Bluejay Books First Printing March 1986 hardcover (see credits scan; "03/86" at bottom of inside back flap.) Cover by Doug Beekman, 404 pages. Condition is near-Fine in a Fine(-) dustjacket: book is tight and almost square with very light bumping at bottom of spine, no interior marks or writing, age tanning is very mild and uniform. Dustjacket is unclipped ($16.95 price) and in good shape with no tears, slight wear at top of spine, and a little age-tanning on the white areas. The DJ protector has done its job and picked up a little wear - if you want to better display the cover art you could discard the protector or replace it with a new one.

Timothy Zahn's first short story collection: Cascade Point. Zahn has a Masters in Physics, and most of these stories first appeared in Analog in the early Eighties. This is a really good collection of Analog style problem solving stories. One reason Zahn has always had my respect is that he would write short fiction, and not expand every idea into a novel (even though that's where the money is.) If you want an idea of the range of Timothy Zahn's writing, this would be a good place to start. The title story is about probability effects observed as a side effect of a space drive, and what happens when someone interprets, and acts on what he sees. This won the Hugo Award in 1984 for best Novella. "Return to the Fold" was a Hugo nominee in 1985. I really liked "The Cassandra" (I wanted to nominate it for a Hugo.)

The Giftie Gie Us
The Dreamsender
The Energy Crisis of 2215
Return to the Fold
The Shadows of Evening
Not Always to the Strong
The Challenge
The Cassandra
Dragon Pax
Job Inaction
Teamwork
The Final Report on the Lifeline Experiment
Cascade Point

Most of these stories first appeared in Analog in the early Eighties, with one each from Amazing, Magazine of F&SF, Rigel, and The Space Gamer, plus an orginal story.

A bit of trivia about the cover - the one on the hardcover is from the title story "Cascade Point" and matches the Analog cover. But the paperback of this book used the Analog cover to that story's sequel: "The Evidence of Things Not Seen" (illustrating a similar scene; that story is not included here - but appears in a later collection.)