Classic fantasy stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author, "one of our very best, and most innovate, speculative writers" (New York Daily News).

Collecting nine stories in old paradigms, Sleepside features Greg Bear's outstanding fantasy writing: "Webster," "The White Horse Child," "Richie by the Sea," "Sleepside Story," "Dead Run," "The Visitation," "Through Road No Whither," "The Way of All Ghosts," and the Nebula Award finalist "Petra." This edition also includes the special introduction by the author: "On Losing the Taint of Being a Cannibal."

Praise for Greg Bear

"Arthur C. Clarke's most formidable rival yet." —The Times

"One of the grand contemporary masters of SF." —Brian Aldiss

"[A] master of the grand-scale SF novel." —Booklist