In 2070, a group of political dissidents and their families escape the repressive world of twenty-first-century Earth to seek new lives as interstellar colonists, placing themselves in cold sleep for a more than two-hundred-year odyss...
In the Balance: An Alternate History ...
Harry TurtledoveFrom Pearl Harbor to panzers rolling through Paris to the Siege of Leningrad and the Battle of Midway, war seethed across the planet as the flames of destruction rose higher and hotter.brAnd then, suddenly, the real enemy came.brThe i...
Victory Conditions (Vatta's War)
Elizabeth MoonElizabeth Moon's thrilling Vatta's War series, featuring the no-holds-barred space-faring heroine Kylara Vatta, has secured her reputation as a master of first-rate military science fiction. Now Commander Vatta is back–locked and lo...
The Scourge of God of the Change (The...
S. M. StirlingA stunning continuation,' says Ravens of Avalon author Diana L. Paxson of the New York Times bestselling author S. M. Stirling's fifth title in the Emberverse series, a stunning chronicle of an alternate world without technology.
Seven suburban misfits are constructing a spaceship out of old tanker cars. The plan is to beat the Chinese to Mars--in under four days at three million miles an hour. It would be history in the making if it didn't sound so insane.
The Shadow of Saganami (The Saganami ...
David WeberThis work of military SF is the second Honorverse novel, set in the same milieu as the popular Honor Harrington novels but in which the officer herself plays only a minor role. A group of midshipmen, recently graduated from the Royal ...
Meet the soldiers of Captain Willard Phule's Company--a handful of military rejects able to do more damage before 9 A.M. than most people do all day. Threatened by an alien enemy, Earth's military sends Phule and his soldiers to a dis...
This is the second book in the saga of the Vorkosigans and introduces Miles Vorkosigan. At age seventeen, Miles is allowed to take the entrance exams to the elite military academy; he passes the written but manages to break both his l...
It has been over thirty years since the publication of this classic science fiction novel that changed the way we look at the stars and ourselves. From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man advent...
In this long-awaited sequel to critically acclaimed YA SF novel JUMPER, teenaged teleporter Davy Rice has become an adult operative for the NSA, transporting himself and others around the globe in the blink of an eye. But a shadowy or...
The future isn't what it used to be since Richard K. Morgan arrived on the scene. He unleashed Takeshi Kovacs'private eye, soldier of fortune, and all-purpose antihero'into the body-swapping, hard-boiled, urban jungle of tomorrow in A...
Jedi Trial (Star Wars: Clone Wars Nov...
David Sherman“Within twenty-four standard hours we will sit firmly astride the communications link that connects the worlds of the Republic. . . . Our control will be a dagger thrust directly at Coruscant. This is the move that will win the ...
Doctor Who: The Forever Trap: An Excl...
Dan AbnettCatherine Tate reads this thrilling story, in which the Doctor and Donna are imprisoned on the Edifice, a luxury apartment complex in space. Their new environs leave much to be desired: millions of beings from across the Universe have...
Aftermath (A Sirantha Jax Novel)
Ann AguirreDuring the war against murderous, flesh-eating aliens, grimspace "jumper" Sirantha Jax decided to go it alone. The cost of her actions: the destruction of modern interstellar travel-and the lives of six hundred Conglomerate ...
Despite her family's military history, Esme Suisa believes herself satisfied without the prospect of commanding her own ship, until she finds herself the senior surviving officer in the middle of a vital space battle.
Down to Earth (Colonization, Book 2)
Harry TurtledoveColonization: Down to Earth marks part two of part two of Harry Turtledove's epic alternate history in which WWII gets interrupted--and violently abridged--by a hostile alien invasion. With some of the same characters introduced in th...
Assigned to protect the delegates of the Allied League of Worlds, Sub-Lieutenant Burn mu Znora and his Bio Rescue team are confronted by danger in the person of the daughter of one of the ambassadors, who is hiding a deadly secret. Re...
Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand (Star War...
Aaron AllstonNot since Emperor Palpatine have the Jedi battled such monstrous evil. Unless they succeed against staggering odds, the galaxy is doomed.Luke Skywalker's daring mission to halt the Yuuzhan Vong's nefarious plot to overthrow the New Re...
Gridlinked (Tor Science Fiction)
Neal AsherOn the brink of burnout, Cormac disconnects his brain from the artificial intelligence network that enables rapid interstellar travel and and is forced to track and elude a vicious psychopath while uncovering fiercely guarded secrets ...
Robot Dreams (Remembering Tomorrow)
Isaac AsimovRobot Dreams spans the body of Asimov's fiction from the 1940s to the mid-80s, and features classic Asimovian themes, from the scientific puzzle to the extraterrestrial thriller, all introduced in an exclusive essay written especially...
Approaching death, Lazarus Long is convinced to dictate the story of his life. He finds that while he has lived and loved more than most, there are still things that he'd like to experience.
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 communication between slower-than-ligh...
Theirs Not To Reason Why: A Soldier's...
Jean JohnsonIa is a precog, tormented by visions of the future where her home galaxy has been devastated. To prevent this vision from coming true, Ia enlists in the Terran United Planets military with a plan to become a soldier who will inspire ...
Heartfire (Tales of Alvin Maker)
Orson Scott Card[Audio CD Library Edition in vinyl case][Read by A Full Cast, various readers] Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire burning in each person's heart. She can follow the paths of each person's future, and know each person's most intima...
Sword of the Lady (Emberverse)
S. M. StirlingNew York Times bestselling author S. M. Stirling continues what Library Journal has termed his 'epic of survival and rebirth,' chronicling a modern world without technology.
Defender (Foreigner Universe Books)
C. J. CherryhIn the sequel to Precursor, the isolated human colony has led a precarious existence on the hostile world of the alien atevi, until the return of the starship Phoenix threatens to shatter the precarious balance of power as the atevi e...
Pretender (Foreigner Universe)
C. J. CherryhThe epic tale of the human survivors of a lost spacecraft, marooned on a planet inhabited by a hostile alien race, follows the civilization's rise from the age of steam through early space flight to confrontations with other alien spe...
In 'Valor's Choice,' humans, after being granted membership in the Confederation, must protect the peaceful members of the alliance, and in 'The Better Part of Valor,' Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr, separated from her platoon, is sent off...
When evidence of an ancient civilization is discovered on a remote planet, the Academy sends a crew to investigate. The trouble is that they don't have much time--the planet is in the last days of its collision course with a star.
The world has changed. The mercantile kingdom of Charis has prevailed over the alliance designed to exterminate it. Armed with better sailing vessels, better guns and better devices of all sorts, Charis faced the combined navies of th...