When the Imperial prison barge Purge–temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy's most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves–breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a St...

Thirteen years after the fatal disaster that claimed the lives of all those aboard the Daedalus, Earth's first warp 5 vessel, Enterprise Chief Engineer Charles "Trip" Tucker, III, is confronted by a mysterious explosion that...

Rudi Mackenzie has won the battle that expelled the enemy from the new High Kingdom of Montival. Now he must free the people who live in the state once known as Idaho from occupation by the legions of the Church Universal and Trium...

TRADE PAPERBACK ORIGINAL.Out of sight, out of mind. In the near future, a fluke of quantum mechanics renders Nat Morgan utterly forgettable. No one can remember he exists for more than a minute after he's gone. It's a useful ability...

The Hugo Award-winning author of Neptune's Brood returns to reveal the secrets of The Laundry Files in an adventure of Lovecraftian horror and espionage hi-jinks...As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry—the clandesti...

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This entry in the long-running Pern series was written by series creator Anne McCaffrey and her son Todd. It follows the adventures of two young dragonriders as they explore new ways to communicate with their dragons--and an even more...

Cook, primarily known for his medical thrillers, breaks from his usual pattern in this underwater adventure. When workers on an submerged mining station run into a number of problems while drilling in a remote part of the Atlantic Oce...

Obsessed with the past, archaeologist Annja Creed, while exploring the caves of France, discovers a brotherhood of monks hiding a dark secret, a black-market occultist with his own agenda, and a historical artificact that links her to...

This book provides the introduction to author Prachett's Discworld, a flat planet that sits atop the backs of four immense elephants who, in turn, ride the shell of an enormous space turtle. In this installment, a tourist is shown aro...

When a strange electrical storm over the island of Nantucket suddenly causes all electronic devices to cease functioning, the world is faced with an unimaginable transformation, one that is complicated by some individuals' ruthless qu...

A recruit of the future goes through the toughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry against humankind's most frightening enemy. Reissue.

A scientific experiment begins, and as the button is pressed, the unexpected occurs: everyone in the world goes to sleep for a few moments while everyone's consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. At the end...

Science fiction fans, don't be fooled by the cover suggesting a regency romance. Readers of Sharon Shinn's Archangel series will recall how she can craft an interesting, well-paced story that blends romance and science fiction. I...

As the Reapers enslave human souls in an attempt to create a New Order, thriving on blood, terror, and fear, Lieutenant David Valentine, a member of an elite guerrilla force known as the Wolves, is determined to destroy the Reapers an...

Only a few know the terrifying truth--an outcast Earth scientist, a rebellious alien inhabitant of a dying planet, a lunar-born human intuitionist who senses the imminent annihilation of the Sun.  They know the truth--but who will l...

In several dovetailing stories, an assassin, a starship crew, an archaeologist, and some revolutionaries all begin to approach the solution to a 900-thousand year old mystery--who or what the original inhabitants of Amarantin? Perhaps...

Mortimer Tate was a recently divorced insurance salesman when he holed up in a cave on top of a mountain in Tennessee and rode out the end of the world. Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse begins nine years later, when he emerges into a biz...

Jane is a 16-year-old misfit living in an asteroid-altered Earth of the future. Like most girls her age, true love and real happiness seem forever beyond her. Until she meets Silver. He's a robot, yes, but he looks human. To Jane, he'...

A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most…unusual…way. To avoid war, Earth’s government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ('The Android's Dream'), ...

Eric Banyon, musician, is out playing the blues on his flute one day, but he couldn't have known that the desperate sadness of his music would free a young elven noble from the magical prison he has been languishing in for centuries--...

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.

Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation is a tour de force of panoramic menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual ri...

Stefan Korsak and his genetically-altered brother have evaded the Institute for three years. When they learn the new location of the secret lab, they plan to break in and save the remaining children there. But one of the little ones d...

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...