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| "Ragnarok by Patrick A. Vanner (Book, 2011)" |
| "Captain Alexandra Alex McLaughlin is not a woman to be underestimated Under her petite exterior is a spine of solid steel and a disposition to laugh in the face of impending death A former member of the Terran Navy's elite force the Dead Jokers electronic-warfare pilots with a mortality rate to match that of old Japan's Kamikazes Alex is a born survivor But sometimes survival can be a curse Humanity is locked in a war of survival with the Xan-Sskarn an alien race that refuses to acknowledge the rights of weaker creatures to live It is a war that will not end with a peace treaty but only the complete subjugation of one species to the other And right now the alien side is winning However the enemy on the outside is not the only one to be faced As the battles take on an eerily familiar pattern of no-win scenarios Alex realizes the horrifying truth; humanity has a traitor and it's somebody close As each battle brings more death Alex's ghosts grow and so does her desire for vengeance There is only one way for this to end and Alex is just the human to take it there - to Ragnarok!"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Ring of Fire: III by Baen Books (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "Rock on Renaissance! A cosmic accident sets the modern West Virginia town of Grantville down in war-torn seventeenth century Europe It will take all the gumption of the resourceful freedom-loving up-timers to find a way to flourish in mad and bloody end of medieval times Are they up for it? You bet they are! The third rollicking and idea-packed collection of Grantville tales edited by Eric Flint and inspired by his now-legendary 1632 features tales by a star-studded array of top writers such as bestseller Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint himself - all set in Flint&39;s phenomenal Ring of Fire series"
Price: 16.49 |
| "Rogue by Michael Z. Williamson (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "The sequel to Michael Z Williamson&39;s The Weapon! Kenneth Chinran commanded the elite unit assigned to take out an entire planet in a terrible war Millions died; billions more perished in the aftermath One doesn&39;t send a sociopath on such a mission A sociopath might not stop Chinran did stop - but in the process nearly lost his sanity and his soul But one of Chinran&39;s men was a sociopath going in Now he&39;s a trained sociopath with the knowledge and firepower to take out entire tactical teams evaporate through security cordons and change identity at will Who do you send after a killer like that? There&39;s only one answer the man who trained him The man who made him"
Price: 16.49 |
| "Saint Antony's Fire by Steve White (Hardback, 2008)" |
| " "In our universe Ponce de Leon is remembered for his fruitless search for the mythical fountain of youth But in an alternate universe his quest found something very different - and very dangerous After his return to Spain bizarre rumors flew about what he had found there and who - or what - had come back with him" "Seventy-five years later in 1588 Spain sent a vast Armada of ships against England The English were confident that they could repel the threat - but England&39;s fleet was annihilated by weapons shooting beams of fiery light weapons which seemed to employ the blackest of sorcery even if they were wielded by beings in holy monk&39;s garb" The Queen herself was forced to flee to the New World accompanied by her advisor Dr Dee whom some called a sorcerer and an odd fellow named Shakespeare hoping there to find the source of Spain&39;s powerful weapons But they would find matters there far stranger than they had expected such as meeting a grown woman who had been an infant only a year before and eerie tales of a gate to another world filled with beings who were not human"
Price: 15.99 |
| "Secret World Chronicle: Book 1: Invasion by Cody Martin, Mercedes Lackey, Steve Libbey, Dennis Lee (Book, 2011)" |
| "The world had become used to the metahumans - people sometimes perfectly ordinary but sometimes quite extraordinary in appearance - who mostly worked with their governments as high-powered peace officers fighting crime and sometimes fighting rogue metahumans who had become super-criminals Then that comfortable world ended in just one terrifying day Suddenly all world governments were simultaneously attacked by soldiers in giant mecha robotic suits with the swastika symbol of the Third Reich on their metal arms If these were Nazis where had they been hiding since the end of World War II? And where had they gotten armor and weapons far in advance of anything on the planet? Weapons against which even the metahuman heroes seemed to be helpless"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Shadow of Freedom by David Weber (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "Wrong number? There are two sides to any quarrel unless there are more Michelle Henke Queen Elizabeth of Manticore&39;s first cousin Honor Harrington&39;s best friend and the commanding officer of Manticore&39;s Tenth Fleet is just a bit surprised when a messenger arrives from the Mobius System to inform her that the Mobius Liberation Front is prepared to rise in rebellion against the hated regime President Svein Lombroso She can understand why anyone would want to rebel against someone like Lombroso but why tell her about it? After all she has problems of her own like the minor matter of a life-or-death war against the Solarian League Michelle has just handed the "invincible" Solarian League Navy the most humiliating one-sided defeat in its entire almost thousand-year history in defense of the people of the Star Empire&39;s Talbott Quadrant But the League is the most powerful star nation in the history of humanity Its navy is going to be back – and this time with thousands of superdreadnoughts Yet she also knows scores of other star systems — some independent some controlled by puppet regimes and some simply conquered outright by the Solarian Office of Frontier Security — lie in the League&39;s grip along its frontier with the Talbott Quadrant As combat spreads from the initial confrontation the entire frontier has begun