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It all began when Professor Otto Liedenbrock discovered a coded message in an old runic manuscript, but it was his nephew, Axel, who deciphered the messages meaning. That's when the race truly...

"This is the story of the last day of my life, and everything that happened after that." Back in print after a decade, A King of Infinite Space is the final volume of Allen Steele's award-winning...

Friday the 13th of October 1307 A fateful day for the powerful Order of the Temple. Arrested by the King of France, betrayed by the Holy Father, the Templars will cease to exist. And Ian Graham,...

Sorcerers, superheroes, and zombies. Out of work, out of luck, out of practice. Gods, clods, or four simple lads. Here are the Beatles as you've never known them before: singing for their supper,...

Daughter of Two Worlds To her fellow pilots Gaelian is an Angel, the best of their elite fighting force. To the powerful ruling Board of Dinoreos, she is the Eldest of the Eldest of her household,...

"The Mary Damned went into hell with her captain and crew. But she comes back where the void is black to catch the likes of you." The legend was sung aboard the Justica's prison ships, and told in...

Norman Mark was a politician with skeletons in his closet. Literally.Disgraced journalist Steven Edwards considers the "Batties"-the loonies who believe that vampires are real and Norman Mark is...

For generations L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz books have captured and enthralled millions of readers. These stories are as delightful today as they were the day they were written. This omnibus edition...

"The sturdy and scintillating speculative fiction of Uncle River is a national treasure. Whether applying his unique worldview to aliens or humans, to the present, the past or the future, he exhibits...

Cover copy: Life, death, love, and truth: major themes that frequently appear in Grandmaster Tanith Lee's fiction, are all represented in Dancing Through the Fire, one of the last collections she put...

Cover copy: Life, death, love, and truth: major themes that frequently appear in Grandmaster Tanith Lee's fiction, are all represented in Dancing Through the Fire, one of the last collections she put...

The electrifying sequel to Cyberstealth.This time it's fly or die. They were partners in flight. The best until treason made them rivals at war... Once, Cargo and the alien Ghoster were the hottest...

My father is the Rev. Daimon Keith. At the age of twenty, he was abducted near a school playground by small gray aliens. Indeed, Daimon was taken up into UFOs not just that once, but from infancy,...

For thousands of years, people have used sailing ships for trade, for exploration, or simply for the pure joy of wind, water, and the feel of the tiller beneath your hand. Humanity will take the arts...

From ancient nuclear wars, to the secret of sexual attraction, with stops along the way for Bigfoot, ancient demons, and the truth behind alchemy, the stories in this book will take you on a truly...

SHAPESHIFTER! The Changeling could become anyone or anything--man, woman, child, animal. It was endowed with an inborn lust for disorder and destruction. Now it had chosen the plague-ridden planet of...

Originally published as two separate books, Jules Verne's eerily prescient tale of mankind's first visit to the Moon is properly presented here in one complete volume. "From the Earth to the Moon"...

Boston is slowly sinking into the sea. The citizens of Boston plan a revolution against the governments of Earth. Alien races occupy the city and must decide if the human race deserves full galactic...

Science fiction essayist Paul T. Riddell isn't the first to compare magazine writing to public masturbation, but he's the first to practice what he preached and quite writing. Before he did, he and...

The Faerie King has entered into a pact with the demon lord, trading his people's freedom for the might to conquer the nine realms. Two unlikely allies are determined to stop him: Asherah, enslaved...

Introduction by Bruce Coville "For the bathroom, for the bedroom, for the bus to work, for that chair in the department store where bored spouses sit while their wives or husbands try on new clothes....

A century from now, Boston is like no other place on Earth: an enormous Cube containing millions of human and alien beings. Boston is slowly sinking, but it's also the site of Earth's only...

Winner of the 2015 Canopus AwardHumanity once feared that we might be alone in the universe. Now we know better. And we've learned there are worse things than being...

Good fences, said the poet, make good neighbors... and interstellar distances made very good fences.Or so we thought....Earth and its interstellar neighbors have been in radio contact for a century...

When the first call from the stars comes, do we even dare to answer?Life changes for everyone in general-and for physicist Dean Matthews in particular-when astronomers detect a radio signal from a...

PRAISE FOR T. JACKSON KING "I sometimes think a writer's greatest virtues are persistence and endurance, and it seems as if you have them."-Roger Zelazny, Hugo and Nebula Award winner...

When tyrant fanatics long have commanded both government and institutions of religion, what can ordinary people do? People just trying to live a decent life, sometimes just trying to live at all...

In ill health following a stroke, Sir Walter Scott wrote Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft at the behest of his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, who worked for a publishing firm. The book proved...

From Scavenger to Justice seeker, his courage shakes his world... Little Brother had survived as an orphan on the colony planet Mother's World by following two very firm rules in his scavenging...

"Very simply, Tom Purdom IS science fiction. His ever-inventive stories are cut from the cloth of it and sewn with the skill of a master." --Gregory Frost "Tom Purdom made his first professional sale...