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A hero without peer or scruples, Sam Gunn has a nose (or trouble, money, and women-though not necessarily in that order. A man with the ego (and stature) of a Napoleon, the business acumen oi a P. T. Barnum, and the raging hormones ol a teenage boy, Sam is the linest aslronaut NASA ever trained... and dumped.

But morę than money, morę than women, Sam Gunn loves justice. (And he really does love money and women.) Whether he’s suing the Pope, helping twin sisters entangled in the “virtual sex" trade, or on trial for his life on charges of interplanetary genocide, you can be surę of one thing: this is one space jockey who'll meet every challenge with a smile on his lips, an ace up his sleeve... and a weapon in his pocket.

Now, for the first time in trade paperback, Hugo winner Ben Bova presents all the tales of Sam Gunn to datę, including three never before collected. Here is the entire chronicie of Sam Gunn, trail-blazer and scoundrel, as he scams his way from one end of the solar system to the other, giving bold new meaning to the term “venture capitalisL”

“Sam Gunn could be known as the James Bond of the science-łiction universe— In such tales as ‘The Pelican Bar,' ‘Nursery Sam,’ and ‘Isolation Area,’ we see classic Gunn. He is like an avenging angel, who wiil do his utmost to help others because he believes in saving the underdog. This collection of the greatest works about Gunn stands as a monument to his greatness and the greatness of Ben Bova as well." —Shell Ule

“I always enjoyed Gunn's 'John-Wayne-in-space altitude, the Hein-lein ‘by-your bootstraps’ approach to space exploration, engineer-ing, and survival If some of the best SF would be gathered, one ol these memorable Sam Gunn tales would have to be induded."

— Jrue Review

"The complełe adventures of this irrepressible space entrepreneur are gathered in this collection of nineteen stories, two new, and four not previousły collected, plus the contents of previous collections... all rearranged by Bova with substantial new bridging materiał create as straightłorward a narrative as possible with such a ppery (but entertaining) subject."-Locus