AMERICAN EMPIRE: BOOK ONE Twice in the last century, brutal war erupted between the United States and the Confederacy. Then, after a generation of relative peace, The Great War exploded worldwide. As the conflict engulfed Europe, the C.S.A. backed the Allies, while the U.S. found its own ally in Imperial ... more »

Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psychohistory. Now with the permission -- and blessing ... more »

In the time it takes to read this sentence, Echelon will intercept more than 70,000 phone calls, e-mails, and faxes. Operated by the National Security Agency, Echelon is the most pervasive global eavesdropping network in history. Today, Echelon will capture three billion electronic communications. Imagine ... more »

Ramsey Campbell, one of England's most highly regarded British horror authors, called Fritz Leiber the greatest living writer of supernatural horror fiction. Drawing themes from Shakespeare, Edgar Allen Poe, and H.P Lovecraft, master manipulator Fritz Leiber is a worldwide legend within the fantasy genre ... more »

A mythmaker of the highest order, China Mieville has emblazoned the fantasy novel with fresh language, startling images, and stunning originality. Set in the same sprawling world of Mievilles Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel, Perdido Street Station, this latest epic introduces a whole new cast of ... more »

One of today's bestselling, award-winning, and most critically acclaimed writers of science fiction and fantasy, C. J. Cherryh has been entertaining readers for more than thirty years with beautifully imagined, complex novels of intrigue and adventure. With Hammerfall she began an entirely new universe ... more »

From the award-winning author of Altered Carbon and Broken Angels -a turbocharged new thriller set in a world where killers are stars, media is mass entertainment, and freedom is a dangerous proposition . . . A coup in Cambodia. Guns to Guatemala. For the men and women of Shorn Associates, opportunity ... more »

The New York Times bestselling prequel to the classic award-winning saga by Frank Herbert. Frank Herbert's award-winning Dune chronicles captured the imagination of millions of readers worldwide. By his death in 1986, Herbert had completed six novels in the series, but much of his vision remained unwritten ... more »

In her now-classic tale The Silver Metal Lover , award-winning author Tanith Lee told the spellbinding story of Jane and her forbidden love for a robot named Silver. In this stunning follow-up, the legend of their tragic romance lives on. But nothing is as it was-or as it seems.... As an orphan growing ... more »

Petaybee was growing up. Day by day, the sentient planet--like any child--was learning to recognize and understand the meaning of outside stimuli, to respond to those stimuli, to communicate its own needs and desires...even to use human speech. But few outsiders truly cared for the feelings and intelligence ... more »

Hugo nominated The Bones of the Earth is a tale of the relationship between apprentice and teacher, and of ultimate sacrifice. Set in Le Guin's beloved Earthsea universe. In the story, a profound relationship develops between apprentice Silence and his wizard teacher, Dulse. In Silence's thoughts, Dulse ... more »

E-book extras: On Despising Genres, Answers to a Questionnaire, A Few Words to a Young Writer three essays by Ursula K. Le Guin. Ursual K. Le Guin has long been a master of literary speculative fiction that is both thoughtful and thought-provoking. The much-honored author of 17 novels, 80 short stories ... more »