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Maggie Roche is an out-of-work poet and single mother. Spied on by a cyborged rat, attacked, drugged into panic and rapture, seduced, drawn into conspiracy, she's flung four thousand years into her own future. In the alien world of the Ull- Upload Lifeform Lords who are human-machine hybrids of overwhelming power-she learns that she is history's first true time traveler, hunted by friend and foe to the end of time. The entire future of the cosmos will be reset by these terrifying events. The Judas Mandala introduced the terms "virtual reality" and "virtual matrix," anticipating Frank Tipler's influential Omega Point Theory, William Gibson's cyberpunk fiction, and The Matrix... A new Afterword describes the strange publishing history of this ground-breaking novel, and includes the full text of an omitted chapter."Experience an epic sense of immensity: an inkling of humanit's perhaps limitless possibilities within the strangeness of our universe." -Australian Book Review

Four long adventures by a master story-teller.Uncle BonesMedical research brings you back from death, but only just. Nanotech turns you into a Stinky, shunned by the world. And you're only 15 years old.The MagiThe Jesuit starship St. Ignatius Loyola, in exile from post-religion High Earth, finds a deserted city on a distant world. Have its people gone in search of their Redeemer?The Ballad of Bowsprit BearsteadWhat did cause the fall of the galactic empire? And why was it ruled by psychic Neanderthals? A time traveling scientist is shocked by the answer.The Game of Stars and SoulsSon is pitted against father for the love of a beautiful gifted woman in this classic space opera of galactic conquest and self-awakening. Will their conflict end by destroying the universe? "Our own trailblazing man of ideas." - Terry Dowling, editor, The Essential Ellison