to seethe with unrest and Michelle sympathizes with the oppressed populations wanting only to be free of their hated masters And that puts her in something of a quandary when the messenger from Mobius arrives because someone&39;s obviously gotten a wrong number According to him the Mobians’ uprising has been carefully planned to coordinate with a powerful outside ally the Star Empire of Manticore Only Manticore — and Mike Henke — have never even heard of the Mobius Liberation Front It&39;s a set-up and Michelle knows who&39;s behind it The shadowy Mesan Alignment has launched a bold move to destroy Manticore&39;s reputation as the champion of freedom And when the RMN doesn&39;t arrive when the MLF is brutally and bloodily crushed no independent star system will ever trust Manticore again Mike Henke knows she has no orders from her government to assist any rebellions or liberation movements that she has only so many ships which can be in only so many places at a time and that she can&39;t possibly justify diverting any of her limited outnumbered strength to missions of liberation the Star Empire never signed on for She knows that and she doesn&39;t care No one is going to send thousands of patriots to their deaths trusting in Manticoran help that will never come Not on Mike Henke&39;s watch About the Author With over seven million copies of his books in print and seventeen titles on the New York Times bestseller list David Weber is the science fiction publishing phenomenon of the new millennium In the hugely popular Honor Harrington series the spirit of CS Forester’s Horatio Hornblower and Patrick O’Brian’s Master and Commander lives on–into the galactic future Books in the Honor Harrington series have appeared on seventeen best seller lists including those of The Wall Street Journal The New York Times and USA Today While Weber is best known for his spirited modern-minded space operas he is also the creator of the Oath of Swords fantasy series and the Dahak science fiction saga Weber has also engaged in a steady stream of bestselling collaborations including his Starfire series with Steve White which produced the New York Times bestseller The Shiva Option among others Weber’s collaboration with alternate history master Eric Flint led to the bestselling 1634 The Baltic War and his planetary adventure novels with military science fiction ace and multiple national best-seller John Ringo includes the blockbusters March to the Stars and We Few Finally Weber’s teaming with Linda Evans produced the bestselling Multiverse series David Weber makes his home in South Carolina with his wife and children"
Price: 16.49 |
| "Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra by Poul Anderson (Book, 2012)" |
| "Sir Dominic Flandry Science Fiction’s James Bond and One of the Genre’s Most Popular Characters The Sixth Volume of the Complete Technic Civilization Saga Captain Dominic Flandry has been knighted for his many services to the Terran Empire—an Empire which is old jaded and corrupt as Flandry well knows And while that “Sir” before his name may be an added attraction to comely ladies (not that he has ever lacked for the pleasant company of the same) he expects that it will also bring him less welcome attention from envious “colleagues” within the empire What it is not likely to do is make him more of an object of interest to the Merseians whose plots he has repeatedly foiled and who are much too aware of how much simpler their plans to replace the Empire would be if he were the late Sir Dominic Flandry Flandry himself has come to understand that there may be no more point to all his victories than that a few trillion of his fellow creatures may live out their lives before the inevitable coming of the Long Night of galactic barbarism At best he may have postponed its coming and shortened its duration But if that is the most he can achieve so be it—he’ll keep on fighting hoping that the barbarians too will pass followed by a new round of civilization About the Author Poul Anderson was one of the most prolific and popular writers in science fiction He won the Hugo Award seven times and the Nebula Award three times as well as many other awards notably including the Grand Master Award of the Science Fiction Writers of America for a lifetime of distinguished achievement With a degree in physics and a wide knowledge of other fields of science he was noted for building stories on a solid foundation of real science as well as for being one of the most skilled creators of fast-paced adventure stories He was author of over a hundred novels and story collections and several hundred short stories as well as several mysteries and nonfiction books He died in 2001"
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| "Slow Train to Arcturus by Eric Flint, Dave Freer (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "The planet Miran had sent a spaceship to rendezvous with the enormous vessel that was approaching their star system The vessel&39;s design was odd--a multitude of separate globular habitats in a framework--and most of the alien team that entered one of the habitats were slaughtered by savage creatures called "humans" One alien had barely managed to escape to another habitat where the humans were more friendly if rather technologically backward But he needed to get back to his spaceship and he would need one human&39;s help to do that They would have to travel through several more habitats each one isolated from the other each with its own bizarre dangers and customs And friendliness toward strangers was not one of those customs"
Price: 15.99 |
| "St Antony's Fire by Steve White (Book, 2009)" |
