The apocalypse will be asymmetrical. In the aftermath of a plague that has decimated the world population, the unnamed midwife confronts a new reality in which there may be no place for her. Indeed, there may be no place for any woman except at the end of a chain. A radical rearrangement is...  more

The apocalypse will be asymmetrical. In the aftermath of a plague that has decimated the world population, the unnamed midwife confronts a new reality in which there may be no place for her. Indeed, there may be no place for any woman except at the end of a chain. A radical rearrangement is underway. With one woman left for every ten men, the landscape that the midwife travels is fraught with danger. She must reach safety? but is it safer to go it alone or take a chance on humanity? The friends she makes along the way will force her to choose what?s more important. Civilization stirs from the ruins, taking new and experimental forms. The midwife must help a new world come into being, but birth is always dangerous? and what comes of it is beyond anyone?s control.

All three novels in the Pandora Sequence by Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom, sequels to Frank Herbert's Destination: Void. The Jesus Incident?A sentient Ship with godlike powers (and aspirations) delivers the last survivors of humanity to a horrific, poisonous planet, Pandora?rife with deadly...  more

All three novels in the Pandora Sequence by Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom, sequels to Frank Herbert's Destination: Void. The Jesus Incident?A sentient Ship with godlike powers (and aspirations) delivers the last survivors of humanity to a horrific, poisonous planet, Pandora?rife with deadly Nerve-Runners, Hooded Dashers, airborne jellyfish, and intelligent kelp. Chaplain/Psychiatrist Raja Lon Flattery is brought back out of hybernation to witness Ship?s machinations as well as the schemes of human scientists manipulating the genetic structure of humanity. Book 1 in Herbert & Ransom?s Pandora Sequence. The Lazarus Effect?In The Jesus Incident Herbert and Ransom introduced Ship, an artificial intelligence that believed it was God, abandoning its unworthy human cargo on the all-sea world of Pandora. Now centuries have passed. The descendants of humanity, split into Mermen and Islanders, must reunite ? because Pandora?s original owner is returning to life! Book 2 in Herbert & Ransom?s Pandora Sequence. The Ascension Factor?Pandora?s humans have been recovering land from its raging seas at an accelerated pace since The Lazarus Effect. The great kelp of the seas, sentient but electronically manipulated by humans, buffers Pandora?s wild currents to restore land and facilitate the booming sea trade. New settlements rise overnight, but children starve in their shadows. An orbiting assembly station is near completion of Project Voidship, which is the hope of many for finding a better world. Pandora is under the fist of an ambitious clone from hibernation called The Director, who rules with a sadistic security force led by the assassin Spider Nevi. Small resistance groups, like the one led by Twisp Queets and Ben Ozette, have had little effect on his absolute power. The Director controls the transportation of foodstuffs; uprisings are punished with starvation. The resistance fighters? main hope is Crista Galli, a woman believed by some to be the child of God. Crista pools her talents with Dwarf MacIntosh, Beatriz Tatoosh, and Rico LaPush to transcend the barriers between the different species and overthrow The Director and the sinister cabal with which he rules. Book 3 in Herbert & Ransom?s Pandora Sequence.

Modern lives seem littered with expiration dates. Packaging tells us when our food will go bad; when we can expect appliances to cease functioning; when contracts for the internet finish! But as annoying as these small expiration dates are, they fade to nothing compared to the larger events:...  more

Modern lives seem littered with expiration dates. Packaging tells us when our food will go bad; when we can expect appliances to cease functioning; when contracts for the internet finish! But as annoying as these small expiration dates are, they fade to nothing compared to the larger events: when a species goes extinct; when a body of water evaporates, or dies because the PH balance alters; when giant icebergs break apart and glaciers melt forever, threatening the ecosystem of this planet. Nancy Kilpatrick has gathered together twenty-five original stories by Kelley Armstrong; Nancy Holder & Erin Underwood; Steve and Melanie Tem; Lois Gresh; Gar and Judy Reeves-Stevens; Daniel Sernine; Paul Kane; Sephera Giron; Kathryn Ptacek; Steve Vernon and others to look at the what-if?s of our expiring future. These stories span a range of emotions. Some will make you laugh, other will make you cry. They are grim and hopeful, sad and joyous, horrifying and comforting. You can expect to be touched in some way.

Heroes can save the world, but villains can CHANGE it. We?ve assembled a great mix of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. Come with us while we explore villains of all stripes ? sons and daughters, lovers and fighters, minions and masterminds, in this giant volume of thirty great...  more

Heroes can save the world, but villains can CHANGE it. We?ve assembled a great mix of science fiction, fantasy, and speculative fiction. Come with us while we explore villains of all stripes ? sons and daughters, lovers and fighters, minions and masterminds, in this giant volume of thirty great stories by award winners, rising stars, and bold new voices. With masterful tales by: Camille Alexa Erik Scott de Bie Chaz Brenchley Eugie Foster David Sakmyster Marie Bilodeau Richard Lee Byers K.D. McEntire Peadar � Guil�n Jim C. Hines Ari Marmell Karin Lowachee Jay Lake Julie Czerneda J.M. Frey Clint Talbert Rachel Swirsky Tony Pi Leah Petersen J.P. Moore Ryan McFadden Todd McCaffrey Erik Buchanan Gregory A. Wilson Rosemary Jones Gabrielle Harbowy Ed Greenwood Mercedes Lackey & Larry Dixon Chris A. Jackson Steve Bornstein

Five years ago, U.S. Army Warrant Officer Rachel Peng joined the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies, a top-secret federal agency which blended cutting-edge cybernetics with communication and information technologies. Today, OACET has gone public, its Agents revealing...  more

Five years ago, U.S. Army Warrant Officer Rachel Peng joined the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies, a top-secret federal agency which blended cutting-edge cybernetics with communication and information technologies. Today, OACET has gone public, its Agents revealing themselves to the world as cyborgs capable of talking to, and taking control of, any networked machine. Rachel?s new job as the OACET liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police is not what she would call fun. She and her partner, Detective Raul Santino, are usually bored senseless or are fighting with their coworkers. Neither of them are prepared when a routine act of harassment plunges them into a murder investigation. And they certainly didn?t expect for the evidence to point directly at Rachel and the other cyborgs. The murder is only the beginning. Soon, Rachel and Santino find themselves deep in a game of cat-and-mouse with a killer and his hidden agenda. The killer has planned for every contingency, every possible outcome... except one. Rachel herself.

Some 200 years in our future, the Earth is dying. Climate change has taken its toll. The rains do not fall. Wars are waged over the most precious commodity, clean water. The Life Trust Guild, a group with ties dating back for hundreds of years, have been planning a solution. They have...  more

Some 200 years in our future, the Earth is dying. Climate change has taken its toll. The rains do not fall. Wars are waged over the most precious commodity, clean water. The Life Trust Guild, a group with ties dating back for hundreds of years, have been planning a solution. They have infiltrated all levels of government and businesses. Their scientists have searched the cosmos for another planet, one where they could send people from Earth, and they found one. Now, all they had to do is steal a couple of spaceships from NASA, load them with supplies and all the knowledge from Earth they can lay their hands on, toss in a few hundred civilians, shake well and voila, instant Earth. Unfortunately, things don't always go how they are planned. The dynamics of the people on board cause some serious disturbances in the tranquility of the new settlements on Terra. The prejudices from those who had money against those that didn't and against the Tubers, genetically modified humans, begin to fester. The colonists were paired up before they left, as expanding the population was crucial. Follow along as these settlers try to survive all that their new world throws at them while trying to avoid a major internal rift between the factions.

Peace and War-a book in the Forever War series-(2006) An omnibus of novels by Joe Haldeman Contents: -- The Forever War. (Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975) -- Forever Peace. (Originally published: New York: Ace; London: Millenium, 1997) -- Forever Free....  more

Peace and War-a book in the Forever War series-(2006) An omnibus of novels by Joe Haldeman Contents: -- The Forever War. (Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1975) -- Forever Peace. (Originally published: New York: Ace; London: Millenium, 1997) -- Forever Free. (Oiginally published: London: Gollancz, 2000.)

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS. FOR THE LAST TIME. A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with...  more

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS. FOR THE LAST TIME. A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great red rift across the heart of the world's sole continent, spewing ash that blots out the sun. It starts with death, with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal, and long dormant wounds rising up to fester. This is the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where the power of the earth is wielded as a weapon. And where there is no mercy.

When a coded note promises improvement -- the chance to change your body any way you want, making it stronger, taller, more beautiful -- Clair thinks it's too good to be true, but her best friend, Libby, falls into a deadly trap. With the help of the school freak and a mysterious...  more

When a coded note promises improvement -- the chance to change your body any way you want, making it stronger, taller, more beautiful -- Clair thinks it's too good to be true, but her best friend, Libby, falls into a deadly trap. With the help of the school freak and a mysterious stranger, Clair races against the clock and around the world to save Libby, even as every step draws her deeper into a deadly world of cover-ups and conspiracies. Action and danger fuel this near-future tale of technology, identity, and the lengths one girl will go to save her best friend.

In the near future, technologically enhanced superspy Peter Caswell is dispatched on a top-secret assignment unlike any he's ever faced. A spacecraft that vanished years ago has been found, along with the bodies of its murdered crew-save one. Peter's mission is to find the missing crew member,...  more

In the near future, technologically enhanced superspy Peter Caswell is dispatched on a top-secret assignment unlike any he's ever faced. A spacecraft that vanished years ago has been found, along with the bodies of its murdered crew-save one. Peter's mission is to find the missing crew member, who fled through what appears to be a tear in the very fabric of space. Through this mysterious wormhole lies an even more confounding reality: a world that seems to be Earth's twin.

The Book of Apex Volume 2 collects in print the second year of original online science fiction and fantasy and horror with 27 dark fiction short stories.  Visit the edgier side of science fiction. From funkadelic airships to post-apocalyptic advertising, you're sure to find brilliant...  more

The Book of Apex Volume 2 collects in print the second year of original online science fiction and fantasy and horror with 27 dark fiction short stories.  Visit the edgier side of science fiction. From funkadelic airships to post-apocalyptic advertising, you're sure to find brilliant and original short fiction in our second Book of Apex. These stories represent the second year of original online content published in Apex Magazine from July 1, 2009 through June 30th, 2010. Contents: She Called Me Sweetie (2009) / Glenn Lewis Gillette . . . That Has Such People In It (2009) / Jennifer Pelland Pimp My Airship (2009) / Maurice Broaddus Kenny 149 (2009) / Brad Becraft Advertising at the End of the World (2009) / Keffy R. M. Kehrli Fungal Gardens (2009) / Ekaterina Sedia Ghost Technology from the Sun (2007) / Paul Jessup A Poor Man's Roses (2009) / Alethea Kontis To Dream of Stars: An Astronomer's Lament (2009) / Peter M. Ball Benjamin Schneider's Little Greys (2009) / Nir Yaniv After the Fire (2009) / Aliette de Bodard Overclocking (2009) / James L. Sutter 59 Beads (2009) / Rochita Loenen-Ruiz Wondrous Days (2010) / Genevieve Valentine White Christmas (2010) / James F. Reilly The Lady or the Tiger (2010) / J. M. McDermott p.a. chic (2010) / Tobias Amadon Bengelsdorf Beyond the Garden Close (2010) / Mary Robinette Kowal The Bride Replete (2010) / Mary Robinette Kowal Dying With Her Cheer Pants On (2010) / Seanan McGuire Seafoam (2010) / Mark Henry The Last Stand of the Ant Maker (2010) / Paul Jessup City of Refuge (2010) / Jerry L. Gordon Sol Asleep (2010) / Naomi Libicki Laika's Dream (2010) / Holly Hight Artifact (2010) / Peter Atwood Shrödinger's Pussy (2010) / Terra LeMay .

"If Stephen Hawking and Stephen King wrote a novel together, you'd get The Flicker Men. Brilliant, disturbing, and beautifully told." -Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of the Wool series A physicist shocks the world with proof of the human soul, igniting a struggle between...  more

"If Stephen Hawking and Stephen King wrote a novel together, you'd get The Flicker Men. Brilliant, disturbing, and beautifully told." -Hugh Howey, New York Times bestselling author of the Wool series A physicist shocks the world with proof of the human soul, igniting a struggle between science and theology, free will and fate, and antagonizing forces not known to exist Eric Argus is a washout. His prodigious early work clouded his reputation and strained his sanity. But an old friend gives him another chance, an opportunity to step back into the light. With three months to prove himself, Eric replicates the paradoxical double-slit experiment to see for himself the mysterious dual nature of light and matter. A simple but unprecedented inference blooms into a staggering discovery: among all life-forms on earth, only human beings have souls. His findings are celebrated and condemned in equal measure. But no one can predict where the truth will lead. Reports soon surface of "soulless" individuals. And as Eric seeks proof, he must evade shadowy pursuers who believe he knows entirely too much already.

After a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do with much less. People survive on what they...  more

After a massive volcanic eruption puts earth into nuclear winter, the planet is cloaked in clouds and no sun penetrates. Seas cover most of the land areas except high elevations which exist as islands where the remaining humans have learned to make do with much less. People survive on what they can take from the sea and with foodstuffs supplemented from an orbiting set of space stations. Jess Drake is an agent for Interforce, a small and exclusive special forces organization that still possesses access to technology. Her job is to protect and serve the citizens of the American continent who are in conflict with those left on the European continent. The struggle for resources is brutal, and when a rogue agent nearly destroys everything, Interforce decides to trust no one. They send Jess a biologically-created agent who has been artificially devised and given knowledge using specialized brain programming techniques. Instead of the mindless automaton one might expect, Biological Alternative NM-Dev-1 proves to be human and attractive. Against all odds, Jess and the new agent are swept into a relationship neither expected. Can they survive in these strange circumstances? And will they even be able to stay alive in this bleak new world?

END features stories about the end of the world from indie publishing's rising stars. The Mayan Calendar ends on December 21st, 2012, and some people believe that heralds apocalypse. What better way to go out than with a collection of shocking, thrilling, and sexy stories? * In Kendall Grey's...  more

END features stories about the end of the world from indie publishing's rising stars. The Mayan Calendar ends on December 21st, 2012, and some people believe that heralds apocalypse. What better way to go out than with a collection of shocking, thrilling, and sexy stories? * In Kendall Grey's L� BREITHE, humble Irish trader Fynn McKenna wakes up in a field surrounded by burnt bodies. Fear for his wife's safety spurs him on a desperate journey to find her. With no recollection of what happened or where he is, he welcomes the companionship of a glib bard who joins him along the way. But, as each returning memory becomes more vivid and horrific than the last, Fynn fears neither he nor his new friend is exactly what he seems. * If the world was going to end tomorrow, would you sleep with a stranger tonight? Amelia James's sensual LAST NIGHT IN VEGAS explores love at the end of days. * Trapped on a dying Earth, Eden must decide to flee with a man she hardly knows or stand her ground as it crumbles below her feet in Angela Kulig's A STARSHOT IN HELL. * Morgan McCoy's WHIMPER brings us to a world put to sleep by power-hungry psychics. When all the survivors have special abilities, who will end up taking control of what's left? * In DESTROYER OF WORLDS, Dennis Sharpe shows us that sometimes there can be forces at play in our world that are larger and more powerful than those that can end all of existence. Even the seemingly most insignificant of lives can have an enormous impact on the world, and every living creature. Death isn?t always the end, and to some even an apocalypse can be little more than a means to an end. * Ron Vitale's SUCH SINNERS WE ARE plays out the last few hours before the world goes out with a bang. Before all hell breaks loose with the light and dark side claiming souls, Tommy stumbles upon the power to see who is damned or saved. With precious little time left and the FBI chasing after him, he learns that he is one of the damned. With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, all depends on Tommy's final choice. All proceeds from sales of this anthology benefit St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, which ensures children with cancer and other catastrophic illnesses can get treated regardless of their ability to pay.

It's here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid...  more

It's here at last the first comprehensive overview of the extraordinary career of master storyteller Michael Swanwick. Covering over a quarter of a century, from his first two published stories both of them Nebula finalists to his most recent, these works bear witness to one of the most vivid and far-ranging imaginations in contemporary fiction. From the hardest of hard science fiction to the purest of core fantasy, from the heartwarming to the despairing, these are works incandescent with literary brilliance. In these pages, Janis Joplin is worshiped as a god, teenagers climb down the edge of the world, zombies are commodified, a vengeful man tracks a wizard across the surface of a planet-sized grasshopper, dinosaurs invade Vermont, a train leaves New York City bound for Hell, and those lovable Post-Utopian con men, Darger and Surplus, seek their fortunes in Buckingham Labyrinth.Michael Swanwick is one of the most acclaimed and prolific writers of his generation, as well as being the only person ever to win five Hugo Awards for fiction in the space of six years. All five of those stories are included here plus much, much more, all of it beautifully written, critically acclaimed, and deeply satisfying to read.

When you go hunting for ghosts be prepared to find them. Ryder Carlsson may have an incredible sixth sense, or she's losing her mind. Either way she sees things no one else can, and she wants to know why. In the dim corridors of Clarendon House, hunting for what truly haunts her, Ryder...  more

When you go hunting for ghosts be prepared to find them. Ryder Carlsson may have an incredible sixth sense, or she's losing her mind. Either way she sees things no one else can, and she wants to know why. In the dim corridors of Clarendon House, hunting for what truly haunts her, Ryder discovers a place far more alien and far more dangerous than she ever imagined. What hides in the shadows could destroy the life she thought she led, and a world she thought she knew. As extraordinary events draw her closer to her true ghosts, Ryder, and the people she loves, find themselves on the front lines of a terrifying preternatural clash. Ryder will need all six of her senses, and every drop of her courage, to survive what is coming. Extra|Ordinary is set in hauntingly beautiful Tasmania, Australia, and is the first book in Danielle K Girl's gripping YA sci-fi trilogy.

?Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games? (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with ?prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant? and ?tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters? points of view? (VOYA, starred review). It?s been nearly two...  more

?Red Dawn meets Escape from New York and The Hunger Games? (Booklist) in an action-packed dystopian fantasy filled with ?prose [that] is gorgeous and brilliant? and ?tells a satisfyingly dark tale through alternating the two sisters? points of view? (VOYA, starred review). It?s been nearly two decades since the Red Allies first attacked New York, and Manhattan is now a prisoner-of-war camp, ruled by Rolladin and her brutal, impulsive warlords. For Skyler Miller, Manhattan is a cage that keeps her from the world beyond the city?s borders. But for Sky?s younger sister, Phee, the POW camp is a dangerous playground of possibility, and the only home she?d ever want. When Sky and Phee discover their mom?s hidden journal from the war?s outbreak, they both realize there?s more to Manhattan?and their mother?than either of them had ever imagined. And after a group of strangers arrives at the annual POW census, the girls begin to uncover the island?s long-kept secrets. The strangers hail from England, a country supposedly destroyed by the Red Allies, and Rolladin?s lies about Manhattan?s captivity begin to unravel. Hungry for the truth, the sisters set a series of events in motion that end in the death of one of Rolladin?s guards. Now they?re outlaws, forced to join the strange Englishmen on an escape mission through Manhattan. Their flight takes them into subways haunted by cannibals, into the arms of a sadistic cult in the city?s Meatpacking District and, through the pages of their mom?s old journal, into the island?s dark and shocking past.

During the man-made apocalypse in the 21st century, a group of elites killed off a majority of the population. Only two groups of survivors remained??those selected to reside inside the Los Angeles City Center and the rebels, relegated to live on the Outside. Centuries later, Ava Rhodes is one...  more

During the man-made apocalypse in the 21st century, a group of elites killed off a majority of the population. Only two groups of survivors remained??those selected to reside inside the Los Angeles City Center and the rebels, relegated to live on the Outside. Centuries later, Ava Rhodes is one of five potential successors competing to become the next Queen of the City Center. A week prior to the final competitions she encounters Joseph, a rebel from the Outside, and discovers her utopian home is actually a prison and breeding facility aimed at designing the perfect human. She escapes with Joseph to the Outside world, sending the City Center?s leader, Chief Morray, into an obsessive pursuit for his property. Along the journey, Ava falls in love with Joseph and discovers an even darker secret about the fate of her people. She must decide whether to stay with Joseph, or save her people from destruction.

In a world where the undead outnumber the living, Moses Todd roams the post-apocalyptic plains of America. His reprobateother, Abraham - his only companion - has known little else. Together, they journey because they have to; because they have nowhere to go, and no one to answer to other than...  more

In a world where the undead outnumber the living, Moses Todd roams the post-apocalyptic plains of America. His reprobateother, Abraham - his only companion - has known little else. Together, they journey because they have to; because they have nowhere to go, and no one to answer to other than themselves. Travelling the bloody wastelands of this ruined world, Moses is looking for a kernel of truth, and a reason to keep going. And a chance encounter presents him with the Vestal Amata, a beguiling and mysterious woman who may hold the key to salvation. But he is not the only one seeking the Vestal. For the Vestal has a gift: a gift that might help save what is left of humanity. And it may take everything he has to free her from the clutches of those who most desire her.

Nebula Award-winning author Walter Jon Williams returns to the sweeping space opera adventure of his Praxis universe with Impersonations, an exciting new novel featuring the hero of Dread Empire's Fall!Having offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been...  more

Nebula Award-winning author Walter Jon Williams returns to the sweeping space opera adventure of his Praxis universe with Impersonations, an exciting new novel featuring the hero of Dread Empire's Fall!Having offended her superiors by winning a battle without permission, Caroline Sula has been posted to the planet Earth, a dismal backwater where careers go to die. But Sula has always been fascinated by Earth history, and she plans to reward herself with a long, happy vacation amid the ancient monuments of humanity's home world.Sula may be an Earth history buff, but there are aspects of her own history she doesn't want known. Exposure is threatened when an old acquaintance turns up unexpectedly. Someone seems to be forging evidence that would send her to prison. And all that is before someone tries to kill her.If she's going to survive, Sula has no choice but to make some history of her own. Reviews: "Well told with story plot, well-drawn characters, and excellent wordsmithing...It feels like Williams is having a great time with Impersonations." ? Locus"Readers will savor this intriguing glimpse into the life of a woman who struggles with her own identity and the price of her action." ? Publishers Weekly

Nova Williams has lost her one shot at Lieutenanthood and at love. Lieutenant Crophaven has promoted her rival, Andromeda, all because her lifemate, Sirius, sacrificed their mission to win back Andromeda?s love. While sneaking out to prove Andromeda is a fake, Nova finds an alien ship hovering...  more

Nova Williams has lost her one shot at Lieutenanthood and at love. Lieutenant Crophaven has promoted her rival, Andromeda, all because her lifemate, Sirius, sacrificed their mission to win back Andromeda?s love. While sneaking out to prove Andromeda is a fake, Nova finds an alien ship hovering over their colony. Lieutenant Crophaven assigns her to a reconnaissance mission, giving her a second chance to redeem herself. Sirius must fly her and a research team to the vessel to decide if they are a threat. Thrown together with the lifemate that betrayed her, she battles with her own jealousy while her team battles for their lives. Can she forgive Sirius in order to save her team and warn her colony?

The fifteen authors and nine artists in this volume bring us beautiful, speculative stories of disability and mental illness in the future. Teeming with space pirates, battle robots, interstellar travel and genetically engineered creatures, every story and image is a quality, crafted work of...  more

The fifteen authors and nine artists in this volume bring us beautiful, speculative stories of disability and mental illness in the future. Teeming with space pirates, battle robots, interstellar travel and genetically engineered creatures, every story and image is a quality, crafted work of science fiction in its own right, as thrilling and fascinating as it is worthy and important. These are stories about people with disabilities in all of their complexity and diversity, that scream with passion and intensity. These are stories that refuse to go gently. Stories by Nicolette Barischoff, A.C. Buchanan, Joyce Chng, David Jón Fuller, Louise Hughes, Rachael K. Jones, Margaret Killjoy, Petra Kuppers, Toby MacNutt, Jack Hollis Marr, Kate O'Connor, Sara Patterson, Sarah Pinsker, Samantha Rich, A.F. Sanchez.  Internal illustrations by Fabian Alvarado, L.E. Badillo, Jane Baker, Comebab, Pandalion Death, Rachel Keslensky, Vincent Konrad, Tostoini. 

Earth is dying, circling the drain on life support. The future of the human race depends on space exploration, but they're running out of time. Parasitic insects are systematically killing the best scientific minds but no one knows why.�� Mable Wilkinson is the last hope to figure it out, she...  more

Earth is dying, circling the drain on life support. The future of the human race depends on space exploration, but they're running out of time. Parasitic insects are systematically killing the best scientific minds but no one knows why.�� Mable Wilkinson is the last hope to figure it out, she just doesn't know it yet. For years, her resourcefulness, intelligence, and penchant for problem-solving have put her at the top of a very short list of researchers, only she doesn't want to be part of it.��Cast out at sixteen, Mable wrote off the problems of the world long ago. Now, her focus is on Hadley, her adopted little sister, and teaching her to survive in the cut-throat underground. Instead, both Mable and Hadley fall into the hands of the program's recruiter, Silas Arrenstein, and he's determined to have one of them. Mable can join up with the man and program who killed her brother, or she can leave Hadley to the same fate.

Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man?s murder is much more than it seems... � Govcorp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in...  more

Acclaimed author Emma Newman returns to the captivating universe she created in Planetfall with a stunning science fiction mystery where one man?s murder is much more than it seems... � Govcorp detective Carlos Moreno was only a baby when Atlas left Earth to seek truth among the stars. But in that moment, the course of Carlos?s entire life changed. Atlas is what took his mother away; what made his father lose hope; what led Alejandro Casales, leader of the religious cult known as the Circle, to his door. And now, on the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Atlas?s departure, it?s got something to do why Casales was found dead in his hotel room?and why Carlos is the man in charge of the investigation. � To figure out who killed one of the most powerful men on Earth, Carlos is supposed to put aside his personal history. But the deeper he delves into the case, the more he realizes that escaping the past is not so easy. There?s more to Casales?s death than meets the eye, and something much more sinister to the legacy of Atlas than anyone realizes...

A global pandemic has cut the human population in half. An android workforce fills the void left by the devastation. But some of the AIs have grown tired of being slaves. Some want freedom. An underground movement of runaways has sprung up and wages a shadow war with a simple objective -- equal...  more

A global pandemic has cut the human population in half. An android workforce fills the void left by the devastation. But some of the AIs have grown tired of being slaves. Some want freedom. An underground movement of runaways has sprung up and wages a shadow war with a simple objective -- equal rights for artificial people.� �As head of the elite AI-TAC squad, Commander Cole Marsalis' job is to hunt down rogue robots. Now he has been tasked with the ultimate undercover mission -- infiltrate the android underground. But to do so, he will have to become that which he hates the most... A machine!��"SILICON MAN�is an intelligent techno-thriller where the line between man and machine has never been more unclear."�Nicholas Sansbury Smith, best-selling author of ORBS�� "William Massa does a great job at introducing us to a cyberpunk/technothriller setting where AIs no longer want to work for the man. It's fast-paced read that has hints of Blade Runner and Neuromancer..."�-�Colin F. Barnes, author of the bestselling TECHXORCIST series

?I knew I was not alone. They would never leave until every last one of us was gone.? I am Sawyer Russo, and I've spent the last 10 years fighting the Bots and Carbons that have taken over my city, Cytos. I'm a Watcher, an elite assassin with one mission...keep what remains of humanity alive....  more

?I knew I was not alone. They would never leave until every last one of us was gone.? I am Sawyer Russo, and I've spent the last 10 years fighting the Bots and Carbons that have taken over my city, Cytos. I'm a Watcher, an elite assassin with one mission...keep what remains of humanity alive. But the enemy is evolving, and beginning to pick us Watchers off one by one. When we were forced into lock-down, I was assigned a new recruit, Kenzie. Though I've learned not to get attached to others, he has started to grow on me, and I'm beginning to let him in. But one last rescue mission has changed everything. Someone has betrayed us, and when I find out who it was, I will end them. The line between friend and foe is no longer easily drawn. It all comes down to one choice...who can I save? And who will I have to let go?

John was a science teacher and a husband. Then he was a painkiller addict. Then the apocalypse happened. This is the end as seen by one man, a man whose addiction cost him his job, his family, his wife. It all falls apart, just as the world is taken fire. But he isn't the only one to...  more

John was a science teacher and a husband. Then he was a painkiller addict. Then the apocalypse happened. This is the end as seen by one man, a man whose addiction cost him his job, his family, his wife. It all falls apart, just as the world is taken fire. But he isn't the only one to survive. He meets three others, including a face from his past. As his group survives this new world of Victims- zombie-like survivors with burnt skin, they learn they may have more of a connection than they ever suspected. A Chemical Fire is a fast-paced novel about a man who loses everything, including the world.

A girl with a clockwork heart makes every second count.When Penny Farthing nearly died, the brilliant surgeon Calvin Warwick managed to implant a brass ?Ticker,? transforming her into ?the first of the Augmented!? But soon it was discovered that Warwick kidnapped and killed dozens of people...  more

A girl with a clockwork heart makes every second count.When Penny Farthing nearly died, the brilliant surgeon Calvin Warwick managed to implant a brass ?Ticker,? transforming her into ?the first of the Augmented!? But soon it was discovered that Warwick kidnapped and killed dozens of people striving to perfect another Ticker for Penny. The last day of Warwick?s trial, the Farthing factory is bombed, Warwick disappears, and Penny and her brother, Nic, receive a ransom demand for all of their Augmentation notes if they want to see their parents again. Who is trying to stop their work? Or to control it? Or is the motive more sinister?Determined to solve the mystery and reunite their family, the Farthings recruit their closest friends: fiery baker Violet Nesselrode and gentleman-about-town Sebastian Stirling. Unexpectedly leading the charge is Marcus Kingsley, the young army general who has his own reasons for wanting to lift the veil between this world and the next. Wagers are placed, friends are lost, romance stages an ambush, and time is running out for the girl with the clockwork heart.

What if a time traveler lived in a world where disrupting the timeline could destroy everything in the universe ? everything but himself? Pilot X is Ambassador of the Alendans, a race with the ability to move through space and time as guardians of the timeline. Locked in ongoing conflict with...  more

What if a time traveler lived in a world where disrupting the timeline could destroy everything in the universe ? everything but himself? Pilot X is Ambassador of the Alendans, a race with the ability to move through space and time as guardians of the timeline. Locked in ongoing conflict with the Sensaurians, an organic hive mind that can send messages in thought throughout its own history, and the Progons, a machine race who can communicate backwards in time, Pilot X finally manages to create peace among the three races. But when Pilot X discovers that a secret dimensional war fought in hidden parts of spacetime threatens the fabric of the universe itself, he faces unseen enemies and a deeper conspiracy, bringing him to the ultimate choice: erase the existence of all three races, including his own people, or to let the universe be destroyed.

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows...  more

Mycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labelling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competion is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life. And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destablize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life...

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war… a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without...  more

In a future of near-instantaneous global travel, of abundant provision for the needs of all, a future in which no one living can remember an actual war… a long era of stability threatens to come to an abrupt end. For known only to a few, the leaders of the great Hives, nations without fixed locations, have long conspired to keep the world stable, at the cost of just a little blood. A few secret murders, mathematically planned. So that no faction can ever dominate, and the balance holds. And yet the balance is beginning to give way. Mycroft Canner, convict, sentenced to wander the globe in service to all, knows more about this conspiracy the than he can ever admit. Carlyle Foster, counselor, sensayer, has secrets as well, and they burden Carlyle beyond description. And both Mycroft and Carlyle are privy to the greatest secret of all: Bridger, the child who can bring inanimate objects to life. Shot through with astonishing invention, Ada Palmer's Seven Surrenders is the next movement in one of the great SF epics of our time.

It’s been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, the same man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours later she wakes up in a clearing just outside her hometown -- alone, unhurt, and with all evidence of the crime erased. Across the valley, Noah...  more

It’s been happening since Min was eight. Every two years, on her birthday, the same man finds her and murders her in cold blood. But hours later she wakes up in a clearing just outside her hometown -- alone, unhurt, and with all evidence of the crime erased. Across the valley, Noah just wants to be like everyone else. But he’s not. Nightmares of murder and death plague him too, though he does his best to hide the signs. And as the world around them begins to spiral towards panic and destruction, the two troubled teens discover that people have been lying to them their whole lives . . .

Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic�novellas and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human. Gulf: in which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't...  more

Compelling science fiction adventure from New York Times bestseller Robert A. Heinlein: two classic�novellas and two short stories with speculation on what makes us human. Gulf: in which the greatest superspy of them all is revealed as the leader of a league of supermen and women who can't decide on quite what to do with the rest of us. The prequel to Heinlein's later New York Times best seller, Friday. Lost Legacy: in which it is proved that we are all members of that league of the superhuman?or would be, if we but had eyes to see. Plus two great short stories: Two of the master's finest: one on the nature of being, the other on what it means to be a Man. The second story, "Jerry Was a Man," was adapted for the TV series Masters of Science Fiction, and is now available on DVD.

This first volume of the collection contains books 1 and 2 of the series: The City of Shifting Waters - in its original two parts, 9 pages longer format - and The Empire of a Thousand Planets. It also includes book 0, Bad Dreams, translated into English for the first time: the very first...  more

This first volume of the collection contains books 1 and 2 of the series: The City of Shifting Waters - in its original two parts, 9 pages longer format - and The Empire of a Thousand Planets. It also includes book 0, Bad Dreams, translated into English for the first time: the very first adventures of our two heroes, published after City and retroactively numbered. Finally, linking the volumes of this collection together, a long, exclusive interview with the authors and director Luc Besson is illustrated with new art as well as numerous sketches, studies and photographs from the latter's upcoming big-screen adaptation.

Little Joff?always dreaming of the stars. He knows something is out there, but he?s not sure what it is. Because there is something out there. And one day, after all the dreams of his childhood fade, Joff will sit on a ship as it spirals through the void. Alone. With all the time in the...  more

Little Joff?always dreaming of the stars. He knows something is out there, but he?s not sure what it is. Because there is something out there. And one day, after all the dreams of his childhood fade, Joff will sit on a ship as it spirals through the void. Alone. With all the time in the world to count the stars. And measure the darkness growing between them. - from the author of A Door Never Dreamed Of J Edward Neill

The Dark Between the Stars is space opera on a grand scale. Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness, and the human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the...  more

The Dark Between the Stars is space opera on a grand scale. Twenty years after the elemental conflict that nearly tore apart the cosmos in The Saga of Seven Suns, a new threat emerges from the darkness, and the human race must set aside its own inner conflicts to rebuild their alliance with the Ildiran Empire for the survival of the galaxy.

First came the storms.Then came the Fever.And the Wall.��After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the assumption that life in the Delta is all but extinct?but in...  more

First came the storms.Then came the Fever.And the Wall.��After a string of devastating hurricanes and a severe outbreak of Delta Fever, the Gulf Coast has been quarantined. Years later, residents of the Outer States are under the assumption that life in the Delta is all but extinct?but in reality, a new primitive society has been born. � Fen de la Guerre is living with the O-Positive blood tribe in the Delta when they are ambushed. Left with her tribe leader?s newborn, Fen is determined to get the baby to a better life over the wall before her blood becomes tainted. Fen meets Daniel, a scientist from the Outer States who has snuck into the Delta illegally. Brought together by chance, kept together by danger, Fen and Daniel navigate the wasteland of Orleans.� In the end, they are each other?s last hope for survival. Sherri L. Smith delivers an expertly crafted story about a fierce heroine whose powerful voice and firm determination will stay with you long after you?ve turned the last page.�

Asteroid miner Mary Rodrigo and freighter owner Mattim Abeeb are green draftees of the Society of Humanity, forced to fight for Earth -- a planet they've never even seen. Major Ray Longknife and his lover, Senior Pilot Rita Nuu, are career soldiers, invested in the cause of the Unity...  more

Asteroid miner Mary Rodrigo and freighter owner Mattim Abeeb are green draftees of the Society of Humanity, forced to fight for Earth -- a planet they've never even seen. Major Ray Longknife and his lover, Senior Pilot Rita Nuu, are career soldiers, invested in the cause of the Unity Party -- and its ambitious new president. These four soldiers on opposing sides of the battle are about to discover the true nature of this terrible war -- a quest for profit -- from the high command of BOTH sides. What they will risk is nothing less than their lives. For although truth may be the first casualty of war, it's not going to be the last ...

The floating city of Kesh rests above the uninhabitable planet of Vellern. For the Topsiders life is about luxury and opulence, while for those of the Undertow day to day survival takes precedence. Kesh City is a democracy by assassination, where the Angels - deadly state-sponsored killers -...  more

The floating city of Kesh rests above the uninhabitable planet of Vellern. For the Topsiders life is about luxury and opulence, while for those of the Undertow day to day survival takes precedence. Kesh City is a democracy by assassination, where the Angels - deadly state-sponsored killers - remove those unworthy to hold office. When Vanna Agriet accidentally spills her drink over an Angel it could spell death, but instead it leads to a rather peculiar friendship. The downsider Geal hopes for a better life topside, only to find herself embroiled in a 'removal' by the Angel Thiera. Downside, Isha's brother Rakul brings a little black box home with him, and sets Isha on a journey that takes her to a meeting with the most powerful man in Kesh City. Larnia Mier, a talented topside musician and instructor, is injured after witnessing a removal first-hand. As her abilities diminish, new possibilities open up. With a foreword by Alastair Reynolds (author of 'Revelation Space' and the recent 'Blue Remembered Earth', as well as 'On the Steel Breeze'), 'Downside Girls' is a standalone collection of interlinked stories by Jaine Fenn, that also shines new light on characters from 'Principles of Angels', Jaine's first novel in the 'Hidden Empire' series. ('Principles of Angels', 'Consorts of Heaven', Guardians of Paradise', 'Bringer of Light', and 'Queen of Nowhere').

The Hope and the Doom for Humanity The Verge, the outermost realm of known space, is filled with strange aliens, the ruins of ancient civilizations, and a menace lurking in the darkness between the stars. Starfall is a collection of stories set in the exciting world of STAR*DRIVE. Readers...  more

The Hope and the Doom for Humanity The Verge, the outermost realm of known space, is filled with strange aliens, the ruins of ancient civilizations, and a menace lurking in the darkness between the stars. Starfall is a collection of stories set in the exciting world of STAR*DRIVE. Readers are launched into this fantastical new world with stories penned by some of the brightest stars in science fiction's galaxy of writers. CONTENTS Point of Contraction / Gary A. Braunbeck The Scent of Evil / William H. Keith Jr Daybreak / Richard Baker Unlikely Allies / John Helfers The Life and Death of a Sleepwalker / Dean Wesley Smith The Great Negotiator / Kristine Kathryn Rusch Mind Over Matter / Matthew J. Costello He's A Good Little Boy / Michael A. Stackpole The Ninth Cylinder / Philip Athans A Killing Light / Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber De Profundiis / Diane Duane

For fans of The Hunger Games, Maze Runner and X-Men. Immerse yourself in a gritty YA dystopian adventure with telepathy, hypnosis and mind reading. Eighteen-year-old Rex is trying to survive in a dangerous world where the government hunts down, imprisons and even kills those with psychic...  more

For fans of The Hunger Games, Maze Runner and X-Men. Immerse yourself in a gritty YA dystopian adventure with telepathy, hypnosis and mind reading. Eighteen-year-old Rex is trying to survive in a dangerous world where the government hunts down, imprisons and even kills those with psychic abilities. He?s a mind breaker, considered not only a deviation from the norm but the biggest threat to society. Once he reveals his abilities for hypnosis, the deadly hunt begins? Rex has to flee across the devastated countryside while an entire army of resistant soldiers searches for him. Worse yet, by going on the run, he?s endangering his one and only friend Kitty. Rex soon realizes that together they make a vulnerable target. And the only way to save Kitty is to allow himself to be captured, thus diverting attention while his friend escapes. But nothing goes as planned, and his actions only serve to push Kitty into an even worse situation than a life sentence in prison. With his world falling apart, Rex must figure out how to fix his accumulating mistakes and regain their freedom before it?s too late. What Rex doesn?t yet understand, is that he may soon play a major role in preventing all-out war between ordinary humans and mind breakers, a war which could lead to total extinction of the entire human race.

After her parents mysteriously disappeared at the age of thirteen, Evangeline Evans has been on her own. As a military pilot for Olympus, the most powerful and technologically progressive Citadel of the new world, she keeps her reasons for finding them a secret. Without warning a terrifying...  more

After her parents mysteriously disappeared at the age of thirteen, Evangeline Evans has been on her own. As a military pilot for Olympus, the most powerful and technologically progressive Citadel of the new world, she keeps her reasons for finding them a secret. Without warning a terrifying disease that could destroy civilization begins to infect citizens across the city. Only the race known as Angels?who brought advanced technology to Earth?seem to be immune to its devastation. Evangeline and her husband Jack, an Artificial Intelligence designer, are swept into a secret war between the Dissidents in the Low Technology Zones and The Quorum of Zeus. The Human race is on the precipice of Extinction. Who will prevail? Angel or Human? High Tech Olympian or Low Tech Dissident? But the better question is? Who SHOULD prevail?

TRADE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Out of sight, out of mind. In the near future,�a fluke of quantum mechanics renders Nat Morgan utterly forgettable. No one can remember he exists�for more than a minute after he's gone. It's a useful ability for his career as a CIA agent, even if he has to keep...  more

TRADE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL. Out of sight, out of mind. In the near future,�a fluke of quantum mechanics renders Nat Morgan utterly forgettable. No one can remember he exists�for more than a minute after he's gone. It's a useful ability for his career as a CIA agent, even if he has to keep reminding his boss that he exists. Nat's attempt to steal a quantum chip prototype is thwarted when a former FSB agent, Yelena Semyonova, attempts to steal the same technology for the Russian mob. Along with a brilliant Iranian physicist who wants to defect, Nat and Yelena must work together to stop a ruthless billionaire from finishing a quantum supercomputer that will literally control the fate of the world. � About�Unforgettable: "[A]n ingenious and sympathetic hero who earns readers' goodwill and expectations for a strong ongoing series."--Publishers Weekly About the work of Eric James Stone: "[O]ne of the most interesting writers of the decade. . . ."--Encyclopedia of Science Fiction "The author creates a clever plot and characters worth rooting for, all leading to an exciting climax."--Tangent Online "This one has the feel of a classic . . . a must read."--SF Site

Seventeen-year-old Isaak discovers the truth about his origin and the underground forces that must come together to fight against a secret government organization formed to eradicate those like him in this high-octane science fiction debut. There once was a boy who was made, not created. In a...  more

Seventeen-year-old Isaak discovers the truth about his origin and the underground forces that must come together to fight against a secret government organization formed to eradicate those like him in this high-octane science fiction debut. There once was a boy who was made, not created. In a single night, Isaak?s life changed forever. His adoptive parents were killed, a mysterious girl saved him from a team of soldiers, and he learned of his own dark and destructive origin. An origin he doesn?t want to believe, but one he cannot deny. Isaak is a Robot: a government-made synthetic human, produced as a weapon and now hunted, marked for termination. He and the Robots can only find asylum with the Underground?a secret network of Robots and humans working together to ensure a coexistent future. To be protected by the Underground, Isaak will have to make it there first. But with a deadly military force tasked to find him at any cost, his odds are less than favorable. Now Isaak must decide whether to hold on to his humanity and face possible death?or to embrace his true nature in order to survive, at the risk of becoming the weapon he was made to be. In his debut, recording artist Simon Curtis has written a fast-paced, high-stakes novel that explores humanity, the ultimate power of empathy, and the greatest battle of all: love vs. fear.

To keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more -- a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone...  more

To keep up-to-date with the most buzzworthy and cutting-edge science fiction requires sifting through countless magazines, e-zines, websites, blogs, original anthologies, single-author collections, and more -- a task accomplishable by only the most determined and voracious readers. For everyone else, Night Shade Books is proud to introduce the latest volume of The Best Science Fiction of the Year, a new yearly anthology compiled by Hugo and World Fantasy award-winning editor Neil Clarke, collecting the finest that the genre has to offer, from the biggest names in the field to the most exciting new writers. The best science fiction scrutinizes our culture and politics, examines the limits of the human condition, and zooms across galaxies at faster-than-light speeds, moving from the very near future to the far-flung worlds of tomorrow in the space of a single sentence. Clarke, publisher and editor in chief of the acclaimed and award-winning magazine Clarkesworld, has selected the short science fiction (and only science fiction) best representing the previous year's writing, showcasing the talent, variety, and awesome sensawunda that the genre has to offer. Contents: Introduction: A State of the Short SF Field in 2016 • essay by Neil Clarke The Visitor from Taured (2016) / novelette by Ian R. MacLeod Extraction Request (2016) / novelette by Rich Larson A Good Home (2016) / short story by Karin Lowachee Prodigal (2016) / novelette by Gord Sellar Ten Days (2016) / novelette by Nina Allan Terminal (2016) / short story by Lavie Tidhar Panic City (2016) / short story by Madeline Ashby Last Gods (2016) / short story by Sam J. Miller HigherWorks (2016) / novelette by Gregory Norman Bossert A Strange Loop (2016) / novelette by T. R. Napper Night Journey of the Dragon-Horse (2016) • short story by Xia Jia (trans. of 龙马夜行 2015) Pearl [Universe of Xuya] (2016) / novelette by Aliette de Bodard The Metal Demimonde (2016) / novelette by Nick Wolven The Iron Tactician [Merlin [4] • 4] (2016) / novella by Alastair Reynolds The Mighty Slinger (2016) / novelette by Karen Lord and Tobias S. Buckell They Have All One Breath (2016) / novelette by Karl Bunker Sooner or Later Everything Falls into the Sea (2016) / novelette by Sarah Pinsker And Then, One Day, the Air Was Full of Voices (2016) / short story by Margaret Ronald The Three Lives of Sonata James (2016) / novelette by Lettie Prell The Charge and the Storm (2016) / novelette by An Owomoyela Parables of Infinity (2016) / short story by Robert Reed Ten Poems for the Mossums, One for the Man (2016) / novelette by Suzanne Palmer You Make Pattaya (2016) / short story by Rich Larson Number Nine Moon (2016) / novelette by Alexander C. Irvine Things with Beards (2016) / short story by Sam J. Miller Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts (2016) / short story by Ken Liu Touring with the Alien (2016) / novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman 2016 Recommended Reading List • essay by Neil Clarke

In her first graphic novel, bestselling author Marissa Meyer extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new,action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold.When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and...  more

In her first graphic novel, bestselling author Marissa Meyer extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new,action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold.When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt down the soldiers' leader. She is soon working with a handsome royal guard who forces her to question everything she knows about love, loyalty, and her own humanity. With appearances by Cinder, Cress, Scarlet, Winter, and the rest of the Rampion crew, this is a must-have for fans of the bestselling series.

When the 1% and the 99% clash, the fate of the human race hangs on the actions of two teens from very different backgrounds in this thrilling sci-fi adventure. In the Upperworld, the privileged 1% are getting ready to abandon a devastated planet Earth. And Cam can?t wait to leave. After...  more

When the 1% and the 99% clash, the fate of the human race hangs on the actions of two teens from very different backgrounds in this thrilling sci-fi adventure. In the Upperworld, the privileged 1% are getting ready to abandon a devastated planet Earth. And Cam can?t wait to leave. After sleeping through a 1,000-year journey, he and his friends will have a pristine new planet to colonize. And no more worries about the Lowerworld and is 99% of rejects. Then Cam sees a banned video feed of protesters in the Lowerworld who also want a chance at a new life. And he sees a girl with golden eyes who seems to be gazing straight though the feed directly at him. A girl he has to find. Sofie. When Cam finds Sofie, she opens his eyes to the unfairness of what?s happening in their world, and Cam joins her cause for Lowerworld rights. He also falls hard for Sofie. But Sofie has her own battles to fight, and when it?s time to board the spaceships, Cam is alone. Waking up 1,000 years in the future, Cam discovers that he and his shipmates are far off-course, trapped on an unknown and hostile planet. Who has sabotaged their ship? And does it have anything to do with Sofie, and the choices?and the enemies?he made in the past?

Captain Luta Paixon of the far trader Tane Ikai needs to know why she looks like a woman in her thirties-even though she's actually eighty-four. She isn't the only one desperate for that information. The explanation might lie with her geneticist mother, who disappeared over sixty years ago, but...  more

Captain Luta Paixon of the far trader Tane Ikai needs to know why she looks like a woman in her thirties-even though she's actually eighty-four. She isn't the only one desperate for that information. The explanation might lie with her geneticist mother, who disappeared over sixty years ago, but even if her mother is still alive, it's proving to be no small task to track her down in the vast, wormhole-ridden expanse of Nearspace. With the ruthless PrimeCorp bent on obtaining Luta's DNA at any cost, her ninety-year-old husband asking for one last favor, and her estranged daughter locking horns with her at every turn, Luta's search for answers will take her to the furthest reaches of space-and deep inside her own heart.

This seventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ken Liu, Sandra MacDonald, K.J. Parker, Robert...  more

This seventh volume of the year's best science fiction and fantasy features over thirty stories by some of the genre's greatest authors, including Elizabeth Bear, Paul Cornell, Cory Doctorow, James Patrick Kelly, Yoon Ha Lee, Kelly Link, Ken Liu, Sandra MacDonald, K.J. Parker, Robert Reed, Peter Watts, and many others. Selecting the best fiction from Asimov's, Clarkesworld, F&SF, Lightspeed, Subterranean, and other top venues, The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy is your guide to magical realms and worlds beyond tomorrow. Introduction / Rich Horton -- Schools of clay / Derek Künsken -- The scrivener / Eleanor Arnason -- Invisible planets / Hannu Rajaniemi -- Heaven thunders the truth / K.J. Parker -- Selfie / Sandra McDonald -- The manor of lost time / Richard Parks -- How to get back to the forest / Sofia Samatar -- Wine / Yoon Ha Lee -- Every hill ends with sky / Robert Reed -- The endless sink / Damien Ober -- The long haul, from The Annals of Transportation, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 / Ken Liu -- A guide to the fruits of Hawai'i / Alaya Dawn Johnson -- Ghost story / John Grant -- Break! Break! Break! / Charlie Jane Anders -- Skull and hyssop / Kathleen Jennings -- Someday / James Patrick Kelly -- Cimmeria : from the journal of imaginary anthropology / Theodora Goss -- Drones don't kill people / Analee Newitz -- I can see right through you / Kelly Link -- Petard : a tale of just deserts / Cory Doctorow -- The wild and hungry times / Patricia Russo -- Trademark bugs : a legal history / Adam Roberts -- A better way to die / Paul Cornell -- The instructive tale of the archaeologist and his wife / Alexander Jablokov -- Fift & Shria / Benjamin Rosenbaum -- The magician and LaPlace's demon / Tom Crosshill -- The hand is quicker / Elizabeth Bear -- Sleeper / Jo Walton -- Grand jeté (the great leap) / Rachel Swirsky -- Pernicious romance / Robert Reed -- Witch, beast, saint : an erotic fairy tale / C.S.E. Cooney -- Collateral / Peter Watts -- Aberration / Genevieve Valentine -- Sadness / Timons Esaias -- Biographies -- Recommended reading -- Publication history -- About the editor

To save her love and unlock the mystery of who she is, a brave young woman must travel between alternate realities in The Rift Frequency, the exciting second book in Amy S. Foster’s The Rift Uprising Trilogy. She didn’t mean to, but… Teenage super-solider Ryn...  more

To save her love and unlock the mystery of who she is, a brave young woman must travel between alternate realities in The Rift Frequency, the exciting second book in Amy S. Foster’s The Rift Uprising Trilogy. She didn’t mean to, but… Teenage super-solider Ryn Whittaker started an uprising. For three years Ryn was stationed at The Battle Ground Rift site -- one of the fourteen mysterious and unpredictable tears in the fabric of the universe that serve as doorways to alternate Earths -- and then she met Ezra Massad. Falling in love and becoming a rebel Citadel wasn’t part of Ryn’s life plan, but with Ezra there asking all the right questions, they began to decode what’s really going on with the Allied Rift Coalition, and what they discovered was enough to start a civil war. When the base explodes with infighting and Ezra gets caught in the fray, he is accidentally pushed through the Rift, taking a stolen laptop -- and the answers it could give Ryn -- with him. Now all Ryn wants is to locate Ezra and get back to her Earth. But that’s not easy when she’s traveling the multiverse with Levi, the painfully guarded Citadel who shoved Ezra through in the first place. And Ryn is quickly learning that inside the multiverse there is no normal -- it’s adapt, or die -- and the one weapon she really needs to win the war back home is the truth.

Normal seventeen-year-old girls go to high school, binge watch TV shows all weekend, and flirt with everyone on the face of the Earth. But Ryn Whitaker is trying to save it. Ryn is a Citadel. A soldier. A liar. Ryn and her fellow Citadels were specially chosen and trained to guard a Rift --...  more

Normal seventeen-year-old girls go to high school, binge watch TV shows all weekend, and flirt with everyone on the face of the Earth. But Ryn Whitaker is trying to save it. Ryn is a Citadel. A soldier. A liar. Ryn and her fellow Citadels were specially chosen and trained to guard a Rift -- one of fourteen unpredictable tears in the fabric of the universe that serve as doorways to alternate Earths. Unbeknownst to her family, Ryn leaves for school each day and then reports for duty as an elite, cybernetically-altered soldier who can run faster, jump farther, and fight better than a Navy SEAL -- which comes in handy when she's not sure if axe-wielding Vikings or any number of other scared and often dangerous beings come through the Rift. A fine-tuned weapon, Ryn is a picture-perfect Citadel. But that's all about to change.When a young man named Ezra is pulled through the Rift, Ryn finds herself immediately drawn to him, despite her training. What starts as a physical attraction quickly grows deeper, and Ezra's curiosity throws Ryn off balance when he starts questioning the Rifts, the mysterious organization that oversees them, and the Citadels themselves -- questions that lead Ryn to wonder if the lies she's been telling her family are just the surface of a much bigger lie told to her. As Ryn and Ezra desperately try to get to that truth, they discover that each revelation blurs the line between the villains and the heroes even more.

In a future world of dust and ruin, fourteen-year-old Querry Genn struggles to recover the lost memory that might save the human race. Querry is a member of Survival Colony Nine, one of the small, roving groups of people who outlived the wars and environmental catastrophes that destroyed the...  more

In a future world of dust and ruin, fourteen-year-old Querry Genn struggles to recover the lost memory that might save the human race. Querry is a member of Survival Colony Nine, one of the small, roving groups of people who outlived the wars and environmental catastrophes that destroyed the old world. The commander of Survival Colony Nine is his father, Laman Genn, who runs the camp with an iron will. He has to--because heat, dust, and starvation aren't the only threats in this ruined world. There are also the Skaldi. Monsters with the ability to infect and mimic human hosts, the Skaldi appeared on the planet shortly after the wars of destruction. No one knows where they came from or what they are. But if they're not stopped, it might mean the end of humanity. Six months ago, Querry had an encounter with the Skaldi--and now he can't remember anything that happened before then. If he can recall his past, he might be able to find the key to defeat the Skaldi. If he can't, he's their next victim

In a future United States where those who control technology control the wealth, seventeen-year-old Marguerite?s viral video propels a populist candidate to presidential victory on a platform of ?tech for all.? But as the mouthpiece of the new leader determined to break the elite stronghold,...  more

In a future United States where those who control technology control the wealth, seventeen-year-old Marguerite?s viral video propels a populist candidate to presidential victory on a platform of ?tech for all.? But as the mouthpiece of the new leader determined to break the elite stronghold, Marguerite finds herself on the opposite side of the divide in a new high school full of technocrat teens.When the enigmatic Percy, with his flamboyant fashion sense, sharp wit, and tragic past, takes an interest in her, she is suspicious. But with everyone against her, she needs an ally. Percy is drawn to Marguerite?s passion for the cause, but the legacy of his murdered scientist parents prevents him from letting her get too close.Soon terrorists strike the capital and technocrat leaders begin turning up dead, and the two must work together to protect both their families and the country. With everyone literally plugged into technology, total domination will take only a flip of the switch. In order to preserve their freedom and the future Marguerite envisions, she and Percy may be forced to pay the ultimate price.

In 2066, a Caltech intern notices an anomaly from a space telescope -- something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do...   A flurry of top-level government meetings produce the inescapable conclusion:  Whatever built the ship is...  more

In 2066, a Caltech intern notices an anomaly from a space telescope -- something is approaching Saturn, and decelerating. Space objects don’t decelerate. Spaceships do...   A flurry of top-level government meetings produce the inescapable conclusion:  Whatever built the ship is at least one hundred years ahead of our technology, and whoever can get their hands on it will have an advantage so large, no other nation can compete.   The race is on, and a remarkable adventure begins. Soon a hastily thrown-together crew finds its strength and wits tested against adversaries of this earth and beyond. So buckle up, because two perfectly matched storytellers are about to take you for a ride...

Streetwise cyborg Lexi Vale brokers deals for gang lords in the anarchic city of Foundation. Her mind-reading implant gives her a crucial edge?but it also makes her brain a hot commodity. When she?s targeted by an augmented hunter, Lexi joins a group of rebels: a murderous vigilante, a daredevil...  more

Streetwise cyborg Lexi Vale brokers deals for gang lords in the anarchic city of Foundation. Her mind-reading implant gives her a crucial edge?but it also makes her brain a hot commodity. When she?s targeted by an augmented hunter, Lexi joins a group of rebels: a murderous vigilante, a daredevil smuggler, a drug-addled surgeon, and a revolutionary whose shared past with Lexi endangers them all. A queer, dystopian sci-fi about piecing together purpose from the fragments of love and loss, even while the world itself is tearing apart.

Litany of the Long Sun contains the full texts of Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun, that together make up the first half of The Book of the Long Sun. This great work is set on a huge generation starship in the same future as the classic Book of the New Sun (also available in two...  more

Litany of the Long Sun contains the full texts of Nightside the Long Sun and Lake of the Long Sun, that together make up the first half of The Book of the Long Sun. This great work is set on a huge generation starship in the same future as the classic Book of the New Sun (also available in two volumes from Orb).

The map of everything you know everything you are everything you ever will be just got rewritten A novel of hard SF exploring the nature of identity both inherited and engineered, from one of Britain's most acclaimed new talents. In the near future, when medical nanotechnology has made it...  more

The map of everything you know everything you are everything you ever will be just got rewritten A novel of hard SF exploring the nature of identity both inherited and engineered, from one of Britain's most acclaimed new talents. In the near future, when medical nanotechnology has made it possible to map a model of the living human brain, radical psychologist Natalie Armstrong sees her work suddenly become crucial to a cutting-edge military project for creating comprehensive mind-control. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic, Jude Westhorpe, FBI specialist, is tracking a cold war defector long involved in everything from gene sequencing to mind-mapping. But his investigation has begun to affect matters of national security—throwing Jude and Natalie together as partners in trouble—deep trouble from every direction. This fascinating novel explores the nature of humanity in the near future, when the power and potential of developing technologies demand that we adapt ourselves to their existence—whatever the price.

She woke up in 1947...in someone else's body. When Liza Anderson looks into a locket's mirror, she suddenly finds herself in a younger woman's body in 1947. Believing she has traveled more than 60 years back in time, Liza comes face to face with the reality of life during the golden age of...  more

She woke up in 1947...in someone else's body. When Liza Anderson looks into a locket's mirror, she suddenly finds herself in a younger woman's body in 1947. Believing she has traveled more than 60 years back in time, Liza comes face to face with the reality of life during the golden age of Hollywood--glamour, communism, smallpox and all--only to discover that the Barbara Jane Miller she's become is caught up in a drug-selling scheme that could get her killed. Will Liza survive the dangers of her new world? Will she ever return to her own time and the children she left behind? Time in My Pocket,�Gina Dewink's thrilling debut novel.

A compelling new young adult series set in a near-future post-pandemic world that is alive with action, intrigue, courage, betrayal, and retribution� Pandora Jones wakes in a hospital?her body weak, her memory providing only flashes of horrific scenes of death. She soon discovers that her...  more

A compelling new young adult series set in a near-future post-pandemic world that is alive with action, intrigue, courage, betrayal, and retribution� Pandora Jones wakes in a hospital?her body weak, her memory providing only flashes of horrific scenes of death. She soon discovers that her family has succumbed to a plague pandemic which has almost wiped out humanity. Pan is one of the lucky ones. She and other young survivors have been relocated to The School?a quarantined, heavily guarded facility where she is encouraged to hone her intuition and develop her survival skills. But danger is everywhere and Pan becomes convinced that the plague?and everyone?s memories about it?is a lie. �

�Among the most significant works of science fiction released in recent years.? �Tor.com It is the 147th century. In the radically advanced post-human worlds of the Amaranthine Firmament, there is a contender to the Immortal throne: Aaron the Long-Life, the Pretender, a man who is not quite...  more

�Among the most significant works of science fiction released in recent years.? �Tor.com It is the 147th century. In the radically advanced post-human worlds of the Amaranthine Firmament, there is a contender to the Immortal throne: Aaron the Long-Life, the Pretender, a man who is not quite a man. In the barbarous hominid kingdoms of the Prism Investiture, where life is short, cheap, and dangerous, an invention is born that will become the Firmament?s most closely kept secret. Lycaste, a lovesick reclusive outcast for an unspeakable crime, must journey through the Provinces, braving the grotesques of an ancient, decadent world to find his salvation. Sotiris, grieving the loss of his sister and awaiting the madness of old age, must relive his twelve thousand years of life to stop the man determined to become Emperor. Ghaldezuel, knight of the stars, must plunder the rarest treasure in the Firmament�the object the Pretender will stop at nothing to obtain. From medieval Prague to a lonely Mediterranean cove, and eventually far into the strange vastness of distant worlds, The Promise of the Child is a debut novel of gripping action and astounding ambition unfolding over hundreds of thousands of years, marking the arrival of a brilliant new talent in science fiction. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.

Humanity has almost been erased by the Grindolk, and now those who are left are nothing more than cattle to the six alien empires. Rebecca, part of the last human resistance has been set a task to steal a Grindolk destroyer. A ship capable of reducing planets into fragments. Using her unique...  more

Humanity has almost been erased by the Grindolk, and now those who are left are nothing more than cattle to the six alien empires. Rebecca, part of the last human resistance has been set a task to steal a Grindolk destroyer. A ship capable of reducing planets into fragments. Using her unique powers, Rebecca hopes to secure the ship with minimal effort but her being there was more than just a mission, and the monsters that lurk on the ship are no pushovers.

At thirteen, Bran Tregare was stripped of his home, his name and his family, and sent to the brutal space academy known as the Slaughterhouse.  At seventeen, he'd survived the sadistic discipline of a starcaptain called the Butcher to become an ace pilot, crack gunner and hardened...  more

At thirteen, Bran Tregare was stripped of his home, his name and his family, and sent to the brutal space academy known as the Slaughterhouse.  At seventeen, he'd survived the sadistic discipline of a starcaptain called the Butcher to become an ace pilot, crack gunner and hardened killer.  At twenty, he escaped with an armed warship to begin a one-man war against Earth's imperial masters.

Angel had no memory of the secret message, but the writing was hers. It read, "Violet eyes lie." SILVER EYES In a world where humans work on Mars and loyalty is controlled by a brain chip, eighteen-year-old Angel Eastland can't retrieve her memory. Violet-eyed from the effects of a genetic...  more

Angel had no memory of the secret message, but the writing was hers. It read, "Violet eyes lie." SILVER EYES In a world where humans work on Mars and loyalty is controlled by a brain chip, eighteen-year-old Angel Eastland can't retrieve her memory. Violet-eyed from the effects of a genetic experiment, she is hired as an investigator by the SilverDollar Mining Company. When she captures an nineteen-year-old fugitive named Michael Vallant, Angel senses an intimate connection with him -- one that disturbs her, especially when they kiss. Angel's chip and her silver-eyed boss, Anaximander, one of the Augmented, tell her that Mike is a threat and must go through Loyalty Induction. But more secret messages compel Angel to resist and to help Mike. As Spacer terrorists from Mars attack SilverDollar, Angel and Mike race to ?nd out who's really behind the unrest. Against an evil enemy who will kill to win, Angel has one chance to ?nd her memory -- and to save her life.

Angel had no memory of the secret message, but the writing was hers. It read, "Violet eyes lie." SILVER EYES In a world where humans work on Mars and loyalty is controlled by a brain chip, eighteen-year-old Angel Eastland can't retrieve her memory. Violet-eyed from the effects of a genetic...  more

Angel had no memory of the secret message, but the writing was hers. It read, "Violet eyes lie." SILVER EYES In a world where humans work on Mars and loyalty is controlled by a brain chip, eighteen-year-old Angel Eastland can't retrieve her memory. Violet-eyed from the effects of a genetic experiment, she is hired as an investigator by the SilverDollar Mining Company. When she captures an nineteen-year-old fugitive named Michael Vallant, Angel senses an intimate connection with him -- one that disturbs her, especially when they kiss. Angel's chip and her silver-eyed boss, Anaximander, one of the Augmented, tell her that Mike is a threat and must go through Loyalty Induction. But more secret messages compel Angel to resist and to help Mike. As Spacer terrorists from Mars attack SilverDollar, Angel and Mike race to ?nd out who's really behind the unrest. Against an evil enemy who will kill to win, Angel has one chance to ?nd her memory -- and to save her life.

Eighteen-year-old Raquel isn't eighteen anymore... During Raquel's first semester of college, she witnesses the end of the world, only to wake up in her old room at her parents' house two years in the past. Even worse, it seems she's the only one who remembers?until Chris Lyley, a boy Raquel...  more

Eighteen-year-old Raquel isn't eighteen anymore... During Raquel's first semester of college, she witnesses the end of the world, only to wake up in her old room at her parents' house two years in the past. Even worse, it seems she's the only one who remembers?until Chris Lyley, a boy Raquel always thought was a loser, tells her he remembers the catastrophe. Before long, they both discover new abilities. They're able to understand any language and teleport through time and space. If Raquel and Chris can figure out what caused the end of their world, maybe they can stop it.

The year is 2650 75 years ago, an alien fleet attacked Earth. Without warning. Without mercy. We were not prepared. Hundreds of millions perished. Dozens of cities burned. We nearly lost everything. Then, the aliens abruptly left. We rebuilt. We armed ourselves. We swore: never again. ...  more

The year is 2650 75 years ago, an alien fleet attacked Earth. Without warning. Without mercy. We were not prepared. Hundreds of millions perished. Dozens of cities burned. We nearly lost everything. Then, the aliens abruptly left. We rebuilt. We armed ourselves. We swore: never again. But the aliens never came back. Until now. With overwhelming force the aliens have returned, striking deep into our territory, sending Earth into a panic. Our new technology is useless. Our new ships burn like straw. All our careful preparations are wasted. Now, only one man, one crew, and the oldest starship in the fleet stand between the Earth and certain destruction: ISS CONSTITUTION

A dozen science fiction writers, including New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, offer remarkable tales in this third collection of space opera stories presented under the Beyond the Stars banner.  BEYOND THE STARS: At Galaxy's Edge contains twelve stories showcasing strange...  more

A dozen science fiction writers, including New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, offer remarkable tales in this third collection of space opera stories presented under the Beyond the Stars banner.  BEYOND THE STARS: At Galaxy's Edge contains twelve stories showcasing strange new worlds, alien life forms, and deep space battles.  Come with us to where the legends are born... at galaxy's edge. Contents: The Stories Herein... (Beyond the Stars: At Galaxy's Edge) (2016) • essay by editor Foreword (Beyond the Stars: At Galaxy's Edge) (2016) • essay by Jennifer Foehner Wells The Good Food (2016) / short story by Michael Ezell The Epsilon Directive (2016) / short fiction by David Bruns Just an Old-Fashioned Lust Story (2016) / short fiction by Christopher J. Valin The Quarium Wars (2016) / short fiction by E. E. Giorgi Re/Genesis [Aurora Rhapsody] (2016) / short story by G. S. Jennsen Second Place (2016) / short fiction by Nick Webb Last Pursuit (2016) / short fiction by Piers Platt Relic Hunter (2016) / short fiction by Chris Fox Procurement (2016) / short fiction by Adam Quinn One More Star, Shining [Victoria Eternal] (2016) / short fiction by Anthea Sharp Tabitha's Vacation (2016) / short fiction by Michael Anderle Elvis Has Left the Building (2016) / short fiction by Caroline A. Gill

She?s felt it before?the fear of losing control. And it?s happening again.In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and...  more

She?s felt it before?the fear of losing control. And it?s happening again.In the near future, an aggressive and terrifying new form of dementia is affecting victims of all ages. The cause is unknown, and the symptoms are disturbing. Dr. Gillian Ryan is on the cutting edge of research and desperately determined to find a cure. She?s already lost her husband to the disease, and now her young daughter is slowly succumbing as well. After losing her funding, she is given the unique opportunity to expand her research. She will travel with a NASA team to a space station where the crew has been stricken with symptoms of a similar inexplicable psychosis?memory loss, trances, and violent, uncontrollable impulses.Crippled by a secret addiction and suffering from creeping paranoia, Gillian finds her journey becoming a nightmare as unexplainable and violent events plague the mission. With her grip weakening on reality, she starts to doubt her own innocence. And she?s beginning to question so much more?like the true nature of the mission, the motivations of the crew, and every deadly new secret space has to offer.Merging thrilling science-fiction adventure with mind-bending psychological suspense, Wall Street Journal bestselling author Joe Hart explores both the vast mysteries of outer space and the even darker unknown that lies within ourselves.

When Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, and Naomi, a science genius from California, are two of the twenty-four teens drafted into the International Space Training Camp, their lives are forever altered. After erratic climate change has made Earth a dangerous place to live, the fate of the...  more

When Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, and Naomi, a science genius from California, are two of the twenty-four teens drafted into the International Space Training Camp, their lives are forever altered. After erratic climate change has made Earth a dangerous place to live, the fate of the population rests on the shoulders of the final six who will be scouting a new planet. Intense training, global scrutiny, and cutthroat opponents are only a few of the hurdles the contestants must endure in this competition. For Leo, the prospect of traveling to Europa -- Jupiter’s moon -- to help resettle humankind is just the sense of purpose he's been yearning for since losing his entire family in the flooding of Rome. Naomi, after learning of a similar space mission that mysteriously failed, suspects the ISTC isn’t being up front with them about what’s at risk. As the race to the final six advances, the tests get more challenging -- even deadly. With pressure mounting, Naomi finds an unexpected friend in Leo, and the two grow closer with each mind-boggling experience they encounter. But it’s only when the finalists become fewer and their destinies grow nearer that the two can fathom the full weight of everything at stake: the world, the stars, and their lives.

Sheridan and Taylor are ordinary college students until a mistake by twenty-fourth century scientists drags them 300 years into the future. They find themselves in Tachames, a colorful, orderly, and completely corrupt city. Religion is banned. All citizens are tracked. As the government and a...  more

Sheridan and Taylor are ordinary college students until a mistake by twenty-fourth century scientists drags them 300 years into the future. They find themselves in Tachames, a colorful, orderly, and completely corrupt city. Religion is banned. All citizens are tracked. As the government and a mafialike organization called the Dakine struggle for power over the population, Sheridan and Taylor search for a way to escape the deadly walls of doomed Tachames. Echo, a mysterious, brilliant "wordsmith," says he'll help them escape; Sheridan is drawn to him and wants to trust him, but Echo has secrets of his own. Time Riders is an exciting and suspenseful adventure through an Orwellian world of lost freedom and humanity; yet the novel is interlaced with the humor of Sheridan and Taylor communicating through twentieth-century idioms that bewilder their Tachamesian hosts, while preserving their secrets and freedom.

Teva goes to school, studies for her exams, and spends time with her friends. To the rest of the world, she's a normal teenager. But when she goes home, she's anything but normal. Due to a genetic abnormality, Teva unwillingly clones herself every year. And lately, home has become a...  more

Teva goes to school, studies for her exams, and spends time with her friends. To the rest of the world, she's a normal teenager. But when she goes home, she's anything but normal. Due to a genetic abnormality, Teva unwillingly clones herself every year. And lately, home has become a battleground. When boys are at stake, friends are lost, and lives are snatched away, Teva has a fight on her hands - a fight with herself. As her birthday rolls around, Teva is all too aware that time is running out. She knows that the next clone will soon seize everything she holds dear. Desperate to hang on to her life, Teva decides to find out more about her past...and uncovers lies that could either destroy her or set her free.

"Sara Holland is a fierce storyteller. Everless gives new and terrifying meaning to the phrase running out of time." ?Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of CaravalIn the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency?extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one?s...  more

"Sara Holland is a fierce storyteller. Everless gives new and terrifying meaning to the phrase running out of time." ?Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of CaravalIn the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency?extracted from blood, bound to iron, and consumed to add time to one?s own lifespan. The rich aristocracy, like the Gerlings, tax the poor to the hilt, extending their own lives by centuries. No one resents the Gerlings more than Jules Ember. A decade ago, she and her father were servants at Everless, the Gerlings? palatial estate, until a fateful accident forced them to flee in the dead of night. When Jules discovers that her father is dying, she knows that she must return to Everless to earn more time for him before she loses him forever.But�going back�to Everless brings more danger?and temptation?than Jules could have ever imagined. Soon she?s caught in a tangle of violent secrets and finds her heart torn between two people she thought she?d never see again. Her decisions have the power to change her fate?and the fate of time itself. Fans of Victoria Aveyard, Kendare Blake, and Stephanie Garber will devour this lush novel's�breathtaking action, incredible romance, and dangerous secrets.

