Bringing fresh wonders and dangers to light in the skies of Pern, Anne McCaffrey and her son, Todd, who demonstrated his writing talents in the bestselling novels Dragon's Kin and Dragonsblood, return with their second collaboration: a thrilling adventure of discovery and fate. Pellar is an orphan taken ... 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 »

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 »

Our bodies and minds are malleable, and only the imagination is the limit to the possible improvements. Included here are more than twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field, including: Poul Anderson, James Blish, Eric Brown, Ted Chiang, Tony Daniel, Samuel R. Delany, Greg Egan, Joe ... more »

27 Book Collection Tom Swift and His Motor-cycle Tom Swift And His Motor-Boat Tom Swift and His Airship Tom Swift And His Submarine Boat Tom Swift And His Electric Runabout Tom Swift Among the Diamond Makers Tom Swift in the Caves of Ice Tom Swift And His Sky Racer Many, many more. more »

Annabelle Donohoe, the CEO of World Tech, is mad as hell. Her dreams of world domination died the day Zac Robillard discovered her evil plans and fled World Tech, taking his greatest creation, his beloved I-Bots, and all his research, with him. (Read about their origins in Isaac Asimov's History of I ... more »

Master storyteller Fred Saberhagen continues his bestselling Berserker series, detailing humanity's war with the dreaded Juggernaut-like machines programmed to destroy all life in the galaxy. In the Twin World planets Prairie and Timber, Plentpotiary Gregor is determined to serve his government. Even ... more »

Ren Jackal Segura is a Hope -- a special child, a powerful symbol of a new world government destined for greatness. But two months before she is to assume the role she has been preparing for her entire life, Jackal discovers that everything she believes, everything she is, is a lie. Convicted of a terrible ... more »

Something exciting has been happening in modern SF. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, hard SF--science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning editors ... more »

Nobody knows exactly what happened to the fabled civilization of ancient Atlantis. Was Atlantis, the incredibly advanced society of legend, destroyed by some super-science device that ran out of control? Did a massive earthquake or volcanic eruption sink the island nation? Or is Atlantis merely a cosmic ... more »

Catherine Asaro has just won the Nebula Award for Best Novel for The Quantum Rose, which comes from part of her Saga of the Skolian Empire, a sweeping, galaxy-spanning epic which features a unique blend of hard science fiction and heartrending romance. With her most recent novel, Spherical Harmonic, ... more »

Late in the next century, the River of Stars is the last of the interplanetary sailing ships, but she has been reduced from luxury liner to a tramp freighter with fusion engines tacked on, and the sails have not been used in years. This is the tragic story of her final run before the solar winds. If ... more »