Sister Alice

illions of years from now mankind has been saved from self-destruction by the creation of a super-race that could create a future safe for huma-kind and the rest of the galaxy. There is peace for tens of millions of years, but then Sister Alice, a member of this super race and a fabled expert at creating habitable worlds, is part of an experiment that destroys countless worlds. Alice is punished, but one of her descendants, Ord, is allowed to discover what she did, and to try to heal what she destroyed. Ord's odyssey in space and time is one of the most memorable stories ever told in science fiction.

Robert Reed is the author of Marrow and ten other high-concept science fiction novels. A multiple finalist for the Hugo Award, he has had many stories published in major SF magazines, and reprinted in "year's best" anthologies. He has recently finished The Well of Stars, the sequel to MarrowHe lives with his family in Lincoln, Nebraska.