For more than a decade, the widely heralded, award-winning L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of The Future anthology series has been transporting readers into realms beyond time and space, to parallel worlds and alternate realities and places at the infinite edges of the imagination. The impetus for these startling voyages has come from the best new writers of speculative fiction -- the winners of the famed Writers of The Future Contest.In the latest volume of this series, readers will discover 16 new imaginative tales, selected by luminaries in the field of science fiction and fantasy. Hugo Award -- winning illustrator Bob Eggleton's cover design is striking and will attract readers to this year's collection of premiere science fiction and fantasy.The Writers of The Future Contest judges include such stellar names as: Kevin J. Anderson, Gregory Benford, Algis Budrys, Orson Scott Card, Anne McCaffrey, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Jerry Pournelle, Tim Powers, Robert Silverberg, Frederik Pohl, Jack Williamson and Dave Wolverton.Launching Careers Into The Futurethe Writers Of The Future RM Contest and landmark anthology series have been the springboard for many top new science fiction writers, including Dave Wolverton, Karen Joy Fowler, Leonard Carpenter and Stephen Baxter, to name but a few.In the past 12 years, winners and finalists of the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of The Future Contest, have gone on to sell more than 100 novels and over 1,000 short stories to major publishers.