Peter Parker's life has hit a peaceful stretch. No evildoers have tried to flatten him in weeks, his marriage to Mary Jane isstronger than ever, and he's enjoying his job as a high schoolscience teacher. Life is good.Naturally, that d...

A young man makes his way through the desolate and dangerous post-apocalyptic landscape of the former United States, gaining access to isolated and mistrusting communities by posing as a postman. He delivers messages from friends and ...

World-renowned paleontologist Richard Leyster's universe changedforever the day a stranger named Griffin walked into his office with a remarkable job offer . . . and an ice cooler containing the head of a freshly killed Stegosaurus. F...

The arrival of an alien from a species no one has ever encountered raises eyebrows at Meetpoint Station, a distant outpost where beings from many planets mingle, not always peacefully, in an omnibus edition featuring three classic sci...

When astronomers in the year 2110 spot a planet-sized chunk of rock hurtling toward Earth, scientists search desperately for a solution and the starship Goliath sets out on the most important mission in human history. Reprint. NYT.

A bizarre accident at a top-secret installation outside Three Rivers, Michigan, blasts the entire town into a similar-but-different world in which the townspeople must learn to survive political and social repression and face po...

Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn brings his epic two-volume series The Hand of Thrawn to an explosive conclusion with a discovery that rocks the New Republic to its foundations--and threatens to resurrect the Empire.The Empire's...

A collection of exciting new stories from one of the young guns of modern science fiction encompasses a wide range of topics from pop culture to utopian future visions, nerd pride, and trash, in such works as "Craphound," &q...

In an alternate world Festina Ramos is a member of the Explorer Corps, a group of citizens who are all smart and efficient, but who are expendable because they have a physical deformity. The Explorer Corps travel to other planets to c...

Born and raised aboard a lost starship, Hugh and his companions know nothing beyond the metal walls of their home, until Hugh is captured by the muties, grotesquely deformed human parodies who lurk in the upper reaches of the ship and...

Tannim is a human mage fond of fast cars and loud music, working with the elf lord Keighvin to rescue runaway kids in serious trouble. But those kids are being used by Keighvin' enemies to bait a trap. Meanwhile, Tannim thinks he's fo...

"The logical heir to Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke" (Stephen King) takes readers on a science fiction adventure tour through time. When physicist Michael Shelborne mysteriously vanishes, his son Shel discovers that he ha...

Author Tim Powers evokes 17th-century England with a combination of meticulously researched historic detail and imaginative flights in this sci-fi tale of time travel. Winner of the 1984 Philip K. Dick Award for best original science ...

The aliens who arrived on Earth centuries earlier to colonize the planet have returned. In India, where cultural memory of the aliens depicts them as the pantheon of gods and goddesses of the Hindu faith, their return coincides with a...

The Conglomerate's most dangerous convicts have made the prison ship Perdition their home. And they will defend it…  Perdition is under siege. Mercenaries have boarded the station with orders to take control of the facility-and ex...

When archaeologist Annja Creed is hired to find the lost city of Promise in Brazil, she is more than intrigued. Legends abound of a magical place where slaves were rumored to have discovered the secret to eternal youth and life. But ...

Ancient papyrus scrolls recovered among the charred ruins of the Library of Alexandria reveal astonishing texts that detail the wonders of Atlantis-knowledge that could shatter the blueprint of world energy. Archaeologist Annja Creed ...

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks and military action.The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked h...

When William of Normandy, whom history will call the Conqueror, rises to power, the fate of the land rests on actions inspired by the words found in an ancient scroll. It is known as The Prophecy, and it reveals secrets about the futu...

The "deeply scary"(BBC Focus) new novel from a national bestselling and critically acclaimed author. Four hostages are rescued from a group of religious extremists in Barcelona. After five years of being held captive togethe...

A satiric view of today's human society is presented in this portrait of a team of astronauts stranded on a planet where humans and apes have exchanged roles. Reprint. (Tie-in to the new Twentieth Century Fox film, directed by Tim Bur...

Trained since childhood in advanced biocyph seed technology by the all-powerful Crib empire, Edie's mission is to terraform alien worlds while her masters bleed the outlawed Fringe populations dry. When renegade mercenaries kidnap Ed...

Art, a member of the Eastern Standard Tribe--a secret society bound together according to their sleep schedule, communicating via encrypted instant messaging and secret protocols, and sharing a love of Manhattan-style bagels--finds hi...

Chosen as One of the Five Best SF Novels of the Year by Library Journal. When a young physicist unveils an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, veteran star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins finds ...

A young comic book artist struggling to cope with the confusions and turmoil of her early twenties, Marzi McCarty also finds herself taking on an uncertain and dangerous new career as the sacred protector of the West. A first novel. O...

A HOUSE OF HEALTHY REPUTE... Welcome to Lady Sally's, the House that is a home -- the internationally (hell, interplanetarily) notorious bordello. At Lady Sally's House, the customer doesn't necessarily come first: even the staff...

Boss loves to dive historical ships, derelict spacecraft found adrift in the blackness between the stars. Sometimes she salvages for money, but mostly she's an active historian. She wants to know about the past--to experience it first...

Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the US Walker—a Great War-era destroyer—finds itself retreating from pursuing Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, despera...

When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits, and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet—only to be aban...

Following an aborted tenure with NASA, Reid Malenfant, now an extremely wealthy businessman, has developed his own space program. Surrounding himself with the best and brightest scientists that money can hire, he discovers a rift in t...