Jules is a young man, barely a century old. He's lived long enough to see the cure for death and the end of scarcity, to learn ten languages and compose three symphonies ... and to realize his boyhood dream of taking up residence in Disney World. Disney World! The greatest artistic achievement of the ... more »

Reviewers and other writers compare Phyllis Gotlieb's science fiction to the works of many of the greatest masters of the field, Philip K. Dick, James Tiptree, Jr., Cordwainer Smith, Ursula K. Le Guin. An SF literary award has been named for her first novel, Sunburst. Her most important work in recent ... more »

Long before Captain Jean-Luc Picard took command of the legendary Starship Enterprise,â,,¢ he fell deeply and hopelessly in love with Doctor Beverly Crusher. Though, for one reason or another, Picard never acted on his feelings, he found a measure of contentment as Beverly's close friend, colleague, ... more »

Widely regarded as the one essential book for every science fiction fan, The Year's Best Science Fiction continues to uphold its standard of excellence with more than two dozen stories from the previous year. This year's volume includes all the bright talents of SF, as well as the usual thorough summations ... more »

Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda? is the continuing story of Captain Dylan Hunt of the starship Andromeda Ascendant, in his quest to restore the Systems Commonwealth that fell three hundred years ago. When the series opens, Hunt and the Andromeda have been rescued by the independent cargo ship Eureka Maru ... more »

Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead--but his protege, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. Randolph's rival Martin Humphries still wants to control Astro and drive independent asteroid miners like Lars Fuchs out of business. ... more »

Peter F. Hamilton's superbly imagined, cunningly plotted interstellar adventures are conceived on a staggeringly epic scale and filled with fully realized human and alien characters as complex as they are engaging. No mere world builder, Hamilton creates entire universes-and he does so with irresistible ... more »

Karl Schroeder was launched as a major SF writer with Ventus: in the company of recent work by Poul Anderson, Greg Bear, Gregory Benford, Greg Egan, Paul J. McAuley, and especially, Vernor Vinge, said Locus. Now Schroeder returns with another epic adventure of the far future, Permanence. Young Rue Cassels ... more »

Twenty thousand years into the future, an experiment in quantum physics has had a catastrophic result, creating an enormous, rapidly expanding vacuum that devours everything it comes in contact with. Tchicaya, aboard a starship trawling the border of the vacuum, has allied himself with the Yielders ... more »

An ambitious and compelling novel, The Watch tells the story of Peter Alexeivich Kropotkin, a former prince who renounced his riches to become an anarchist, and his deathbed pact with the mysterious visitor who gives Peter a new life in the future -- a seeming miracle with a darker edge that soon comes ... more »

Harry Turtledove-the master of alternate history-has recast the tumultuous twentieth century and created an epic that is powerful, bold, and as convincing as it is provocative. In Drive to the East he continues his saga of warfare that has divided a nation and now threatens the entire world. In 1914 ... more »

The body is baggage. The soul is expendable. Nemo's mother and father left him behind to enter the Bin--joining twelve billion uploaded personalities who live in crime-free, disease-free and deathless virtual societies. Nemo hass come of age on a dangerous, near-deserted planet populated by a handful ... more »