Larger	Matter's End Author: Gregory Benford
	Book Information Publisher: Spectra Book Type: Paperback Rating: 1 ISBN-13: 9780553568981 - ISBN-10: 0553568981 Publication Date: 12/1/1994 Pages: 294

From Nebula award-winning novelist and eminent physicist Gregory Benford comes this tour de force of the imagination. Here, collected for the first time, are twenty-one of Benford's most stunning, provocative, and powerful stories.

A man at a masquerade party discovers that one guest has come a long, long way to attend-and that some disguises reveal more secrets than they hide...

The red scare takes on chilling implications when a shrewd politician changes the course of American history...

The "big one" finally hits California, spelling unimaginable death and destruction-and a host of new opportunities for a chosen few...

Riots are a routine affair down on Burton Street, where the authorities have come up with the perfect solution to social discontent...

A man attempts to outwit his computer opponent in a complex board game without realizing that the result may well be a matter of life and death...

Long before 'Jurassic Park', two scientists discover a means to resurrect the Seismosaur: the largest land animal ever to walk the earth...

Vivid, visionary, and brilliantly inventive, this collection of short fiction represents the work of a master storyteller.