Synopsis: From the back cover of the DAW first edition: "They hold the future in their hands - Fortune tellers have been part of every civilization from ancient oracles to priests performing divinations to shamans, witches, sages, astrologers, readers of cards, palms, bumps, crystal balls, tea leaves, bones, and the like. At one time or another almost everyone has had - or has thought of having - their fortunes told whether for fun by a friend, or in the daily horoscopes, or by cracking open a fortune cookie, or sticking a coin in the fortune telling machine at the penny arcade. But sometimes fun can become all too serious, as will soon become apparent in the masterful tales created especially for this volume, stories by such mesmerizing forecasters of the future as Billie Sue Mosiman, Peter Crowther, Ed Gorman, Nancy Springer, Tanya Huff, Rosemary Edghill, Brian Stableford, and Michelle Sagara West."