Ten international award-winning authors. Ten fabulous stories. One must-read anthology.Lab rats on the run? Got 'em. Alien pets? Check. Rocket borne dreams? Roger. Serlingesque kismet? Weird causality loops? All that's here, plus two Gold Pen Award winners, a Jim Baen Memorial Award finalist, a Tangent Online Recommendation, a Nebula award nominee, and a Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award winner.