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A collection of short stories from the award-winning author, Kate Wilhelm. Contains the following:

The Mile-Long Spaceship
Fear Is a Cold Black
Jenny with Wings
A Is for Automation
Gift from the Stars
No Light in the Window
One for the Road
Andover and the Android
The Man without a Planet
The Apostolic Travelers
The Last Days of the Captain Kate Wilhelm (1928 - )

Working name of the US writer Katie Gertrude Meridith Wilhelm Knight, born in Ohio in 1928. She started publishing SF in 1956 with 'The Pint-Sized Genie' for Fantastic , and continued for some time with relatively straightforward genre stories; it was not until the late 1960s that she began to release the mature stories which have made her reputation as one of the 20th century's finest SF writers. She was married to noted author and critic Damon Knight and together they have had a profound influence beyond their writing, through the Milford Science Fiction Writers' Conference and its offshoot, in which she was directly involved, the Clarion Science Fiction Writers' Workshop. She won the Hugo Award for Best Novel with Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang, and has won the Nebula Award three times. Kate Wilhelm lives in Oregon, USA, and still hosts writing workshops.