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away. A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite Military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and time to fight in the distant thousand-year conflict; to perform his duties without rancor and even rise up through military ranks. Pvt. Mandella...

Wars on Earth have shattered civilization and threaten to exterminate humanity, but half a million people still survive on the Worlds, a complex of satellite colonies. Marianne O'Hara of New New York must choose between helping the remaining "groundhogs" on earth and preparing for a mass flight to another star system.

Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise face a foe of incredible power and intelligence--a nightmare image from humanity's past.

Nicholas Foley appears to be an ordinary American psychology professor. He is, in fact, a Russian spy, inserted into the United States after World War II, joining the American army, attending American universities, falling in love and marrying an American, but always in touch with his Soviet superiors. All he ever does in the way of spying is turn in the names of people who might be "turned." But then he makes his momentous discovery. He isolates...

Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime--they're going to Mars. Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not so different from Earth. There are chores to do, lessons to learn, and oppressive authority figures to rebel against. And when she ventures out into the bleak Mars landscape alone one night, a simple accident leads her to the edge of death until she is saved by an angel--an angel...

While Earth prepares for battle, Carmen Dula and her crew travel to a distant solar system to attempt to forge a truce with a powerful race known as "The Others."

The 14th Science Fiction MEGAPACK® collects 28 science fiction stories, 1 novel, and interviews with Larry Niven and Joe W. Haldeman. Included are:

A NOTE FROM THE PUBLISHER
INTERVIEW WITH LARRY NIVEN
INTERVIEW WITH JOE W. HALDEMAN
THE AUTUMN VISITORS, by Frank Belknap Long
ADVANCE AGENT, by Christopher Anvil
INNOCENT AT LARGE, by Poul and Karen Anderson
A COLD NIGHT FOR CRYING, by Milton Lesser
ESCAPE VELOCITY,

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This major collection of never-before-published tales of war and warriors features some of today's most popular writers of fantasy.