The Wellstone
by Wil McCarthy | 
Lady of Mazes
by Karl Schroeder | 
Today We Choose Faces
by Roger Zelazny | 
The Crown Jewels
by Walter Jon Williams | 
The Halcyon Drift
by Brian M. Stableford | 
The Weapon Shops of Isher
by A. E. van Vogt | 
Semper Mars
by Ian Douglas | 
Prince of Sunset
by Steve White | 
The Mind Cage
by A. E. van Vogt | 
The End of All Things
by John Scalzi | 
Bios
by Robert Charles Wilson | 
Invaders from the Infinite
by John W. Campbell | 
Mind Over Ship
by David Marusek |
The Terrans
by Jean Johnson | 
Prador Moon
by Neal Asher | 
Born With the Dead
by Robert Silverberg | 
Time of the Great Freeze
by Robert Silverberg | 
Starman's Quest
by Robert Silverberg | 
The Stochastic Man
by Robert Silverberg | 
World's Fair 1992
by Robert Silverberg |
Duncan Chalk is a monstrous media mogul with a vast appetite for other people's pain. He feeds off it, and carefully nurtures it in order to feed it to the public. It is inevitable that Chalk should home in on Minner Burris, a space traveller whose body was taken apart by alien surgeons and then put back together again - differently. Burris' pain is constant. And so is that of Lona Kelvin, used by scientists to supply eggs for 100 children and then ruthlessly discarded. Only an emotional vampire like Chalk can see the huge audience eager to watch a relationship develop between these two damaged people. And only Chalk can make it happen. First published in 1967