After over a century of settling a rough planet, constant warfare, and rough living, the residents of this remote planet are finally ready to sit back, have a nice, peaceful celebration, and relax.A visitor from another system finds himself an unwilling witness as this suddenly goes in directions that he hadn't expected at all.

This a story of banquets and squatters. Temple noviates and plutocratic schemers. Gentle kisses and cooly planned murder.Emilio is a very clever young man. With a big circle of capable, ambitious, clever friends. Smooth, smart, and with a reputation for being able to get things done. Discretely. Things that may not be entirely legal or simply which a person with a certain position in society might not want publicly known.But when an equally ambitious up and comer in one of ...

This is both a glimpse into daily life aboard a Survey ship and a story about expections. About when you meet people who make very different choices from yours. A tale which speculates about some less expected ways that a society's science and government and ways of communicating may evolve. From paint brush to circuit board to planetary climate.When you're in a small ship in an alien system and nothing that they do seems to make much sense, how do you react? How does your crew rea...

Once upon a time, a few hundred years from now, Sheyhan, a petty street hustler, and Old Helga, a woman just trying to get by after decades of trouble, have to find a solution to an terrifying problem together, gathering friends and fellow outsiders to do something so huge that even they wonder if it can be done.Set in a world of sprawling, illegal markets and societies of street urchins. Of elegant, serene, temple complexes and grungy, rambunctious spaceports. Where your atmo suit...

The Captain of a small Survey vessel in a remote system in the early throes of collapse finds herself thrust into confrontation with a ship from a powerful, more advanced society which looks to be planning to invade.How much can she and her crew find out about them? How much are she and her crew willing to risk to turn this potential confrontation into a chance to negotiate?And when the cards are all on the table, who really turns out to have been setting this up all along? A...

When your life has gone adrift sometimes all that you want is to get some time away from your housemates, go for a walk, and hang out at your favorite fast food joint.But sometimes the universe has other plans.Sometimes it seems like everybody has chosen today in your nice, quiet joint to mess with each other. Sometimes it seems like the people you'd never see in there in a million years are walking in the door two a minute.And when that happens sometimes your best b...

There will always be big, wealthy organizations which promise to sell certain things to small, remote outposts. And which, once the ink on the contract has been dry for a while, will start to change the terms. A little here. A bit there. After all, they are a vast entity of astonishing power and reach. What is some petty, dirty, little base on an obscure out of the way moon in a position to do but pay whatever they're told in return for whatever the wealthy organization chooses to sell to ...

In this astonishing one-hundred-page companion novella to the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series, meet Lexa, a Loric hacker whose unrivaled skills helped her narrowly escape her doomed planet, and who's been hiding on Earth ever since.Lexa was never part of the Elders' plan. She had no idea the Garde children were being evacuated to our planet. But when the Mogadorian attack began, she used her expertise to get an old spaceship in a museum operational once more and ...

The Burn is full of nuclear fallout, roving gangs, anarchy, unreliable plumbing. That's what Terra's father tells her. She has lived her whole life in comfort in a colony at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. She hates it. And she would pay any price to leave. But when Terra finally escapes the colony, she finds out her father is right.She finds a group of survivors that quickly become friends, and every day with them is a race for survival. When she witnesses and commits unspeakable...

A trans teen is transformed into a superhero in this action-packed series-starter perfect for fans of The Heroine Complex and Not Your Sidekick.Danny Tozer has a problem: she just inherited the powers of Dreadnought, the world's greatest superhero. Until Dreadnought fell out of the sky and died right in front of her, Danny was trying to keep people from finding out she's transgender. But before he expired, Dreadnought passed his mantle to her, and ...

The greatest gift to us is caring. What would the world be like without someone to care for or to care with? Would love survive if we don't care? From the world of twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors comes a world that can be funny, heartwarming, strange, or sad. Or not what we expect. Recommended by Publishers Weekly.How can a henchman keep up with a mischievous retired supervillain? Can a dog help a hockey player score again? Will an odd cou...

The final book in this exciting series, Scavenger: Mind Warp is a gripping futuristic adventure from the award-winning Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. For ages nine and up.My name is York. I'm a scavenger. I'm fourteen years old . . . I am on a mission to save mankind.The Zoids have taken over the Biosphere. York has only one hope: to journey back into the central computer's memory banks and, finally, uncover the glitch that first unleashe...