The Forge of God described the destruction of Earth itself by self-replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet's mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout th
Moving Mars is a story of human courage and love set within the greater saga of a planetary liberation movement. Mars is a colonial world, governed by corporate interests on Earth. The ci
A new compilation of short fiction from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author includes a never-before-published Heechee story; "Fermi and Frost," his award-winning novella; and other memorable tale
This volume is the definitive collection of the best science fiction novellas. It contains eleven great classics. There is no better anthology that captures the birth of science fiction as a literary
A dark and powerful fantasy from the best selling author of Ender's Shadow. Years after she is forced to marry the usurper who killed her tyrannical father, the exiled dark queen Asineth endeavors to
Welcome to Newford. . . .Welcome to the music clubs, the waterfront, the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city stree
The mystery of Ryhope Wood, Britain's last fragment of primeval forest, consumed George Huxley's entire long life. Now, after his death, his sons have taken up his work. But what they discover is num
Searching for a half-animal, half-human race that is believed to haunt the city's most troubled urban areas, photojournalist Lily inadvertently teams up with downtown resident Hank and finds herself e
In the near future, a signal is detected coming from the Alpha Centauri system. Mysterious, unintelligible data streams in for ten years. Heather Davis, a professor in the University of Toronto psych
Lanik Mueller's birthright as heir to planet Treason's most powerful rulership will never be realized. He is a "rad" - radical regenerative. A freak among people who can regenerate injured flesh ...
A third collection of stories set in Newford, a gritty urban town swirling with a hidden magic perceptible to only a few, offers tales that walk the enchanting line between the real and the unreal, be
E. C. "Scar" Gordon was on the French Riviera recovering from a tour of combat in Southeast Asia , but he hadn't given up his habit of scanning the Personals in the newspaper. One ad in particular le
In a decadent world of cheap pleasures and easy death, Marid Audrian has kept his independence the hardway. Still, like everything else in the Budayeen, he’s available…for a price.&
In a sequel to When Gravity Fails, Marid, having risen from an impoverished Arabian ghetto hustler to a powerful cop under the thumb of a local mob boss, struggles with a lack of independence while in
Travel to other planets is a reality, and with overpopulation stretching the resources of Earth, the necessity to find habitable worlds is growing ever more urgent. With no time to wait years for com
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in 1949 Chicago. The next he’s a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, he soon learns, is a ba
Biron Farrell was young and naïve, but he was growing up fast. A radiation bomb planted in his dorm room changed him from an innocent student at the University of Earth to a marked man, fleeing desper
From the master of contemporary urban fantasy, a new collection of Newford” storiesThe city of Newford could be any city in North America, bursting with music, commerce, art, love, hate,
Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2
In the sixth decade of the 21st century, the world has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves on the cellular
