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 »

With a new introduction by New York Times-bestselling author Orson Scott Card He invented science fiction. And in this final and crowning achievement of a career spanning 50 years, Isaac Asimov shares short stories ranging from the humorous to the profound, ruminations on the science fiction genre itself ... more »

When Sir Arthur C. Clarke, the greatest science fiction writer ever, teams up with award-winning author Stephen Baxter, who shares Clarke's bold vision of a future where technology and humanism advance hand in hand, the result is bound to be a book of stellar ambition and accomplishment. Such was the ... more »

It is difficult growing up in the shadow of heroes revered throughout the galaxy. But that is the lot of young Khorii&#8212daughter of the legendary Acorna and her lifemate, Aari must now follow her own destiny through a fantastic universe of wonders and perils. Khorii became a hero in her own right ... 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 »

Peter David's unforgettable novels of Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the Starship Excalibur remain one of Star Trek's most popular book series among fans. Now, David continues the thrilling new direction for the New Frontier universe begun in After the Fall with a novel that will shock and ... more »

Throughout humanity's Fourteen Worlds, no group is as feared and respected as the Dorsai. The ultimate warriors, they are known for their deadly rages, ferocious independence ... and unbending honor. No one man rules the Dorsai, but their mastery of the arts of war has made them the most valuable mercenaries ... more »