| "Alternate History Adventure with a Twist Elizabethan England Menaced by a Spain Armed with Alien Weapons In our universe Ponce de León is remembered for his fruitless search for the mythical fountain of youth But in an alternate universe his quest found something very different—and very dangerous After his return to Spain bizarre rumors flew about what he had found there and what had come back with him Eighty-five years later Spain sent a fleet of ships against England The English were confident that they could repel the threat—but England’s fleet was annihilated by weapons shooting beams of fiery light weapons which seemed to employ the blackest of sorcery even if they were wielded by odd-looking beings in monk’s garb The Queen herself was forced to flee to the New World on Captain Thomas Winslow’s ship Heron accompanied by her advisor Dr Dee whom some called a sorcerer and an odd fellow named Shakespeare hoping there to find the source of Spain’s powerful weapons But they would find far stranger matters there than they had expected such as a grown woman who had been only an infant a year before and eerie tales of a gate to another world populated with beings who were not human About the Author Steve White completed a tour of duty in Vietnam as a Naval officer With David Weber he has collaborated on Insurrection Crusade In Death Ground and the New York Times best seller The Shiva Option His recent books for Baen include Forge of the Titans The Prometheus Project and Blood of the Heroes"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Storm from the Shadows by David Weber (Hardback, 2009)" |
| "Rear Admiral Michelle Henke was commanding one of the ships in a force led by Honor Harrington in an all-out space battle The odds were against the Star Kingdom forces and they had to run But Michelle’s ship was crippled and had to be destroyed to prevent superior Manticoran technology from falling into Havenite hands and she and her surviving crew were taken prisoner Much to her surprise she was repatriated to Manticore carrying a request for a summit conference between the leaders of the two sides which might end the war But a condition of her return was that she gave her parole not to fight against the forces of the Republic of Haven until she had been officially exchanged for a Havenite prisoner of war so she was given a command far away from the war’s battle lines What she didn’t realize was that she would find herself on a collision course not with a hostile government but with the interstellar syndicate of criminals known as Manpower And Manpower had its own plans for eliminating Manticore as a possible threat to its lucrative slave trade deadly plans which remain hidden in the shadows About the Author David Weber is the science fiction phenomenon of the decade His popular Honor Harrington novels are New York Times best sellers and can’t come out fast enough for his devoted readers ADD SENTENCE ABOUT OFF A REEF He has also begun a top-selling epic SF adventure series in collaboration with John Ringo with four novels so far March Upcountry March to the Sea March to the Stars and We Few His Wind Rider’s Oath another New York Times best seller continues his popular Bahzell fantasy adventure series"
Price: 16.99 |
| "Sunset of the Gods by Steve White (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK Sequel to tough and gritty time travel thriller Blood of Heroes A team of time travelers goes back to the Battle of Marathon in ancient Greece to foil a plot by alien masquerading as gods and by evildoers from the future A compelling well-researched battle scene caps it all off Sequel to tough and gritty time travel thriller Blood of Heroes Jason Thanou a time traveler with a past and a burning mission When the gods of ancient Greece proved to be not only monstrously real but totally alien—and poised to dominate humanity forever—Jason took care of the situation at least in Minoan Crete Now he’s got what looks like a normal assignment to lead a time traveling expedition of scholars to the battle of Marathon and record for the benefit of future historians the magnificent stand of Greece’s hoplite warriors against Persian invaders But the Olympians are not done with their attempt to dominate humanity Now the god Pan is afoot in Greece–a creature who may have the power to turn ancient Athens away from her budding democracy and toward a corrupt future on an Earth dominated by twisted humans and evil alien forces But not if Jason can discover Pan’s secret thwart a conspiracy that stretches for millennia—and save the birthplace of democracy from the corruption of the gods About the Author Steve White completed a tour of duty in Vietnam as a naval officer With David Weber he has collaborated on Insurrection Crusade In Death Ground and the New York Times best seller The Shiva Option His most recent books for Baen were the epic fantasy Demon’s Gate science fiction novel Eagle Against the Stars and the science fiction time travel series that includes Blood of Heroes Sunset of the Gods and Pirates of the Timestream"
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| "Tau Ceti Agenda by Travis S. Taylor (Hardback, 2008)" |
| "First Time in Paperback for the Exciting Sequel to One Day on Mars As America Reaches for the Stars Others Have a More Sinister Goal and a Lone Operative Must Battle Against an Insidious Conspiracy in This Rapid-Fire Military Science Fiction Thriller The riveting edge of your seat sequel to One Day On Mars once again takes us on a blindingly fast pace through events from a futuristic Washington DC to the Tau Ceti star system Just days before the presidential election a CIA operative uncovers a plot to overthrow America that reaches deep into the government To top it off the forces planning to revolt have somehow developed a technology that allows them to transport across the gulf between the star systems almost instantaneously The CIA operative braves hand-to-hand combat and even torture in order to get a warning of the coming coup to American officials while at the same time the two most powerful battleships in the US Space Navy are dispatched to overtake the enemy teleportation technology With armored marines intense space naval battles fighter plane and high technology wizardry perhaps the plot to kill the president can be thwarted But will that be enough to save the land of the free? About the Author Travis S Taylor-"Doc" Taylor to his friends-has earned his soubriquet the hard way He has a Doctorate in Optical Science and Engineering a Master&39;s degree in Physics a Master&39;s degree in Aerospace Engineering all from the University of Alabama in Huntsville; a Master&39;s degree in Astronomy and a Bachelor&39;s degree in Electrical Engineering from Auburn University Dr Taylor has worked on various programs for the Department of Defense and NASA for the past sixteen years He&39;s currently working on several advanced propulsion concepts very large space telescopes space-based beamed energy systems and next generation space launch concepts In his copious spare time Doc Travis is also a black belt martial artist a private pilot a SCUBA diver has raced mountain bikes competed in triathlons and has been the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of several hard rock bands He currently lives with his wife Karen and their daughter"
