The Hugo Award–winning author and SFWA Grand Master delivers the first Gene Wars novel and "a brand-new universe with brand-new rules" ( The San Diego Union Tribune).In this brilliant novel—possibly Cherryh's masterwork—the fate of billions has come down to a confrontation between two profoundly alien cultures on a single desert planet.Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways...

A magical warrior must once again take up his fearsome sword in the Hugo Award–winning author's epic fantasy series.Conjured by a wizard to fight an ancient and magical war, Tristen is a man without a past, and a warrior of great skill. The keen blade of his sword, marked Illusion on one side and Truth on the other, has already helped him win the throne of Ylesuin for the young king Cefwyn. As reward, Tristen has been made Duke of Amefel.Tri...

Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words. His purpose -- to create out of the insubstance of the air, from a shimmering of light and a fluttering of shadows. that most wonderous of spells, a Shaping. A Shaping in the form of a, young man who will be sent east on the road the old was to old to travel. To right the wrongs of a long-forgotten wizard war, and call new wars into being. Here is the long-awaited major new novel from one o...

The Hugo Award-winning science fiction novel about a space station caught in the crosshairs of an interstellar war—perfect for fans of space opera and military science fiction!“A hell of a story.” —io9The Beyond started with the Stations orbiting the stars nearest Earth. The Great Circle the interstellar freighters traveled was long, but not unmanageable, and the early Stations were emotionally and politically dependent on Mother Earth. The...

THE SPACE OPERA CLASSIC: Discover “one of the best long-running science fiction series in existence” (Publishers Weekly)!A sole human diplomat navigates a world inhabited by hostile, intelligent aliens—and learns the consequences of first contact.It had been nearly 5 centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On th...

All three books in C.J. Cherryh's epic The Faded Sun trilogy, Kesrith, Shon'jir, and Kutath, collected in one volume.They were the mri—tall, secretive, bound by honor and the rigid dictates of their society. For aeons this golden-skinned, golden-eyed race had provided the universe mercenary soldiers of almost unimaginable ability.But now the mri have faced an enemy unlike any other—an enemy whose only way of war is widespread dest...

The 2nd novel of The Hinder Stars series returns to an intergalactic corporate conflict, set in the Hugo Award–winning Alliance-Union Universe.With deft prose and complex characters, Alliance Unbound is thought-provoking science fiction that shrewdly examines the technological and sociopolitical challenges of humanity’s journey to the stars.When Cyteen opened up faster-than-light travel, it gave the technology for free to any ship that could reach ...

The first in a series of “lively tales of swashbuckling capitalism in space,” featuring a fascinating alien culture based on the social structure of lion prides (Locus)Chaos breaks out when the captain of an all-female alien crew agrees to rescue a human male wanted by their enemy . . .No one at Meetpoint Station had ever seen a creature like the Outsider. Naked-hided, blunt toothed and blunt-finge...

WE DIDN'T KNOW—WE ONLY BELIEVED—NOW YOU'VE COME BACK"Does it seem reasonable to you that a Regency continues—into an Emperor's thirtieth year ""No, m'lord," Shoka said."Not to us, either. Not to many of us. We were ready to make that objection—when lord Gitu overran Yijang and Hua.... Assassinations, elsewhere. Hired killers. Bands of mercenaries traveling under imperial orders. The Emperor's seal, and the Regent's orders. How do we stop su...

Galaxy's Edge magazine is published every two months by Phoenix Pick, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Arc Manor, LLC, a small press based in Maryland. Each issue includes a mix of new and reprinted stories, columns by Barry Malzberg and Gregory Benford and book reviews by Paul Cook.Edited by Mike ResnickStories by: C. J. Cherryh, Steve Cameron, Robert Sheckley, Martin L. Shoemaker, Mercedes Lackey, Lou J. Berger, Elizabeth Bear, Brad R. Torgersen, Robert T. Jesch...

SFWA Grand Master Cherryh returns to the Hugo-award winning Alliance-Union Universe with a thrilling entry in her far-reaching sci-fi saga.For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station receives news of an incoming ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the ...

The 22nd book in the beloved Foreigner saga continues the adventures of diplomat Bren Cameron as he navigates the tenuous peace he has struck between human refugees and the alien atevi.In the east, outright warfare has tied down the Assassins' Guild, and that region is in confusion. Ready to hand is an age-old feud in the west, where the Master of Ashidama Bay has long hated the Edi people of the north shore and equally hated the Aishidi’tat for bringing t...