_The Peace War_ is quintessential hard-science adventure. The Peace Authority conquered the world with a weapon that never should have been a weapon--the "bobble," a spherical force-field impenetrable by any force known to mankind. Encasing governmental installations and military bases in bobbles, t

It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know--what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don't seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four ch

Sage Walker's suspenseful, Locus Award-winning first novel, _Whiteout_ , takes us to a twenty-first century Earth where _government_ means multinational corporation. And daily living means a struggle to survive the effects of overpopulation, poverty, pollution, and hunger. One last hope remains: A

Scott Westerfeld, the acclaimed author of _Fine Prey, Polymorph,_ and _Evolution's Darling_ , reached new heights of excitement in last spring's T _he Risen Empire_ , and left readers begging for more. Now he comes through with the dazzling payoff in book two of S _uccession, The Killing of Worlds._

After many years of peace in the Lands of Men, there came _Dragon Weather_ : a wave of incredible heat, oppressive humidity, dark angry clouds . . . and dragons. Dragons with no remorse, no sympathy, no use for humans; dragons who destroyed an entire village and everyone in it. Everyone, that is, ex

From _New York Times_ bestselling authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman comes _Rage of the Dragon_ , the action-packed third book in their Dragonships fantasy series. Skylan Ivorson is the gods-chosen Chief of all Vindras clans. But the gods from whom the Vindrasi draw their earthdwelling

As Anne McCaffrey is to science fiction, Margaret Weis is to fantasy . . . for she is the genre's _Mistress of Dragons_ _Mistress of Dragons_ is the first volume in an epic fantasy trilogy entitled The Dragonvald. Here is a world where men and dragons coexist amid political intrigue and

SUMMARY: It's a massive hospital space station on the Galactic rim--384 levels, a staff of thousands--where human and alien medicine meet.But Patient Hewlitt, new to Sector General, doesn't want to meet alien medicine--or alien doctors, or alien nurses, or aliens of any kind. Which is just too bad

Her Scales Shine Like Music by Rajnar Vajra is a moving science fiction novelette about an encounter and budding relationship between two aliens, one human, who are the only living creatures occupying a planet in deep space. The human is assigned to guard a valuable find, while his colleagues leave,

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary conce

**_Red Tide,_ the third volume in Marc Turner's The Chronicles of the Exile, following _When the Heavens Fall_ and _Dragon Hunters_** The Augerans are coming. And their ships are sailing in on a red tide. The Rubyholt Isles are a shattered nation of pirate-infested islands and treacherous waterway

**A new Conan adventure--from one of today's most popular writers of fantasy and SF!** For decades, millions of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Conan, the barbarian adventurer invented by Robert E. Howard and further chronicled by other fantasy greats, including such notables as L. S

Sequel To The Hugo Award-Winning Bestseller _The Snow Queen_ _The Summer Queen_ is the extraordinary sequel to one of science fiction's most celebrated novels, _The Snow Queen_. Set in a fully realized universe of wonders, this spectacular space epic, itself a finalist for the Hugo Award, is o

"When BZ Gundhalinu's irresponsible older brothers go missing in World's End, a badlands rumored to drive people mad, he begrudgingly goes after them. The further in he travels, the stranger things get"--Amazon.com.

Merlyn Britannicus and Uther Pendragon---the Silver Bear and the Red Dragon---are the leaders of the Colony, lifeblood to the community from which will come the fabled Camulod. But soon their tranquillity is in ruins, Uther lies dead from treachery, and all that is left of the dream is the orpha

In the hollowed-out skull of the sixteenth President of the United States, a miserable time traveler builds a modest studio apartment and isolates himself from his own time, his own space, his own species, and his own past. But when gruesome reminders of his life prior to intracranial habitation beg

Lord Scott Oken, a prince of Albion, and Professor-Prince Mikel Mabruke live in a world where the sun never set on the Egyptian Empire. In the year 1877 of Our Lord Julius Caesar, Pharaoh Djoser-George governs a sprawling realm that spans Europe, Africa, and much of Asia. When the European terrorist

"In a world where magic is intrinsic to the fabric of everyday life, two kingdoms, centuries-long enemies, have long sought a powerful magical weapon that will win them lasting dominance. But neither realm is ready when they are both attacked by the Bottom-Dwellers, a bitter people whose own land wa

**The start of a swashbuckling adventure from _New York Times_ bestselling author Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes** Captain Kate Fitzmaurice was born to sail. She has made a life of her own as a privateer and smuggler. Hired by the notorious Henry Wallace, spymaster for the queen of Freya, to find