Price: 15.49 |
| "The Amazon Legion by Tom Kratman (Hardback, 2011)" |
| "The Sequel to A Desert Called Peace Carnifex and The Lotus Eaters What Happens When You Need Everyone to Fight? Bring on the Amazons On the colony planet of Terra Nova Carrera has achieved his revenge destroying those who had destroyed his life by killing his wife and children in a terrorist strike And with this help of his second wife he has thwarted an attempted coup that would have restored the rule of the oligarchy and undone his hard-won victory But his fight is not over yet The problem of the Tauran Union’s control of the Transitway between Terra Nova and Earth remains as does the problem of the nuclear armed United Earth Peace Fleet orbiting above the planet The Taurans will not leave and the Balboans—a proud people with much recent success in war – will not tolerate that they should remain And yet with one hundred times the population and three or four hundred times the wealth the Tauran Union outclasses little Balboa in almost every way even without the support of Old Earth Sadly they have that support Everything everyone will have to be used to finish the job of freeing the country and if possible the planet The children must fight The old must serve too And the women? This is their story the story of Balboa’s Tercio Amazona the Amazon Regiment About the Author in 1974 at age seventeen became a political refugee and defector from the PRM (People&39;s Republic of Massachusetts) by virtue of joining the Regular Army He stayed a Regular Army infantryman most of his adult life returning to Massachusetts as an unofficial dissident while attending Boston College after his first hitch Before turning to writing he practiced law in southwest Virginia Baen has published his novels A State of Disobedience A Desert Called Peace and its sequels Carnifex The Lotus Eaters and now The Amazon Legion as well as his stand alone novel Caliphate and three collaborations with John Ringo in the Posleen War series Watch on the Rhine Yellow Eyes and The Tuloriad"
Price: 15.99 |
| "The Best of Jim Baen's Universe by Eric Flint (Hardback, 2007)" |
| "Top-selling established writers and brilliant newcomers both appear regularly in the online magazine Jim Baen&39;s Universe edited by Eric Flint creator of the New York Times best-selling "Ring of Fire" series Now editor Flint selects a generous serving of the best science fiction and fantasy stories that have appeared in the magazine Hugo and Nebula Award winners such as Mike Resnick and Gene Wolfe are on board and so are best-selling writers David Drake Gregory Benford Esther Friesner and more Jim Baen&39;s Universe is already a resounding hit on the internet and is certain to be equally popular in the uncybernetic realm of paper reading as well About the Author Eric Flint editor of the online magazine Jim Baen’s Universe is the New York Times best-selling author of the Ring of Fire alternate history series the first of which is 1632 His impressive first novel Mother of Demons (Baen) was selected by Science Fiction Chronicle as one of the best novels of 1997 With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belisarius series including the new novel The Dance of Time and with David Weber collaborated on 1633 a novel in the Ring of Fire series and on Crown of Slaves a best of the year pick by Publishers Weekly Flint received his masters degree in history from UCLA and was for many years a labor union activist He lives in East Chicago IL with his wife and is working on more books in his New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series"
Price: 16.49 |
| "The Crucible of Empire by Eric Flint, K. D. Wentworth (Hardback, 2010)" |
| "The intricate and action-packed sequel to New York Times best-seller Eric Flint (with 3 million books in print ) and KD Wentworth’s ground-breaking Course of Empire–with cool aliens The intricate and action-packed sequel to New York Times best-seller and master tale-spinner Eric Flint and KD Wentworth’s ground-breaking Course of Empire Humanity is first subjugated by haughty alien colonizers calling themselves the Jao when Earth is unexpectedly attacked by the implacable and nearly-unstoppable Ekhat exterminators of all intelligent life not their own Now the fragile Human-Jao alliance is put to the test A devastating encounter with the Ekhat in a distant nebula reveals a powerful alien society that may hold the key to defeating the Ekhat once and for all There’s one big problem they utterly loathe humanity&39;s ally the Jao And why shouldn’t they? It was the Jao who drove them into hiding in the first place Once again everything depends on those innovators and idea-generators the humans to quell a brewing war and forge a tripartite alliance of very different species—or be blasted to empty cinders if they don’t succeed About the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with over three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belasarius alternate Roman history series and with David Weber collaborated on 1633 and 1634 The Baltic War Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives in Chicago Illinois K D Wentworth is author of seven novels including Black on Black and Stars over Stars for Baen and more than fifty short stories which appeared in such magazines as Fantasy & Science Fiction Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Realms of Fantasy and others Wentworth is a winner in the Writers of the Future contest and has been a Nebula Award finalist twice She lives with her husband in Tulsa Oklahoma"
Price: 16.49 |
| "The Crucible of Empire by Eric Flint, K. D. Wentworth (Book, 2012)" |
