Search Worlds Without End

Dr. Elsa Adams arrives at Hawkins Island to complete research on a massive computer program called Archmorph, but also to solve a mystery in her own past.

Abel Roon learned early of his fantastic powers - his uncanny ability to sense states of the ocean, anticipate its currents and changes, read its most violent and treacherous moods. As a young shepherd on the blustery shores of Cape Cod, it was the waters that spoke to him, the tides that beckoned him, the whispering sea creatures that talked his secret language.

When Eve Pennington, Professor of History of Science on business in England, buys a nineteenth century journal at a London book auction on a whim because it is about Nantucket, where her life changed as a teenager, the mystery begins. And like Sherlock Holmes (and with the help of a loyal young bookman as her Watson), Eve determines to keep the journal that a number of important people seem to want desperately enough to steal and find out why they want it.

And in reading the journal, Eve finds the seeds of a very great mystery indeed. For perhaps more than two hundred years ago, several alien beings landed on earth in the oceans. One or more of them may have died, but Eve determines that two of them were located off the coast of Scotland and near a tiny island off Nantucket, and, further, that these two have been influencing nearby human beings in strange and sometimes wonderful ways. Perhaps, even Eve.

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1983. The story is included in the collection Steam Bird (1988).

Hugo Award nominated novelette. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1984. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Science Fiction Yearbook (1985) edited by John F. Carr, Jim Baen and Jerry Pournelle and The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories (1992), edited by Tom Shippey.

Table of Contents:

• Author's Note - essay
• Steam Bird - (1984) - novel
• Hurricane Claude - (1983) - novelette

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, June 1979. The story can also be found in the anthology Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year: Ninth Annual Collection (1980), edited by Gardner Dozois. It is included in the collection Wave Rider (1980).

Hugo and Nebula Award nominated short story. It was originally published in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, August 1983. There are no other English language publications known at this time.

Table of Contents:

• Author's Preface - essay by Hilbert Schenck
• The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck - (1978) - novelette
• Three Days at the End of the World - (1977) - novelette
• Buoyant Ascent - novella
• Wave Rider - (1979) - shortstory
• The Battle of the Abaco Reefs - (1979) - novella