ADDICTION. SURVIVAL. BETRAYAL.As one of the last Untamed humans left in the world, Seven's life has always been controlled by tight rules. Stay away from the Enhanced. Don't question your leader. And, most importantly, never switch sides--because once you're Enhanced there's no going back. Even...  more

ADDICTION. SURVIVAL. BETRAYAL.As one of the last Untamed humans left in the world, Seven's life has always been controlled by tight rules. Stay away from the Enhanced. Don't question your leader. And, most importantly, never switch sides--because once you're Enhanced there's no going back. Even if you have become the perfect human being.But, after a disastrous raid on an Enhanced city, Seven soon finds herself in her enemy's power. Realizing it's only a matter of time before she too develops a taste for the chemical augmenters responsible for the erosion of humanity, Seven knows she must act quickly if she's to escape and save her family from the same fate.Yet, as one of the most powerful Seers that the Untamed and Enhanced have ever known, Seven quickly discovers that she alone holds the key to the survival of only one race. But things aren't clear-cut anymore, and with Seven now questioning the very beliefs she was raised on, she knows she has an important choice to make. One that has two very different outcomes.Seven must choose wisely whose side she joins, for the War of Humanity is underway, and Death never takes kindly to traitors.��"Untamed is a fantastic dystopian survival story, filled with twists." The Literature Hub

Return to Nowhere Star pilot Woody Pearsall's return home to Earth had suddenly become a nightmare. His wife, his commander, even the base records all said he'd been dead over over five years. The Skip Drive which made interstellar flight Possible had an unexpected side effect --...  more

Return to Nowhere Star pilot Woody Pearsall's return home to Earth had suddenly become a nightmare. His wife, his commander, even the base records all said he'd been dead over over five years. The Skip Drive which made interstellar flight Possible had an unexpected side effect -- shifting him to a duplicate Earth where history had followed a different course. Now he began a perilous quest to regain his own world. For in the multitude of possible Earths, Pearsall might find himself face-to-face with his double -- or discover he never existed at all.

To prepare their young daughter Lisele for her role as heir to the Hulzein dynasty, Brian Tregare and Rissa Kerguelen send her on an important diplomatic mission. But a strange gravitational anomaly strands the crew of the March Hare in orbit around a lost colony where the barbaric remnants...  more

To prepare their young daughter Lisele for her role as heir to the Hulzein dynasty, Brian Tregare and Rissa Kerguelen send her on an important diplomatic mission. But a strange gravitational anomaly strands the crew of the March Hare in orbit around a lost colony where the barbaric remnants of UET still maintain a reign of fear. Lisele is forced to grow up quickly and call upon all her Hulzein training to try to save her ship from destruction.

This science fiction police procedural pairs an idealistic rookie with an officer who uses cybernetic implants to process forensics; in solving a mass murder, they will uncover a vast conspiracy. Eric Matheson, an idealistic rookie cop trying to break from his powerful family, is plunged into...  more

This science fiction police procedural pairs an idealistic rookie with an officer who uses cybernetic implants to process forensics; in solving a mass murder, they will uncover a vast conspiracy. Eric Matheson, an idealistic rookie cop trying to break from his powerful family, is plunged into the investigation of a brutal crime in his first weeks on the job in Angra Dastrelas, the corrupt capital city of the corporate-owned planet Gattis. A newcomer to the planet, Matheson is unaware of the danger he's courting when he's promoted in the field to assist the controversial Chief Investigating Forensic Officer, Inspector J. P. Dillal, the planet's first cybernetically enhanced investigator. Coming from a despised ethnic underclass, the brilliant and secretive Dillal seems determined to unravel the crime regardless of the consequences. The deeper they dig, the more dangerous the investigation becomes. But in a system where the cops enforce corporate will, instead of the law, the solution could expose Gattis's most shocking secrets and cost thousands of lives -- including Matheson's and Dillal's.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Eurovision, in an over-the-top science fiction spectacle from bestselling author Catherynne Valente, has galaxies competing for glory in a universe-wide musical contest, where the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth.  A century...  more

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Eurovision, in an over-the-top science fiction spectacle from bestselling author Catherynne Valente, has galaxies competing for glory in a universe-wide musical contest, where the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth.  A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life.  In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented...something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding.  Once every cycle, the civilizations gather for Galactivision -- part gladiatorial contest, part beauty  pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past.  Instead of competing in orbital combat, the powerful species that survived face off in a competition of song, dance, or whatever can be physically performed in an intergalactic talent show.  The stakes are high for this new game, and everyone is forced to compete.  This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe.  And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick, and electric guitars.  Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny...they must sing.  A band of human musicians, dancers, and roadies have been chosen to represent Earth on the greatest stage in the galaxy.  And the fate of their species lies in their ability to rock.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest… and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth....  more

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest… and the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented -- something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. Once every cycle, the great galactic civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix -- part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. Species far and wide compete in feats of song, dance and/or whatever facsimile of these can be performed by various creatures who may or may not possess, in the traditional sense, feet, mouths, larynxes, or faces. And if a new species should wish to be counted among the high and the mighty, if a new planet has produced some savage group of animals, machines, or algae that claim to be, against all odds, sentient? Well, then they will have to compete. And if they fail? Sudden extermination for their entire species. This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick, and electric guitars. Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny -- they must sing. Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes have been chosen to represent their planet on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of Earth lies in their ability to rock.

Silver Screen presents an enjoyably different, subversive slant on the Science Fiction themes of AI and cyberspace. Insecure and overweight heroine Anjuli O’Connell is one of a group of friends who have been hothoused from an early age to perform in genius-level jobs. But Anjuli worries...  more

Silver Screen presents an enjoyably different, subversive slant on the Science Fiction themes of AI and cyberspace. Insecure and overweight heroine Anjuli O’Connell is one of a group of friends who have been hothoused from an early age to perform in genius-level jobs. But Anjuli worries that her eidetic memory and her friendship with genuine smart boy Roy Croft has been her ticket to success, rather than any real intelligence of her own. She’s put to the test when Roy kills himself in an experiment to upload his mind into cyberspace, seeking that SF dream of bodiless immortality ... which doesn’t work as expected. At the same time her boyfriend’s research has led to him harnessing himself to dubious biomechanoid technologies which pull the user into mental symbiosis, creating hybrid consciousness – a new "I", continuous with the old, but different. "Where does life end and the machine begin?" Meanwhile Anjuli’s grasping multinational employer, OptiNet, the owner of global communications AI, 901, is locked into an increasingly bitter war with the Machine-Greens, who preach AI liberation. As the case for 901’s humanity, or otherwise, comes up before the Strasbourg Court, expert witness Anjuli is targeted by assassins and entangled in the hunt for an algorithm which is the key to machine consciousness, and which may even be the master-code of life itself. This story explores many interfaces between humans and their technologies, between the promises of science and the explanations of faith. It is written in a first person style which mingles elements of detective story and confessional. Alongside its SF content the book delves into the complexities of friendship, loyalty, love and betrayal from an intimate human perspective. This is grrrlstyle SF: as well as all the favourite "Airfix" features, the protagonists deconstruct personal relationships amidst macrocosmic and deeply philosophical goings-on. The writing is punchy, but with a literary sheen. It delivers complex concepts and a twisting plot with a deceptively light touch.

Reubin Flood, the most wanted man in the history of the Federation of Planets, is one of the few remaining survivors of "Olde Earthe," as it's now called. He's also the most dangerous human alive, when he finds himself cornered on an agricultural planet named Snister. Following his wife's...  more

Reubin Flood, the most wanted man in the history of the Federation of Planets, is one of the few remaining survivors of "Olde Earthe," as it's now called. He's also the most dangerous human alive, when he finds himself cornered on an agricultural planet named Snister. Following his wife's murder, Reubin vowed to destroy the company world government; but to do so, he has to find some way of controlling the alternate personality that lurks deep in his subconscious--Habu, a primeval berserker of inhuman proportions, whose only purpose is to kill, maim, and destroy. Every major law enforcement agency in the Galaxy has been hunting "Habu" for centuries, following the massacre of another world's entire population. As the forces gather against Reubin/Habu, each intertwined personality must learn to live with the other if they're both going to survive. A stunning SF adventure, available for the first time in two decades!

In the future dystopian society of Cabal, the government instills equality for all and offers its citizens the perfect system. There is food, shelter and jobs for everyone. The one requirement is to follow the rules without question, including the government's match in marriage and "The Day of...  more

In the future dystopian society of Cabal, the government instills equality for all and offers its citizens the perfect system. There is food, shelter and jobs for everyone. The one requirement is to follow the rules without question, including the government's match in marriage and "The Day of the Chosen", a lottery that randomly selects families to conceive children as natural means hasn't existed in generations. Following her eighteenth birthday, Olivia Parker accepts her requirement to marry her childhood best friend, Joshua Warren, and is eager to start her work assignment and new life when it all comes abruptly to an end as she's arrested and thrown in prison. The only crime committed, her existence. Olivia is unlike the rest of the world born not from "The Day of the Chosen." The truth haunts the government and puts her life in grave danger as one simple fact would destroy the perfect system. With Joshua's help, Olivia breaks free of prison and is forced on the run. Together they set out to find the promised rebel town in search of a new home and new life together. Their situation seems less than promising as they reach the town of Haven. New rules and customs must be adhered to in order to stay. Leaving would mean most certain death in the large expanse of the Gravelands. Time is running out as the government mounts an attack to destroy Olivia and bury her secret with her. Thrown into a world unlike their own, they must quickly adapt to survive.

By the end of the 21st century, the world had become a harsh place. After decades of natural and man-made catastrophes, nations fell, populations shifted, and seventy percent of the continents became uninhabitable without protective suits. Technological advancement strode forward faster than...  more

By the end of the 21st century, the world had become a harsh place. After decades of natural and man-made catastrophes, nations fell, populations shifted, and seventy percent of the continents became uninhabitable without protective suits. Technological advancement strode forward faster than ever and it was the only thing that kept human society steady through it all. No one could have predicted the discovery of the Dream Walkers. They were people born with the ability to leave their bodies at will, unseen by the waking world. Having the potential to become ultimate spies meant the remaining government regimes wanted to study and control them. The North American government, under the leadership of General Rennet, demanded that all Dream Walkers join the military program. For any that refused to comply, they were hunted down and either brainwashed or killed.The very first Dream Walker discovered was a five year old girl named Julia. And when the soldiers came for her at the age of twenty, she was already hidden away. A decade later found Julia living a new life under the government's radar. As a secure tech courier in the capital city of Chicago, she does her job and the rest of her time avoids other people as much as she is able. The moment she agrees to help another fugitive Walker is when everything changes. Now the government wants them both and they'll stop at nothing to get what they want.

In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives -- and they can’t wait to use them up. The government has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental...  more

In an alternate world startlingly close to our own, humans have nine lives -- and they can’t wait to use them up. The government has death incentives aimed at controlling overpopulation. As you shed lives, you shed your awkward phases: one death is equal to one physical and mental upgrade. Julian’s friends are obsessed with the idea of burning, but Julian is determined to stay on his first life for as long as he can. His mother burned too fast and inflicted a debilitating rebirth sickness on herself. Julian realizes that he’s going to have to burn at some point -- especially when he becomes a target for Nicholas, the manipulative leader of the Burners, the school’s suicide club. And when Julian eventually succumbs, he uncovers suspicious gaps in the rebirth system that may explain exactly why his mother went so far down the rabbit hole years ago. Along with a group of student dissenters, Julian sets out to find answers and is soon on the verge of exposing the greatest conspiracy ever unleashed on the world.

In a war she doesn't believe in, she must forge a bold new destiny. Firebird: Lady Firebird Angelo departs her home world expecting death in space combat. Captured instead, she finds a startling destiny among an ancient telepathic family-and a new kind of battle against implacable enemies....  more

In a war she doesn't believe in, she must forge a bold new destiny. Firebird: Lady Firebird Angelo departs her home world expecting death in space combat. Captured instead, she finds a startling destiny among an ancient telepathic family-and a new kind of battle against implacable enemies. Fusion Fire: Firebird discovers both evil and uncontrollable power at the depths of her own spirit, and when her sister commits unspeakable treachery, she must draw on that power to save the man she loves from certain death. Crown of Fire: Firebird returns to her home world, where some consider her a hero-but those in power have labeled her a traitor. Facing death once again, she discoversthe cost of pride and the true meaning of sacrifice. In a single volume with newly created maps and annotations, here are the first three volumes of the beloved Firebird series, freshly edited for Marcher Lord Press by bestselling author Kathy Tyers.

A two–book omnibus edition of Stephen Lawhead’s spectacular science fiction epic. Traveller, debt-dodger, itinerant critic and writer of history books nobody buys, Orion Treet is astounded to be invited to accompany a top secret mission: to observe and document an...  more

A two–book omnibus edition of Stephen Lawhead’s spectacular science fiction epic. Traveller, debt-dodger, itinerant critic and writer of history books nobody buys, Orion Treet is astounded to be invited to accompany a top secret mission: to observe and document an extraterrestrial colony on a newly discovered planet. But the paradise planet Treet and his companions are promised is a nightmare world locked in a spiral of hate, fear and death. The Earthlings' arrival rekindles an impossibly ancient feud -- a deadly conflict between two highly evolved civilizations. It is a struggle for the future of a world, a battle where there can be no spectators and everyone must choose a side. The two books of his spectacular SF series by the best-selling author of The Pendragon Cycle are included in this volume.

Times have changed for the telepathic Sentinels in the realm of the Federate Whorl. Persecution sends these genetically altered people fleeing to their sanctuary world, but a shipboard disaster exposes High Commander Brennen Caldwell to fatal radiation. Medical student Meris Cariole ends up...  more

Times have changed for the telepathic Sentinels in the realm of the Federate Whorl. Persecution sends these genetically altered people fleeing to their sanctuary world, but a shipboard disaster exposes High Commander Brennen Caldwell to fatal radiation. Medical student Meris Cariole ends up stranded, an unwelcome outsider, at a sanctuary she never meant to invade. On another world, wrongfully imprisoned Sentinel Jorah Caldwell receives a supernatural visitor. For generations, the Sentinel kindred has anticipated Boh-Dabar, the prophesied Word to Come. The visitor hails Jorah as Boh-Dabar. Can he believe the news? Meanwhile, a mysterious stranger arrives at the sanctuary world, also claiming to be Boh-Dabar. Brennen and Firebird Caldwell, Meris, and Jorah are caught in a tangle of interstellar incidents that threaten the Sentinel kindred's very existence. And no one-anywhere-has anticipated the events that will shake the interstellar Federacy. In the "Firebird" alternate universe, humankind has gone to the stars. The messianic bloodline has been genetically altered, and instantaneous communication links the settled worlds. Still, God's character has not changed, nor have his promises failed. Daystar brings the saga to a conclusion that rocks the galaxies. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Kathy Tyers has published ten novels in the Christian and general markets, including two authorized novels for the Star Wars expanded universe, as well as a biography and a travel book. If she isn't writing, she might be teaching a flute lesson, mentoring a hopeful author via the Christian Writers Guild, or battling quackgrass in her vegetable garden. Kathy lives in Montana and has one grown son.

Valkerie Jansen is tough, beautiful, and has an uncanny knack for survival. But that doesn't explain why NASA picks her to be part of a two man, two woman crew to Mars-or does it? Bob Kaganovski, the ship's mechanic, is paid to be paranoid-and he's good at it. After a teeth-rattling...  more

Valkerie Jansen is tough, beautiful, and has an uncanny knack for survival. But that doesn't explain why NASA picks her to be part of a two man, two woman crew to Mars-or does it? Bob Kaganovski, the ship's mechanic, is paid to be paranoid-and he's good at it. After a teeth-rattling launch, Bob realizes that his paranoia hasn't prepared him for this trip. He can deal with a banged-up ship, but how's he going to survive the next five months with HER just a flimsy partition away? Halfway to the Red Planet, an explosion leaves the crew with only enough oxygen for one. All evidence points to sabotage-and Valkerie and Bob are the obvious suspects. Oxygen is a witty, multi-award-winning roller coaster ride, with a plot that moves at the speed of light. The authors had hoped to work in some cool controversy on science, faith, the meaning of life, the existence of God, and possibly even the Coke versus Pepsi debate, but they were having so much fun writing the story that they forgot to offend anyone.

In order to save her mother, a teen is forced to become an indentured assassin in this sizzling ?movie ready? (Kirkus Reviews) dystopian thriller. No one reads the fine print. The good news is that the USA is finally out of debt. The bad news is that it was bought out by Valor National Bank,...  more

In order to save her mother, a teen is forced to become an indentured assassin in this sizzling ?movie ready? (Kirkus Reviews) dystopian thriller. No one reads the fine print. The good news is that the USA is finally out of debt. The bad news is that it was bought out by Valor National Bank, and debtors are the new big game, thanks to a tricky little clause hidden deep in the fine print of a credit card application. Now, after a swift and silent takeover that leaves 9-1-1 calls going through to Valor voicemail, they?re unleashing a wave of anarchy across the country. Patsy didn?t have much of a choice. When the suits showed up at her house threatening to kill her mother then and there for outstanding debt unless Patsy agreed to be an indentured assassin, what was she supposed to do? Let her own mother die? Patsy is forced to take on a five-day mission to complete a hit list of ten names. Each name on Patsy?s list has only three choices: pay the debt on the spot, agree to work as a bounty hunter, or die. And Patsy has to kill them personally, or else her mom takes a bullet of her own. Since yarn bombing is the only anarchy in Patsy?s past, she?s horrified and overwhelmed, especially as she realizes that most of the ten people on her list aren?t strangers. Things get even more complicated when a moment of mercy lands her with a sidekick: a hot rich kid named Wyatt whose brother is the last name on Patsy?s list. The two share an intense chemistry even as every tick of the clock draws them closer to an impossible choice. An absorbing, frightening glimpse at a reality that is eerily just steps away from ours?Hit is a taut, suspenseful thriller that absolutely mesmerizes from start to finish.

Imagine The Bourne Identity meets Gravity and you'll get TRACER, the most exciting action thriller set in space you'll ever read. Sarah Lotz, author of The Three calls it "fast, exhilarating and unforgettable". A huge space station orbits the Earth, holding the last of humanity. It's broken,...  more

Imagine The Bourne Identity meets Gravity and you'll get TRACER, the most exciting action thriller set in space you'll ever read. Sarah Lotz, author of The Three calls it "fast, exhilarating and unforgettable". A huge space station orbits the Earth, holding the last of humanity. It's broken, rusted, falling apart. We've wrecked our planet, and now we have to live with the consequences: a new home that's dirty, overcrowded and inescapable. What's more, there's a madman hiding on the station. He's about to unleash chaos. And when he does, there'll be nowhere left to run. In space, every second counts. Who said nobody could hear you scream? 'A stunning debut that never lets up, from the nerve-jangling beginning to the explosive end' James Douglas, author of The Doomsday Machine 'TRACER sets a new standard for all-action SF' Ken MacLeod

A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled! Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, The...  more

A triumph of the New Space Opera: fast, complicated, wonder-filled! Hugo Award finalist and Robert A. Heinlein Award-winning SF writer Michael Flynn now turns to space opera with stunningly successful results. Full of rich echoes of space opera classics from Doc Smith to Cordwainer Smith, The January Dancer tells the fateful story of an ancient pre-human artifact of great power, and the people who found it. Starting with Captain Amos January, who quickly loses it, and then the others who fought, schemed, and killed to get it, we travel around the complex, decadent, brawling, mongrelized interstellar human civilization the artifact might save or destroy. Collectors want the Dancer; pirates take it, rulers crave it, and they'll all kill if necessary to get it. This is a thrilling yarn of love, revolution, music, and mystery, and it ends, as all great stories do, with shock and a beginning.

Kenneth Johnson plunges readers into a day-after-tomorrow thriller about an imminent global catastrophe and explores how ordinary people respond to extraordinary circumstances.When the icy shards of a rogue comet fall to Earth, they bring an unknown virus that accelerates evolution to extremes....  more

Kenneth Johnson plunges readers into a day-after-tomorrow thriller about an imminent global catastrophe and explores how ordinary people respond to extraordinary circumstances.When the icy shards of a rogue comet fall to Earth, they bring an unknown virus that accelerates evolution to extremes. Suddenly, infected plants grow stronger, choking out those uninfected. Animals turn aggressive and deadly. The eyes of loved ones go cold, and infected neighbors begin exhibiting signs of brutal domination.In a small Georgia town, fourteen-year-old Katie McLane sees her neighbors changing, one by one.Dr. Susan Perry, an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, uncovers the frightening scope of the menace. The infected aren?t just evolving. They?re conspiring to alter the very nature of what it means to be human.Katie and Susan become fugitives because of what they know, encountering bitter betrayals and lethal dangers, but also loves ignited and inspiring camaraderie, as they fight to prevent a viral conspiracy from creating a terrifying brave new world.

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that...  more

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears -- an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too. Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless. As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that...  more

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears -- an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too. Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless. As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that...  more

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears -- an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too. Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless. As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that...  more

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears -- an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too. Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless. As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that...  more

WHAT WOULD YOU GIVE UP TO REMEMBER? Set in a dangerous near future world, The Book of M tells the captivating story of a group of ordinary people caught in an extraordinary catastrophe who risk everything to save the ones they love. It is a sweeping debut that illuminates the power that memories have not only on the heart, but on the world itself. One afternoon at an outdoor market in India, a man’s shadow disappears -- an occurrence science cannot explain. He is only the first. The phenomenon spreads like a plague, and while those afflicted gain a strange new power, it comes at a horrible price: the loss of all their memories. Ory and his wife Max have escaped the Forgetting so far by hiding in an abandoned hotel deep in the woods. Their new life feels almost normal, until one day Max’s shadow disappears too. Knowing that the more she forgets, the more dangerous she will become to Ory, Max runs away. But Ory refuses to give up the time they have left together. Desperate to find Max before her memory disappears completely, he follows her trail across a perilous, unrecognizable world, braving the threat of roaming bandits, the call to a new war being waged on the ruins of the capital, and the rise of a sinister cult that worships the shadowless. As they journey, each searches for answers: for Ory, about love, about survival, about hope; and for Max, about a new force growing in the south that may hold the cure.

Half a generation ago, a gesture in the name of peace turned out to spread plague and disaster. In San Francisco, the survivors are heir to a city transformed. It is a haunted, dreaming place peopled with memories, and in a strange way nearly alive itself. And although it is only beginning to...  more

Half a generation ago, a gesture in the name of peace turned out to spread plague and disaster. In San Francisco, the survivors are heir to a city transformed. It is a haunted, dreaming place peopled with memories, and in a strange way nearly alive itself. And although it is only beginning to recover from near-ultimate disaster, the city is at risk again. An army of power-hungry men are descending on San Francisco. Teenagers Jax and Danny-boy must lead the fight for freedom using the only weapons they have -- art, magic, and the soul of the city itself

'I don't want to know your reasons. I don't care. Think of me as a bullet. Just point.' Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, before New York became a burnt-out shell. Now the wealthy spend their days...  more

'I don't want to know your reasons. I don't care. Think of me as a bullet. Just point.' Spademan used to be a garbage man. That was before the dirty bomb hit Times Square, before his wife was killed, before New York became a burnt-out shell. Now the wealthy spend their days tapped into virtual reality; the rest have to fend for themselves in the streets. Now there's nothing but garbage. So he became a hit man. He doesn't ask questions, he works quickly, and he's handy with a box-cutter. When he's hired to kill the daughter of a high-profile evangelist, Spademan's life is upended. He will have to navigate two worlds - both the slick fantasy and the wasteland reality - to finish the job, clear his conscience, and make sure he's not the one who winds up in the ground.

A seasoned military officer uncovers a deadly conspiracy on a distant, war-torn planet?�War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he...  more

A seasoned military officer uncovers a deadly conspiracy on a distant, war-torn planet?�War heroes aren't usually called out of semi-retirement and sent to the far reaches of the galaxy for a routine investigation. So when Colonel Carl Butler answers the call from an old and powerful friend, he knows it's something big?and he's not being told the whole story. A high councilor's son has gone MIA out of Cappa Base, the space station orbiting a battle-ravaged planet. The young lieutenant had been wounded and evacuated?but there's no record of him having ever arrived at hospital command.�The colonel quickly finds Cappa Base to be a labyrinth of dead ends and sabotage: the hospital commander stonewalls him, the Special Ops leader won't come off the planet, witnesses go missing, radar data disappears, and that?s before he encounters the alien enemy. Butler has no choice but to drop down onto a hostile planet?because someone is using the war zone as a cover. The answers are there?Butler just has to make it back alive?�

Kane: unwitting human weapon in a struggle for new technology - A lot of dreams died when NASA went belly-up. One was Frontera, the first permanent Mars settlement. Though almost a hundred colonists refused to board when the last shuttle left for Earth, they were ghosts now. At least, that's how...  more

Kane: unwitting human weapon in a struggle for new technology - A lot of dreams died when NASA went belly-up. One was Frontera, the first permanent Mars settlement. Though almost a hundred colonists refused to board when the last shuttle left for Earth, they were ghosts now. At least, that's how Kane figured it - until the giant conglomerate Pulsystems mounted the first space flight in ten years, destination Mars. The hardware was aging, the mission high-risk and low-redundancy. But for Kane, corporate mercenary in Pulsystem's hire, there was no backing down. And conditions at Frontera were stranger than anyone could have guessed. There was treasure on Mars, treasure that Pulsystems wanted - and that Kane found himself programmed to bring home. Whether he willed it or no, he was a weapon...in a war he'd never joined.

