Vigilant
by James Alan Gardner | 
Gradisil
by Adam Roberts | 
The Widowmaker
by Mike Resnick | 
The Hammer of Darkness
by L. E. Modesitt, Jr. |
The Patterns of Chaos
by Colin Kapp | 
Children of the Thunder
by John Brunner | 
Web of Angels
by John M. Ford | 
The Free Lunch
by Spider Robinson | 
Memory
by Linda Nagata | 
Venus
by Ben Bova | 
Convergence
by Charles Sheffield | 
All My Sins Remembered
by Joe Haldeman |
The Mirrored Heavens
by David J. Williams | 
The Last Castle
by Jack Vance | 
A Signal Shattered
by Eric Nylund | 
Terms of Enlistment
by Marko Kloos | 
Angles of Attack
by Marko Kloos | 
Chains of Command
by Marko Kloos | 
Fields of Fire
by Marko Kloos | 
Points of Impact
by Marko Kloos |
Humanity is on the ropes, and after years of fighting a two-front war with losing odds, so is North American Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson. He dreams of dropping out of the service one day, alongside his pilot girlfriend, but as warfare consumes entire planets and conditions on Earth deteriorate, he wonders if there will be anywhere left for them to go.