Taught chess by the janitor at her orphanage, Beth becomes a prodigy. As a teenager she plays for the world championship, but must conquer her fear to win.

Newman stars as Fast Eddie Felson, a one-time big pool hustler who makes a comeback with Cruise as his partner.

David Bowie plays an alien disguised as a human who is put on earth to find a way to ship water back to his dying planet.

New York. Ames Billiards, with high ceilings and air of hushed concentration, is a church of pool. "Fast" Eddie Felson enters as an innocent con man and leaves with a taste of what the world can do, that talent alone will only get him so far, and that a man's search for "character," that hard-to-define quality that is simultaneously elusive and essential, could last a lifetime. Having come to take on pool legend Minnesota Fats, Eddie is soundly beaten...

The fifth volume in the Science Fiction Megapack series collection 25 tales of high adventure through other worlds and times, 5 Hugo and Nebula Award-winners and nominees.

Included this time are:

AGAPE AMONG THE ROBOTS, by Allen Steele

THE STARSHIP MECHANIC, by Jay Lake and Ken Scholes

PEACEMAKER, by Gardner Dozois

OR ALL THE SEAS WITH OYSTERS, by Avram Davidson

GRANDMA, by Carol Emshwiller

THE GIFT BEARER, by Charles L. Fontenay

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