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 »

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 »

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Unlike most planets, Rimillia does not spin upon its axis so its day and night sides are subject to perpetual extremes of hot and cold. Habitation has only been possible on a thin band of the planet's surface...until now. Using gigantic impulse engines of unimaginable power, the alien Dumada intend to ... more »

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They were fifth-generation sign-language chimps. Their intelligence seemed almost human at times, but they didn't quite understand what humans were all about. They thought of humans as immortal gods, until one day a scientist on the project contracted fatal cancer. Now the chimps must be told the truth ... more »