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2016
by Alfredo Véa
"What if we could travel back in time to save our heroes from painful deaths? What if we could rewrite history to protect and reward the innocent victims of injustice? In Alfredo Vea's daring new novel, one man does just that, taking readers on a series of remarkable journeys. Ab…
2016
by Chuck Tingle
With his genre-defining work, Space Raptor Butt Invasion, Chuck Tingle proved that even gay dinosaur erotica could be nominated for a Hugo Award, the most prestigious honor in science fiction. Nobody could have expected what would happen when the story continued. Collected here i…
2014
by Elizabeth Moon
"Acclaimed author Elizabeth Moon spins gripping, richly imagined epic fantasy novels that have earned comparisons to the work of such authors as Robin Hobb and Lois McMaster Bujold. In this volume, Moon's brilliant masterwork reaches its triumphant conclusion. The mysterious reap…
2012
by David Wong
"Fan favorite David Wong takes readers to a whole new level with this blistering sequel to the cult sensation John Dies at the End, soon to be a movie starring Paul Giamatti Originally released as an online serial where it received more than 70,000 downloads, John Dies at the End…
2012
by Olivia M. Ravensworth
Released at the end of 2012 by Pink Flamingo Publications http://www.pinkflamingo.com/brands/Olivia-Ravensworth.html , Slave to Six Worlds is a tale of the future as imagined from the Golden Age of science fiction of the 1930s—a colorful, bawdy, brawling time of atomic-powered ro…
2006
by Aaron Allston
This is the era of Luke Skywalker's legacy: the Jedi Master has unified the order into a cohesive group of powerful Jedi Knights. But as the new era begins, planetary interests threaten to disrupt this time of relative peace, and Luke is plagued with visions of an approaching dar…
2006
by Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy's tenth novel, The Road, is his most harrowing yet deeply personal work. Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder, inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. The sky is perpetually shrouded by du…
2004
by Anne McCaffrey, Todd McCaffrey
Beginning with the classic Dragonriders of Pern, Anne McCaffrey has created a complex, endlessly fascinating world uniting humans and great telepathic dragons. Millions of devoted readers have soared on the glittering wings of Anne's imagination, following book by book the evolut…
2003
by Kevin J. Anderson
Suppose you could switch bodies with another person? What exciting new experiences would you choose to explore? What forbidden desires would you indulge? Suppose someone stole your life--how far would you go to get it back?From New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson…
1996
by Paul J. McAuley
A review by Greg L. Johnson: The Invisible Country is McAuley's second short story collection. The stories, mostly hard SF that draw on McAuley's background in biology, are a good introduction to a writer who is both a first-rate story teller and stylist. The title story, a does-…
2020
by Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton, C. L. Moore, Alfred Bester, Frederik Pohl, Edgar Pangborn, Barbara Constant, Emil Petaja, Alan Edward Nourse, Therese Windser, Clark Ashton Smith, William F. Nolan, T. D. Hamm, Sonya Dorman, Robert E. Howard, Evelyn E. Smith, Robert F. Young, H. Beam Piper, Walter M. Miller Jr., Keith Laumer, Lilith Lorraine, R. A. Lafferty, Sydney J. Van Scyoc, Fritz Leiber, Milton Lesser, Helen M. Urban, Jerome Bixby, Kurt Vonnegut, Charles L. Fontenay, Lester del Rey, Ann Warren Griffith, Frank W. Coggins, Harry Harrison, L. Taylor Hansen, Louis Trimble, Gordon R. Dickson, Helen Huber, Henry Kuttner, Miriam Allen deFord, Dorothy Quick, Mary Elizabeth Counselman, Poul Anderson, Karen Anderson, Edgar Wallace, Algis Budrys, Robert Sheckley, Mari Wolf, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Frank M. Robinson, Richard Matheson, Anne Walker, James Blish, August Derleth, Rhoda Broughton, Frank Herbert, Tom Godwin, Edmond Hamilton, John D. MacDonald, Katherine MacLean, Judith Merril, Clifford D. Simak, Carl Jacobi, E. C. Tubb, Manly Wade Wellman, William Tenn, Lynn Venable, Florence Verbell Brown, Jack Williamson, Ben Bova, Philip José Farmer, Ron Goulart, Dean Ing, Laurence M. Janifer, Robert Silverberg, Hal Clement, Steve Rasnic Tem, Melanie Tem, L. Ron Hubbard, Mary Carlson, Annie Proulx, Ted White, Terry Carr
Jackie Sees a Star by Marion Zimmer Bradley All Cats are Gray by Andre Norton Song in a Minor Key by C. L. Moore Travel Diary by Alfred Bester Pythias by Frederik Pohl The Good Neighbors by Edgar Pangborn The Sound of Silence by Barbara Constant The Intruder by Emil Petaja An Oun…
2011
by Pittacus Lore
(source: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-power-of-six/#gsc.tab=0) **The Power of Six** by Pittacus Lore is the second volume in a series that began with the book "I Am Number Four." It is a saga that pits good against evil on an interplanetary scale. Nine children and thei…