A dazzling short story featuring Darth Maul, merciless apprentice of evil.... On the distant planet Dorvalla, precious ore is mined by two competing companies: InterGalactic Ore and Lommite Limited. Neither rival suspects that they are central to a sinister plot masterminded by Darth Sidious, Lord of ... more »

Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and arcane races live in perpetual fear of Parliament and its brutal militia. The air and rivers are thick with factory pollutants and the strange effluents of alchemy, and the ghettos ... more »

Mathematician, computer scientist, and two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, Rudy Rucker is also the author of the popular science classic, The Fourth Dimension. He combines all his strengths in Spaceland, a wild novel about contact with the beings who inhabit the fourth dimension. A rousing hard ... more »

As the leader of the friendly alien visitors offers the five basic truths of human existence to the people of Earth via radio, he takes a few calls and tries to keep his fellow aliens from meddling with the local cosmetics and weapons industries. more »

Isaac Asimov's Foundation novels are one of the great masterworks of science fiction. As unsurpassed blend of nonstop action, daring ideas, and extensive world-building, they chronicle the struggle of a courageous group of men and women dedicated to preserving humanity's light in a galaxy plunged into ... more »

The riveting intrigue of two alien invaders' misadventures on Earth continues as Soltan Gris, fleeing a hoard of enraged women, weaves a jagged trail of destruction from Turkey to New York. There, armed with 250 million in gold, he is determined to stop Jettero Heller's plan to save Earth from its own ... more »

From Lord Invay, Royal Historian, Chairman, Board of Censors, Royal Palace, Voltar Confederacy: Let me state it boldly and baldly: there is no such planet as Earth. If it ever existed at all, it certainly does not exist today or even within living memory. So, away with this delusion. On the authority ... more »

The twentieth century was awash in war. World powers were pouring men and machines onto the killing fields of Europe. Then, in one dramatic stroke, a divided planet was changed forever. An alien race attacked Earth, and for every nation, every human being, new battle lines were drawn. . HOMEWARD BOUND ... more »

Product Info What do you do when you are literally witnessing the last moments of an art you have devoted your life to? more »

Science Fiction by Julie E. Czerneda Book I of The Trade Pact Universe Personal note: This was my first novel, both in terms of the first piece of fiction I ever finished and the first I sold. It started as just one of many stories I was playing with as a hobby, never thinking to see copies in the hands ... more »

The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind's very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only peril lying in wait. As the fortress world of Reach and its ... more »

MIND-LINKED -- They had been brought together by mutual need when both their peoples were faced with the threat of the warlike Valtegans, an enemy bent on conquering any other race it encountered. She was Carrie, the daughter of the human governor of the Terran colony planet Keiss. He was Kusac, the ... more »