| "The intricate and action-packed sequel to New York Times best-seller Eric Flint (with 3 million books in print ) and KD Wentworth’s ground-breaking Course of Empire–with cool aliens The intricate and action-packed sequel to New York Times best-seller and master tale-spinner Eric Flint and KD Wentworth’s ground-breaking Course of Empire Humanity is first subjugated by haughty alien colonizers calling themselves the Jao when Earth is unexpectedly attacked by the implacable and nearly-unstoppable Ekhat exterminators of all intelligent life not their own Now the fragile Human-Jao alliance is put to the test A devastating encounter with the Ekhat in a distant nebula reveals a powerful alien society that may hold the key to defeating the Ekhat once and for all There’s one big problem they utterly loathe humanity&39;s ally the Jao And why shouldn’t they? It was the Jao who drove them into hiding in the first place Once again everything depends on those innovators and idea-generators the humans to quell a brewing war and forge a tripartite alliance of very different species—or be blasted to empty cinders if they don’t succeed About the Author Eric Flint is a modern master of alternate history fiction with over three million books in print He’s the authorcreator of the New York Times best-selling Ring of Fire series With David Drake he has written six popular novels in the Belasarius alternate Roman history series and with David Weber collaborated on 1633 and 1634 The Baltic War Flint was for many years a labor union activist He lives in Chicago Illinois K D Wentworth is author of seven novels including Black on Black and Stars over Stars for Baen and more than fifty short stories which appeared in such magazines as Fantasy & Science Fiction Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Realms of Fantasy and others Wentworth is a winner in the Writers of the Future contest and has been a Nebula Award finalist twice She lives with her husband in Tulsa Oklahoma"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Forerunner Factor by Andre Norton (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "On ancient port world planet Kuxortal young Simsa grows up among garbage pickers who live upon the ancient ruins of a fallen galactic civilization - the Forerunners But Simsa has always been different Her skin is iridescent blue-black and she shares a telepathic bond with an alien pet a bat-like zorsal like no other When Simsa mentor dies she must scrape a poor existence from an unyielding planet But then Thom a star ranger arrives from the heavens leading Simsa on a path to the discovery of her origins that takes both through danger to the ultimate revelation The truth may lie below in the ancient high tech Forerunner ruins where Simsa was first discovered as a infant but these cavernous mazes are far from quiet and dead - and what Simsa discovers there will change her life and perhaps galactic civilization itself forever! Introducing two Andre Norton Forerunner novels - Forerunner and Forerunner The Second Venture - featuring young Forerunnerhuman hybrid Simsa collected for the first time in one volume!"
Price: 9.49 |
| "The Game of Stars and Comets by Andre Norton (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "Four novels of rapid-fire interstellar adventure set in a common universe by the Grand Master of the form - The X Factor Only Diskan Fentress&39;s mutant powers had a chance of stopping the looting of his new world - Voorloper Three those survivors - an embittered wanderer his son and a young girl with a healing power - know they have nothing to lose and set out to find the secret of the Shadow Death that blights the planet Voor - The Eye of the Monster Rees Naper had survived the onslaught of the alien Ishkurian "crocs" but had to cover miles of jungle and pass through croc armies to reach safety To do that he would have to think like a croc move like a croc and see through the eye of the monster - The Sioux Spaceman Kade Whitehawk chose to join the battle for Ikkinni freedom even though that choice made him a renegade to his own people and would almost certainly mean his death Publisher&39;s Note The Game of Stars and Comets was originally published in parts as The X-Factor The Sioux Spaceman Eye of the Monster and Voorloper This is the first time these novels have appeared in one volume About the Author Called “one of the most popular authors of our time” by Publishers Weekly Andre Norton is a legend in science fiction and was one of our greatest storytellers She wrote science fiction novels for five decades beginning with the now-classic novel Star Man’s Son in 1952 Many of today’s top writers including David Weber Eric Flint CJ Cherryh and Joan D Vinge have cited her as a primary influence on their own work She was Guest of Honor at the 1989 World Science Fiction Convention and has received the Grand Master award from the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the World Fantasy Convention She was astoundingly prolific with over thirty books in her celebrated Witch World series alone She introduced three generations of SF readers to SF and fantasy both through her critically acclaimed YA novels and her adult works and remains one of the most popular authors in both fields She died in 2005"
Price: 10.49 |
| "The Game of Stars and Comets by Andre Norton (Book, 2010)" |
| "Four novels of rapid-fire interstellar adventure set in a common universe by the Grand Master of the form - The X Factor Only Diskan Fentress&39;s mutant powers had a chance of stopping the looting of his new world - Voorloper Three those survivors - an embittered wanderer his son and a young girl with a healing power - know they have nothing to lose and set out to find the secret of the Shadow Death that blights the planet Voor - The Eye of the Monster Rees Naper had survived the onslaught of the alien Ishkurian "crocs" but had to cover miles of jungle and pass through croc armies to reach safety To do that he would have to think like a croc move like a croc and see through the eye of the monster - The Sioux Spaceman Kade Whitehawk chose to join the battle for Ikkinni freedom even though that choice made him a renegade to his own people and would almost certainly mean his death Publisher&39;s Note The Game of Stars and Comets was originally published in parts as The X-Factor The Sioux Spaceman Eye of the