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A collection of short stories spanning the best of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Included within are tales such as "Price of Survival," a story where a king must make a bargain with the darkness to save his people. "Last Contact" wherein an expedition looking for a new colony for the Earth's growing population finds the ideal world, except it is already inhabited. And "Vengeance, Inc." whose management specializes in helping the recently-departed get revenge on those who killed them.