The Sam Gunn Omnibus

The

SAM GUNN

Omnibus

Featuring every story ever written about Sam Gunn, and then some.

BEN BOVA

A Tom Doherty Associates Book New York

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in these stories are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

THE SAM GUNN OMNIBUS

Copyright © 2007 by Ben Bova All rights reserved. A Tor Book

Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC 175 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10010

www.tor-forge.com

Tor® is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bova, Ben, 1932The Sam Gunn omnibus / Ben Bova. p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.” ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-1620-2 ISBN-10: 0-7653-1620-X I. Title.

PS3552.084S25 2007 813’.54—dc22

2006033982

First Hardcover Edition: February 2007 First Trade Paperback Edition: April 2009

Printed in the United States of America

0987654321

an ebookman scan

COPYRIGHT ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Earlier versions of “The Supervisor’s Tale,” “Diamond Sam,” “Isolation Area,” “Vacuum Cleaner,” and “Space University” appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, copyright © 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, and 1990 by Mercury Press, Inc.

An earlier version of “Einstein” appeared in Omni magazine, copyright © 1990 by Omni Publications International, Inc.

“Sam’s War” and “Nursery Sam” originally appeared in Analogy copyright © 1994 and 1995 by D

Dell Magazines.

“The Prudent Jurist” (as “Sam and the Prudent Jurist”) and “Acts of God” originally appeared in Science Fiction Age, copyright 1997 and 1995 by Sovereign Media.