In the Balance: An Alternate History ...
Harry TurtledoveFrom Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter.brAnd then, suddenly, the real enemy came.brThe i...
Victory Conditions (Vatta's War)
Elizabeth MoonElizabeth Moon's thrilling Vatta's War series, featuring the no-holds-barred space-faring heroine Kylara Vatta, has secured her reputation as a master of first-rate military science fiction. Now Commander Vatta is back–locked and lo...
Seven suburban misfits are constructing a spaceship out of old tanker cars. The plan is to beat the Chinese to Mars--in under four days at three million miles an hour. It would be history in the making if it didn't sound so insane.
The Shadow of Saganami (The Saganami ...
David WeberThis work of military SF is the second Honorverse novel, set in the same milieu as the popular Honor Harrington novels but in which the officer herself plays only a minor role. A group of midshipmen, recently graduated from the Royal ...
Meet the soldiers of Captain Willard Phule's Company--a handful of military rejects able to do more damage before 9 A.M. than most people do all day. Threatened by an alien enemy, Earth's military sends Phule and his soldiers to a dis...
In this long-awaited sequel to critically acclaimed YA SF novel JUMPER, teenaged teleporter Davy Rice has become an adult operative for the NSA, transporting himself and others around the globe in the blink of an eye. But a shadowy or...
Aftermath (A Sirantha Jax Novel)
Ann AguirreDuring the war against murderous, flesh-eating aliens, grimspace "jumper" Sirantha Jax decided to go it alone. The cost of her actions: the destruction of modern interstellar travel-and the lives of six hundred Conglomerate ...
Despite her family's military history, Esme Suisa believes herself satisfied without the prospect of commanding her own ship, until she finds herself the senior surviving officer in the middle of a vital space battle.
Down to Earth (Colonization, Book 2)
Harry TurtledoveColonization: Down to Earth marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove's epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a hostile alien invasion. With some of the same characters introduced in th...
Assigned to protect the delegates of the Allied League of Worlds, Sub-Lieutenant Burn mu Znora and his Bio Rescue team are confronted by danger in the person of the daughter of one of the ambassadors, who is hiding a deadly secret. Re...
Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand (Star War...
Aaron AllstonNot since Emperor Palpatine have the Jedi battled such monstrous evil. Unless they succeed against staggering odds, the galaxy is doomed.Luke Skywalker's daring mission to halt the Yuuzhan Vong's nefarious plot to overthrow the New Re...
Gridlinked (Tor Science Fiction)
Neal AsherOn the brink of burnout, Cormac disconnects his brain from the artificial intelligence network that enables rapid interstellar travel and and is forced to track and elude a vicious psychopath while uncovering fiercely guarded secrets ...
Robot Dreams (Remembering Tomorrow)
Isaac AsimovRobot Dreams spans the body of Asimov's fiction from the 1940s to the mid-80s, and features classic Asimovian themes, from the scientific puzzle to the extraterrestrial thriller, all introduced in an exclusive essay written especially...
Theirs Not To Reason Why: A Soldier's...
Jean JohnsonIa is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a soldier who will inspire ...
Defender (Foreigner Universe Books)
C. J. CherryhIn the sequel to Precursor, the isolated human colony has led a precarious existence on the hostile world of the alien atevi, until the return of the starship Phoenix threatens to shatter the precarious balance of power as the atevi e...
Pretender (Foreigner Universe)
C. J. CherryhThe epic tale of the human survivors of a lost spacecraft, marooned on a planet inhabited by a hostile alien race, follows the civilization's rise from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien spe...
When evidence of an ancient civilization is discovered on a remote planet, the Academy sends a crew to investigate. The trouble is that they don't have much time--the planet is in the last days of its collision course with a star.
The world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of th...
Mutineer's Moon (Dahak Series)
David WeberPrince Roger MacClintock was heading for a ceremonial appearance on a boring planet when his ship crashed, stranding him and his guardian Royal Marines on a jungle planet held by enemy forces. To survive, they must trek across most of...
A Forest of Stars (The Saga of Seven ...
Kevin J. AndersonFive years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization. On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attacks ...
Far-Seer: Book One of the Quintaglio ...
Robert J. SawyerIn a world where the age of dinosaurs never ended, the young saurian Afsan becomes apprentice to the court astrologer, when he discovers something about the Face of God that will test his faith and may save his world from disaster. Re...
Force Heretic II: Refugee (Star Wars:...
Sean WilliamsSwift and deadly, the Yuuzhan Vong have blasted their way across the galaxy—and now stand on the threshold of total victory. Yet a courageous few still dare to oppose them. . . . Rife with hostile cultures and outright enemies, the ...
Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, Boo...
David BrinA space ship with a crew of dolphins--that have been "uplifted' in their evolutionary development along with all dolphins and chimpanzees--and one human must must flee the enemy Patrons and return to Earth with their gathered kno...
The Agent Gambit (The Liaden Universe...
Sharon LeeTwo space adventure novels in the popular Liaden Universe® series in one popularly-priced Omni-trade edition: Agent of Change: Once a brilliant First-in-Scout, Val Con yos'Phelium was &...
The Serrano Succession (Serrano/Suiza...
Elizabeth MoonTwo Full-Length Novels of Space Adventure: Change of Command: Esmay and Barin are reconciled—but their universe is falling apart! The exposure of defective rejuvenation drugs has sent fear sweeping across the ...
“ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE SERIES OF ALTERNATIVE HISTORY NOVELS EVER WRITTEN.”–Science Fiction Age World War II has evolved into decades of epic struggles and rebellions targeting the aliens known as the Race. As the...
The Plutonium Blonde (Daw Book Collec...
John ZakourThis first installment in a planned trilogy takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude to the life of the hard-boiled private detective. Meet Zachary Nixon Johnson. He's a one of a kind--literally: the only private eye on Earth, Zach teams with...
A Thousand Words for Stranger (10th A...
Julie E. CzernedaThe tenth anniversary edition of Julie Czerneda's debut science fiction novel, the story of a woman on the run, from the law, her own people, and an unknown pursuer. Her memory taken from her by a stasis block, Sira must stay free lon...
The Unseen Queen (Star Wars: Dark Nes...
Troy DenningWith an unknown enemy attacking the Killiks' new nests and the insectoid race blaming the Jedi, the Skywalkers and Solos journey to the Unknown Regions to unravel the mystery, only to come face to face with an old evil that could trig...
Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission.In the upper reaches o...