Tad Dameron's assignment was routine enough: escort Bjonn, the alien from Farhome, on the final leg of his journey to Earth - and learn what he could about the alien's culture.But from the beginning Dameron realized that there was something strange and ominous about Bjonn - something in his eyes and the way he spoke, even the way he help himself, that forewarned of danger.Then Bjonn was gone, slipped away to mingle with Earth's teeming millions, and with him the beautiful Dia...

As Jack Eskridge sped through the night toward Chicago, the sky was suddenly lit with a flash of brilliance.Jack stopped the car and ran toward the light. He was greeted by a fantastic sight: a huge, weirdly glowing arch, through which were pouring strange-looking tanks, airships and metallic-clad soldiers carrying sinister weapons.Jack knew he had to get away and warn the country of the invasion. But before he could reach Chicago all the major cities in the United States h...

'You are an artificially constructed human being, a mobile gathering device.'That is what the computer's metallic voice tells Tanner when it releases him from his cell. Naked, unarmed, with no memory to guide him, he emerges into a savage world, into the ruins of Manhattan in the 23rd century where wild animals roam and men have become cannibals in a frantic struggle to survive.Who has unleashed this chaos upon the world? Has Tanner really been dispatched to gather facts to ...

You are riding home from work on the subway. There is a jolt - and as you fall against your neighbour you discover - he is a manikin.You investigate. The entire train is filled with manikins. Are there no humans in this world...?You approach a door. There is only an opaque blackness on the other side. You are wary. You put through only one arm. It disappears completely. You are curious. You must find out what lies beyond.You walk through the door into the ...

Makstarn was ugly, an outcast in the midst of the beautiful people of his tribe. Where they were tall and slender, he was short and squat. Where they were golden, touched with the beauty of the dawn, he was black and hairy . . . and hated by those of his own generation. It little mattered that the Elders respected him for what he was . . . and for what his father, Max Quest, had been; the young were all that mattered.And their hatred drove him at last from the tribe, and on an impo...

All of a sudden I was moving faster than usual. The other passengers standing on the subway platform seemed rooted to their places. It took me only seconds to reach the top of the six flights of stairs, and then I was out of the station and moving down Fulton Street at better than forty miles an hour!What was happening to me? It was as though I were the helpless passenger in a runaway car. Something else had assumed control and was guiding me.My body turned into an...

As a newly minted graduate of space school, Paul lands space station duty and is given the tricky and dangerous assignment of salvaging defunct satellites. But there's more up there than anyone bargained for...

In Phoenix by Marion Zimmer Bradley and Ted White, the myth of rebirth blazes into science fiction with fierce intensity and emotional depth. This is not merely a story of survival—it is a story of transformation, where destruction becomes the crucible for something stronger, wiser, and utterly unstoppable.Set against a backdrop of cosmic struggle and human vulnerability, Phoenix explores what happens when individu...

Frank Marshall suddenly finds himself 500 years in the future, and needs the help of the daughter of the corporate warlord to avoid being killed as useless waste...

Larry is home from grad school to work on his father's project to save the world from starvation, and finds himself the target of a plot to sabotage the whole project and kill them all...

An ideal agrarian community run by women and ruled by love and harmony. A city-state that mirrored history's most famous utopian vision. a society aglow with the wit and style that only Regency England had briefly achieved. All were real, all were flourishing. All were waiting to astound and entrap four space voyagers from Earth who had violated all odds by landing on this unknown planet.

When Max inexplicably gains paranormal abilities, his world is turned upside down. Suddenly gifted with telekinetic powers allowing him to control matter and energy, Max revels in his newfound talents. But he soon realizes the vast scope of his abilities is beyond his capacity to handle. As Max grapples for control amidst chaos, his grip on reality begins to slip. When his girlfriend Fran witnesses his spiraling descent into madness, she becomes the only anchor tying him to the rational wo...