"In the first halcyon days, images of this day would be a sign of everything good and true in the world. When the atrocities came, they settled into the psyche mundi as Promethean, evidence of fools stealing fire from the gods and expecting it not to burn.Later, as the first generation of non-human minds rose, it would be reconstructed as the inopportune actions of a newborn; regrettable, but forgivable. Over time the story would oscillate and mutate, the perspective a reflection of...

Things fall apart. A story of a vast and subtle new technology, and how it spins out of control.

A short story of the day everything changed. A secretive group called Abraxas has gathered the best of the world's talent on a remote island to create the foundation for the future, and it all hangs on the outcome of a single game. This is the story of that day, and an intimation of things to come, as Still Light extends into the 26st century. The Still Light stories are a collection of glimpses into a world, released regularly, each set five years from the last. Th...

The first three installments of a sequential sci-fi epic, each part set five years from the last, stretching from 2020 to the early 2600s.

Naero's brother Jan's still missing, and powers she can't control grow to threat status once more. Toss in Aunt Sleak's wedding, a phantom ship knocking out entire fleets, and a hyper-violent alien species invading the fringes, and Naero's life on overload just couldn't get more exciting.Wrong!After she's forced to train with the Spacer Mystics, the most impossible and demanding of all the High Masters gives her one fatal choice:Learn to control the vast powers consumi...

Naero falls from disaster into disaster. The Spacer Mystics struggle to train her wild Cosmic abilities, to keep her from destroying them and herself. They test her self-control, forcing her to mediate an impossible local conflict on the brink of war. Then there's the enigmatic, ancient alien artifact that they forbid her to go near–until it comes after her and nearly trashes the entire planet. In the aftermath of an alien attack from another dimension, Naero's forced to flee into the Unkn...

With every choice there is a consequence.Kala has fought to protect her people from everything, even themselves. Now, after the hard work she has put into forging peace with some of the most dangerous foes in this sector, it is being undone. With the lives of millions weighing on her shoulders her next choice will either save lives, or cost lives.Yatrell has made some hard choices before. He's faced command decisions that have led to dire consequences, but can he face what ...

Keel-Tath has survived the rigors of the Desh-Ka temple to become a warrior. But her true challenges have not yet begun.Keel-Tath, the child who would unite her people as foretold by an ancient prophecy, has grown to be a young warrior in the confines of the Desh-Ka temple. She has been sheltered by her old friend and mentor Ayan-Dar from the clutches of Syr-Nagath, the Dark Queen. But when Keel-Tath is forced to choose between sanctuary and her honor, she goes int...

Earth was dying, so they left, in ships full of colonists and scientists, with soldiers to protect them. Hurling through space in a timeless sleep until the ship's computers wake them. But when they do, it's clear things have gone horribly wrong. They're on an alien world in permanent darkness, frightened . . . but not alone.

Having given up everything he loved for the sake of honor, Reza Gard returns to the Confederation, only to be branded a traitor to humanity.Unable to bring himself to fight his fellow humans, the Empress returns Reza, now a man grown and a priest of the Desh-Ka, to the Confederation. There, his heart broken from having to part from the one he loves, he finds himself a stranger in a strange land, accused of being a traitor.While many see him as a manifestati...

It was the best birthday of Allison Murtaugh's life, at least until Kreelan warriors invaded her planet.It was Allison Murtaugh's birthday, and it was the best one she'd ever had, at least until warships of the Kreelan galactic empire arrived. With her family, friends, and even her beloved horse killed early in the fighting, Allison had to survive on her own.Driven by curiosity, she explored her destroyed town and came face to face with high priestess Ku'ar...

"The Eighth Science Fiction Megapack" presents another stellar lineup of classic science fiction, new and old. Here are 25 stories (plus a bonus interview with best-selling author George R.R. Martin) by some of the field's greatest authors. Included are:THE TRUE DARKNESS, by Pamela SargentPERMANENT FATAL ERRORS, by Jay LakeADJUSTMENT TEAM, by Philip K. DickROBOTS DON’T CRY, by Mike ResnickNO GREAT MAGIC, by Fritz LeiberESCAPE HATCH, by Brenda W. C...