A thrilling new Steampunk fantasy from a talented debut author TWO GODS-ONE CHANCE FOR MANKIND In Victorian London, the Whitechapel section is a mechanized, steam-driven hell, cut off and ruled by two mysterious, mechanical gods-Mam...

When Decius, the highborn commander of the local vigils of Rome, investigates the garroting of a lowly ex-slaved and the disembowelment of a foreign merchant, he uncovers a world of corruption at the highest levels of his government.

Former captain Jani Kilian is a genetically altered human-idomeni hybrid who acts as a bridge of communication between two fiercely incompatible races. With intergalactic civil war looming large -- with renegades in the Service secret...

A stunning artifact holds the key to an untapped power of global destruction— While working on a dig in the California wilderness, archaeologist-adventurer Annja Creed uncovers evidence of a tragedy that's linked to Chinese min...

Dazzlingly original.' -- Daily Mail'Gripping, touching and funny.' -- TLSThe war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal...

An attempt to imprint the successful character traits of a high-achieving man into the minds of a thousand poor and minority children takes an evil turn. The model for the imprinting, Alexander Marcus, is a wealthy African-American, p...

In The Martian Chronicles, humanity discovers an ancient civilization on the verge of ruin. This classic work presents tales of human interaction with one another and with the Martians.

'Inspired.'-Booklist 'Refreshingly original.'-Publishers Weekly A monk becomes enthralled by the story prisoner Mordred has to tell, one of ambition, power, and betrayal. Here, Mordred emerges as a sympathetic...

What if women were an endangered species?It begins in Ireland, but soon spreads throughout the entire world: a virulent new disease expressly designed to target only women. As fully half of the human race dies off at a frightening p...

SOLARIS was Lem's first novel to be published in the United States. It is the story of Kris Kelvin, a scientist who journeys to the planet Solaris to study its ocean. And yet he finds himself contemplating his own life, facing repress...

A string of smashing victories by the forces of the sinister aliens known as the Yuuzhan Vong has left New Republic resources and morale stretched to the breaking point. Leia Organa Solo, estranged from her husband, Han, oversees the ...

Walter M. Miller's acclaimed SF classic A Canticle for Leibowitz opens with the accidental excavation of a holy artifact: a creased, brittle memo scrawled by the hand of the blessed Saint Leibowitz, that reads: 'Pound pastrami, can kr...

Shara Drummond went to space to create a new art form: zero gravity dance. And when the aliens arrived, her stardance was only one way to prove that the human race deserved not just to survive, but to reach the stars.

An experiment in particle physics goes awry and for a few moments, everyones consciousness is catapulted more than twenty years into the future. When the world reawakens, all human life is transformed by foreknowledge.

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 2381 with a world population of over...

Harry Turtledove's second multivolume saga of 20th-century 'alternative history,' How Few Remain, takes place in a world in which the Confederate States win the Civil War and in 1914, allied with England and France, go to war against...

The Star Kingdom of Manticore and the Republic of Haven have been enemies for Honor Harrington's entire life, and she has paid a price for the victories she's achieved in that conflict. And now the unstoppable juggernaut of the mighty...

Lying helpless during a raging storm in the North Sea, a fleet of medieval ships finds sudden rescue in the arrival of a powerful group of aliens, who offer salvation in exchange for eternal bondage fighting as star soldiers.

Jordan McKell thinks he's pretty unlucky, but most of us would gladly trade places with him. He's a freelance star-freighter captain who plies the hyperspace folds between worlds, trading exotic goods and meeting bizarre aliens. His l...

After risking her life to uncover a Chinese imperial seal, only to have it stolen by a cunning tomb robber, archaeologist Annja Creed feels she has endured one treasure-hunting fiasco too many. But when a mysterious collector offers a...

Experience two Doctor Who adventures, starring the 11th Doctor and his companion, as seen on BBC America!

From the New York Times bestselling author Drew Karpyshyn comes the thrilling first official novel based on the BioWare video game Mass Effect.

In the snowy reaches of ancient Nehwon, in a land ruled by witches and demons, the young prince Fafhrd battles his clan for his honor and freedom. Beset by the spells of his evil mother and enchanted by the dancing of a beautiful actr...

Robert McCammon is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen novels, including Swan Song, Stinger, The Wolf's Hour, Gone South, Mystery Walk, Usher's Passing, and Speaks the Nightbird, the two-volume masterwork that marks his ...

Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math - and blind. Still, she can surf the net with the best of them, following its complex paths clearly in her mind. When a Japanese researcher develops a new signal-processing imp...

'Dean's smooth bass voice lends itself beautifully to these three science-fiction tales, setting a tone that deepens the sense of wonder created by author Robert Silverberg.''AudioFile

He's also still at large, which drives Miranda Lyonette crazy. While she's been kicked out of the Spirit Court, Eli's had plenty of time to plan his next adventure. But now the tables have turned, because Miranda has a new job — and...

When archaeologist Annja Creed reluctantly agrees to help an old colleague on a dig in Antarctica, she wonders what he's gotten her into. It turns out that her former associate has found a necklace made of an unknown metal depicting t...

In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood—a horrifying shape-changing parasite—has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defen...

BEN BOVA's short fiction, as collected in Tales of the Grand Tour, further explores the subject matter of novels like Mars, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Titan, The Precipice and The Rock Rats. It focuses on the wars and rivalries, the outs...