Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Tor Books; 1 edition (September 17, 2013) ISBN-10: 0765335441 Official Description: The colony world of Stittara is no ordinary planet. For the interstellar Unity of the Ceylesian Arm, Stittara is the primary source of anagathics: drugs that have more than doubled the human life span. But the ecological balance that makes […]
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover (September 3, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451417313 Official Description: 2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 2036: Robotic technology has evolved into the realm of self-aware, sentient mechanical entities. But even as humanity contends with […]
Hardcover: 384 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover (September 3, 2013) ISBN-10: 0451417313 Official Description: Rudi Mackenzie has won the battle that expelled the enemy from the new High Kingdom of Montival. Now he must free the people who live in the state once known as Idaho from occupation by the legions of the Church Universal and […]
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ace (August 27, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425258114 Official Description: WELCOME TO HELL The prison ship Perdition, a floating city where the Conglomerate’s most dangerous criminals are confined for life, orbits endlessly around a barren asteroid. Life inside is even more bleak. Hailed as the Dread Queen, inmate Dresdemona “Dred” Devos […]
Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover (August 6, 2013) ISBN-10: 0441020933 Official Description: Mankind’s first contact with extraterrestrial life led to an incredible revelation. Their last may lead them to extinction. Twenty years have passed since the mysterious Near-Earth Object nicknamed Keanu appeared in the night sky and transported an assortment of humans from all […]
Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Ace (July 30, 2013) ISBN-10: 0425261069 Official Description: In one world, they’re ordinary university students. In another world, they are a company of heroes in a place of magic and myth called Anfractus… The Cree called the area Oscana, “pile of bones,” a fertile hunting ground where game abounded. […]
Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Roc Hardcover; 1 edition (July 2, 2013) ISBN-10: 045146513X Official Description: In Taylor Anderson’s acclaimed Destroyermen series, a parallel universe adds an extraordinary layer to the drama of World War II, as Lieutenant Commander Matthew Reddy and the crew of USS Walker, cast into that alternate earth, continue to fight the […]
Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover (December 4, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0425256251 Official Description: The roots of the Legion of the Damned lie deep within the mythology of the future. But now, national bestselling author William C. Dietz goes back to the Legion’s early days with the story of one recruit’s rebirth and redemption… […]
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Roc (February 5, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 0451413407 Official Description: Plagued by overpopulation, disease, and starvation, humanity was headed for extinction—until an alien race called the haan arrived. And then the real trouble began. It’s been a rough day for Sam Shao. As part of a program that requires […]
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Ace (October 30, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0425258181 Official Description: Earth, A.D. 2519. Less than a year has passed since the clone military of the Enlisted Man’s Empire toppled the government of the Unified Authority. Now the clones rule Earth, but a new enemy has emerged—and set off civil […]
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Roc (November 6, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0451464885 Official Description: As China prepares to become the ultimate power in an era of extraordinary invention and horror, Alice Michaels’ fate lies inside the walls of the forbidden kingdom…. Gavin Ennock has everything a man could desire—except time. As the clockwork […]
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Ace (October 30, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1937007391 Official Description: Having used unorthodox methods to save a world—and every sentient being on it—Lieutenant Commander Kris Longknife is wanted across the galaxy for crimes against humanity. For her own safety, she’s been assigned to a backwater planet where her Fast […]
Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover (November 6, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1937008711 Official Description: Two science fiction masters—Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick—team up to deliver a classic thriller in which one man uncovers the secret history of the US space program… Early in his career, Jerry Culpepper could never have been accused of being […]
Hardcover: 350 pages Publisher: Night Shade Books; Book Club Edition edition (November 8, 2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 1597803235 Official Description: It”s the dawn of the 22nd century, and the world has fallen apart. Decades of war and resource depletion have toppled governments. The ecosystem has collapsed. A new dust bowl sweeps the American West. The […]
Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Ace Hardcover (October 2, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 1937077829 Official Description: Jack Campbell’s The Lost Fleet series delivers “military science fiction at its best”* in every action-packed adventure. Now the New York Times bestselling author puts the Alliance fleet’s enemy in the spotlight as the people of the Syndicate Worlds attempt […]
Hardcover: 328 pages Publisher: Night Shade Books (August 26, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 159780293X Official Description: Greg Egan’s The Clockwork Rocket introduced readers to an exotic universe where the laws of physics are very different from our own, where the speed of light varies in ways Einstein would never allow, and where intelligent life has […]
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Ace (August 28, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 193700774X Official Description: Regret nothing. Sirantha Jax has the J-gene, which permits her to “jump” faster-than-light ships through grimspace. She loves nothing more than that rush, but the star roads have to wait… Her final mission takes her to La’heng, a planet […]
In Suited by Jo Anderton, Tanyana is a debris collector – one of the people of Movac-under-Keeper given the job of collecting the dark byproduct of the city’s powerful pion systems. Unable to see the bright pion particles herself, she instead has the unpleasant and sometimes dangerous task of collecting the dark debris that […]
Across the galaxy from Lost Earth, the youngest, dissolute and disreputable scion of the noble house that rules a stellar empire flees his responsibilities, his privileges and station on the eve of the ceremony marking his maturity. Little does the ne’er-do-well Brandon know, however, that at the same time, a plot decades in the […]
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Roc (August 7, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0451464621 Official Description: After dying and being revived with the experimental drug Returne, Bryn Davis is theoretically free to live her unlife—with regular doses to keep her going. But Bryn knows that the government has every intention of keeping a tight lid […]
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