RipperDavid L. GolemonIn 1887, the British Empire contracted brilliant American professor Lawrence Ambrose to create a mutant gene—and turn an ordinary man into an aggressive fighting machine. But all too quickly, Ambrose was found ...
Young Carmen Dula and her family are embarking on the adventure of a lifetime—they're going to Mars. But Carmen's rebellious streak leads her to venture out into the bleak Mars landscape alone, where she is saved by an angel. An ang...
Balance Point (Star Wars: The New Jed...
Kathy TyersAs Han Solo and Leia Organa Solo struggle to help the refugees flooding in to the planet Duro from the Rim worlds invaded by the horrific Yuuzhan Vong aliens, Jacen Solo must face a crisis of conscience over how to use the Force as a ...
Archaeologist Annja Creed narrowly escapes an attack by unknown fi gures when she tries to collect a package near her loft. She later learns that the sender—an old colleague named Fellini—has been brutally murdered. Fell...
March 14, 2003, was the day the world changed forever. A wave of energy slammed into North America and devastated the continent. The U.S. military, poised to invade Baghdad, was left without a commander in chief. Global order spiraled...
Thing is a young girl who hides beneath a mask. Her companions include a crow, a toad, a goldfish, and a kitten, each in some way handicapped. Never has there been a more unlikely band of unheroic heroes. Yet each needs the other to d...
Star Risk Ltd. #1 (Star Risk, 1)
Chris BunchAssigned to a remote outpost, M'chel Riss finds her career with the Alliance Marines going nowhere, until she comes to the attention of Star Risk, Ltd., a mercenary outfit that will take on any mission, no matter how dangerous, if the...
Battlestations! (Star Trek, No 31)
Diane CareyBattlestations! Back on Earth enjoying a well-deserved shore leave, Captain Kirk is rudely accosted by a trio of Starfleet security guards. It seems he is wanted for questioning in connection with the theft of transwarp -- the Federa...
When the Republic of Cinnabar doesn't have enough battleships to deal with all the crises in its war with the Alliance, it sends the next best thing: Commander Daniel Leary and his friend, the spy Adele Mundy. This time they're off to...
Ancillary Mercy (Imperial Radch)
Ann LeckieThe stunning conclusion to the trilogy that began with the Hugo, Nebula, and Arthur C. Clarke award-winning Ancillary Justice. For a moment, things seemed to be under control for Breq, the soldier who used to be a warship. Then a sear...
Chief Terry Myell died and became a god. Now he's back to life, careening around space and time at the behest of a voice that told him to save all of mankind. Helping and hindering this quest are his elderly wife, his young wife, gran...
Being a child of wealth hasn't made life easy for Daryn Alwyn but he hasn't wanted it easy and he's always been determined to choose his own path, abandoning the possibility of power and leisure with his family's giant Media Network f...
Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise take on Section 31, a top-secret, amoral, covert operations division of Starfleet, a group accountable to no one for their actions, when Kirk discovers that a cloaking device captured from ...
Nurse Mercy Lynch is elbows deep in bloody laundry at a war hospital in Richmond, Virginia, when Clara Barton comes bearing bad news: Mercy's husband has died in a POW camp. On top of that, a telegram from the west coast declares that...
The Ripper Affair (Bannon and Clare)
Lilith SaintcrowThe enthralling conclusion to the Bannon and Clare trilogy from New York Times bestselling author, Lilith Saintcrow. Sorcery. Treason. Madness. And, of course, murder most foul... A shattering accident places Archibald Clare, mentath ...
The colonial world of Coyote has become the last, best hope of humankind. But Hawk Thompson has learned something about the aliens who also call Coyote home-and his knowledge will change human history.
Wolverine: The Nature of the Beast (W...
Dave SternHe was the best at what he did: a born fighter, a mutant whose uncanny speed and strength, augmented by the best technology money could buy, made him close to unstoppable. He had an indestructible skeleton, cast from the hardest metal...
Bob Howard, geekish demonology hacker extraordinaire for "The Laundry," must stop ruthless billionaire Ellis Billington from unleashing an eldritch horror, codenamed "Jennifer Morgue," from the ocean's depths for t...
Bearers of the swordOn assignment in the Philippines, archaeologist Annja Creed meets with a contact to verify some information. Easy enough. But when the man doesn't turn out to be whom he said he was, Annja finds herself handcuffed,...
Ancestral Night (1) (White Space)
Elizabeth Bear"Outstanding…Amid a space opera resurgence, Bear's novel sets the bar high." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in thi...
The DisContinuity Guide: The Unoffici...
Paul CornellIndispensable, hysterical and brilliant. THE DISCONTINUITY GUIDE is everything the typical television reference manual or episode guide isn't. As well as being a thorough record of every single plot hole, production goof and dialogue ...
The Einstein Intersection won the Nebula Award for best science fiction novel of 1967. The surface story tells of the problems a member of an alien race, Lo Lobey, has assimilating the mythology of earth, where his kind have settled a...
In a distant future where humans have journeyed throughout space and formed a ruling body called the Empire, Dr. Gretchen Andersen is called upon to discover the whereabouts of a missing survey team that had been searching for artifac...
The Children of Irfan, a monastic-like order of the Silent, race against time to find a mysterious young boy who possesses the power to seize control of the bodies of others against their will, before ruthless governments and corporat...
By the author of Rosemary's Baby, a horrifying journey into a future only Ira Levin could imagine. Considered one of the great dystopian novels—alongside Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World—...
Romulus Buckle & the City of the Foun...
Richard PrestonIn a post-apocalyptic world of endless snow, Captain Romulus Buckle and the stalwart crew of the Pneumatic Zeppelin must embark on a perilous mission to rescue their kidnapped leader, Balthazar Crankshaft, from the impenetrable City o...
The two-time Hugo Award-winner expands the universe of his Coyote saga. The danui, a reclusive arachnid species considered the galaxy's finest engineers, have avoided contact with the Coyote Federation. Until, that is, the danui init...
Freya Nakamichi-47 is a femmebot, one of the last of her kind still functioning. With no humans left to pay for the pleasures she provides, she agrees to transport a mysterious package from Mercury to Mars—only to become hunted by s...
The Best Time Travel Stories of the 2...
Harry TurtledoveLEAP INTO THE FUTURE, AND SHOOT BACK TO THE PASTH. G. Wells's seminal short story "The Time Machine," published in 1895, provided the springboard for modern science fiction's time travel explosion. Responding to their own fa...
John Varley's first book-repackaged and hotter than ever. In 2050, the Invaders came to Earth, destroyed every evidence of technology, then peacefully departed. Humanity struggled to survive, but help was coming-via the Ophiuchi Hotl...