Separated!James Dempsey and his team of powered humans are stranded on Rajan with no way to find each other. They must search for any resistance fighters among the peaceable Rajani inhabitants.Meanwhile, there is a political cover-up beginning in the Galactic Alliance. Disgraced Alliance Society for Peace Commander Ries an na Van stumbles upon a terrible secret, one that could mean a greater war within the Alliance should it ever come to light.While each human strug...

Kidnapped...again!Five years after the end of the Krahn Invasion of the planet Rajan, the human survivors of that confl ict have attempted to live normal lives back on Earth.Unbeknownst to them, a bounty has been placed on their heads, and it brings them back into an even greater confl ict between the Rajani and Krahn.Now James Dempsey must fi nd allies to assist while he desperately tries to rescue the other members of his former team, including the mother of his young d...

War!James Dempsey's team of powered humans are finally reunited, but the war with the Krahn Horde goes on. The Resistance fighters, made up of the Rajani, Sekani, and Jirina inhabitants of Rajan are slowly turning the tide against the invaders, but diplomatic rifts are still apparent between the species.Galactic Intelligence officer Ries an na Van returns to his old command station to find answers to the many questions that remain of the Rajani mystery he's discovered. His ...

Kidnapped!Detroit police lieutenant James Dempsey is on the verge of career burnout when he awakes aboard an alien spacecraft. He finds his life has changed, and possibly for the better.The Rajani crewmembers are desperate for help, and have picked him and four other humans in a last-ditch effort to repel the Krahn Horde from their home world.Imbued with extraordinary powers, James and his fellow humans are thrust into a new world filled with intrigue, politics, and...

Kidnapped!Detroit police lieutenant James Dempsey is on the verge of career burnout when he awakes aboard an alien spacecraft. He finds his life has changed, and possibly for the better.The Rajani crew members are desperate for help, and have picked him and four other humans in a last-ditch effort to repel the Krahn Horde from their home world.Imbued with extraordinary powers, James and his fellow humans are thrust into a new world filled with intrigue, politics, an...

2015 Best Science Fiction and alien anthology, Publisher's Weekly Science Fiction Best SellerThe future is here…the future is now! Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now, you can, too.A constellation of the brightest lights in the Science Fiction and Fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.From Alien Invasion to Alternate History, from Cyberpunk to Comic ...

Volume two in the "Planet Pirates" series.Like every other citizen of the Federation of Sentient Planets, Lunzie Mespil believed that no harm would come to her, but when the planet pirates attack the space liner on which she is a passenger, she might have to suffer more than just inconvenience.At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

The official novelization of James Cameron’s explosive sequel to Alien, featuring the return of Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley!Ellen Ripley is forced to return to planet LV-426, where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature. There they discovered hundreds of eggs, and just one slaughtered everyone but Ripley . . .This time, she’s accompanied by a unit of Colonial Marines, but even their firepower may not be enough for them to sur...

In the new millennium, what secrets lay beyond the far reaches of the universe? What mysteries belie the truths we once held to be self evident? The world of science fiction has long been a porthole into the realities of tomorrow, blurring the line between life and art. Now, in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Third Annual Collection, the very best SF authors explore ideas of a new world. This venerable collection brings together award-winning authors and masters of the fie...

A major anthology of the "hard SF" subgenre-arguing that it's not only the genre's core, but also its future.Something exciting has been happening in modern science fiction. After decades of confusion, many of the field's best writers have been returning to the subgenre called, roughly, "hard SF"--science fiction focused on science and technology, often with strong adventure plots. Now, World Fantasy Award-winning editors David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer present...

A teenage girl and her family encounter dangerous humans and friendly aliens in this "pleasing blend of coming-of-age story and space adventure" ( BCCB ).On their way to start a new life, Tula and her family travel on the Prairie Rose, a colony ship headed to a planet in the outer reaches of the galaxy. All is going well until the ship makes a stop at a remote space station, the Yertina Feray, and the colonist's l...

Not long from now, in our own milky way…The name's Sam Kletchka. Perhaps you've heard of me: captain of the Star Runner, military contractor for Earthfleet, and interstellar privateer. But before all that, I was a hired gun, freelancing across the galaxy one gunslinging job at a time.This, my friends, is how I went from being stranded in the armpit of the galaxy to becoming the luckiest human being in the universe. Not that it was easy, of course. I've look...