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Scott Robinson's latest collection travels to the far ends of time and space, in pursuit of questions as old as humanity itself: THE LOCAL GODS - A team of time travelers, stranded in the Paleolithic past, establish themselves as the resident idols of the Cro-Magnons on the African veldt; MOONLIGHT IN PARIS - An apartment at the top of the Eiffel Tower, once the residence of Gustave Eiffel himself, becomes a way station for travelers from the future; THE WIRE - The pilot of a space elevator gondola, intent on diverting a terrorist disaster on a space station 40,000 miles above the earth, discovers an unexpected passenger, and must somehow defy the cold equations; SKELETON 17 - At an archaeological dig in Czechia, a 30,000-year-old human skeleton is discovered - with bionic implants; WHEN SHE WOKE AT DAWN - A child's pet beagle escapes her suburban home, and is left to wander the empty streets and fields of a world running on automatic, in a reply to Ray Bradbury's ""There Will Come Soft Rains""; LOGBOOK - A time travel mission to the Triassic Epoch goes awry, stranding two scientists on a seaside plateau of the Pangaea supercontinent; MEDALLION - An artificial superintelligence disappears into the Internet, thwarting its sponsor's schemes and greatly exceeding its designer's specifications - and decides to give the world an upgrade; THE ONLY - Orbiting a dead earth below, along with the rest of humanity's scant remnant, the last living psychologist struggles to understand the behaviors of the last android; CLOSING TIME - A dark wraith is cursed to drift through time, from one night to another, deciding who lives and who dies - and finds himself in a rural diner in the Old South, surrounded by racial hate; JOY TO THE WORLD - A valetudinarian witch in a village shop in Northern England concocts a spell to spread universal happiness; THE KEEPER OF THE CASTLE AT THE END OF THE WORLD - A young woman finds herself transported to a beautiful world where she can live out her life in luxurious peace, in a community of complacent elites - while the rest of humanity fades into oblivion. These 11 tales are among his very best, culled from 25 years at the keyboard and decades of immersion in Asimov, Bradbury, Ellison and others - tales that will hopefully entertain, and perhaps, in some cases, disturb...

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