Galactic empires clash, aliens devastate whole planetary systems, and the factions of humanity are pitted against each other.

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Four brilliant scientists begin the process of cleansing humanity by systematically releasing a chemical to destroy the earth's undesirables. What they don't count on is demented, power-hungry Tony Andrews who has his own plan and weapons to dominate the world.

A story of slavery in 22nd century Europe.

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This definitive collection contains all of Card's short fiction.

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"New York Times" bestselling author Palmer, known for her classic Western romances, takes readers to a new frontier--with a space wrangler to captivate a whole new audience.

A mysterious disease is turning ordinary people into raving murderers who inflict brutal horrors on strangers, themselves, and their own families.

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Precocious selkies Ronan and Muriel rescue an old friend who's been wrongfully imprisioned.

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Cinnabar Space Navy officers Daniel Leary and Lady Adele use electronic espionage and missiles to outwit political rivals.

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Raina Bowen is in the race for her life, battling rival truckers, ice pirates, and a deadly maniac with a very personal vendetta. And the gorgeous guy whos hijacked her co-pilots seat isnt helping by seducing her with every glance. Original.

The Crew of the Alliance Space Ship Vorpal Blade must protect a colony that has fallen under alien assault.

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This novel of the Enderverse saga explores themes of tolerance and compassion at the International Fleet's Battle School.

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The first historical dictionary devoted to science fiction.

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Equal parts science fiction thriller and supernatural horror.

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Stirling's latest novel combines military adventure with subtle political idealism.

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"Two months since sixty-five thousand alien objects clenched around the Earth like a luminous fist, screaming to the heavens as the atmosphere burned them to ash. Two months since that moment of brief, bright surveillance by agents unknown." "Two months of silence while a world holds its breath." "Now some space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't' talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route." "So who do you send to force introductions on an intelligence with motives unknown, maybe unknowable? Who do you send to meet the alien when the alien doesn't want to meet?" "You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees X-rays and tastes ultrasound, so compromised by grafts and splices that he no longer feels his own flesh. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed, and a fainter hope that she'll do any good if she is needed. you send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called "vampire," recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist - an informational topologist with half his mind gone - as an interface between here and there, a conduit through which the Dead Center might hope to understand the Bleeding Edge."--BOOK JACKET.