First appearing in the 1963 issue of Analog Science Fact & Fiction, this story may have inspired the "holodeck" concept.Imagine a mechanism that would end all wars and bloodshed. A machine that can create a virtual world whe...

In twenty-two stories of amazing range and variety, Ray Bradbury once again works his special magic, sounding out life's mysteries in the past, present, and the future.

In The Colors of Space, young Bart Steele, Space Academy graduate, is waiting in a spaceport for a ship to take him home when something happens that suddenly thrusts him into the center of a quest for the secret of interstellar travel...

THE EMPIRE STATE IS THE OTHER NEW YORK It's a parallel-universe, Prohibition-era world of mooks and shamuses that is the twisted magic mirror to our bustling Big Apple. It's a city where sinister characters lurk around every corner wh...

Stealth. Gorgon. Regenerator. Cerberus. Zzzap. The Mighty Dragon. They were heroes. Vigilantes. Crusaders for justice, using their superhuman abilities to make Los Angeles a better place. Then the plague of living death spread aroun...

This story, narrated by David Tennant, features the Doctor and Rose, as played by David Tennant and Billie Piper in the acclaimed hit series from the BBC. When a naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North Sea, all ab...

On a windswept Northern shore, at the very tip of what will one day become Scotland, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. The Doctor is only looking for a game on the famous Lewis chess set. Instead, h...

On her epic maiden voyage, the NAC spacecraft Odyssey introduced Earth to the wonders of an untouched universe — and the unimagined horrors lurking in the black. Now the Odyssey's second voyage will carry Captain Eric Weston and his...

It was January 2021, and Rick Deckard had a license to kill.Somewhere among the hordes of humans out there, lurked several rogue androids. Deckard's assignmet--find them and then..."retire" them. Trouble was, the androids all looked e...

In Radio Free Albemuth, his last novel, Philip K. Dick morphed and recombined themes that had informed his fiction from A Scanner Darkly to VALIS and produced a wild, impassioned work that reads like a visionary alternate history of t...

This unabridged reading of a classic Doctor Who novelization is narrated by the Fourth Doctor, Tom Baker, and is based on a serial from the original TV series. "Look, Brigadier! It's growing!," screamed Sarah. The Brigadier ...

An unabridged reading of a classic novelization based on the popular 1977 TV serial. The Doctor brings Leela to Victorian London to meet her ancestors (though Agincourt might have been more her style). The TARDIS materializes in the d...

RIn this brand new novelisation of the original 1978 TV story by David Fisher, the 4th Doctor, Romana and K9 become enmeshed in a Prisoner of Zenda–style adventure where the evil Count Reynart plots to become ruler of Tara.BR

A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he's recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D — and the b...

Two Torchwood audio exclusive episodes in one 4-CD set! Includes Department X and Ghost Train, both written by James Goss, and performed by a cast member of the popular BBC America series.

Gwen and Rhys are on the run. Rhys was hoping this meant a windswept cottage on a cliff top, but he's had to settle for a miserable caravan in the isolated village of Rawbone. With the locals taking an unhealthy interest in their daug...

A brand-new adventure story featuring the second Doctor, as played on TV by Patrick Troughton. When the TARDIS materializes in a submarine–like tunnel in the far future, it brings the Doctor, Jamie and Zoe into a terrifying adventur...

The ancient menace has finally escaped from Lalonde, shattering the Confederation's peaceful existence. Those who succumbed to it have acquired godlike powers but now follow a far-from-divine gospel as they advance inexorably from wor...

A school camping trip to Snowdonia spells trouble for Sarah Jane and her friends, as they find themselves stranded in a harsh environment. What shadowy figure is watching them? How can Rani be in two places at once? And what secret do...

Stories included in this volume are: "The Repairman," "The Velvet Glove," "The Arm of the Law," "Navy Day," "The K Factor," "The Misplaced Battleship," and "Toy Shop.&qu...

From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atredies. The choices she made shaped an...

Jorj X. McKie, Saboteur Extraordinary, is a born troublemaker who has naturally become one of the Bureau of Sabotage's best agents. His assignment is to locate and stop Mliss Abnethe, a psychotic but wealthy human female who has bound...

The latest novel in the "enthralling" (Midwest Book Review) Annals of Drakis fantasy epic. The fates of Drakis, former slave warrior of the elven empire of Rhonas, and Soen, former Inquisitor of the Iblisi, are inexorably t...

Martin Jarvis narrates this novelization based on a serial from the original TV series. The Doctor and Sarah arrive back in the TARDIS to find London completely deserted - except for the dinosaurs. Has the return of these prehistoric ...

Rebellion is the turning point in the great interstellar war between all living creatures and the machines. Star Force is on the side of the machines - but for how long? In the third book of the Star Force series, Kyle Riggs learns ju...

Peter Davison reads this exciting novelisation of a classic Doctor Who adventure in which the Fifth Doctor encounters the Cybermen. A group of palaeontologists have been savagely attacked while carrying out a study of fossilised dinos...

Freema Agyeman reads this thrilling story about a waterlogged planet, struggling colonists and dangerous creatures.BRBRWhen the TARDIS makes a disastrous landing in the swamps of the planet Sunday, the Doctor has no choice but to aban...

Winner of the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel One of the most accomplished, powerful, and enduring classics of modern speculative fiction, this is a chilling, provocative look at a postapocalyptic future. A true landmar...

Elizabeth Moon is back with the fourth adventure in her bestselling fantasy epic. Moon brilliantly weaves a colorful tapestry of action, betrayal, love, and magic set in a richly imagined world that stands alongside those of such fant...

Fallen star journalist Matt Pittman holds a gun in his hand, ready to commit suicide…until he's abruptly interrupted by a phone call and a bizarre assignment: to write the obituary of a man who is not yet dead. Suddenly, clinging de...