The Omega Expedition is a philosophical novel, a sequel to The Fountains of Youth. It is the extraordinary life-history of Adam Zimmerman, developer of the technology of emortality. The main part of the narrative describes his long-delayed awakening into the 35th century. His exotic hosts--inhabitants ... more »

Sarah Zettel has already proven herself a masterful new voice in science fiction, winning the Locus Award for Best First SF Novel with Reclamation (1996), and chosen as runner-up for the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Paperback Original SF Novel with Fool's War (1997). These gave but an inkling of the ... more »

Ever since his classic debut, The Tar-Aiym Krang , the first of the wildly successful Pip and Flinx adventures, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world. Now this writer of bold imagination and stunning originality has created an electrifying space epic ... more »

"Uproarious, breath-taking, exhilarating...This is a novel of full spectrum literary dominance...It is a work of--and about--the highest order." -- Guardian "An increasingly complex and dazzling narrative...Light depicts its author as a wit, an awesomely fluent and versatile prose stylist ... more »

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Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers-and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation's capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of people caught in the collision of science, technology ... more »

The warlike Sainnites have occupied the peaceful country of Shaftal for fifteen years. The Earth witch who ruled Shaftal is dead, leaving no heir. The ruling House of Lilterwess has been scattered and destroyed. The Shaftali mobilize a guerrilla army, but every year the cost of resistance gets higher ... more »

For ten thousand years, Nova Babylonia has been the greatest city of the Second Sphere, an interstellar civilization of human and other beings who throughout history have been secretly removed from Earth. Now humans from the far reaches of the Sphere have come, to offer immortality--and to urge them ... more »

All know the tale of the Prophecy of the Destroyer, a riddle that foretold how Axis would defeat his half-brother and lay claim to the land that Tencendor will be created upon. But prophecies can sometimes be mecurious things. Unanticipated was the presence of not one but two forces that will pull at ... more »

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From New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster comes a fantastic new Pip and Flinx adventure starring a certain twenty-four-year-old redhead with emerald eyes and uncanny abilities and his devoted mini-dragon protector. Time and again, the daring pair have braved countless dangers to emerge ... more »

Ted Chiang's first published story, Tower of Babylon, won the Nebula Award for 1990. His second, Understand, won the Asimov's SF Magazine reader poll for 1991. He won the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer in 1992. His fourth, Story of Your Life, won the Nebula Award for 1998 and the Theodore ... more »