Monster and Voorloper This is the first time these novels have appeared in one volume About the Author Called “one of the most popular authors of our time” by Publishers Weekly Andre Norton is a legend in science fiction and was one of our greatest storytellers She wrote science fiction novels for five decades beginning with the now-classic novel Star Man’s Son in 1952 Many of today’s top writers including David Weber Eric Flint CJ Cherryh and Joan D Vinge have cited her as a primary influence on their own work She was Guest of Honor at the 1989 World Science Fiction Convention and has received the Grand Master award from the Science Fiction Writers of America and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the World Fantasy Convention She was astoundingly prolific with over thirty books in her celebrated Witch World series alone She introduced three generations of SF readers to SF and fantasy both through her critically acclaimed YA novels and her adult works and remains one of the most popular authors in both fields She died in 2005"
Price: 7.49 |
| "The Heretic by Tony Daniel, David Drake (Hardback, 2013)" |
| "David Drake legendary Raj Whitehall series stunningly reborn! Humanity settled the stars only to fall into a catastrophic collapse On one planet a single artificial intelligence a computer program known as Center found a military genius of grit and daring in Raj Whitehall and the Galactic Republic rose again But many dark planets remain - planets such as Duisenberg Here a single river cuts through a vast continental desert and a culture not unlike that of New Kingdom Egypt has developed But when a capsule containing the forbidden metal plastic and circuit boards that Zentrum hates falls from the sky - circuits with secretly stowed away uploaded versions of Raj and Center - everything changes! What Raj and Center need now is a hero to break the Land stasis and lead Duisberg back from the galactic dark ages Enter Abel Dashian The son of a local military commander he is a brilliant and courageous young man who has lost his mother to a simple bacterial infection He is a young man who will dare anything to avenge his mother death and bring about change He is the Heretic"
Price: 16.49 |
| "The Iron Breed by Andre Norton (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Two bestselling novels of science fiction adventure from legendary storyteller Andre Norton collected together for the first time The Iron Cage and Breed to Come In The Iron Cage Johnny has always loved and been protected by the People the bearlike inhabitants on the planet he calls home But when a starship arrives carrying Johnny's original species humans - humans who seek to exploit the People for their own ends - Johnny is forced to choose between loyalty to the creatures he considers his family and the need to reconnect with his long lost heritage And in Breed to Come on a distant future Earth humans have polluted the planet and departed leaving their pets behind to inherit a blasted world But from that devastated past a new breed of intelligence arises the catlike People Now humans return and the People are in no mood to deal once again with the demons who abandoned them to fate so long ago"
Price: 9.49 |
| "The Last Centurion by John Ringo (Book, 2009)" |
| "In the second decade of the twenty-first century the world is struck by two catastrophes a new mini-ice age and nearly simultaneously a plague to dwarf all previous experiences Rising out of the disaster is the character known to history as “Bandit Six” an American Army officer caught up in the struggle to rebuild the world and prevent the fall of his homeland—despite the best efforts of politicians both elected and military The Last Centurion is a memoir of one possible future a world that is a darkling mirror of our own Written “blog-style” it pulls no punches in its descriptions of junk science bad strategy and organic farming not to mention all three at once About the Author A veteran of the 82nd Airborne he brings first-hand knowledge of military operations to his fiction His novels for Baen include those in the New York Times best-selling Posleen War series (A Hymn Before Battle Gust Front When the Devil Dances and Hell’s Faire) the Council War series (There Will be Dragons Emerald Sea Against the Tide and East of the Sun West of the Moon) the nationally best-selling techno-thriller novels about Mike Harmon (Ghost Kildar Choosers of the Slain Unto the Breach and A Deeper Blue) the Looking-Glass series (Into the Looking Glass Vorpal Blade and Manxome Foe the last two in collaboration with Travis S Taylor) four collaborations with fellow New York Times bestselling author David Weber (March Upcountry March to the Sea March to the Stars and We Few) and five collaborative spinoffs from the Posleen series The Hero written with Michael Z Williamson Watch on the Rhine and Yellow Eyes both written with Tom Kratman and the New York Times best seller Cally’s War and its recent sequel Sister Time both with Julie Cochrane"
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| "The Power of Illusion by Christopher Anvil (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "Science Fiction by a Master of Humorous Adventure The Power of Mighty Starfleet Armadas Can be Undone in an Instant by the Subtle Power of Illusion A new collection of stories by the master of humorous science fiction adventure including · The full-length novel The Day the Machines Stopped—and what happens not just to civilization but to humanity and its chances of survival when all the machines stop working at once? · A man is captured by aliens who are investigating the Earth as a possible target for colonization The aliens have science and technology far in advance of humans—but unfortunately for them they have never developed the human art of bluffing · For the first time in book form Anvil’s stories of Richard Verner who is called in to solve apparently insoluble problems such as explaining why experimental missiles keep failing for no apparent reason or locating a kidnapped judge or even solving an inexplicable murder that’s interrupting his vacation And much more in a generous volume of sardonically humorous science fiction About the Author For two decades Christopher Anvil had numerous stories in the leading science fiction magazines and was a frequent and popular contributor to the leading magazine Analog where he consistently ranked high in the reader’s polls and had several stories nominated for Hugo and Nebula awards Like Keith Laumer he has a rare ability to combine fast-moving adventure with wry humor His previous books for Baen were Pandora’s Legions Interstellar Patrol Interstellar Patrol II The Federation of Humanity The Trouble with Aliens The Trouble with Humans War Games and Rx for Chaos"
