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An exceptional artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing your brain and touching the heart. Today he gives us an excellent quintet of novellas -- five stunning masterworks of speculative fiction, including "Orphans of the Helix," his award winning go back to the Hyperion World -- that shows the initial competence, spectacular creation, and perfect design of 1 of modern fiction's true greats. Individual settlers seeking anything apart from godhood experience their long lost "cousins",and an old scourge. A man in destructionis grasp is swept up in a cat -and-mouse game with a girl holding a global-closing energy.