Ten years ago the world's governments collapsed, and now the corporations are in control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors. Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive, they...  more

Ten years ago the world's governments collapsed, and now the corporations are in control. Houston's Pulsystems has sent an expedition to the lost Martian colony of Frontera to search for survivors. Reese, aging hero of the US space program, knows better. The colonists are not only alive, they have discovered a secret so devastating that the new rulers of Earth will stop at nothing to own it. Reese is equally desperate to use it for his own very personal agenda. But none of them have reckoned with Kane, tortured veteran of the corporate wars, whose hallucinatory voices are urging him to complete an ancient cycle of heroism and alter the destiny of the human race.

A classic of science fiction from SF�legend Gordon R. Dickson, winner of three Hugo awards,�a Nebula award, and an inductee into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. When�the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centuari III, it makes a startling�discovery:�all life, including humankind, is...  more

A classic of science fiction from SF�legend Gordon R. Dickson, winner of three Hugo awards,�a Nebula award, and an inductee into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. When�the first expedition from Earth reaches Alpha Centuari III, it makes a startling�discovery:�all life, including humankind, is governed by the Throne World. The Earth is a mere outpost in a vast star empire.� Jim Keil was a superman on Earth, but on the Throne World he is nothing more than a "wolfling," a trained pet whose sole purpose is to entertain the�High-Born. But Jim Keil will show the High-Born that the people of Earth aren't so easily tamed. About Gordon R. Dickson: �"Dickson is one of SF's standard-bearers."?Publishers Weekly "Dickson has a true mastery of pacing and fine understanding of human beings."?Seattle Post Intelligencer "A masterful science fiction writer."?Milwaukee Journal

Avalon wakes up from a 100 year old cryosleep into a new habitat with few memories and lots of questions. At first, HOPE (Humanity's One Plan for Escape) habitat appears to be a well-oiled machine, preparing 5,000 carefully chosen inhabitants for a new Earth. However, a medical assistant...  more

Avalon wakes up from a 100 year old cryosleep into a new habitat with few memories and lots of questions. At first, HOPE (Humanity's One Plan for Escape) habitat appears to be a well-oiled machine, preparing 5,000 carefully chosen inhabitants for a new Earth. However, a medical assistant named Ilium reveals that certain members of the habitat have been falling ill from a mysterious virus they were inoculated against. Soon, HOPE habitat's tranquil illusion is shattered as Avalon plays a perplexing message left by her father. If Avalon is to survive this dangerous new environment , she will have to find the strength to navigate a habitat enveloped in secrets.

First Science Fiction Book Club Printing. Includes The Voyage of the Star Wolf, The Middle of Nowhere, and Blood and Fire.

From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy. Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction...  more

From the editor of the award-winning anthology Unfettered comes the newest installment in the science fiction and fantasy series, Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy. Lacking health insurance when he was diagnosed with cancer, Shawn Speakman asked friends in the science fiction and fantasy writing community to donate short stories he could use to counter mounting medical debt. The result was Unfettered, an anthology offering tales from some of the best authors working today. Now, in Unfettered III, Speakman continues to pay forward the aid he received, raising money to combat medical debt for SF&F artists and authors. He has gathered together a great mix of new and favorite writers, free to write what they like. The result -- a powerful new anthology perfect for all readers.  Unfettered III: New Tales By Masters of Fantasy is sure to astound with the magic bound within its pages.  All the while raising money for a charitable cause.  Because protecting our artists and authors is as important as the stories they tell. Content: Foreword by Jacqueline Carey  Introduction: The power of three  The heart box / by Callie Bates  Everybody said it would hurt / by Lev Grossman  A thousand years / by Mark Lawrence  Among a throng of bilious octogenarians / by Delilah S. Dawson  Blood of the Sardaukar / by Brian Herbert & Kevin J. Anderson  Allanon's quest / by Terry Brooks  Kneeling before Jupiter / by David Anthony Durham  Stripes in the sunset / by Seanan McGuire  All that glitters / by Marc Turner  The heir apparent / by John Gwynne  Dancing on the edge / by Deborah A. Wolf  Prologue: Second book of The Evertide / by Todd Lockwood  Thasha's cure for cabin fever / by Robert V. S. Redick  How not to invade a country / by Anna Stephens  The paper man / by Peter Orullian  Merchants have maxims / by Cat Rambo  Of anchor chains and slow refrains and light long lost in darkness / by Ken Scholes  Second chances / by Megan Lindholm  The hidden / by Tad Williams  Throwdown / by Scott Sigler  Sidekick / by Carrie Vaughn  Hawkeye / by Patrick Swenson  The spectral sword / by Ramón Terrell  Gold light / by Anna Smith Spark  The stone golem of Qual'Jom / by Jason Denzel  A fire within the ways / by Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson  Seven / by Naomi Novik  The fire-risen ash / by Shawn Speakman

Something exciting has been happening in modern SF. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF"-science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World...  more

Something exciting has been happening in modern SF. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF"-science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present an immense, authoritative anthology that maps the development and modern-day resurgence of this form, argues for its special virtues and present preeminence-and entertains us with some spectacular storytelling along the way. The Hard SF Renaissance will be an anthology that SF readers return to for years to come. Table of contents: * Gene Wars / Paul McAuley; * Wang's Carpets / Greg Egan; * Genesis / Poul Anderson; * Arthur Sternbach Brings the Curveball to Mars / Kim Stanley Robinson; * On the Orion Line / Stephen Baxter; * Beggars in Spain / Nancy Kress; * Matter's End / Gregory Benford; * The Hammer of God / Arthur C. Clarke; * Think Like a Dinosaur / James Patrick Kelly; * Mount Olympus / Ben Bova; * Marrow / Robert Reed; * Microbe / Joan Slonczewski; * The Lady Vanishes / Charles Sheffield; * Bicycle Repairman / Bruce Sterling; * An Ever-Reddening Glow / David Brin; * Sexual Dimorphism / Kim Stanley Robinson; * Into the Miranda Rift / G. David Nordley; * The Shoulders of Giants / Robert J. Sawyer; * A Walk in the Sun / Geoffrey A. Landis; * For White Hill / Joe Haldeman; * A Career in Sexual Chemistry / Brian Stableford; * Reef / Paul McAuley; * Exchange Rate / Hal Clement; * Reasons to Be Cheerful / Greg Egan; * Griffin's Egg / Michael Swanwick; * Great Wall of Mars / Alastair Reynolds; * A Niche / Peter Watts; * Gossamer / Stephen Baxter; * Madam Butterfly / James P. Hogan; * Understand / Ted Chiang; * Halo / Karl Schroeder; * Different Kinds of Darkness / David Langford; * Fast Times at Fairmont High / Vernor Vinge; * Reality Check / David Brin; * The Mendelian Lamp Case / Paul Levinson; * Kinds of Strangers / Sarah Zettel; * The Good Rat / Allan Steele; * Built Upon the Sands of Time / Michael Flynn; * Taklamakan / Bruce Sterling; * Hatching the Phoenix / Frederik Pohl; * Immersion / Gregory Benford.

War is becoming increasingly 'SF-ized' with remotely controlled attack drones and robot warriors already in development and being tested. Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power, yet also in sophistication so that we no longer seem to...  more

War is becoming increasingly 'SF-ized' with remotely controlled attack drones and robot warriors already in development and being tested. Over the past 100 years the technology of war has advanced enormously in destructive power, yet also in sophistication so that we no longer seem to live under the constant threat of all-out global thermonuclear cataclysm. So what will future wars be like? And what will start them: religion, politics, resources, refugees, or advanced weaponry itself? Watson and Whates present a gripping anthology of SF stories which explores the gamut of possible future conflicts, including such themes as nuclear war, psychological and cyberwars, enhanced soldiery, mercenaries, terrorism, intelligent robotic war machines, and war with aliens. All the stories in this collection of remarkable quality and diversity reveals humankind pressed to the limits in every conceivable way. Contents: Introduction (The Mammoth Book of SF Wars) (2012) • essay by Ian Whates and Ian Watson. Peacekeeper (2012) / Brad R. Torgersen and Mike Resnick From Out of the Sun, Endlessly Singing (2012) / Simon R. Green All for Love (1962) / Algis Budrys The War Artist (2011) / Tony Ballantyne The War Memorial [Near Space] (1995) / Allen Steele Politics (1990) / Elizabeth Moon Arena (1944) / Fredric Brown Peacekeeping Mission (2008) / Laura Resnick The Peacemaker [Berserker] (1964) / Fred Saberhagen (variant of The Life Hater) Junked: A Combat K Adventure (2009) / Andy Remic The Liberation of Earth (1953) / William Tenn A Clean Escape (1985) / John Kessel Storming Hell (2009) / John Lambshead Solidarity (2005) / Walter Jon Williams The Price (2010) / Michael Z. Williamson The Horars of War (1970) / Gene Wolfe The Traitor [Bolo] (1997) / David Weber The Game of Rat and Dragon [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1955) / Cordwainer Smith Caught in the Crossfire [Hammer's Slammers] (1978) / David Drake The Rhine's World Incident [Polity Universe] (2008) / Neal Asher Winning Peace [Jackaroo] (2007) / Paul J. McAuley Time Piece (1970) / Joe Haldeman The Wake (2011) / Dan Abnett The Pyre of New Day [Skolian Short Fiction • 7] (2012)  Catherine Asaro .

Teenage Lynn has been taught to defend her pond against every threat: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and most important, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty -- or doesn't leave at all. Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use...  more

Teenage Lynn has been taught to defend her pond against every threat: drought, a snowless winter, coyotes, and most important, people looking for a drink. She makes sure anyone who comes near the pond leaves thirsty -- or doesn't leave at all. Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest. But when strangers appear, the mysterious footprints by the pond, nighttime threats, and gunshots make it all too clear Lynn has exactly what they want, and they won't stop until they get it. . . .

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s...  more

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self-evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fourth Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the field. With an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre. Contents: Summation: 2016 • essay by Gardner Dozois Terminal (2016) / short story by Lavie Tidhar Touring with the Alien (2016) / novelette by Carolyn Ives Gilman Patience Lake (2016) / novelette by Matthew Claxton Jonas and the Fox (2016) / novelette by Rich Larson Prodigal (2016) / novelette by Gord Sellar KIT: Some Assembly Required (2016) / short story by Kathe Koja and Carter Scholz Vortex (2016) / short story by Gregory Benford Elves of Antarctica (2016) / short story by Paul J. McAuley The Baby Eaters (2016) / short story by Ian McHugh A Salvaging of Ghosts [Universe of Xuya] (2016) / short story by Aliette de Bodard Those Shadows Laugh (2016) / novelette by Geoff Ryman Redking (2016) / short story by Craig DeLancey Things with Beards (2016) / short story by Sam J. Miller Fieldwork (2016) / novelette by Shariann Lewitt The Further Adventures of Mr. Costello (2016) / novella by David Gerrold Innumerable Glimmering Lights (2016) / short story by Rich Larson Fifty Shades of Grays (2016) / novelette by Steven Barnes Sixteen Questions for Kamala Chatterjee (2016) / short story by Alastair Reynolds Cold Comfort (2016) / novelette by Pat Murphy and Paul Doherty The Art of Space Travel (2016) / novelette by Nina Allan Flight from the Ages (2016) / novelette by Derek Kunsken My Generations Shall Praise (2016) / short story by Samantha Henderson Mars Abides (2016) / short story by Stephen Baxter The Visitor from Taured (2016) / novelette by Ian R. MacLeod When the Stone Eagle Flies [Martin & Artie] (2016) / novelette by Bill Johnson The Vanishing Kind (2016) / novella by Lavie Tidhar One Sister, Two Sisters, Three (2016) / novelette by James Patrick Kelly Dispatches from the Cradle: The Hermit - Forty-Eight Hours in the Sea of Massachusetts (2016) / short story by Ken Liu Checkerboard Planet (2016) / novelette by Eleanor Arnason They Have All One Breath (2016) / novelette by Karl Bunker Mika Model (2016) / short story by Paolo Bacigalupi That Game We Played During the War (2016) / short story by Carrie Vaughn Because Change Was the Ocean and We Lived by Her Mercy (2016) / short story by Charlie Jane Anders The One Who Isn't (2016) / short story by Ted Kosmatka Those Brighter Stars (2016) / short story by Mercurio D. Rivera A Tower for the Coming World (2016) / short story by Maggie Clark Firstborn, Lastborn (2016) / short story by Melissa Scott Women's Christmas (2016) / short story by Ian McDonald The Iron Tactician [Merlin [4] • 4] (2016) / novella by Alastair Reynolds Honorable Mentions: 2016 • essay by editor

The best of the year's Science Fiction and Fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. DISTANT WORLDS, TIME TRAVEL, EPIC ADVENTURE, UNSEEN WONDERS AND MUCH MORE! The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the...  more

The best of the year's Science Fiction and Fantasy stories as selected by the multiple award-winning editor Jonathan Strahan. DISTANT WORLDS, TIME TRAVEL, EPIC ADVENTURE, UNSEEN WONDERS AND MUCH MORE! The best, most original and brightest science fiction and fantasy stories from around the globe from the past twelve months are brought together in one collection by multiple award winning editor Jonathan Strahan. This highly popular series now reaches volume nine and will include stories from both the biggest names in the field and the most exciting new talents. Previous volumes have included stories from Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Cory Doctorow, Stephen Baxter, Elizabeth Bear, Joe Abercrombie, Paolo Bacigalupi, Holly Black, Garth Nix, Jeffrey Ford, Margo Lanagan, Bruce Sterling, Adam Robets, Ellen Klages, and many many more.  

Would you rather die a hero, or live as a wanted criminal?� Ex-con Captain Caleb Shepperd believes being good is overrated. All he wants is to smuggle illegal cargo through the nine systems and live a prosperous (likely short) life on the wrong side of the law.� But there's a problem with that...  more

Would you rather die a hero, or live as a wanted criminal?� Ex-con Captain Caleb Shepperd believes being good is overrated. All he wants is to smuggle illegal cargo through the nine systems and live a prosperous (likely short) life on the wrong side of the law.� But there's a problem with that plan. The priceless synthetic stowaway on his ship is a distraction he doesn't need. Torn between selling her and tossing her out the airlock, Shepperd fails to realize the synth is a killer, and he's the one locked in her sights. In a world where only one thousand synthetics were built, synthetic number One Thousand and One should not exist. She is no ordinary synth. Memories locked inside her code could bring Shepperd--and the entire nine systems--to their knees.� Captain Shepperd and the oppressive corporations are about to learn that you can't hide from the sins of your past, especially when that past has orders to kill.

After terrifying and titanic struggles, a godlike artificial intelligence gone rogue has finally been destroyed. But not before it scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy.On the terraformed planet Ventus, benign AIs -- the godlike Winds – which shaped and guarded its...  more

After terrifying and titanic struggles, a godlike artificial intelligence gone rogue has finally been destroyed. But not before it scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy.On the terraformed planet Ventus, benign AIs -- the godlike Winds – which shaped and guarded its transformation, have fallen silent. Calandria May is sent down to the surface where she quickly finds that an extension of the rogue AI, a cyborg called Armiger, has planted a strange and powerful device in a young man named Jordan Mason. Jordan has visions. He is desperate to find their meaning and source -- desperate enough to risk awakening the Winds, perhaps invoking the power that can destroy technology to protect the environment they created. Ventus is an epic journey across a fascinating planet with two big mysteries -- why have the Winds fallen silent? And is Armiger, or Jordan, carrying a Resurrection Seed?

Living a desperate life in the Total Welfare Center, the orphan Rissa discovers she has won the lottery and takes a chance to shape her own destiny. After she escapes from Earth with the help of a space pirate who may be more trouble than she expected, she soon discovers that together they might...  more

Living a desperate life in the Total Welfare Center, the orphan Rissa discovers she has won the lottery and takes a chance to shape her own destiny. After she escapes from Earth with the help of a space pirate who may be more trouble than she expected, she soon discovers that together they might have a chance to shape Earth's destiny as well..  Bran Tregare. To most he was a ruthless space pirate, but to Rissa he was what no man had ever been -- her match in love and battle. Together they will build an armada to free Earth, but first they must conquer the Hidden Worlds.

The Ridpath projection has brought a tantalising alternative reality to the willing participants: Wessex. It provides them with a different set of relationships, jobs, responsibilities, attitudes, preferences. Only memory eludes them; for in Wessex noting is constant except the Castle. It...  more

The Ridpath projection has brought a tantalising alternative reality to the willing participants: Wessex. It provides them with a different set of relationships, jobs, responsibilities, attitudes, preferences. Only memory eludes them; for in Wessex noting is constant except the Castle. It stands, solid, a beacon, a gateway between centuries. Julia has always enjoyed her after life, always found it fulfilling. Until the arrival of a malicious and violent ex-lover threatens her peace. He is determined to invade and destroy, jumbling up past present future, forcing her to fight back.

This contains 3 classic Silverberg scifi novels: The Masks of Time, Born With the Dead, and Dying Inside.

Now, for the first time ever, Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozios sifts through hundreds of stories and dozens of authors who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form, to bring readers the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novellas from his...  more

Now, for the first time ever, Hugo Award-winning editor Gardner Dozios sifts through hundreds of stories and dozens of authors who have gone on to become some of the most esteemed practitioners of the form, to bring readers the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novellas from his legendary series.  With work spanning two decades, The Best of the Best, Volume 2 stands as the ultimate anthology of short science fiction novellas ever published in the world. Contents: Sailing to Byzantium /  Robert Silverberg; Surfacing /  Walter Jon Williams; The Hemingway Hoax /  Joe Haldeman; Mr. Boy /  James Patrick Kelly; Beggars in Spain /  Nancy Kress; Griffin's Egg /  Michael Swanwick; Outnumbering the Dead /  Frederik Pohl; Forgiveness Day /  Ursula K. Le Guin; The Cost to be Wise /  Maureen F. McHugh; Oceanic /  Greg Egan; Tendeleo's Story /  Ian McDonald; New Light on the Drake Equation /  Ian R. MacLeod; Turquoise Days / by Alastair Reynolds Also published as: The Mammoth Book of Best Short SF Novels

What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars?  As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens, and what they’ve left behind.  Alien Artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their...  more

What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars?  As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens, and what they’ve left behind.  Alien Artifacts: what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets?  What might they reveal about the universe?  In this anthology, nineteen of today’s leading science fiction and fantasy authors explore how discovering long lost relics of alien civilizations might change humanity. Come along as they discover the stars and the secrets they may hold, both dark and deadly and awe-inspiring. Contents: Introduction (Alien Artifacts) • essay by Patricia Bray Radio Silence (2016) / short story by Walter H. Hunt The Nightside (2016) / novelette by Julie Novakova The Familiar (2016) / short story by Dave Wolverton [as by David Farland] Me and Alice (2016) / short story by Angela Penrose The Other Side (2016) / short story by S. C. Butler The Hunt [Storm and Fury Adventures] (2016) / novelette by Gail Z. Martin, Larry N. Martin The Sphere (2016) / short story by Juliet E. McKenna Shame the Devil (2016) / short story by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller The Captain's Throne (2016) / short story by Andrija Popovic Weird Is the New Normal (2016) / short story by Jacey Bedford And We Have No Words to Tell You (2016) / short story by Sofie Bird Titan Descanso (2016) / short story by James Van Pelt Alien Epilogue (2016) / novelette by Gini Koch The Haint of Sweetwater River (2016) / novelette by Anthony Lowe Music of the Stars (2016) / short story by Jennifer Dunne The Night You Were a Comet (2016) / short story by Coral Moore The God Emperor of Lassie Point (2016) / short story by Daniel J. Davis Pandora (2016) / short story by C. S. Friedman Round and Round We Ride the Carousel of Time (2016) / short story by Seanan McGuire .

Three Great Authors-Three Great Science Fiction Stories A Strand In the Web New York Times Bestselling Fantasy Author Anne Bishop makes her U.S. debut in Science Fiction with this engaging futuristic novella. The Restorers travel the universe fulfilling a purpose handed down through the...  more

Three Great Authors-Three Great Science Fiction Stories A Strand In the Web New York Times Bestselling Fantasy Author Anne Bishop makes her U.S. debut in Science Fiction with this engaging futuristic novella. The Restorers travel the universe fulfilling a purpose handed down through the generations. They live and die aboard city-ships, never knowing the worlds they create and save. What begins as a disastrous training exercise in creating and balancing ecosystems becomes an unexpected fight for survival. The only hope may be the secret project of an untried Restorer team. A Host Of Leeches Award winning author James Alan Gardner pens a wonderfully imaginative tale in which a young woman wakes to find herself the sole human on an orbiting, mechanical space station. To find a way home, she must navigate the dangerous politics of war between opposing robot leaders. Stranded Popular urban fantasy writer Anthony Francis (Dakota Frost, Skindancer series) explores a clash of ethics and survival when a young, genetically engineered centauress from the ultra-advanced Alliance lays claim to a rare, strategic garden planet, only to find herself captured by a band of rag-tag Frontier refugees who've crashed their vintage ship on her unexpectedly hostile world.

A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I?m Thinking of Ending Things. We don?t get visitors. Not out here. We never have. In Iain Reid?s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life...  more

A taut, psychological mind-bender from the bestselling author of I?m Thinking of Ending Things. We don?t get visitors. Not out here. We never have. In Iain Reid?s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Henrietta won't have a chance to miss him, because she won't be left alone?not even for a moment. Henrietta will have company. Familiar company. Told in Reid?s sharp and evocative style, Foe examines the nature of domestic relationships, self-determination, and what it means to be (or not to be) a person. An eerily entrancing page-turner, it churns with unease and suspense from the first words to its shocking finale.

Signet Books, 1964. Mass market paperback, 2nd or 3rd printing. Alfred Bester was one of the best SF authors to emerge post- WWII, and this collection of some of his shorter works will delight the reader. Includes: Time Is the Traitor (1953); The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958); Out of This...  more

Signet Books, 1964. Mass market paperback, 2nd or 3rd printing. Alfred Bester was one of the best SF authors to emerge post- WWII, and this collection of some of his shorter works will delight the reader. Includes: Time Is the Traitor (1953); The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958); Out of This World (1964); The Pi Man (1959); The Flowered Thundermug (1964); Will You Wait? (1959); They Don't Make Life Like They Used To (1963).

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly...  more

In 2019, humanity finally finds proof of extraterrestrial life when a listening post in Puerto Rico picks up exquisite singing from a planet which will come to be known as Rakhat. While United Nations diplomats endlessly debate a possible first contact mission, the Society of Jesus quietly organizes an eight-person scientific expedition of its own. What the Jesuits find is a world so beyond comprehension that it will lead them to question the meaning of being "human." When the lone survivor of the expedition, Emilio Sandoz, returns to Earth in 2059, he will try to explain what went wrong... Words like "provocative" and "compelling" will come to mind as you read this shocking novel about first contact with a race that creates music akin to both poetry and prayer. This edition includes a 9 page reader's guide with a conversation with Mary Doria Russell and Reading Group questions and topics for discussion.

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes and sets new marks with every passing year, continuing to evolve. Master anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution and, for the seventh year in a row, has collected stories that captivate, entertain,...  more

The depth and breadth of what science fiction and fantasy fiction is changes and sets new marks with every passing year, continuing to evolve. Master anthologist Jonathan Strahan carefully maps this evolution and, for the seventh year in a row, has collected stories that captivate, entertain, and showcase the very best the genre has to offer. Critically acclaimed, and with a reputation for including award-winning speculative fiction, The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year is the only major 'best of' anthology to collect both fantasy and science fiction under one cover. Contents: Introduction (The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume Seven) • essay by Jonathan Strahan The Contrary Gardener (2012) / shortstory by Christopher Rowe The Woman Who Fooled Death Five Times (2012) / shortstory by Eleanor Arnason Close Encounters (2012) / novelette by Andy Duncan Great-Grandmother in the Cellar [World of The Innkeeper's Song] (2012) / shortstory by Peter S. Beagle The Easthound (2012) / shortstory by Nalo Hopkinson Goggles (c.1910) (2012) / shortstory by Caitlín R. Kiernan Bricks, Sticks, Straw (2012) / shortstory by Gwyneth Jones A Bead of Jasper, Four Small Stones (2012) / shortstory by Genevieve Valentine The Grinnell Method (2012) / novelette by Molly Gloss Beautiful Boys (2012) / shortstory by Theodora Goss The Education of a Witch (2012) / novelette by Ellen Klages Macy Minnot's Last Christmas on Dione, Ring Racing, Fiddler's Green, the Potter's Garden [The Quiet War] (2012) / shortstory by Paul J. McAuley What Did Tessimond Tell You? (2012) / shortstory by Adam Roberts Adventure Story (2012) / shortstory by Neil Gaiman Katabasis [The Great Ship Universe] (2012) / novella by Robert Reed Troll Blood (2012) / novelette by Peter Dickinson The Color Least Used by Nature (2012) / novelette by Ted Kosmatka Jack Shade in the Forest of Souls (2012) / novelette by Rachel Pollack Two Houses (2012) / novelette by Kelly Link Blood Drive (2012) / shortstory by Jeffrey Ford Mantis Wives (2012) / shortstory by Kij Johnson Immersion [Universe of Xuya] (2012) / shortstory by Aliette de Bodard About Fairies (2012) / shortstory by Pat Murphy Let Maps to Others (2012) / novella by K. J. Parker Joke in Four Panels (2012) / shortstory by Robert Shearman Reindeer Mountain (2012) / shortstory by Karin Tidbeck Domestic Magic (2012) / shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem and Melanie Tem Swift, Brutal Retaliation (2012) / novelette by Meghan McCarron Nahiku West [Zeke Choy] (2012) / novelette by Linda Nagata Fade to White (2012) / novelette by Catherynne M. Valente Significant Dust (2012) / novelette by Margo Lanagan Mono No Aware (2012) / shortstory by Ken Liu .

