THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION is a novel of a strange far future when this world of Einsteinian laws, having intersected with a universe following a different set of rules, has changed -- changed strangely, wonderfully, incredibly. This is the story of Lobey, an alien Orpheus, and his adventure...  more

THE EINSTEIN INTERSECTION is a novel of a strange far future when this world of Einsteinian laws, having intersected with a universe following a different set of rules, has changed -- changed strangely, wonderfully, incredibly. This is the story of Lobey, an alien Orpheus, and his adventure across a weird sumptuous world, marvelously haunted. Along his questing trail, he meets Spider, the driver of dragons; Kid Death, the red-headed killer from the sea; the Dove, fabulous love image of a world obsessed; Green-eye, victim of a ritual invented by a race dead for millennia; and Friza -- the dark, silent girl Lobey searched for over deserts, through jungles of carnivorous flowers, from a quiet village to a furious city, to the shores of death, and beyond.

The Planet beckoned them from space, and closed round them like a venus Fly Trap!  Captain Mike Ross finds himself leading an interplanetary expedition to an anonymous planet that welcomes them with a homing beam and then seals shut around them.  Their ship is sealed against them and...  more

The Planet beckoned them from space, and closed round them like a venus Fly Trap!  Captain Mike Ross finds himself leading an interplanetary expedition to an anonymous planet that welcomes them with a homing beam and then seals shut around them.  Their ship is sealed against them and they are hurled into a wholly inhospitable desert.  Assailed by strange perils and even stranger temptations, the little group stumbled towards its destiny -- Mike Ross, the pilot, Sara Foster, the big game hunter, blind George Smith, and the odious Friar Tuck.  Before them was a legend made flesh, around them were creatures of myth and mystery, close behind them stalked Nemesis.  The doll, the little wooden painted doll, was to be their salvation.  Or their damnation, for each might choose, and find, his own Nirvana.

VATICAN-17   On the Rim planet fittingly called The End of Everything, a bizarre society of robots and humans toiled for a thousand years to perfect a religion that would create a new and all-embracing faith---no novelty in a galaxy crowded with religions.  But one project was hidden...  more

VATICAN-17   On the Rim planet fittingly called The End of Everything, a bizarre society of robots and humans toiled for a thousand years to perfect a religion that would create a new and all-embracing faith---no novelty in a galaxy crowded with religions.  But one project was hidden from the hordes of pilgrims welcomed at Vatican-17.  Trained human sensitives were sending their minds ranging through all of time and space, gathering all the information that could exist.  With that information, a computer of infinite knowledge, wisdom and infallibility was being constructed in secret, the ultimate Pope. But now, the project is being threatened by a young woman journalist on the trail of a sensational story...and, even more incredibly, by one of the searcher sensitives who, while drifting in unsuspected dimensions, claims to have encountered Heaven!

Welcome to Isle, a land of fantasy that existed long before there were such things.  Surrounded by vast oceans and dotted with thick forests, Isle was a land in which all beings lived together.  There were gods and ghosts dwelling with the Old Ones, the wise ancient...  more

Welcome to Isle, a land of fantasy that existed long before there were such things.  Surrounded by vast oceans and dotted with thick forests, Isle was a land in which all beings lived together.  There were gods and ghosts dwelling with the Old Ones, the wise ancient ancestors.  In this faraway land, where dragons guard the treasures that hold the secrets of life and death, the immortal Bevan fulfills his destiny as High King.  Aided by Princess Ellid, he must battle the blood-thirsty Mantled Lord Pei, combat treachery, and overcome the mysterious powers of the legendary sword called The White Hart.

In this "extremely moving tale", Puig keenly depicts and examines the relationship between Molina, a homosexual window dresser, and Valentin, a fierce revolutionary, two men imprisoned in the same cell in a country in Latin America.

In the second volume of the epic Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Thomas finds himself once again summoned to the Land. The Council of Lords needs him to move against Foul the Despiser who holds the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power. Thomas holds the legendary ring, but...  more

In the second volume of the epic Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Thomas finds himself once again summoned to the Land. The Council of Lords needs him to move against Foul the Despiser who holds the Illearth Stone, ancient source of evil power. Thomas holds the legendary ring, but he doesn't know how to use its strength, and risks losing everything....

In a suspenseful novel of terrorist threat, Libyan leader Qaddafi holds New York City hostage with the threat of setting off a hidden nuclear bomb.

The background of a Myth that has captured a generation

In 1942 a group of elite German officers dissatisfied with the Third Reich approaches the head of British intelligence and proposes a quick end to hostilities and a peace agreement with the Allies if the British will secretly assassinate Hitler.

Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons," a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating...  more

Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons," a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built to withstand the most devastating attack and to be self-sufficient for five hundred years. Selected according to a psychological profile that assures their willingness to destroy all life on Earth, those who are sent down may never return. Originally published in 1959, and with over 400,000 copies sold, this powerful dystopian novel remains a horrific vision of where the nuclear arms race may lead and is an affirmation of human life and love. Level 7 merits comparison to Huxley's A Brave New World and Orwell's 1984 and should be considered a must-read by all science fiction fans.

In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman�and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime...  more

In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman�and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge and reward, the compelling characters include Magwitch, the fearful and fearsome convict; Estella, whose beauty is excelled only by her haughtiness; and the embittered Miss Havisham, an eccentric jilted bride.

A book to read and reread. Wang Lung, rising from humble Chinese farmer to wealthy landowner, gloried in the soil he worked. He held it above his family, even above his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and drought, pestilence and...  more

A book to read and reread. Wang Lung, rising from humble Chinese farmer to wealthy landowner, gloried in the soil he worked. He held it above his family, even above his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and drought, pestilence and revolution... Through this one Chinese peasant and his children, Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life, its terrors, its passions, its persistent ambitions and its rewards. Her brilliant novel...beloved by millions of readers throughout the world...is a universal tale of the destiny of men.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ____________________ "Thousands of trips to the stars take place in science fiction, but none more breathtakingly than this epic 70 year voyage of the space ship Lewis and Clark, seeking new worlds for overpopulated Earth to colonize. Twins, Tom and Pat Bartlett, share...  more

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ____________________ "Thousands of trips to the stars take place in science fiction, but none more breathtakingly than this epic 70 year voyage of the space ship Lewis and Clark, seeking new worlds for overpopulated Earth to colonize. Twins, Tom and Pat Bartlett, share the grand adventure in an astonishing way. Scientists have learned that thoughts travel infinitely faster than light, and the twins are telepathic. So Pat remains on Earth while Tom sends back mental messages from Tau Ceti and "Deneb Kaitos, where disaster awaits the pioneer space ship. "Rarely has Heinlein pushed his imagination further . . . a vivid, stirring experience . . . . " ---Chicago Tribune "Mature and complex, far above the level of most adult science fiction both in characterization and in scientific thought. TIME FOR THE STARS is one of the best. . . . " -New York Herald-Tribune

"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out...  more

"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end....