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| "The Road of Danger by David Drake (Hardback, 2012)" |
| "Brilliant and brave starship captain Daniel Leary and ace spy Adele Mundy return to confront a pirate plot and once again save the Republic of Cinnabar 9 in the bestselling Republic of Cinnabar Navy space adventure series Captain Daniel Leary with his friend–and spy–Officer Adele Mundy are sent to a quiet sector to carry out an easy task helping the local admiral put down a coup before it takes place But then the jealous admiral gets rid of them by sending them off on a wild goose chase to a sector where commerce is king and business is carried out by extortion and gunfights With anarchy and rebellion in the air a rogue intelligence officer plots the war that will destroy civilization and enlists the help of a brute whom even torturers couldn&39;t stomach And of course it’s up to Leary and Mundy to put a stop to the madness About the Author David Drake was attending Duke University Law School when he was drafted He served the next two years in the Army spending 1970 as an enlisted interrogator with the 11th armored Cavalry in Viet Nam and Cambodia Upon return he completed his law degree at Duke and was for eight years Assistant Town Attorney for Chapel Hill North Carolina He has been a full-time freelance writer since 1981 His books include the genre-defining and bestselling Hammer’s Slammers series the RCN series including What Distant Deeps In the Stormy Red Sky The Way to Glory and many more"
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| "The Rocket City Rednecks' New American Space Plan by Stephanie Osborn, Travis S. Taylor (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Meet the Rocket City Rednecks They five backwoods guys from the rocket city Huntsville Alabama home to NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and the birthplace of the US Space Program Sure they love to shoot stuff and drink beer and one of &39;em lives in a trailer but with a family tree full of NASA rocket scientists (not to mention their own PhDs and advanced degrees) they aim a little higher - like using homemade moonshine to fuel a rocket! Now in typical laidback style Dr Travis S Taylor leader of the crew delivers the goods on how America can return to space exploration and manned space flight - and can probably do so with common items found in a typical redneck backyard What needed is a good old anything attitude a bit of gumption and the spectacularly entertaining backyard science that the Rocket City Redneck specialty"
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| "The Ruby Dice by Catherine Asaro (Hardback, 2005)" |
| "Two men two empires Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Concord over two trillion people across more than a thousand worlds and habitats Kelric ruled the Skolian Imperialate War had come before-ten years ago Jaibriol had lost his parents in the final battle of the Radiance War between the Concord and the Imperialate-and it might come again devastating vast swathes of the galaxy Neither Jaibriol nor Kelric wanted war but neither was complete master of his realm And each hid a secret that if revealed might be his downfall Jaibriol was a secret psion with telepathic abilities and to be a psion in the Eubian Concord was to be a contemptible slave eventually to be tortured for the pleasure of the slave&39;s owner Kelric years ago had disappeared for nearly two decades He had been a prisoner and slave on the planet Coban part of neither empire until he had managed to escape And if the Skolian Imperialate knew of his captivity there would be demands for vengeance ravaging Coban-and killing the wife and children Kelric had left behind when he escaped Neither man knew how much longer he could keep his secret-nor how much longer they could hold back the threat of a war that could incinerate hundreds of inhabited worlds"
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| "The Ship Who Searched by Mercedes Lackey (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Special 20th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by Mercedes Lackey A beloved classic of romantic space adventure returns A novel of Anne McCaffrey’s Brainship series A young woman becomes paralyzed and must become a brainship—and find her Brawn her human soul mate so that she can discover a cure for her illness Tia Cade is a headstrong smart and very normal girl—until she contracts a terrible illness that leaves her with the bare semblance of life Tia’s only hope to become the oldest person ever to train to be one of the legendary star travelers the brainships But now that Tia is free of her ravaged body there still remains the task of finding the right partner to be her Brawn the human element every brainship requires And when the disease that debilitated Tia threatens thousands more selecting a Brawn who is her true soul mate may allow Tia to find the origin of the terrible plague—and perhaps even a cure 20th Anniversary edition featuring a new introduction by Mercedes Lackey About the Author Anne McCaffrey was the Hugo Award-winning author of the bestselling Dragonriders of Pern® novels the Brainship series and others She remains one of the most popular science fiction authors of all time Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times best-selling author of the Bardic Voices series and the Serrated Edge series (both Baen) the Heralds of Valdemar series and many more Among her popular Baen titles are The Fire Rose The Lark and the Wren and The Shadow of the Lion (with Eric Flint and Dave Freer) She lives in Oklahoma"