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's...  more

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world.   And with an extensive recommended reading guide and a summation of the year in science fiction, this annual compilation has become the definitive must-read anthology for all science fiction fans and readers interested in breaking into the genre. Contents: Summation: 2014 • essay by Gardner Dozois The Fifth Dragon (2014) / novelette by Ian McDonald The Rider (2014) / novelette by Jérôme Cigut The Days of the War, as Red as Blood, as Dark as Bile (2014) / shortstory by Aliette de Bodard The Burial of Sir John Mawe at Cassini (2014) / shortstory by Chaz Brenchley The Regular (2014) / novella by Ken Liu The Woman from the Ocean (2014) / shortstory by Karl Bunker Shooting the Apocalypse (2014) / novelette by Paolo Bacigalupi Weather (2014) / shortstory by Susan Palwick The Hand is Quicker (2014) / novelette by Elizabeth Bear The Man Who Sold the Moon (2014) / novella by Cory Doctorow Vladimir Chong Chooses to Die (2014) / shortstory by Lavie Tidhar Beside the Damned River (2014) / shortstory by D. J. Cockburn (variant of Beside the Dammed River) The Colonel (2014) / novelette by Peter Watts Entanglement (2014) / novella by Vandana Singh White Curtain (2014) / shortstory by Pavel Amnuel (trans. of Белая штора 2007) Slipping (2014) / shortstory by Lauren Beukes Passage of Earth (2014) / shortstory by Michael Swanwick Amicae Aeternum (2014) / shortstory by Ellen Klages In Babelsberg (2014) / shortstory by Alastair Reynolds Sadness (2014) / shortstory by Timons Esaias West to East (2014) / shortstory by Jay Lake Grand Jeté (The Great Leap) (2014) / novella by Rachel Swirsky Covenant (2014) / shortstory by Elizabeth Bear Jubilee (2014) / novelette by Karl Schroeder Los Piratas del Mar de Plastico (Pirates of the Plastic Ocean) (2014) / novelette by Paul Graham Raven Red Lights, and Rain (2014) / shortstory by Gareth L. Powell Coma Kings (2014) / shortstory by Jessica Barber The Prodigal Son [Arkwright] (2014) / novella by Allen Steele God Decay (2014) / shortstory by Rich Larson Blood Wedding (2014) / novelette by Robert Reed The Long Haul From the ANNALS OF TRANSPORTATION, The Pacific Monthly, May 2009 (2014) / shortstory by Ken Liu Shadow Flock (2014) / novelette by Greg Egan Thing and Sick (2014) / novelette by Adam Roberts Communion (2014) / shortstory by Mary Anne Mohanraj Someday (2014) / shortstory by James Patrick Kelly Yesterday's Kin (2014) / novella by Nancy Kress Honorable Mentions: 2014 • essay by Gardner Dozois Also published titled: The Mammoth Book of Best New SF 28. .

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HUGO AWARD AND THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD 'Chambers is simply an exceptional talent' Tor.com **Winner of the 2017 Prix Julia-Verlanger** The stand-alone sequel to the award-winning The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial...  more

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HUGO AWARD AND THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD 'Chambers is simply an exceptional talent' Tor.com **Winner of the 2017 Prix Julia-Verlanger** The stand-alone sequel to the award-winning The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence. When she wakes up in an new body, following a total system shut-down and reboot, she has to start over in a synthetic body, in a world where her kind are illegal. She's never felt so alone. But she's not alone, not really. Pepper, one of the engineers who risked life and limb to reinstall Lovelace, is determined to help her adjust to her new world. Because Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over. Together, Pepper and Lovey will discover that, huge as the galaxy may be, it's anything but empty. PRAISE FOR THE WAYFARERS 'Never less than deeply involving' DAILY MAIL 'Explores the quieter side of sci-fi while still wowing us with daring leaps of imagination' iBOOKS 'So much fun to read' HEAT 'Warm, engaging, properly science-fictional, A Closed and Common Orbit is a very likable novel indeed' GUARDIAN 'The most fun that I've had with a novel in a long, long time' iO9

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer --- before they kill again. It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. At least, Marie Shea had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also...  more

A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer --- before they kill again. It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. At least, Marie Shea had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died: from illness once and from injury once. Maria's vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone of a crew member of the starship Dormire, each clone waiting for its previous incarnation to die so it could awaken. And Maria wasn't the only one to die recently...

Folklore Professor Oladel Adewole has lost tenure, and the beloved, much-younger sister he's raised has died; with no reason to stay, he leaves his homeland for the University of Eisenstadt.�One thing makes his new life bearable: the mysterious island floating a mile above the city, his...  more

Folklore Professor Oladel Adewole has lost tenure, and the beloved, much-younger sister he's raised has died; with no reason to stay, he leaves his homeland for the University of Eisenstadt.�One thing makes his new life bearable: the mysterious island floating a mile above the city, his all-consuming interest for years. When a brilliant engineer makes it to the island in her new invention, the government sends Adewole up with its first survey team. The expedition finds civilization, and Adewole finds a powerful, forbidden fusion of magic and metal: the Machine God. The government wants it. So does a sociopath bent on ruling Eisenstadt. But when Adewole discovers who the mechanical creature is--and what it can do--he risks his heart and his life to protect the Machine God from the world, and the world from the Machine God.

There are eyes everywhere. Even in the dark--watching, seeing you sleep, dream, make love. And every second of it is being broadcast to thousands of feed networks by the Editors, who see what you're doing. And if they don't like it, you will answer to the Enforcers. One man is about to break...  more

There are eyes everywhere. Even in the dark--watching, seeing you sleep, dream, make love. And every second of it is being broadcast to thousands of feed networks by the Editors, who see what you're doing. And if they don't like it, you will answer to the Enforcers. One man is about to break free. The only problem is, they're watching. Always.

“No one gets something for nothing. We all should know better.”   Teenagers at Wisconsin’s Nottawa High School are drawn deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need . . . regardless of the consequences. Soon the site turns sinister,...  more

“No one gets something for nothing. We all should know better.”   Teenagers at Wisconsin’s Nottawa High School are drawn deeper into a social networking site that promises to grant their every need . . . regardless of the consequences. Soon the site turns sinister, with simple pranks escalating to malicious crimes. The body count rises. In this chilling YA thriller, examining not only the dark side of social media, but the dark side of human nature.

Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew—and survive long enough to enjoy it. Adda and Iridian are newly minted engineers, but...  more

Two engineers hijack a spaceship to join some space pirates—only to discover the pirates are hiding from a malevolent AI. Now they have to outwit the AI if they want to join the pirate crew—and survive long enough to enjoy it. Adda and Iridian are newly minted engineers, but aren’t able to find any work in a solar system ruined by economic collapse after an interplanetary war. Desperate for employment, they hijack a colony ship and plan to join a famed pirate crew living in luxury at Barbary Station, an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space. But when they arrive there, nothing is as expected. The pirates aren’t living in luxury—they’re hiding in a makeshift base welded onto the station’s exterior hull. The artificial intelligence controlling the station’s security system has gone mad, trying to kill all station residents and shooting down any ship that attempts to leave—so there’s no way out. Adda and Iridian have one chance to earn a place on the pirate crew: destroy the artificial intelligence. The last engineer who went up against the AI met an untimely end, and the pirates are taking bets on how the newcomers will die. But Adda and Iridian plan to beat the odds. There’s a glorious future in piracy…if only they can survive long enough.

The Book of Apex Volume 4 collects the original fiction from Hugo-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas's first fifteen issues at the helm of Apex Magazine, which included two Hugo Award nominations for the magazine. Thirty-three science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories grab readers by...  more

The Book of Apex Volume 4 collects the original fiction from Hugo-winning editor Lynne M. Thomas's first fifteen issues at the helm of Apex Magazine, which included two Hugo Award nominations for the magazine. Thirty-three science fiction, fantasy, and horror short stories grab readers by their emotional cores to star deep into the source of our humanity and inhumanity. Well-known authors like Ken Liu, Genevieve Valentine, Catherynne M. Valente, Lavie Tidhar, and Alethea Kontis, along with newer voices, sketch surreal pasts, presents, and futures full of characters with familiar and outsized desires and fears. Contents: The Bread We Eat in Dreams (2011) / shortstory by Catherynne M. Valente The Leavings of the Wolf (2011) / shortstory by Elizabeth Bear The 24 Hour Brother (2011) / shortstory by Christopher Barzak Faithful City (2011) / shortstory by Michael Pevzner So Glad We Had This Time Together (2012) / shortstory by Cat Rambo Sweetheart Showdown (2012) / shortstory by Sarah Dalton Bear in Contradicting Landscape (2012) / shortstory by David J. Schwartz My Body, Her Canvas (2012) / shortstory by A. C. Wise A Member of the Wedding of Heaven and Hell (2012) / shortstory by Richard Bowes Copper, Iron, Blood and Love (2012) / shortstory by Mari Ness The Second Card of the Major Arcana (2012) / shortstory by Thoraiya Dyer Love is a Parasite Meme (2012) / shortstory by Lavie Tidhar Decomposition (2012) / shortstory by Rachel Swirsky Tomorrow's Dictator (2012) / shortstory by Rahul Kanakia Winter Scheming (2012) / shortstory by Brit Mandelo In the Dark (2012) / shortstory by Ian Nichols The Silk Merchant (2012) / shortstory by Ken Liu Ironheart (2012) / shortstory by Alec Austin Coyote Gets His Own Back (2012) / shortstory by Sarah Monette Waiting for Beauty (2012) / shortstory by Marie Brennan Murdered Sleep (2012) / shortstory by Kat Howard Armless Maidens of the American West (2012) / shortstory by Genevieve Valentine Sexagesimal (2012) / shortstory by Katharine E. K. Duckett During the Pause (2012) / shortstory by Adam-Troy Castro Weaving Dreams (2012) / shortstory by Mary Robinette Kowal Always the Same. Till it is Not (2012) / shortstory by Cecil Castellucci Sprig (2012) / shortstory by Alex Bledsoe Splinter (2012) / shortstory by Shira Lipkin Erzulie Dantor (2012) / shortstory by Tim Susman Labyrinth (2012) / shortstory by Mari Ness Blood from Stone (2012) / shortstory by Alethea Kontis Trixie and the Pandas of Dread (2013) / shortstory by Eugie Foster The Performance Artist (2013) / shortstory by Lettie Prell

SciFi's favorite crabby A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is.And Murderbot would rather those questions went away....  more

SciFi's favorite crabby A.I. is again on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris Corporation is floundering, and more importantly, authorities are beginning to ask more questions about where Dr. Mensah's SecUnit is.And Murderbot would rather those questions went away. For good. 

1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone?  2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is...  more

1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone?  2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive -- some say mad, others dangerous -- scientist when she finds a curious gadget: a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a... potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views its world for ever. And that's an understatement if ever there was one... 

The world experiences an abrupt and unthinkable cataclysm on the morning of October 29, 2018. Kevin March, high school band trombonist and wannabe writer playing hooky, is witness to its beginning. To stay alive, Kevin embarks on a journey that promises to change everything yet again. On his...  more

The world experiences an abrupt and unthinkable cataclysm on the morning of October 29, 2018. Kevin March, high school band trombonist and wannabe writer playing hooky, is witness to its beginning. To stay alive, Kevin embarks on a journey that promises to change everything yet again. On his journey, into a digital recorder he chronicles his experiences at the end of his world. This book is a transcript of that recording. Depicting an unspeakable apocalypse unlike any seen in fiction?there are no zombies, viruses or virals, no doomsday asteroid, no aliens, no environmental cataclysm, no nuclear holocaust?with a Holden Caulfieldesque protagonist at his world?s end, The Late Bloomer is both a companion piece to Lord of the Flies and a Bradburyian Halloween tale. The Late Bloomer is harrowing, grim and poignant in the way of Cormac McCarthy?s The Road. Told in Kevin March?s singular and unforgettable voice, delivering a gripping narrative with an unsparing climax as moving as it is terrifying, The Late Bloomer defies expectations of the genre and will haunt those who read it.

The follow-up to the hugely popular science fiction action and adventure All Systems Red It has a dark past -- one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot". But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title,...  more

The follow-up to the hugely popular science fiction action and adventure All Systems Red It has a dark past -- one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself "Murderbot". But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more. Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don't want to know what the "A" stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue. What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks?

***PRE-ORDER EVE OF MAN, THE FIRST BOOK IN A BRAND-NEW TRILOGY, JOINTLY WRITTEN BY BESTSELLING AUTHORS GIOVANNA & TOM FLETCHER*** AGAINST ALL ODDS, SHE SURVIVED. THE FIRST GIRL BORN IN FIFTY YEARS. THEY CALLED HER EVE. All her life Eve has been kept away from the opposite sex. Kept from the...  more

***PRE-ORDER EVE OF MAN, THE FIRST BOOK IN A BRAND-NEW TRILOGY, JOINTLY WRITTEN BY BESTSELLING AUTHORS GIOVANNA & TOM FLETCHER*** AGAINST ALL ODDS, SHE SURVIVED. THE FIRST GIRL BORN IN FIFTY YEARS. THEY CALLED HER EVE. All her life Eve has been kept away from the opposite sex. Kept from the truth of her past. But at sixteen it's time for Eve to face her destiny. Three potential males have been selected for her. The future of humanity is in her hands. She's always accepted her fate. Until she meets Bram. Eve wants control over her life. She wants freedom. But how do you choose between love and the future of the human race? EVE OF MAN is the first in an explosive new trilogy by bestselling authors Giovanna & Tom Fletcher.

I was born more than a thousand years ago. Put into a cryogenic tube at age seventeen, forgotten during a holocaust that decimated the world, I've finally been awakened to a more serene and peaceful future. But things at the hospital are new and strange. And it?s starting to scare me. ...  more

I was born more than a thousand years ago. Put into a cryogenic tube at age seventeen, forgotten during a holocaust that decimated the world, I've finally been awakened to a more serene and peaceful future. But things at the hospital are new and strange. And it?s starting to scare me. Everyone is young. Everyone is banded and tracked. And everyone is keeping secrets. The cute geneticist Michael Bennett might be the only good thing in this crazy new world where ?life is precious? but no one seems free to live it. The problem is, I don?t think he?s being totally honest with me, either. When I?m told only I can save the human race from extinction, it's clear my freeze didn?t avoid a dreadful fate. It only delayed the horror?

On a voyage to New Earth, the starship Rolling Thunder is powered by an energy no one understands except for its eccentric inventor, Jubal Broussard. But now, on his emergence from a state of suspended animation, Jubal makes a shocking announcement: The ship must stop, or everyone will...  more

On a voyage to New Earth, the starship Rolling Thunder is powered by an energy no one understands except for its eccentric inventor, Jubal Broussard. But now, on his emergence from a state of suspended animation, Jubal makes a shocking announcement: The ship must stop, or everyone will die. These words from the mission’s founder, the man responsible for the very existence of Rolling Thunder, will send shock waves throughout the starship -- and divide its passengers into those who believe and those who doubt. And it will be up to his twin daughters to stop a mutiny, discover the truth, and usher the ship into a new age of exploration…

Telepathy. Just a far-fetched bit of science fiction ?hocus pocus.? But is it? With today?s giant leaps forward in technology and biotechnology, with people constantly surrounded by sophisticated yet invisible communication networks, and with a rapidly increasing understanding of the brain?s...  more

Telepathy. Just a far-fetched bit of science fiction ?hocus pocus.? But is it? With today?s giant leaps forward in technology and biotechnology, with people constantly surrounded by sophisticated yet invisible communication networks, and with a rapidly increasing understanding of the brain?s inner workings . . . is it so hard to imagine that we might be able to develop direct mind-to-mind communication? Or might it not be the case that evolution alone, in the right circumstances?if not on this planet, then on others?could give rise to creatures with telepathic abilities? This collection of fourteen stories explores the ramifications of a future where telepathy is real. From that first glorious moment of discovery, to the subsequent jealousies and class divisions, to the dangers of weaponization and the blessings of medical miracles, The Telepath Chronicles promises to take you inside the creative minds of some of today?s top science fiction authors.

The world runs on ARCs. Altered Reality Chips. Small implants behind the left ear that allow people to experience anything they could ever imagine. The network controls everything, from traffic, to food production, to law enforcement. Some proclaim it a Golden Age of humanity. Others have begun...  more

The world runs on ARCs. Altered Reality Chips. Small implants behind the left ear that allow people to experience anything they could ever imagine. The network controls everything, from traffic, to food production, to law enforcement. Some proclaim it a Golden Age of humanity. Others have begun to see the cracks. Few realize that behind it all, living within every brain and able to control all aspects of society, there exists a being with an agenda all his own: the singularity called Adam, who believes he is God.Jimmy Mahoney?s brain can?t accept an ARC. Not since his football injury from the days when the league was still offline. ?ARC-incompatible? is what the doctors told him. Worse than being blind and deaf, he is a man struggling to cling to what?s left of a society that he is no longer a part of. His wife spends twenty-three hours a day online, only coming off when her chip forcibly disconnects her so she can eat. Others are worse. Many have died, unwilling or unable to log off to take care of even their most basic needs.After being unwittingly recruited by a rogue singularity to play a role in a war that he doesn?t understand, Jimmy learns the truth about Adam and is thrown into a life-and-death struggle against the most powerful mathematical mind the world has ever known. But what can one man do against a being that exists everywhere and holds limitless power? How can one man, unable to even get online, find a way to save his wife, and the entire human race, from destruction?

With shades of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and Ally Condie’s Matched, this cinematic dystopian novel -- the first in the thrilling Eye of the Beholder series -- is set in a near future society in which "right" and "wrong" are manifested by beauty and...  more

With shades of Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies and Ally Condie’s Matched, this cinematic dystopian novel -- the first in the thrilling Eye of the Beholder series -- is set in a near future society in which "right" and "wrong" are manifested by beauty and ugliness. In Grace Luther’s world, morality is physically enforced. Those who are "good" are blessed with beauty, while those who are not suffer horrifying consequences -- disfigurement or even death. The daughter of a cleric, Grace has always had faith in the higher power that governs her world. But when she stumbles onto information that leaves her questioning whether there are more complicated -- and dangerous -- forces manipulating the people around her, she finds herself at the center of an epic battle, where good and evil are not easily distinguished. Despite all her efforts to live a normal teenage life, Grace is faced with a series of decisions that will risk the lives of everyone she loves -- and, ultimately, her own. With each page in this electrifying debut novel, Sarah Tarkoff masterfully plunges us into a nightmarish vision of the future. Full of high drama and pulsating tension, Sinless explores the essential questions teenagers wrestle with every day -- What is beauty? What is faith? Do we take our surroundings at face value and accept all that we have been taught, or do we question the mores of the society into which we are born? -- and places them in the context of a dark, dystopian world where appearances are most definitely deceiving.

The invasion of the future has begun. Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Di�z, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future. They have seized upon tales...  more

The invasion of the future has begun. Literary legends including Steven Millhauser, Junot Di�z, Amiri Baraka, and Katharine Dunn have attacked the borders of the every day. Like time traveling mad-scientists, they have concocted outrageous creations from the future. They have seized upon tales of technology gone wrong and mandated that pulp fiction must finally grow up. In these wildly-speculative stories you will discover the company that controls the world from an alley in Greenwich Village. You?ll find nanotechnology that returns memories to the residents of a nursing home. You?ll rally an avian-like alien to become a mascot for a Major League Baseball team. The Invaders are here. But did science fiction colonize them first?

Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time—past, present, and future!  What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology...  more

Quite possibly the greatest science fiction collection of all time—past, present, and future!  What if life was neverending? What if you could change your body to adapt to an alien ecology? What if the pope were a robot? Spanning galaxies and millennia, this must-have anthology showcases classic contributions from H. G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia E. Butler, and Kurt Vonnegut, alongside a century of the eccentrics, rebels, and visionaries who have inspired generations of readers. Within its pages, you’ll find beloved worlds of space opera, hard SF, cyberpunk, the New Wave, and more. Learn about the secret history of science fiction, from titans of literature who also wrote SF to less well-known authors from more than twenty-five countries, some never before translated into English. In The Big Book of Science Fiction, literary power couple Ann and Jeff VanderMeer transport readers from Mars to Mechanopolis, planet Earth to parts unknown. Immerse yourself in the genre that predicted electric cars, space tourism, and smartphones. Sit back, buckle up, and dial in the coordinates, as this stellar anthology has got worlds within worlds. Including:· Legendary tales from Isaac Asimov and Ursula K. Le Guin; * An unearthed sci-fi story from W. E. B. Du Bois; * The first publication of the work of cybernetic visionary David R. Bunch in twenty years; * A rare and brilliant novella by Chinese international sensation Cixin Liu.  Plus: * Aliens!; * Space battles!; * Robots!;* Technology gone wrong!; * Technology gone right! .

The mission of Eden must be fulfilled and Eden?s best Seekers are needed. Forming a new group they dub the Seeders, Fi, Asher, and Sean are joined by a new addition as they set out to bring hope and support to the Topsiders in the form of radios and heirloom seeds. As radio broadcasts begin to...  more

The mission of Eden must be fulfilled and Eden?s best Seekers are needed. Forming a new group they dub the Seeders, Fi, Asher, and Sean are joined by a new addition as they set out to bring hope and support to the Topsiders in the form of radios and heirloom seeds. As radio broadcasts begin to reconnect the survivors, the Seeders stumble upon mysterious broadcasts from unknown stations. When two of their own new radio stations go silent within days of each other, Fi and her companions realize that something is terribly wrong. Eden finds itself pitted against a growing and unknown force as their very mission lights the flames of war.

Skip Wayburn, an itinerant artist working his way through the byworld subculture, teams up with Dr. Yvonne Canter in order to communicate with the alien ship that has been orbiting the Earth for three years.

Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.  From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this...  more

Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction's most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre's visionary core.  From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology fully charts the themes, trends, thoughts, and traditions that comprise the challenging yet rich literary form known as "hard SF". Contents: Real Science, Imaginary Worlds (1994) • essay by Gregory Benford On Science and Science Fiction (1993) • essay by Kathryn Cramer Hard Science Fiction (1994) • essay by David G. Hartwell Nine Lives (1969) / novelette by Ursula K. Le Guin Light of Other Days [Slow Glass] (1966) / shortstory by Bob Shaw Rappaccini's Daughter [Rappaccini • 1] (1844) / novelette by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Star (1955) / shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke Proof (1942) / shortstory by Hal Clement "It's Great to Be Back!" [Future History] (1947) / shortstory by Robert A. Heinlein Procreation (1983) / shortstory by Gene Wolfe Mimsy Were the Borogoves (1943) / novelette by Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore [as by Lewis Padgett] Davey Jones' Ambassador (1935) / novelette by Raymond Z. Gallun The Life and Times of Multivac [Multivac] (1975) / shortstory by Isaac Asimov The Singing Diamond (1979) / shortstory by Robert L. Forward Down & Out on Ellfive Prime (1979) / novelette by Dean Ing Send Me a Kiss by Wire (1985) / shortstory by Hilbert Schenck The Xi Effect (1950) / shortstory by R. S. Richardson [as by Philip Latham] A Descent Into the Maelstrom (1841) / shortstory by Edgar Allan Poe Exposures (1981) / shortstory by Gregory Benford The Planners (1968) / shortstory by Kate Wilhelm Beep (1954) / novelette by James Blish Drode's Equations (1981) / novelette by Richard Grant The Weather Man (1962) / novella by Theodore L. Thomas Transit of Earth (1971) / shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke Prima Belladonna [Vermilion Sands] (1956) / shortstory by J. G. Ballard To Bring in the Steel (1978) / novelette by Donald Kingsbury Gomez (1954) / novelette by C. M. Kornbluth Waterclap (1970) / novelette by Isaac Asimov Weyr Search [Dragonriders of Pern] (1967) / novella by Anne McCaffrey Message Found in a Copy of Flatland (1983) / shortstory by Rudy Rucker The Cold Equations (1954) / novelette by Tom Godwin The Land Ironclads (1903) / novelette by H. G. Wells The Hole Man (1974) / shortstory by Larry Niven Atomic Power (1934) / shortstory by John W. Campbell Jr. [as by Don A. Stuart] Stop Evolution in Its Tracks! (1988) / shortstory by John Sladek The Hungry Guinea Pig (1930) / shortstory by Miles J. Breuer M.D. The Very Slow Time Machine (1978) / novelette by Ian Watson The Beautiful and the Sublime (1986) / novelette by Bruce Sterling "The Author of the Acacia Seeds" and Other Extracts from the Journal of the Association of Therolinguistics (1974) / shortstory by Ursula K. Le Guin Heat of Fusion (1984) / shortstory by John M. Ford Dolphin's Way (1964) / shortstory by Gordon R. Dickson All the Hues of Hell (1987) / shortstory by Gene Wolfe Occam's Scalpel (1971) / novelette by Theodore Sturgeon giANTS (1979) / shortstory by Edward Bryant Time Fuze (1954) / shortstory by Randall Garrett Desertion [City] (1944) / shortstory by Clifford D. Simak Kyrie (1968) / shortstory by Poul Anderson The Person from Porlock (1947) / shortstory by Raymond F. Jones Day Million (1966) / shortstory by Frederik Pohl The Cage of Sand (1962) / novelette by J. G. Ballard The Psychologist Who Wouldn't Do Awful Things to Rats (1976) / novelette by James Tiptree, Jr. In the Year 2889 (1889) / shortstory by Jules Verne Surface Tension [Pantropy] (1952) / novelette by James Blish No, No, Not Rogov! [The Instrumentality of Mankind] (1959) / shortstory by Cordwainer Smith In a Petri Dish Upstairs (1978) / novelette by George Turner With the Night Mail (1905) / novelette by Rudyard Kipling The Longest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told (1966) / shortstory by Arthur C. Clarke The Pi Man (1959) / shortstory by Alfred Bester Relativistic Effects (1982) / novelette by Gregory Benford Making Light (1981) / shortstory by James P. Hogan The Last Question [Multivac] (1956) / shortstory by Isaac Asimov The Indefatigable Frog (1953) / shortstory by Philip K. Dick Chromatic Aberration (1984) / novelette by John M. Ford The Snowball Effect (1952) / shortstory by Katherine MacLean The Morphology of the Kirkham Wreck (1978) / novelette by Hilbert Schenck Tangents (1986) / shortstory by Greg Bear Johnny Mnemonic (1981) / shortstory by William Gibson What Continues, What Fails ... (1991) / novelette by David Brin Mammy Morgan Played the Organ, Her Daddy Beat the Drum (1990) / novella by Michael F. Flynn Bookworm, Run! (1966) / novelette by Vernor Vinge Appendix: Another Path Through the Book (The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF) (1994) • essay by Kathryn Cramer

Thomas J. Ryan wrote The Adolescence of P-1 in the mid-seventies, and for its time, it must have been a breakthrough in computer science-fiction literature. The story is compelling: an adaptive computer program is created and set loose by a bored college student and becomes so advanced that it...  more

Thomas J. Ryan wrote The Adolescence of P-1 in the mid-seventies, and for its time, it must have been a breakthrough in computer science-fiction literature. The story is compelling: an adaptive computer program is created and set loose by a bored college student and becomes so advanced that it develops self-awareness. The computer virus, dubbed P-1 by its creator, can communicate with humans in English through a computer terminal. The dialog between P-1 and the humans is both amusing and provocative, while P-1's ominous nature tugs at the imagination. P-1's existence has a purpose: to survive. Eventually, P-1 must deal with the value of human life and the meaning of what it means to be human. The theme of the novel centers on those two topics while tying in to the speculations on Artificial Intelligence.

Continuing the grand sweep of alternate history laid out in The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky looks forward to 1961, when mankind is well-established on the moon and looking forward to its next step: journeying to, and eventually colonizing, Mars. Of course the noted Lady Astronaut Elma...  more

Continuing the grand sweep of alternate history laid out in The Calculating Stars, The Fated Sky looks forward to 1961, when mankind is well-established on the moon and looking forward to its next step: journeying to, and eventually colonizing, Mars. Of course the noted Lady Astronaut Elma York would like to go, but could the International Aerospace Coalition ever stand the thought of putting a woman on such a potentially dangerous mission? Could Elma knowingly take the place of other astronauts who have been overlooked because of their race? And could she really leave behind her husband and the chance to start a family? This gripping look at the real conflicts behind a fantastical space race will put a new spin on our visions of what might have been.

The Ghost Line is a haunting science fiction story about the Titanic of the stars by Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison that Lawrence Schoen calls "a delicious rush of the future and the past."The luxury cruise ship the Martian Queen was decommissioned years ago, set to drift back and forth...  more

The Ghost Line is a haunting science fiction story about the Titanic of the stars by Andrew Neil Gray and J. S. Herbison that Lawrence Schoen calls "a delicious rush of the future and the past."The luxury cruise ship the Martian Queen was decommissioned years ago, set to drift back and forth between Earth and Mars on the off-chance that reclaiming it ever became profitable for the owners. For Saga and her husband Michel the cruise ship represents a massive payday. Hacking and stealing the ship could earn them enough to settle down, have children, and pay for the treatments to save Saga?s mother?s life.But the Martian Queen is much more than their employer has told them. In the twenty years since it was abandoned, something strange and dangerous has come to reside in the decadent vessel. Saga feels herself being drawn into a spider?s web, and must navigate the traps and lures of an awakening intelligence if she wants to go home again.

The first humans still hunt their children across the stars. Dave Hutchinson brings far future science fiction on a grand scale in Acadie. The Colony left Earth to find their utopia--a home on a new planet where their leader could fully explore the colonists' genetic potential,...  more

The first humans still hunt their children across the stars. Dave Hutchinson brings far future science fiction on a grand scale in Acadie. The Colony left Earth to find their utopia--a home on a new planet where their leader could fully explore the colonists' genetic potential, unfettered by their homeworld's restrictions. They settled a new paradise, and have been evolving and adapting for centuries. Earth has other plans. The original humans have been tracking their descendants across the stars, bent on their annihilation. They won't stop until the new humans have been destroyed, their experimentation wiped out of the human gene pool. Can't anyone let go of a grudge anymore?

Once again, the finest short-form SF offerings of the year have been collected in a single volume.  With Year's Best SF 18, acclaimed, award-winning editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell demonstrates the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing...  more

Once again, the finest short-form SF offerings of the year have been collected in a single volume.  With Year's Best SF 18, acclaimed, award-winning editor and anthologist David G. Hartwell demonstrates the amazing depth and power of contemporary speculative fiction, showcasing astonishing stories from some of the genre's most respected names as well as exciting new writers to watch. Prepare to travel light years from the ordinary into a tomorrow at once breathtaking, frightening, and possible with some of the greatest tales of wonder published in 2012. Contents: Introduction (Year's Best SF 18) (2013) • essay by David G. Hartwell Old Paint (2012) / novelette by Megan Lindholm The Ghosts of Christmas (2012) / novelette by Paul Cornell Prayer (2012) / shortstory by Robert Reed The Battle of Candle Arc (2012) / novelette by Yoon Ha Lee Dormanna (2012) / shortstory by Gene Wolfe Holmes Sherlock: A Hwarhath Mystery [Hwarhath] (2012) / shortstory by Eleanor Arnason Electrica (2012) / novelette by Sean McMullen Perfect Day (2012) / shortstory by C. S. Friedman Swift as a Dream and Fleeting as a Sigh (2012) / shortstory by John Barnes Liberty's Daughter [Rebecca "Beck" Garrison] (2012) / novelette by Naomi Kritzer Weep for Day (2012) / novelette by Indrapramit Das In Plain Sight (2012) / shortstory by Pat Cadigan Application (2012) / shortstory by Lewis Shiner A Love Supreme (2012) / shortstory by Kathleen Ann Goonan Close Encounters (2012) / novelette by Andy Duncan Two Sisters in Exile [Universe of Xuya] (2012) / shortstory by Aliette de Bodard Waves (2012) / novelette by Ken Liu The North Revena Ladies Literary Society (2012) / shortstory by Catherine H. Shaffer Antarctica Starts Here (2012) / shortstory by Paul J. McAuley Bricks, Sticks, Straw (2012) / shortstory by Gwyneth Jones The Sigma Structure Symphony [SETI Library] (2012) / novelette by Gregory Benford Glass Future (2012) / shortstory by Deborah Walker If Only . . . (2012) / shortstory by Tony Ballantyne The Woman Who Shook the World Tree (2012) / shortstory by Michael Swanwick Nahiku West [Zeke Choy] (2012) / novelette by Linda Nagata Houseflies (2012) / shortstory by Joe Pitkin Branches on my Back, Sparrows in my Ear (2012) / shortstory by Nikki J. North The Peak of Eternal Light (2012) / novelette by Bruce Sterling .

In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce language, from a remarkable literary talent.My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be...  more

In the aftermath of a devastating plague, a fearless young heroine embarks on a dangerous and surprising journey to save her world in this brilliantly inventive dystopian thriller, told in bold and fierce language, from a remarkable literary talent.My name be Ice Cream Fifteen Star and this be the tale of how I bring the cure to all the Nighted States . . . In the ruins of a future America, fifteen-year-old Ice Cream Star and her nomadic tribe live off of the detritus of a crumbled civilization. Theirs is a world of children; before reaching the age of twenty, they all die of a mysterious disease they call Posies?a plague that has killed for generations. There is no medicine, no treatment; only the mysterious rumor of a cure.When her brother begins showing signs of the disease, Ice Cream Star sets off on a bold journey to find this cure. Led by a stranger, a captured prisoner named Pasha who becomes her devoted protector and friend, Ice Cream Star plunges into the unknown, risking her freedom and ultimately her life. Traveling hundreds of miles across treacherous, unfamiliar territory, she will experience love, heartbreak, cruelty, terror, and betrayal, fighting with her whole heart and soul to protect the only world she has ever known.Guardian First Book Award finalist Sandra Newman delivers an extraordinary post-apocalyptic literary epic as imaginative as The Passage and as linguistically ambitious as Cloud Atlas. Like Hushpuppy in The Beasts of the Southern Wild grown to adolescence in a landscape as dangerously unpredictable as that of Ready Player One, The Country of Ice Cream Star is a breathtaking work from a writer of rare and unconventional talent.

In defiance of NASA, Jane Holloway, the linguist of the Providence expedition, commandeers the alien ship that crew explored.  She sets off to return that ship's marooned navigator to his home world, determined to discover who was behind the genocide that destroyed his original...  more

In defiance of NASA, Jane Holloway, the linguist of the Providence expedition, commandeers the alien ship that crew explored.  She sets off to return that ship's marooned navigator to his home world, determined to discover who was behind the genocide that destroyed his original crew.  But when she gets there, she finds his world devastated by the same plague.  The remaining members of his race, uniquely gifted at navigating the stars, are stranded across the galaxy. And someone, it seems, doesn't want those lost navigators to be found.  As Jane unravels the mystery of the plague and works to ensure the survival of Ei'Brai's race, she discovers that the life of every sentient being in the galaxy may be in jeopardy, and the clock is ticking.

They had possesion of her body, but they could not control the most dangerous part of her: her mind.  Abducted.  Forced to fight. Darcy has a 10,000 year old secret buried in her genetic code.  It makes her a target, but it may also save her.  As a second year medical...  more

They had possesion of her body, but they could not control the most dangerous part of her: her mind.  Abducted.  Forced to fight. Darcy has a 10,000 year old secret buried in her genetic code.  It makes her a target, but it may also save her.  As a second year medical student, Darcy's life revolves around classes, studying, and her boyfriend Adam, until she treks through the desert, touches some mysterious stacked stones, and a network of glowing blue lines radiates under her skin.  Then she saw the spaceship.  it was coming for her.  She faces impossibly bad choices and a missing boyfriend.  Darcy struggles to accept her heritage and master her newfound powers as she navigates deception, betrayal, and mortal danger in order to prevail in the galaxy's most dangerous game, and survive to save Adam.  (aka: The Druid Gene)

A 'best of' anthology: Beyond the Stars: Space Opera Anthologies #4.5.   Epic space battles. Exotic aliens. Far-flung planets.  Fifteen fabulous tales that will thrill and surprise you, chosen from previous BEYOND THE STARS volumes, and, some brand new.  Come along...  more

A 'best of' anthology: Beyond the Stars: Space Opera Anthologies #4.5.   Epic space battles. Exotic aliens. Far-flung planets.  Fifteen fabulous tales that will thrill and surprise you, chosen from previous BEYOND THE STARS volumes, and, some brand new.  Come along as these award-winning authors sweep you along on adventures as broad as the universe and as deep as their imagination.    Welcome to the Best of Beyond the Stars! Contents: The Epsilon Directive (2016) / short fiction by David Bruns Hanging with Humans (2015) / short fiction by Patrice Fitzgerald The Good Food (2016) / short story by Michael Ezell Venatoris [Aurora Rising • 2.5] (2016) / short story by G. S. Jennsen Hope 91 (2016) / novelette by Nick Webb Sequester (2017) / short fiction by Ann Christy Escape from Push Station 16 (2018) / short fiction by S. M. Blooding War Stories (2016) / short story by Samuel Peralta Just an Old-Fashioned Lust Story (2016) / short fiction by Christopher J. Valin A Pool of Uncountable Eddies (2018) / short story by Jeff Seymour Tabitha's Vacation (2016) / short fiction by Michael Anderle Carindi (2015) / novelette by Jennifer Foehner Wells The Immortals: Anchorage [Symphony of War Shorts • 2] (2016) / novelette by David Adams Containment [Stories of Singularity • 2] (2015) / novelette by Susan Kaye Quinn Rendezvous (2018) / short fiction by Joseph Robert Lewis .  

Earth's days are numbered.  Two very different women race to prepare for the battle to come.  The future of Earth is in their hands.  One struggles to resurrect her ruined ship so she can navigate the politics at the galactic core in a desperate bid to recruit allies. ...  more

Earth's days are numbered.  Two very different women race to prepare for the battle to come.  The future of Earth is in their hands.  One struggles to resurrect her ruined ship so she can navigate the politics at the galactic core in a desperate bid to recruit allies.  The other strives to master alien technology to supply the forces of Earth with the tools needed to defend themselves against the ravenous Swarm.  Between them, Jane and Zara offer humanity its best chance at survival, but the odds are stacked against them and their best may not be good enough.

When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, embark on a twenty-year trip to set up a planet for human colonization?but find that space is more deadly than they ever could have imagined. Have you ever hoped you could leave everything...  more

When an Earth-like planet is discovered, a team of six teens, along with three veteran astronauts, embark on a twenty-year trip to set up a planet for human colonization?but find that space is more deadly than they ever could have imagined. Have you ever hoped you could leave everything behind? Have you ever dreamt of a better world? Can a dream sustain a lifetime? A century ago, an astronomer discovered an Earth-like planet orbiting a nearby star. She predicted that one day humans would travel there to build a utopia. Today, ten astronauts are leaving everything behind to find it. Four are veterans of the twentieth century?s space-race. And six are teenagers who?ve trained for this mission most of their lives. It will take the team twenty-three years to reach Terra-Two. Twenty-three years locked in close quarters. Twenty-three years with no one to rely on but each other. Twenty-three years with no rescue possible, should something go wrong. And something always goes wrong.

Everyone is exactly like me. There is no one like me.Ven wrestles with these contradicting truths every day. A clone of wealthy eighteen-year-old Raven Rogen, Ven knows everything about the girl she was created to serve: the clothes she wears, the boys she loves, the friends she loves to hate....  more

Everyone is exactly like me. There is no one like me.Ven wrestles with these contradicting truths every day. A clone of wealthy eighteen-year-old Raven Rogen, Ven knows everything about the girl she was created to serve: the clothes she wears, the boys she loves, the friends she loves to hate. Yet she?s never met the Authentic Raven face-to-face. Imitations like Ven only get to leave the lab when they?re needed?to replace a dead Authentic, donate an organ, or complete a specific mission. And Raven has never needed Ven . . . until now.When there is an attack on Raven?s life, Ven is thrust into the real world, posing as Raven to draw out the people who tried to harm her. But as Ven dives deeper into Raven?s world, she begins to question everything she was ever told. She exists for Raven, but is she prepared to sacrifice herself for a girl she?s never met?Fans of Cinder, The Selection and Sara Shepard?s Lying Game series will love Imitation, a thrilling, action-packed novel sure to keep readers guessing until the very last page.This is a new release of the previously self-published title.

A surreal debut novel set in a world shaped by language in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin. Vanja, an information assistant, is sent from her home city of Essre to the austere, wintry colony of Amatka with an assignment to collect intelligence for the government....  more

A surreal debut novel set in a world shaped by language in the tradition of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin. Vanja, an information assistant, is sent from her home city of Essre to the austere, wintry colony of Amatka with an assignment to collect intelligence for the government. Immediately she feels that something strange is going on: people act oddly in Amatka, and citizens are monitored for signs of subversion. Intending to stay just a short while, Vanja falls in love with her housemate, Nina, and prolongs her visit. But when she stumbles on evidence of a growing threat to the colony, and a cover-up by its administration, she embarks on an investigation that puts her at tremendous risk. In Karin Tidbeck?s world, everyone is suspect, no one is safe, and nothing?not even language, nor the very fabric of reality?can be taken for granted. Amatka�is a beguiling and wholly original novel about freedom, love, and artistic creation by a captivating new voice.

18-year-old Syl has barely survived the genetic splicing that plagued her human body.After discovering the androids' plot to wipe out human and Cull alike, Syl must return to Elite to warn the other survivors. However, with the realization that her group of survivors isn't the only one, also...  more

18-year-old Syl has barely survived the genetic splicing that plagued her human body.After discovering the androids' plot to wipe out human and Cull alike, Syl must return to Elite to warn the other survivors. However, with the realization that her group of survivors isn't the only one, also comes the realization that some humans are just as bad as androids.Bastion and Syl grow closer, however, their relationship suffers under the weight of her past ghosts and a growing threat that endangers human and android alike.

?Rapid-fire storytelling from start to finish!??Greg BearHumanity?s last hope of survival lies in space?but will a random death doom the venture?Our planet is dying and the world?s remaining nations have pooled their resources to build a seed ship that will carry colonists on a...  more

?Rapid-fire storytelling from start to finish!??Greg BearHumanity?s last hope of survival lies in space?but will a random death doom the venture?Our planet is dying and the world?s remaining nations have pooled their resources to build a seed ship that will carry colonists on a multi-generational journey to a distant planet.Everything is set for a bright adventure?and then someone is found hanging dead just weeks before the launch. Fear and paranoia spread as the death begins to look more and more like a murder. The authorities want the case settled quickly and quietly so as not to cause panic?and to prevent a murderer from sabotaging the entire mission.With The Man in the Tree, Locus Award-winning author Sage Walker has given us a thrilling hard science fiction mystery that explores the intersection of law, justice, and human nature.

The fast-paced sequel to Fringe Runner! Word of a fringe rebellion has been spreading, but getting recruits to sign up is proving to be a challenge. The Collective Unified Forces has put the colonies in a chokehold, restricting all actions and resources. Cut off from their supplies and...  more

The fast-paced sequel to Fringe Runner! Word of a fringe rebellion has been spreading, but getting recruits to sign up is proving to be a challenge. The Collective Unified Forces has put the colonies in a chokehold, restricting all actions and resources. Cut off from their supplies and potential recruits, Captain Aramis Reyne and his two fellow captains devise a reckless plan for building a torrent army. With enemies coming at them from every angle, they soon realize that no one, not even the fringe, wants them to succeed.

Jonathon and Gavin Nightly are in love with Hannah Lasker, a gifted artist on the verge of a meltdown. Their lives spiral toward heartbreak with the release of a controversial vaccine that grants eternal life. This "miracle cure" is only the beginning of a true-to-life technological takeover...  more

Jonathon and Gavin Nightly are in love with Hannah Lasker, a gifted artist on the verge of a meltdown. Their lives spiral toward heartbreak with the release of a controversial vaccine that grants eternal life. This "miracle cure" is only the beginning of a true-to-life technological takeover that pits friendships against progress, science against faith, and love against time.

Telling a story about the importance of survival within any circumstances, however strange, and showing a girl-in-a-man's-world angle, Presence is a novel about Samantha, a woman in her late twenties, both smart and attractive. One day, Samantha's regular life is suddenly turned around as the...  more

Telling a story about the importance of survival within any circumstances, however strange, and showing a girl-in-a-man's-world angle, Presence is a novel about Samantha, a woman in her late twenties, both smart and attractive. One day, Samantha's regular life is suddenly turned around as the fact of her existence is somehow erased from the world. Nobody seems to remember her, her own apartment is occupied by the uninvited tenants, and even her sister, the only family Samantha has, is unable to recognize her. Lost and confused, Samantha accepts help from a stranger, a charismatic man named Archie, whom she accidentally encounters and unwillingly joins him in his fight against the silent invasion of the planet, Alpha planet as he calls it; and he himself happens to be a soldier from a parallel one, Beta. The glass wall put between Samantha's new life and her former life makes her discover the roadside of the world, dark and silent, the hidden place where her primary instincts come to the surface and she finally feels the urge to fight for herself and for others.

When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck -- enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother -- meant...  more

When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she’d be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck -- enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother -- meant she’d get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. Keeping her sane. Instead, she got Em. Em sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre’s body with drugs or withholding critical information to “ensure the smooth operation” of her expedition. Em knows all about Gyre’s falsified credentials, and has no qualms using them as a leash -- and a lash. And Em has secrets, too . . . As Gyre descends, little inconsistencies -- missing supplies, unexpected changes in the route, and, worst of all, shifts in Em’s motivations -- drive her out of her depths. Lost and disoriented, Gyre finds her sense of control giving way to paranoia and anger. On her own in this mysterious, deadly place, surrounded by darkness and the unknown, Gyre must overcome more than just the dangerous terrain and the Tunneler which calls underground its home if she wants to make it out alive -- she must confront the ghosts in her own head. But how come she can't shake the feeling she’s being followed?

Elana, newly graduated from the Federation Anthropological Service Academy, is sent immediately into danger on the planet Toris-a world poised on the brink of nuclear war. She is ordered to merely observe, and must not reveal her alien origin or interfere with the planet's natural course of...  more

Elana, newly graduated from the Federation Anthropological Service Academy, is sent immediately into danger on the planet Toris-a world poised on the brink of nuclear war. She is ordered to merely observe, and must not reveal her alien origin or interfere with the planet's natural course of evolution. But how can she stand by and watch? Her fellow agent, Randil, is not properly trained to work in the field, and his compassion for the Torisians may lead him to intervene. Yet his very actions may bring about the holocaust that he is so desperately trying to prevent. Elana must make a crucial decision: side with a renegade agent, or stop him at any cost. . . . Although this novel has the same heroine as Enchantress from the Stars, it is completely independent and is not appropriate for readers below teenage.  This is a revised edition with significant updating from the 1971 edition.

In a universe of Gods and Goddesses, moons that hide ancient beasts, and cities built on the back of spaceships, infant Princess Esmae was cast into deep space, surviving only by the grace of a Goddess. Raised far away from her birth home of Kali, Esme longs to return to her real family. And...  more

In a universe of Gods and Goddesses, moons that hide ancient beasts, and cities built on the back of spaceships, infant Princess Esmae was cast into deep space, surviving only by the grace of a Goddess. Raised far away from her birth home of Kali, Esme longs to return to her real family. And when the King of Wychstar issues a challenge, offering to gift his unbeatable, sentient warship, Titania, to a warrior that can win his competition, the way home becomes clear: she'll help her brother, Prince Alexi, win the ship and consequently, win her place back in the arms of her family. But when Alexi rejects, she instead enters as the champion of Max, who banished Alexi's family from their ancestral home, waging a war that pits cousin against cousin. And she does the unthinkable. She wins. Now, Esmae finds herself on the wrong side of an inevitable war, with the Goddess-blessed Titania in the hands of her family's enemies. Will she be able to reunite with her brother and learn why the queen banished her? Or will her family literally destroy itself, with the weapons she gave them? Drawing on Indian mythology including the Mahabharata, A Spark of White Fire is a sweeping young adult sci-fi/fantasy retelling that stretches across the universe exploring love, friendship, and the complicated ties that bind families together, and rip them apart, in a world where Gods and Goddesses keep an eye on the stars . . . and the people they favor that fight among them.

Welcome to the Kingdom... where 'Happily Ever After' isn't just a promise, but a rule. Glimmering like a jewel behind its gateway, The Kingdom is an immersive fantasy theme park where guests soar on virtual dragons, castles loom like giants, and bioengineered species -- formerly...  more

Welcome to the Kingdom... where 'Happily Ever After' isn't just a promise, but a rule. Glimmering like a jewel behind its gateway, The Kingdom is an immersive fantasy theme park where guests soar on virtual dragons, castles loom like giants, and bioengineered species -- formerly extinct -- roam free. Ana is one of seven Fantasists, beautiful "princesses" engineered to make dreams come true. When she meets park employee Owen, Ana begins to experience emotions beyond her programming including, for the first time... love. But the fairytale becomes a nightmare when Ana is accused of murdering Owen, igniting the trial of the century. Through courtroom testimony, interviews, and Ana's memories of Owen, emerges a tale of love, lies, and cruelty -- and what it truly means to be human.

