Award-winning writer Mike Resnick takes us back to his wild and wooly Inner Frontier in this tall-tale of an adventure novel.On the planet Henry II, orbiting the twin suns of Plantagenet and Tudor, at the very edge of the great black ...

Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones, which she called shatterlings. She sent them out into the galaxy to observe and document the rise and...

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.

He 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,...

"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...

Indispensable, 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—...

An unmissable milestone for fans of Sir Terry Pratchett: the first SF novel in over three decades in which the visionary inventor of Discworld has created a new universe of tantalizing possibilities—a series of parallel "Earths...

In 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...

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...

Peter Watts's first novel explores the last mysterious place on earth--the floor of a deep sea rift. Channer Vent is a zone of freezing darkness that belongs to shellfish the size of boulders and crimson worms three meters long. IIt's...

Kenneth Chinran commanded the elite unit assigned to take out an entire planet in a terrible war.  Millions died; billions more perished in the aftermath.  One doesn't send a sociopath on such a mission.  A sociopath might not stop...

U.S.A.F. fighter pilot Cameron "Scarlet" Tucker awakens from biostasis in the year 2176, where she finds herself in the very capable hands of Prince Kyber, while trying to locate her best friend Banzai Maguire and stop a wor...

When she finds a strange stone among the remains of the Underground Railroad, archaeologist Annja Creed, holding the key to Africa's ancient past and a terrible force, garners the attention of two powerful men who will stop at nothing...

From Grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein comes a long-lost first novel, written in 1939 and never before published, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name.July 12, 193...

Bryna is a slave in the fortress of her Roman captor.Tynan lies naked in the dungeon, chained to a cold, stone slab.Even farther below lie the fearies, also captives of an evil sorcerer allied with the conquering Roman.Only the prophe...

Tanith Lee, winner of the August Derleth Award and several World Fantasy Awards, is best known as a fantasy and horror writer, but she has written several fine SF novels, two of which, Don't Bite the Sun and Drinking Sapphire Wine, fo...

When a powerful new weapon threatens the spherical planet of Ringworld, a protector, an exile with the ability to speak with animals, and a native with a mysterious past assist explorer Louis Wu on his quest to save Ringworld from int...

This collection of 29 short stories from masters of science fiction—each tale chosen by the authors as the funniest they have ever written—presents wildly hilarious stories accompanied by prefaces written by the authors pr...

From a distance, Isis seems to be a planet with many Earthlike qualities, but when traveling to it becomes possible, the planet turns out to be extremely toxic to humans. As Earth's own resources dwindle, a researcher is genetically e...

Plagued by overpopulation, disease, and starvation, humanity was headed for extinction—until an alien race called the haan arrived. And then the real trouble began. It's been a rough day for Sam Shao. As part of a program that requ...

The wild, galaxy-hopping adventures of brash young scientists Jerry Courtenay and Chuck van Chider are at the core of this classic space opera. When the two college students develop a faster-than-light space drive in their homemade wo...

Number sixteen in the esteemed Redwall animal fantasy series, young readers will find Loamhedge just as wild and woolly as its predecessors. In this chapter of the seemingly endless history of the woodland abbey, adventure is sparked ...