Pawn's Gambit

A collection of career-launching short fiction by #1 New York Times-bestselling author Timothy Zahn, including the Hugo Award-winning novella Cascade Point. Timothy Zahn shows an unparalleled mastership of science fiction in the fifteen tales gathered here. &quote;The Price of Survival&quote; features an alien ship that arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions but with a desperate need whose fulfillment could destroy humanity. &quote;The Giftie Gie Us&quote; tells the story of two lonely survivors who find love among the ruins of a post-apocalyptic United States. And in &quote;Pawn's Gambit,&quote; a human and his alien opponent face off over a game that will decide which one of them will return home. This collection also includes the Hugo Award winning novella Cascade Point and nine other works of science fiction, post-apocalyptic drama, and humorous fantasy previously unpublished in book form. Timothy Zahn is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Star Wars: Heir to the Empire and has won multiple awards for his work. With nonstop action, suspenseful plots, and high-tech twists, the stories in Pawn's Gambit are science fiction at its best.