What if everyone knows all about you because they can read your mind?

Reading other people's minds would suddenly become much less entertaining if everyone on your world could do the same to you--no secrets anywhere. And what if strangers learn of your world's ability? They would use it, and you, for their own profit. Or, with their own secrets to hide, they might consider you a threat? Might they even decide to kill you all?

Your world needs help to protect its secret. It can send only a few young women to a nearby pleasure world in search of a savior. They are forced to settle for...

This is a story of the end of the world. But not our world. Not Earth. We're still working on that. No, this story takes place in the future when we will have spread to lots of worlds and carried our short-sighted tendency to screw things up to the stars. And let's face it, the end of the world, even our world, has happened before. The dinosaurs' Earth ended. So did the Neanderthals'. Rome fell a couple of times. The worlds of Carthage, Byzantium and Moslem Spain are all gone. When the world that nurtured the Library of Alexandria fell it took half of mankind's knowledge with it. Now, with...