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"[A] dreamy, poetic book . . . very much in the spirit of Dune or Le Guin's works."--San Francisco Examiner "Slonczewski creates an all-female nonviolent culture that reaches beyond feminism to a new...

*** The Phoenix Science Fiction Classics series has been designed for the convenience of students. Special margins provide liberal space for students to take notes. *** These distinctive trade...

"One of the best of the year...a compelling novella about a once-famous actress and her devoted manager who get much more publicity of an unfortunate sort when they inadvertently become embroiled...

Mike Resnick's accomplishments (to date) include 64 novels, 21 collections, 40 anthologies, two screenplays and approximately 250 short stories-resulting in a couple of shelves of major awards...

Aethers of MarsAuthor: Eric FlintPublisher: Phoenix PickPublication Date: May 15, 2014Number of Pages: 214 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1649730322ISBN-13: 9781649730329

Two stories about artificial intelligence from one of the most respected names in hard science fiction. Multiple Hugo and Nebula winner Nancy Kress gives us a fascinating look into the evolution of...

What finer way for Alexander the Great to honor his old tutor Aristotle than to send him an actual Indian elephant? *** After capturing a magnificent specimen from an Indian ruler, Alexander tasks...

AresAuthor: L. Neil SmithPublisher: Phoenix PickPublication Date: Jan 08, 2025Number of Pages: 236 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10: 1649731663ISBN-13: 9781649731661

Humans live deep within an apparently lifeless planet covered by massive ice sheets. Having to survive in confined spaces has bred a unique culture where deference and non-confrontation make...

Set in the time of Dionysios I of Syracuse, at the beginning of the 4th century BC, Th e Arrows of Hercules tells the tale of Zopyros of Tarentum, an engineer who invents an improved type of catapult...

*** "A real page-turner... Not to be missed." - Locus *** Mitch Helwig is a cop who has gone over the edge. He's got a Barking Dog-an infallible, illegal lie-detector, worn under street clothes - and...

Leisha Camden is a genetically engineered 'sleepless.' Her ability to stay awake all the time has not only made her more productive, but the genetic modifications have also given the 'sleepless' a...

Here is a collection of some of the finest short fiction penned by one of  "fathers" of modern science fiction. *** These stories were selected (and edited) by his wife Leigh Brackett, an...

Hal Clement, one of the all-time greats of science fiction, was defining hard science fiction before such distinctions were even being thought of. He once described his approach to writing: " T]he...

"Triumphant collection from SF's best-educated humanist."-The Washington Post A science fiction collection by one of the all-time greats of science fiction, L. Sprague de Camp. These stories and...

Born With the Dead (the novella) was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was originally published in 1974, winning the Nebula and Locus awards. *** The author now revisits the...

Born With the Dead (the novella) was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was originally published in 1974, winning the Nebula and Locus awards. *** The author now revisits the...

*** "Explosively paced... definitely long on readability."- Publishers Weekly*** Mitch Helwig is a cop on the edge, "a man who's gone through the valley of the shadow and hasn't quite made it out the...

Bolo: Rogue BoloAuthor: Keith LaumerPublisher: Phoenix PickPublication Date: Feb 25, 2020Number of Pages: 164 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1612424813ISBN-13: 9781612424811

"Fascinating, flawlessly developed, meticulously detailed."-Kirkus Reviews **** "In Joan Slonczewski's Brain Plague...a starving artist on the planet Veledon agrees to let a colony of "brain...

Berdan Geanar has had a difficult life. Unsure of himself, and apparently hated by the grandfather he has lived with since the death of his parents, he has no idea of what to do with his life. xxx...

The Bronze God of Rhodes is written as the memoirs of Chares of Lindos. **** Chares of Lindos was a Greek sculptor born on the island of Rhodes. A pupil of Lysippos, Chares eventually built the...

Who better to parody science fiction than science fiction authors themselves? *** In this classic collection of stories, compiled by Mike Resnick (winner of five Hugos, plus a plethora of other...

In March 1909, Theodore Roosevelt went on a safari to central Africa. In this fictionalized account of that trip, Mike Resnick takes us on an amusing "what-if" with Roosevelt deciding to "liberate"...

A collection of old and new, but finally put together as the author originally imagined the interlocking world of these six stories. Each of the six independent stories lightly touches on another,...

This is Book Two of the Epic Tetralogy, The Four Lords of the Diamond. **** Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents...

This is Book Two of the Epic Tetralogy, The Four Lords of the Diamond. **** Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents...

*** 2010 Nominee for the Prometheus Award *** In the 22nd century people have spread into the Solar System. Born and raised in a twentieth of Earth's gravity on the asteroid Pallas, young skater...

This is Book Three of the Epic Tetralogy, The Four Lords of the Diamond. **** Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send...

This is Book Three of the Epic Tetralogy, The Four Lords of the Diamond. **** Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send...