Nancy Kress's landmark genetic engineering story, one of the most critically acclaimed SF novellas of the 1990s. A rich financier compels scientists to create for him the perfect daughter--smart, beautiful, and with no need to sleep. Kress masterfully explores the social implications of Sleepless people ... more »

In the darkest hours of the Dominion War, Jem'Hadar and Cardassian forces conquer Betazed, the homeworld of Deanna Troi. The U.S.S. Enterprise carries out a dangerous plan. No matter what the outcome, the consequences could alter Betazed irrevocably, forcing Deanna Troi to choose between her world's ... more »

Marines, we have just become a low-tech deep recon patrol... Stranded in a hellish alien desert, stripped of their strategic systems, quick reaction force, and supporting arms, and carrying only a day's water ration, Marine Staff Sergeant Charlie Bass and his seven-man team faced a grim future seventy ... more »

Product Info Science is about to destroy one of the moons of Jupiter and the residents aren't very happy about it. No, they're not aliens--they're demons. more »

A stubborn man, believing a mountain to be the permanently imprisoned and petrified form of an ancient dragon, attempts to awaken it with all of his will and yearning and arcane knowledge of human magic and power. However, the results of his effort are completely unexpected. more »

In the third and final book of the Starbridge Chronicles, more than two generations have passed since the events of Sugar Rain , and barren tundra has given way to fecund, steamy jungle at the height of summer. Deep in the forest, a twin boy and girl grow up among a strange race of philosophers, oblivious ... more »

In Light Play, Dr. Caroline Denaro's experiments with plant and animal genes had lethal consequences. Some of the gene sequences she transferred contained a virus. First, her rats, and then Denaro herself, succumbed to her experimental error. In a desperate effort to save herself, Denaro contacted Rick ... more »

When it comes to sheer imagination and storytelling prowess, Anne McCaffrey is in a class by herself. Few writers have created characters more deeply loved or futures more intensely lived. For more than thirty years, she has reigned as one of the premier talents in science fiction and fantasy, flying ... more »

Acorna, the unicorn girl has made peace with her Linyaari past, and aboard the interplanetary salvage vessel Condor she is finally free. But dread overtakes her when a distress signal summons Acorna and her companions to a nearby planet. For among the myraid wonders of this world of sentient plants and ... more »

The sole survivor of an Indian attack motivated by revenge, U.S. Cavalry Lieutenant, Tom McGinty, slips away under the cover of darkness and into a campsite where a mysterious creature killed three people. Malcolm Seaver, a seasoned Marine sent to stop an intelligent weapon of mass destruction unintentionally ... more »

A schoolgirl is recruited by her eccentric aunt to test her latest invention--a high-tech protective body suit that hyper-enhances her ability to run, jump, punch ... and see into the infrared. When she takes it out for an excursion with a friend from her science fiction club, she discovers a secret ... more »

Critics have compared the engrossing space operas of Peter F. Hamilton to the classic sagas of such sf giants as Isaac Asimov and Frank Herbert. But Hamiltons bestselling fictionpowered by a fearless imagination and world-class storytelling skillshas also earned him comparison to Tolstoy and Dickens ... more »