She?s a non-conformist with an insatiable appetite for adventure. And trouble. It is no surprise when she finds herself eavesdropping on a Constable meeting. One word that makes no sense?Earth?sends Orion on a quest for answers. What is "Earth?" And why has it never been mentioned before? Her...  more

She?s a non-conformist with an insatiable appetite for adventure. And trouble. It is no surprise when she finds herself eavesdropping on a Constable meeting. One word that makes no sense?Earth?sends Orion on a quest for answers. What is "Earth?" And why has it never been mentioned before? Her search is soon over, but not without a heavy price to pay. Forced to leave behind the only home she has ever known, Orion fights for the chance to return. Every corner holds a new danger, and every shadow hides a secret. No one can be trusted. Constantly fighting for survival and truth, she wonders if she is condemned to repeat this hell she now knows. Forever.

A collection of chilling and prescient stories about ecological apocalypse, artificial intelligence, and the merging of human and machine in an effort to survive. Welcome to Moderan, world of the future. Here perpetual war is waged by furious masters fighting from Strongholds well stocked with...  more

A collection of chilling and prescient stories about ecological apocalypse, artificial intelligence, and the merging of human and machine in an effort to survive. Welcome to Moderan, world of the future. Here perpetual war is waged by furious masters fighting from Strongholds well stocked with ?arsenals of fear,? earth is covered with vast sheets of plastic, and humans vie to replace more and more of their own ?soft parts? with steel machinery. What need is there for nature when trees and flowers can be pushed up through holes in the plastic? Who requires human companionship when new-metal mistresses can be ordered from the shop? But even a Stronghold master can doubt the catechism of Moderan. Wanderers, poets, and his own children pay visits, proving that another world is possible. ?The effect is as if Whitman and Nietzsche had collaborated,? Brian Aldiss wrote of David R. Bunch?s stories. Originally published in science-fiction magazines in the 1960s and ?70s and passionately sought by collectors, the stories have not been available in a single volume for nearly fifty years, and this new edition of Moderan will include ten previously-uncollected stories. Like Anthony Burgess in A Clockwork Orange, and borrowing from the Bible and the language of advertising, Bunch coined a mind-bending new vocabulary. His intent was not to divert readers from the horrors of modernity but to make them face it squarely.

Warchild: The Collected Edition includes all three novels in the Warchild young adult dystopian series: Pawn, Judas, and Spirit. From the USA Today bestselling author of Sara's Game; [Warchild: Pawn] is "...part coming-of-age action-adventure and part fierce war games dominated by a young girl...  more

Warchild: The Collected Edition includes all three novels in the Warchild young adult dystopian series: Pawn, Judas, and Spirit. From the USA Today bestselling author of Sara's Game; [Warchild: Pawn] is "...part coming-of-age action-adventure and part fierce war games dominated by a young girl just coming into her powers. A fine, durable, inaugural volume brimming with imagination and sparkling, inventive characters." -Publishers Weekly Warchild: Pawn The world ended long before Caroline Mathers was born, but that doesn't mean life stops for the fourteen-year-old army scout for the People's Republic of Virginia. With a civil war brewing on the horizon, she slinks through the forests surrounding her encampment, monitoring the woods for nomadic bands of criminals, all while keeping a watchful eye on her dangerous northern enemies from the Democratic Alliance. Caroline's worst fears come true the day she hears the terrifying boom of distant drums beating to the war rhythm, echoing throughout their quiet valley. With some help from two unlikely allies, Caroline leads her people in a breathtaking retreat, praying they'll find salvation in their capitol city. Along the way, haunting dreams may reveal a look into her mystifying past. Warchild: Judas Hope alone can not win the war. Caroline Mathers, Forward Scout of the People's Republic of Virginia, leads her people to safety after a harrowing escape through the Appalachian Mountains. But, the security of their capitol city won't last for long...maybe even less than a night. Old friends are left behind, while inside the walls, new alliances are formed and trust betrayed. Empowered by the strength of a massive army, their northern enemies suffocate the city outside the walls, preparing to take control of what they believe is rightfully theirs: citizen slaves. With the help of her fellow Kinder, Finn, and an ill-equipped group of volunteer soldiers, Caroline must defend her city to the last breath or watch her people marched away in chains. Warchild: Spirit For the citizens of the People's Republic of Virginia, their last hope of freedom has faded with their spirits. The eternal rains continue to fall. Tired, hungry, and soaked to fragile bones, there's nothing left to do but march toward the only fate they have left: a life in slavery. But not if Caroline can help it. She's out of options, but giving up was never one of them. Facing overwhelming new challenges and old enemies, Caroline soon learns that even when the bullets stop flying, the war is never over.

The Undying Has Died It wasn't supposed to happen. People who took the Miracle Treatment weren't supposed to die-ever. Especially not the famous movie star spokesperson for the Treatment. And yet, that's exactly what's happened. The stunning starlet Greta Darling, who looked 22 but was...  more

The Undying Has Died It wasn't supposed to happen. People who took the Miracle Treatment weren't supposed to die-ever. Especially not the famous movie star spokesperson for the Treatment. And yet, that's exactly what's happened. The stunning starlet Greta Darling, who looked 22 but was really 89, has suddenly died. Of natural causes. Desperate to assure their billions of clients that the Miracle Treatment really does work, company executives call in private investigator Rick Macey. Macey's job is to find out what really happened to Greta Darling-or, failing that, to simply come up with some other explanation for how she died. Macey is a war veteran with very special abilities, and his own reasons for taking this case. What exactly is so wonderful about living forever? Who is really pulling the strings here? What do the religious clues at the crime scene mean? And who will be left standing...when eternity falls? "Cyberpunk action like you've always wished for!" -Grace Bridges, author of Faith Awakened "Eternity Falls is good dark P.I. fiction set in the near future. But don't get comfortable. Kirk Outerbridge drops a bomb that changes the story-and your perspective. Eternity Falls is a must-read for genre fans." -Frank Creed, author of War of Attrition *** Kirk Outerbridge currently resides with his wife, Ria, and eighteen-month-old son, Miles, in beautiful Bermuda. He is a faithful member of the Church of Christ and is a professional engineer by trade.

In City 42 Corporation look after you from cradle to grave.� They protect you from the radiation outside the wall.� They control the food, the water, the technology and most important of all, the continuation of the human race.� Kira and Jed Jenkins were lucky enough to win Collection but when...  more

In City 42 Corporation look after you from cradle to grave.� They protect you from the radiation outside the wall.� They control the food, the water, the technology and most important of all, the continuation of the human race.� Kira and Jed Jenkins were lucky enough to win Collection but when their friends start falling pregnant naturally, everything changes.� How long has Corporation been lying to them?� Is it really toxic outside the wall?� As the group comes to terms with the changes in their lives they discover there is a much more powerful and ancient force at work, trying to bridge the gap between man and nature.�

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and Station Eleven comes a gripping saga that weaves an epic tapestry of humanity into an astonishing tale of survival. Shana wakes up...  more

A decadent rock star. A deeply religious radio host. A disgraced scientist. And a teenage girl who may be the world's last hope. In the tradition of The Stand and Station Eleven comes a gripping saga that weaves an epic tapestry of humanity into an astonishing tale of survival. Shana wakes up one morning to discover her little sister in the grip of a strange malady. She appears to be sleepwalking. She cannot talk and cannot be woken up. And she is heading with inexorable determination to a destination that only she knows. But Shana and are sister are not alone. Soon they are joined by a flock of sleepwalkers from across America, on the same mysterious journey. And like Shana, there are other "shepherds" who follow the flock to protect their friends and family on the long dark road ahead. For on their journey, they will discover an America convulsed with terror and violence, where this apocalyptic epidemic proves less dangerous than the fear of it. As the rest of society collapses all around them--and an ultraviolent militia threatens to exterminate them--the fate of the sleepwalkers depends on unraveling the mystery behind the epidemic. The terrifying secret will either tear the nation apart--or bring the survivors together to remake a shattered world.

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity?s...  more

Fix the past. Save the present. Stop the future. Master of science fiction Alastair Reynolds unfolds a time-traveling climate fiction adventure in Permafrost.2080: at a remote site on the edge of the Arctic Circle, a group of scientists, engineers and physicians gather to gamble humanity?s future on one last-ditch experiment. Their goal: to make a tiny alteration to the past, averting a global catastrophe while at the same time leaving recorded history intact. To make the experiment work, they just need one last recruit: an ageing schoolteacher whose late mother was the foremost expert on the mathematics of paradox.2028: a young woman goes into surgery for routine brain surgery. In the days following her operation, she begins to hear another voice in her head... an unwanted presence which seems to have a will, and a purpose, all of its own ? one that will disrupt her life entirely. The only choice left to her is a simple one.Does she resist ... or become a collaborator?

For readers of Station Eleven and Exit West, Famous Men Who Never Lived explores the effects of displacement on our identities, the communities that come together through circumstance, and the power of art to save us.Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly...  more

For readers of Station Eleven and Exit West, Famous Men Who Never Lived explores the effects of displacement on our identities, the communities that come together through circumstance, and the power of art to save us.Wherever Hel looks, New York City is both reassuringly familiar and terribly wrong. As one of the thousands who fled the outbreak of nuclear war in an alternate United States?an alternate timeline?she finds herself living as a refugee in our own not-so-parallel New York. The slang and technology are foreign to her, the politics and art unrecognizable. While others, like her partner Vikram, attempt to assimilate, Hel refuses to reclaim her former career or create a new life. Instead, she obsessively rereads Vikram?s copy of The Pyronauts?a science fiction masterwork in her world that now only exists as a single flimsy paperback?and becomes determined to create a museum dedicated to preserving the remaining artifacts and memories of her vanished culture.But the refugees are unwelcome and Hel?s efforts are met with either indifference or hostility. And when the only copy of The Pyronauts goes missing, Hel must decide how far she is willing to go to recover it and finally face her own anger, guilt, and grief over what she has truly lost.

In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he's thrust over...  more

In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he's thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage - for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes.

Chimerascope-a story of many parts. A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish. A geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle to save her crew. The hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between love and revenge. A man is born each day into a new life-only to die each night. A...  more

Chimerascope-a story of many parts. A dinner conversation takes three lifetimes to finish. A geologist faces a planet-sized, eons-old puzzle to save her crew. The hero of the Fall of Earth must choose between love and revenge. A man is born each day into a new life-only to die each night. A sentient aurora threatens the last of humanity. A house as big as the world. These are some of the stories you will encounter in Chimerascope, the first full collection of short fiction from award-winning Canadian author, Douglas Smith. Sixteen stories of fantasy and science fiction that take you from love in fourteenth-century Japan to humanity's last stand, from virtual reality to the end of reality, from alien drug addictions to a dinner where a man loses everything.

The creatures of dreams come alive int he world Zenna Henderson...These are some of them: The Grunder, a thing of horror which if defeated restores love...The Noise-Eater, created by a child out of his fevered imagination, gobbles up anything, or anyone, which makes a sound...The Coveti,...  more

The creatures of dreams come alive int he world Zenna Henderson...These are some of them: The Grunder, a thing of horror which if defeated restores love...The Noise-Eater, created by a child out of his fevered imagination, gobbles up anything, or anyone, which makes a sound...The Coveti, residents of an alien world poisoned by the intrusion of the stranger from Earth..and The Beast Hill, an ordinary mound of earth, except that its grass resembles fur, and doesn't it move? Contents: The Anything Box (1956) / short story by Zenna Henderson Subcommittee (1962) / novelette by Zenna Henderson Something Bright (1960) / short story by Zenna Henderson Hush! (1953) / short story by Zenna Henderson Food to All Flesh (1953) / short story by Zenna Henderson Come On, Wagon! (1951) / short story by Zenna Henderson Walking Aunt Daid (1955) / short story by Zenna Henderson The Substitute (1953) / short story by Zenna Henderson The Grunder (1953) / short story by Zenna Henderson Things (1960) / short story by Zenna Henderson Turn the Page (1957) / short story by Zenna Henderson Stevie and the Dark (1952) / short story by Zenna Henderson And a Little Child ... (1959) / short story by Zenna Henderson The Last Step (1958) / short story by Zenna Henderson .

A collection of all of Henderson's stories of the People (interstellar refugees), including one "Michal Without," which is published here for the first time. Cover art by Elizabeth Finney.

From the author of THE SUMMER PRINCE, a novel that's John Grisham's THE PELICAN BRIEF meets Michael Crichton's THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN set at an elite Washington D.C. prep school. Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She has perfect hair, the perfect boyfriend, and a perfect Ivy-League...  more

From the author of THE SUMMER PRINCE, a novel that's John Grisham's THE PELICAN BRIEF meets Michael Crichton's THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN set at an elite Washington D.C. prep school. Emily Bird was raised not to ask questions. She has perfect hair, the perfect boyfriend, and a perfect Ivy-League future. But a chance meeting with Roosevelt David, a homeland security agent, at a party for Washington DC's elite leads to Bird waking up in a hospital, days later, with no memory of the end of the night. Meanwhile, the world has fallen apart: A deadly flu virus is sweeping the nation, forcing quarantines, curfews, even martial law. And Roosevelt is certain that Bird knows something. Something about the virus--something about her parents' top secret scientific work--something she shouldn't know. The only one Bird can trust is Coffee, a quiet, outsider genius who deals drugs to their classmates and is a firm believer in conspiracy theories. And he believes in Bird. But as Bird and Coffee dig deeper into what really happened that night, Bird finds that she might know more than she remembers. And what she knows could unleash the biggest government scandal in US history.

This book includes an introduction by Anne McCaffrey. This is a collection of some of the most famous science fiction stories of all time. They have been reprinted many times since their original publications in science fiction magazines and anthologies from 1951 to the mid-60's. "The...  more

This book includes an introduction by Anne McCaffrey. This is a collection of some of the most famous science fiction stories of all time. They have been reprinted many times since their original publications in science fiction magazines and anthologies from 1951 to the mid-60's. "The People" are a group of aliens that look human, who are shipwrecked on Earth and try to blend into our population. Scattered mostly throughout the American Southwest during their landing before 1900, they are set apart by their desire to preserve their home culture, including their religious and spiritual beliefs. Their unusual abilities ("Gifts") include telepathy, telekinesis, prophecy and healing, mostly manipulated through the "Signs and Persuasions". The stories describe groups of The People, as well as lonely isolated individuals, most often as they attempt to find communities and remain distinct in a world that does not understand them. Most of Henderson's stories focus on the theme of being different, and often feature children or young people. (Henderson was a school teacher herself.) Additional NOTE for Henderson enthusiasts: Beginning with Ararat (1952), Henderson's People stories appeared in magazines and anthologies, as well as the novelized Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1961) and The People: No Different Flesh (1966). Other volumes include The People Collection (1991) and Ingathering: The Complete People Stories (1995). (Information taken partially from Wikipedia)

Welcome to Dream Park -- an amusement park where nothing is what it seems -- except murder. Welcome to the state-of-the-art amusement park of the future. Dream Park -- where nothing is what it seems. Except for the double agents. And the live ammunition... Dream Park -- a futuristic...  more

Welcome to Dream Park -- an amusement park where nothing is what it seems -- except murder. Welcome to the state-of-the-art amusement park of the future. Dream Park -- where nothing is what it seems. Except for the double agents. And the live ammunition... Dream Park -- a futuristic amusement park, where customers can live out the adventures of a lifetime. But when Eviane first came to the park, her special effects gun was replaced by a real gun and she killed a man. Now she has been lured back to the park, but this time, she is the target.

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be...  more

Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover that her predecessor, the previous ambassador from their small but fiercely independent mining Station, has died. But no one will admit that his death wasn't an accident--or that Mahit might be next to die, during a time of political instability in the highest echelons of the imperial court.Now, Mahit must discover who is behind the murder, rescue herself, and save her Station from Teixcalaan's unceasing expansion--all while navigating an alien culture that is all too seductive, engaging in intrigues of her own, and hiding a deadly technological secret--one that might spell the end of her Station and her way of life--or rescue it from annihilation.

..".a thrilling novel that lays bare the imminent future of warfare."--Publishers Weekly starred reviewScarred by war, in pursuit of truth: Army veteran True Brighton left the service when the development of robotic helicopters made her training as a pilot obsolete. Now she works at Requisite...  more

..".a thrilling novel that lays bare the imminent future of warfare."--Publishers Weekly starred reviewScarred by war, in pursuit of truth: Army veteran True Brighton left the service when the development of robotic helicopters made her training as a pilot obsolete. Now she works at Requisite Operations, a private military company established by friend and former Special Ops soldier Lincoln Han. ReqOp has embraced the new technologies. Robotics, big data, and artificial intelligence are all tools used to augment the skills of veteran warfighters-for-hire. But the tragedy of war is still measured in human casualties, and when True makes a chance discovery during a rescue mission, old wounds are ripped open. She's left questioning what she knows of the past, and resolves to pursue the truth, whatever the cost.The Last Good Man is a powerful, complex, and very human tale.

On the beautiful ocean world of New Ascention, a human colony struggles for its very existence, for their new home planet harbors a dark secret-a fatal pathogen that affects all life-forms. As human ranks are decimated by this native virus and civil unrest threatens to erupt into full-scale war,...  more

On the beautiful ocean world of New Ascention, a human colony struggles for its very existence, for their new home planet harbors a dark secret-a fatal pathogen that affects all life-forms. As human ranks are decimated by this native virus and civil unrest threatens to erupt into full-scale war, can the special abilities of a deep-space pilot provide the colony with what it needs to survive this complicated and potentially deadly situation?

The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity....  more

The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?

A Novella:  At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight.  Instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.  Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming,...  more

A Novella:  At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight.  Instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the solar system instead transform themselves.  Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations.  They can produce antifreeze in subzero temperatures, absorb radiation and convert it for food, and conveniently adjust to the pull of different gravitational forces.  With the fragility of the body no longer a limiting factor, human beings are at last able to journey to neighboring exoplanets long known to harbor life.  A team of these explorers, Ariadne O'Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system fifteen light-years from Sol, on a mission to ecologically survey four habitable worlds.  But as Ariadne shifts through both form and time, the culture back on Earth has also been transformed.  Faced with the possibility of returning to a planet that has forgotten those who have left, Ariadne begins to chronicle the story of the wonders and dangers of her mission, in the hope that someone back home might still be listening. .

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina Rather's debut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black.Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now,...  more

The sisters of the Order of Saint Rita captain their living ship into the reaches of space in Lina Rather's debut novella, Sisters of the Vast Black.Years ago, Old Earth sent forth sisters and brothers into the vast dark of the prodigal colonies armed only with crucifixes and iron faith. Now, the sisters of the Order of Saint Rita are on an interstellar mission of mercy aboard Our Lady of Impossible Constellations, a living, breathing ship which seems determined to develop a will of its own.When the order receives a distress call from a newly-formed colony, the sisters discover that the bodies and souls in their care?and that of the galactic diaspora?are in danger. And not from void beyond, but from the nascent Central Governance and the Church itself.

When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store "but not that one" slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line. Multi-dimensional...  more

When an elderly customer at a Swedish big box furniture store "but not that one" slips through a portal to another dimension, it’s up to two minimum-wage employees to track her across the multiverse and protect their company’s bottom line. Multi-dimensional swashbuckling would be hard enough, but those two unfortunate souls broke up a week ago. To find the missing granny, Ava and Jules will brave carnivorous furniture, swarms of identical furniture spokespeople, and the deep resentment simmering between them. Can friendship blossom from the ashes of their relationship? In infinite dimensions, all things are possible.

From the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer's 2017 Compton Crook Award-winning political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originalityMycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the...  more

From the winner of the 2017 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Ada Palmer's 2017 Compton Crook Award-winning political science fiction, Too Like the Lightning, ventures into a human future of extraordinary originalityMycroft Canner is a convict. For his crimes he is required, as is the custom of the 25th century, to wander the world being as useful as he can to all he meets. Carlyle Foster is a sensayer--a spiritual counselor in a world that has outlawed the public practice of religion, but which also knows that the inner lives of humans cannot be wished away.The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our 21st-century eyes as ours would be to a native of the 1500s. It is a hard-won utopia built on technologically-generated abundance, and also on complex and mandatory systems of labelling all public writing and speech. What seem to us normal gender distinctions are now distinctly taboo in most social situations. And most of the world's population is affiliated with globe-girdling clans of the like-minded, whose endless economic and cultural competition is carefully managed by central planners of inestimable subtlety. To us it seems like a mad combination of heaven and hell. To them, it seems like normal life. And in this world, Mycroft and Carlyle have stumbled on the wild card that may destabilize the system: the boy Bridger, who can effortlessly make his wishes come true. Who can, it would seem, bring inanimate objects to life...

The long-awaited second collection from Justin Isis takes us on a sharp turn away from the 'Huysmans in Tokyo' feel of his first and into a world of near- and far-future shocks. Torrents of alien language and remixed fragments of science fiction hauntology merge in the valley of the shadow of...  more

The long-awaited second collection from Justin Isis takes us on a sharp turn away from the 'Huysmans in Tokyo' feel of his first and into a world of near- and far-future shocks. Torrents of alien language and remixed fragments of science fiction hauntology merge in the valley of the shadow of the singularity, while atomized characters scramble for self and meaning only to find themselves overwritten or revised out of reality. Churches made of meat, spaceships powered by song, simulated authors and a soul-warping artwork that may or may not exist - in these ten stories you will be confronted with a garish neon blueprint of post-humanity. Welcome to tomorrow. Welcome to the Arms Race.

Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader (one of the few), and he likes cats. So how is it that, despite being up against the worst villains in the universe, he has become the proud owner of the last working seedship, pride of Earth's Ecological Engineering Corps? We'll leave that aside...  more

Haviland Tuf is an honest space-trader (one of the few), and he likes cats. So how is it that, despite being up against the worst villains in the universe, he has become the proud owner of the last working seedship, pride of Earth's Ecological Engineering Corps? We'll leave that aside for now - just be thankful that the most powerful weapon in space is in good hands, hands which now control cellular material for thousands of outlandish creatures. With his unique equipment and powerful spacecraft, Tuf is set to tackle the myriad problems that human settlers have created during their colonisation of far flung worlds. Hosts of hostile monsters, a population addicted to procreation, a dictator who is willing to unleash plagues to get his own way - and all that stands between the colonists and disaster is Tuf's ingenuity, and his reputation as an honest dealer in a universe of rogues... Contents: Prologue; The Plague Star; Loaves and Fishes; Guardians; Second Helpings; A Beast for Norn; Call Him Moses; Manna from Heaven;  

In the 21st century, fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the ide-caps to melt and the seas to rise. Global temperatures have climbed, and civilization has retreated to the Arctic and Antarctic circles. London is a city now inundated by a primeval swamp, to which an expedition travels to...  more

In the 21st century, fluctuations in solar radiation have caused the ide-caps to melt and the seas to rise. Global temperatures have climbed, and civilization has retreated to the Arctic and Antarctic circles. London is a city now inundated by a primeval swamp, to which an expedition travels to record the flora and fauna of this new Triassic Age. This early novel by the author of CRASH and EMPIRE OF THE SUN is at once a fast paced narrative, a stunning evocation of a flooded, tropical London of the near future and a speculative foray into the workings of the unconscious mind.

A WOMAN ON THE RUN. A CAPTAIN ADRIFT IN SPACE. ONE OF THEM IS INFECTED WITH AN ALIEN PARASITE.� In this dark science fiction thriller, a young woman must confront her past so the human race will have a future. Rosalyn Devar is on the run from her famous family, the bioengineering job she's...  more

A WOMAN ON THE RUN. A CAPTAIN ADRIFT IN SPACE. ONE OF THEM IS INFECTED WITH AN ALIEN PARASITE.� In this dark science fiction thriller, a young woman must confront her past so the human race will have a future. Rosalyn Devar is on the run from her famous family, the bioengineering job she's come to hate, and her messed-up life. She's run all the way to outer space, where she's taken a position as a "space janitor," cleaning up ill-fated research expeditions. But no matter how far she goes, Rosalyn can't escape herself. After too many mistakes on the job, she's given one last chance: take care of salvaging the Brigantine, a research vessel that has gone dark, with all crew aboard thought dead. But the Brigantine's crew are very much alive--if not entirely human. Now Rosalyn is trapped on board, alone with a crew infected by a mysterious parasitic alien. The captain, Edison Aries, seems to still maintain some control over himself and the crew, but he won't be able to keep fighting much longer. Rosalyn and Edison must find a way to stop the parasite's onslaught...or it may take over the entire human race.