A novel of the red planet from the Hugo and Nebula AwardâEUR"winning author of The Accidental Time Machine and Old Twentieth.Young Carmen Dula and her family are about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime -- they're going to Mars.Once on the Red Planet, however, Carmen realizes things are not ... more »

Book Description Years ago, as you measure time, I was an inhabitant of Mars, your sister planet. My name is Eros Urides (the latter signifying of Urid). But a physical name is only an incidental in one's life. more »

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The dawn of the Destroyermen--an imaginative alternate history saga. View our feature on Taylor Anderson's Into the Storm. Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the USS Walker--a Great-War vintage four-stacker destroyer--finds itself in full retreat from pursuit by Japanese ... more »

William Dietz tells the tale of one man whose job becomes nothing less than a mission to change the status quo... In a crumbling futuristic society, Jak Rebo is a Runner-an interstellar courier-whose present job is to deliver a future religious leader to his people, while avoiding assassins. If that ... more »

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Space exploration isn't about wandering around looking at empty space; it's about investigating the things you find in that vacuum. What happens when what you find has been expecting you all along? If you're Diego Lee, you don't believe it -- not at first. He has a hard enough time believing that he ... more »

How many smells are there? And how many molecules would it take to create every smell in nature, from roses to stinky feet? Who was the bigger scent freak: the perfume-obsessed Richard Wagner or Emily Dickinson, with her creepy passion for flowers? By scenting the air in stores, are retailers turning ... more »

The forced alliance between the interplanetary Empire of Rome and the United States-led Earth forces is shattered as Caesar Romulus declares war, striking at the U.S. Deep Space base, and then following with a direct attack against Earth. Merrimack has no choice but to retaliate with an assault on the ... more »

A full-length novel set in the Revelation Space universe that's sublime entertainment and gripping in the extreme.( Locus)Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting ... more »

The revolution that won Coyote's independence from Earth is 20 years past. Coyote's aging computers, aircraft, and medical equipment are badly in need of replacement. And the colony's survival is in question. Now the colony's hard-won independence depends on the descendants of Coyote's original settlers ... more »