"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 »

Amanda is a brilliant violinist, a mathematical genius and a rebel. Impatient for the adult status her society only grants at age 30, but determined to have a real adventure first, she had repeatedly gotten into trouble and found herself in the courtroom of Magistrate Mohammed Abdel-Malik, the sole resurrectee ... more »

The New York Times bestseller. Renowned thinkers discuss the ancient and modern concepts that inform The Matrix. Also available in paperback from Open Court, www.opencourtbooks.com. The choice is yours, and you will have to live with the consequences for the rest of your life -- as you know it. Will ... more »

Une étrange tristesse, mêlée au célèbre humour cher à Collins, plane sur ces huit récits où l'écrivain se fait un malin plaisir de soulever, avec toute l'inconvenance souhaitable, le voile pudique où se drape la société victorienne de son temps, si prompte à cacher ses turpitudes sous les apparences ... more »

The sudden death of Emperor Leonid plunges the empire of Magravandias into bloodshed and chaos. As a dark cabal of Firemages seek to crown their chosen successor, the children of the Dragon Lord of Caradore summon ancient magics to try to place a True King on the throne. more »