To protect the cargo ships essential to the continuing existence of the fledgling Coalition of Planets, the captains of the United Earth's Starfleet are ordered to interstellar picket duty, with little more to do than ask 'Who goes th...

The Democracy is at war with the alien Traanskei Coalition. War hero Colonel Nathan Pretorius has a record of success on dangerous behind-enemy-lines missions, missions that usually leave him in the hospital. Now he's recruited for a ...

The first short story collection by "ONE OF SCIENCE FICTION'S BEST AND MOST AMBITIOUS NOVELISTS"(SFX).With eight short stories and novellas, Galactic North imparts the centuriesspanning events that have produced this dark an...

In the second decade of the twenty-first century the world is struck by two catastrophes, a new mini-ice age and, nearly simultaneously, a plague to dwarf all previous experiences. Rising out of the disaster is the character known to ...

An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. A six-legged, two-armed alien emerges and says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist." In the distant past, Earth, the alien's home planet...

Intended to create life from nothingness, the Genesis Device had the potential to become a weapon of awe-inspiring destructiveness, capable of rearranging matter and life energy on a planetary scale. After the cataclysmic explosion o...

The Prescott family carved a mining fortune out of uninhabitable waste.  In the process, they became some of the richest people in the known galaxy – and human targets.  Now the next generation of Prescotts fights for its life aga...

Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope be...

This epic fantasy of political and military intrigue is the first entry in the Codex Alera. The series is set in Alera, a country partially modeled on ancient Rome, except that most people are furycrafters, able to use magic to call u...

The Traveler Seraph must use all her cunning and ability as a Raven mage to track down an unimaginable force of destruction known as the Shadowed.

The sole survivor of a crew sent to explore a new planet, Jesuit priest Emilio Sandoz discovers an alien civilization that raises questions about the very essence of humanity, an encounter that leads Sandoz to a public inquisition and...

Mistakenly sent to the 14th century, a scientist from the future is unprepared to cope with the devastating effects of the bubonic plague that was in the process of sweeping through Europe at the time. Winner of the 1992 Nebula and 19...

As the carrier of a rare gene, Sirantha Jax has the ability to jump ships through grimspace-a talent which makes her a highly prized navigator for the Corp. Then a crash landing kills everyone on board, leaving Jax in a jail cell with...

In this first installment of a new series, the Earth is attacked and enslaved by the powerful Catteni aliens. One brave young women escapes to live free in the jungle until her inevitable capture. She is then transported to another pl...

The Rowan was one of the strongest Talents ever born, but she was also lonely and without family, friends --or love. Then a telepathic message came from a distant world facing an alien threat, a message sent by an unknown Talent named...

Having risen to one of Earth’s most powerful strategists during the war between Ender and alien attackers, Bean finds his efforts to start a family compromised by his numerous enemies, a situation that forces Bean and Petra to l...

This highly anticipated sequel to SHADOW OF THE HEGEMON from master science fiction writer Orson Scott Card picks up after Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. Any peace and unity in the world that resulted from that war has ended...

In a new adventure in the Freedom series, the colonists of Freedom's Landing return to the planet where they were abandoned, carrying the technology to battle the deadly Eosi and unleash a surprise attack on the enslaved planet Earth....

Broke and unemployed, "Jumper" Sirantha Jax accepts a diplomatic mission for the government— only to find herself up against Syndicate criminals, man-eating aliens, and her own grimspaceweakened body.

Talented surgeon Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil leaves Earth to accept a position as a physician at KevarzangaTwo's FreeClinic, where her skills are desperately needed to care for the more than two hundred different sentient species that make ...

A group of slaves are stranded on the planet Botany by their Catteni masters. With the help of the Catteni exile, Zainal, they build a thriving colony. But with each growing community comes dissent--some want to return to Earth and he...

Written in tandem with the screenplay for the Stanley Kubrick-directed film, both introduce HAL, a computer that takes off on a mission of its own, propelling the spaceship it controls past the original destination to an exploration o...

When the twenty-fourth-century arrival of human colonists in a faraway system unleashes a race of aliens formerly imprisoned within a giant force field, the aliens, having fought for centuries over scarce resources, turn to human spac...

Mym was a dutiful son, but rather than agree to his father's choice for his marriage, he took up the Red Sword, symbol of office of the Incarnation of War, in order to ameliorate some of the suffering caused by Earth's constant petty ...

Shinn's breathtaking Samaria Trilogy comes to an end amid a chorus of praise. Legend has it that the Alleluia Files contain the truth about the god of Samaria. Now, a child raised in captivity among the angels will journey the length ...

In a world where males are rare and treated like property, Jerin Whistler, after a daring rescue, falls in love with a princess, and he must, amidst political tensions, prove his worth to her sisters in order to win her hand in marria...

A six-mile long sliver of 1990s West Virginia--along with all its inhabitants--mysteriously winds up in the central Europe of the 1600s and the Virginians must learn to cope with their new, technologically and (somewhat) ideologically...

The extraordinary new novel in the bestselling Rowan saga. The children of Damia and Afra Lyon are blessed with the paranormal powers that have distinguished their family and protected peaceful races for generations. But now the peace...

Abandoned as a child, Ukiah Oregon was found running with a wolf pack. Now considered one of the greatest trackers in the country, this private investigator puts his nose to the ground to track down missing fugitives. When he crosses ...

It is 240 years since humans have settled on Samaria, fleeing a war-torn planet and vowing to eschew all high technology. Before abandoning their technical skills entirely, however, some of the settlers were bioengineered to have wing...