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| "The Star Beast by Robert A. Heinlein (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "Compelling coming-of-age SF adventure from legendary SF master and multiple New York Times best-seller Robert A Heinlein A young boy and his friend run away from home to protect a cute (if rather large) alien pet that turns out to be much more than just a pet indeed Afterword by Wen Spencer Lummox has been the pet of the Stuart family for generations With eight legs a thick hide and huge (and growing) size Lummox is nobody’s idea of man’s best friend Nevertheless John Stuart XI descendant of the starman who originally brought Lummox back to Earth loves him But when Lummox eats a neighbor’s car and begins to grow again the Feds decide enough is enough John isn’t about to let the authorities take his pet away and with his best friend friend Betty determines to save Lummox even if it takes leaving the life he’s known forever An all time science fiction coming-of-age classic from seven-time Hugo winner and Dean of Science Fiction Robert A Heinlein About the Author Robert A Heinlein is considered one of the Big Three of classic science fiction (along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C Clarke) Heinlein is a seven-time Hugo Award recipient and was given the first Grand Master Nebula Award for lifetime achievement Heinlein’s juveniles alone have influenced generations of scientists engineers and creators the world over (for instance it was once estimated that everyone in the Apollo 11 mission control room had read and loved at least one Heinlein novel) His worldwide bestsellers include Have Space Suit—Will Travel Stranger in a Strange Land Starship Troopers Time Enough for Love and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress"
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| "The Stoneholding by Mark Sebanc, James Anderson (Paperback, 2009)" |
| "As Shadows Loom Over the World of Ahn Norvys One Song One Harp One Man are All That Stand Between the Dark Night of Chaos and the Dawn of Harmony and Order First Time in Mass Market for This Epic Fantasy in the Tradition of Tolkien Darkness looms over the ancient world of Ahn Norvys and the Great Harmony of Ardiel lies rent asunder Prince Starigan heir to the throne has been abducted and power has been usurped by a traitorous cabal In the mountainous highlands of Arvon is the small but ancient community the Stoneholding which has held out against the gathering forces of the evil Ferabek Here by tradition from earliest times the High Bard has resided as guardian of the Sacred Fire as well as the golden harp called the Talamadh But in his search for the lost prince Ferabek has attacked the Stoneholding with his Black Scorpion Dragoons and razed it to the ground Wilum the aged High Bard was forced to flee for his life with a raaged band of survivors including Kalaquinn Wright the wheelwright&39;s son Kal green in years and understanding was torn from his pastoral life in a remote highland clanholding and thrust out onto a broader stage in a journey of danger and escape discovery and enlightment Now as night covers Ahn Norvys he must save what remains of the hallowed order of things and seek his destiny a destiny that lies far beyond the Stoneholding He must somehow find Prince Starigan and rekindle the Sacred Fire About the Author James G Anderson is a teacher catechist musician and poet and holds a BA and MA in theology from Franciscan University in Steubenville OH His interests range from gardening to fly fishing from winemaking to songwriting He lives with his wife and three son on the Canadian prairies outside Saskatoon Saskatchewan Mark Sebanc has worked as an editor and translator with several books to his credit He holds a BA and MS degrees in Classics from University of Toronto When not engaged in wordsmithing he enjoys playing hockey splitting firewood and savoring the peace of his backwoods farm on the edge of the Canadian Shield in the Upper Ottawa valley of Ontario"
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| "The Stoneholding: Bk. 1: Legacy of the Stone Harp by Mark Sebanc, James G. Anderson (Book, 2010)" |
| "As Shadows Loom Over the World of Ahn Norvys One Song One Harp One Man are All That Stand Between the Dark Night of Chaos and the Dawn of Harmony and Order First Time in Mass Market for This Epic Fantasy in the Tradition of Tolkien Darkness looms over the ancient world of Ahn Norvys and the Great Harmony of Ardiel lies rent asunder Prince Starigan heir to the throne has been abducted and power has been usurped by a traitorous cabal In the mountainous highlands of Arvon is the small but ancient community the Stoneholding which has held out against the gathering forces of the evil Ferabek Here by tradition from earliest times the High Bard has resided as guardian of the Sacred Fire as well as the golden harp called the Talamadh But in his search for the lost prince Ferabek has attacked the Stoneholding with his Black Scorpion Dragoons and razed it to the ground Wilum the aged High Bard was forced to flee for his life with a raaged band of survivors including Kalaquinn Wright the wheelwright&39;s son Kal green in years and understanding was torn from his pastoral life in a remote highland clanholding and thrust out onto a broader stage in a journey of danger and escape discovery and enlightment Now as night covers Ahn Norvys he must save what remains of the hallowed order of things and seek his destiny a destiny that lies far beyond the Stoneholding He must somehow find Prince Starigan and rekindle the Sacred Fire About the Author James G Anderson is a teacher catechist musician and poet and holds a BA and MA in theology from Franciscan University in Steubenville OH His interests range from gardening to fly fishing from winemaking to songwriting He lives with his wife and three son on the Canadian prairies outside Saskatoon Saskatchewan Mark Sebanc has worked as an editor and translator with several books to his credit He holds a BA and MS degrees in Classics from University of Toronto When not engaged in wordsmithing he enjoys playing hockey splitting firewood and savoring the peace of his backwoods farm on the edge of the Canadian Shield in the Upper Ottawa valley of Ontario"
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