The Ultimate Alien

By Byron Preiss, John Betancourt, Keith R. A. DeCandido, Liz Holliday, Mike Resnick, Nick Dichario, Arthur C. Clarke, S. P. Somtow, Robert Silverberg, Mel Gilden, Anne McCaffrey, Lawrence Watt-Evans, Edward Gorman, Don D'Ammassa, Peter Crowther, Karen Haber, Carol Carr, Lynn D. Crosson, Ron Dee, Nina Kiriki Hoffman