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 »

From their beginnings foraging at the feet of the dinosaurs, through the apocalypse of an asteroid strike, through countless years of the day to day life and death dramas of survival of the fittest the primate, to the rise and fall of mankind and the final destruction of earth by the expanding sun the ... more »

New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster delivers the eagerly awaited new Pip and Flinx novel featuring a certain twenty-four-year-old with red hair, growing powers, and a loyal sidekick who just happens to be a flying mini-dragon. Sure to delight longtime fans and win new ones, Flinx's Folly ... more »

Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the grandest epics of imaginative literature. Selling millions of copies, it is science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings--a brilliantly imaginative epic of high adventure, unforgettable characters, and immense scope. Decades after the original novels, the ... more »

Earth and its society have been irrevocably changed in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics. The unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, and most of all, seeking to control the skills and loyalty ... more »

Kylara Vatta, risk-taking, rule-breaking, can-do heroine of Trading in Danger, is back in business-the kind that's anything but usual-in the new military science fiction adventure by ace action storyteller Elizabeth Moon. The exciting military career she hoped for never got off the ground-but Ky Vatta ... 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 »

Acclaimed author Fred Saberhagen continues his widely-popular and influential Berserker Series, a chronicle of war between humanity and the terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction. Pilot Harry Silver's name is known throughout the galaxy...and that notoriety does not always ... more »

An extraordinary artist with few rivals in his chosen arena, Dan Simmons possesses a restless talent that continually presses boundaries while tantalizing the mind and touching the soul. Now he offers us a superb quintet of novellas -- five dazzling masterworks of speculative fiction, including Orphans ... more »