"For this volume - an SFBC Creation - Silverberg asked some of today's best sf writers to take a fresh look at this inexhaustible theme, and they came up with a collection of dazzlingly original tales. All the novellas here encapsulate the star-faring theme with an intriguing twist: characters in transit between worlds are undergoing internal transitions as well. In Stephen Baxter's eponymous lead story, a virtual messiah takes advantage of a desperate refugee's pleas for help to get himself transferred off-world for a jaunt to Galaxy's Core and a new life.".

This latest volume is the best-of series of 16 all-original new writings in science fiction. Contents: Find the Lady, story by Nicholas Fisk A Solfy Drink, a Saffel Fragrance, story by Dorothy Gilbert A Scarab in the City of Time, story by Marta Randall Theodora & Theodora, story by Robert Thurston A Day in the South Quad, story by Felix C. Gotschalk Rogue Tomato, story by Michael Bishop The Mothers' March on Ecstasy, story by George Alec Effinger The Local Allosaurus, poem by Steven Utley Achievements, story by David Wise The Dybbuk Dolls, novelette by Jack Dann The Mirror at Sunset, story by Gil Lamont Report to Headquarters, story by Barry N. Malzberg Museum Piece, story by Drew Mendelson White Creatures, story by Gregory Benford The Contributors to Plenum Four, story by Michael Bishop Sail the Tide of Mourning, story by Richard A. Lupoff