A clandestine society, financed by a billionaire, has created a new infectious virus capable of inserting genes which determine the way individuals feel about sex. The FBI and CDC have been targeted first, in hopes that infected personnel will hamper any investigation. The virus spreads rapidly, but ... more »

Years ago, Rose Rico learned firsthand that Earth's government was secretly exporting hundreds of human beings into bondage, in exchange for advanced alien technology from the Alphas. Forced to wear the collar of a pleasure slave, Rose and her fellow abductees were condemned to a lifetime of satisfying ... more »

At 41, David Selig's telepathy is beginning to fade. The unmotivated and out-of-work Columbia grad laments the unpardonable sin of wasting his gift on probing minds for his own private amusement, and for reading the intellects of college students so he can imitate their writing styles in the term papers ... more »

Catherine Asaro has just won the Nebula Award for Best Novel for The Quantum Rose, which comes from part of her Saga of the Skolian Empire, a sweeping, galaxy-spanning epic which features a unique blend of hard science fiction and heartrending romance. With her most recent novel, Spherical Harmonic, ... more »

Cadets that enter Starfleet Academy have two mantras drilled into them from their very first day. They must do their duty for the Federation and Starfleet, and they must strive to honor their oath as Starfleet officers. Among those who have best embodied these guiding principles and who have strived ... more »

Late in the next century, the River of Stars is the last of the interplanetary sailing ships, but she has been reduced from luxury liner to a tramp freighter with fusion engines tacked on, and the sails have not been used in years. This is the tragic story of her final run before the solar winds. If ... more »

It is 1974. An international consortium of world scientists sets the Chrysalis Project into motion. Its goal is the creation of a super-race. Gary Seven, an undercover operative for an advanced alien species, fears the consequences. A brilliant youth named Khan Noonien Singh is a child of Chrysalis. ... more »

Iran has lost interest in nuclear reactor technology, and the US government suspects they may have discovered cold fusion. Science-writer Christopher Dutton spent enough time there during the reign of the Shah to learn Farsi and make friends, and is the ideal candidate to go to Teheran and discover the ... more »

Harvard anthropology student Jeremiah Coltman has been doing field work for his thesis project on the planet Coba for three years. Coltman's immersion into the colony world's female-dominated culture has progressed far beyond his expectations, guided principally by his exceptional skill at Quis, a dice ... more »

Valis is the first book in Philip K. Dick's incomparable final trio of novels (the others being are The Divine Invasion and The Transmigration of Timothy Archer ). This disorienting and bleakly funny work is about a schizophrenic hero named Horselover Fat; the hidden mysteries of Gnostic Christianity ... more »

Just over a year ago, Captain James T. Kirk was lost to the Nexus while saving the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-B from destruction. Aboard the science ship Intrepid II, Captain Spock, commanding some of his old crewmates, must face the loss of his closest friend. But while still in mourning for one friend ... more »

CONTINUING THE ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING ALL OF STAR TREK HISTORY! Two of the Malkus Artifacts -- used as deadly weapons millennia ago -- have been uncovered since their discovery in the 22nd century. Now in the 24th century, two more artifacts lie in wait, ready to wreak havoc on an unsuspecting galaxy ... more »