Award-winning writers Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven and Orson Scott Card join such luminaries as Robert Bloch, Harry Harrison, John Varley and others to compile an absorbing look ahead to the shape crime and crime fighting might take in years to come. Included in this exploration of humanity's present and future crooked side are new stories by C.J. Cherryh and Alan Dean Foster, as well as an original novelette by George Alex Effinger set in previously unexplored part of the world he created in his award-winning novels A Fire in the Sun and When Gravity Fails.