A civil war rages in our galaxy. To further their war aims, the TeraGon, a manufactured warrior race, attempts to capture Earth. And to thwart their plans, the Order, the TeraGons' former masters and now their foes, appoint 13-year-old Mark Numan as his world's sole Guardian.But Mark quickly learns the TeraGons aren't his only enemy. And the Earth proves not to be just another world to be conquered but is crucial to the fate of the galaxy, and even the entire multiverse!

Goddess is a collection of David Downey’s short stories. The tales explore love, loss, and longing, against the quirky and psychedelic backdrops of one night stands, time travel, jilted gods, nuclear war, alien invasions, and junk mail hording.

In 346 BC, a young Alexander the Great persuades his father to attack the military city-state of Sparta.That fateful event is the snowflake that triggers an avalanche of an alternative history spanning 2,300 years, marking the end of ancient Greece as we know it, and resulting in a Sparta ascendant.And now in modern times, Xenophon, Sparta’s Ambassador to the United States, must use all his strength, wits, and cunning to quell an escalating crisis between a crippled US and ...

- A lowly demon gains possession of a human.- The Garden of Eden is rediscovered on Earth.- An exploding star, bright enough to be seen in the daytime sky, heralds Christ's rebirth on our world.For ages, the Prince of Darkness has waited for three such events, to launch his catastrophic plan of final vengeance against God.

- A lowly demon gains possession of a human.- The Garden of Eden is rediscovered on Earth.- An exploding star, bright enough to be seen in the daytime sky, heralds Christ's rebirth on our world.For ages, the Prince of Darkness has waited for three such events, to launch his catastrophic plan of final vengeance against God.

- A lowly demon gains possession of a human.- The Garden of Eden is rediscovered on Earth.- An exploding star, bright enough to be seen in the daytime sky, heralds Christ's rebirth on our world.For ages, the Prince of Darkness has waited for three such events, to launch his catastrophic plan of final vengeance against God.

- A lowly demon gains possession of a human.- The Garden of Eden is rediscovered on Earth.- An exploding star, bright enough to be seen in the daytime sky, heralds Christ's rebirth on our world.For ages, the Prince of Darkness has waited for three such events, to launch his catastrophic plan of final vengeance against God.

- A lowly demon gains possession of a human.- The Garden of Eden is rediscovered on Earth.- An exploding star, bright enough to be seen in the daytime sky, heralds Christ's rebirth on our world.For ages, the Prince of Darkness has waited for three such events, to launch his catastrophic plan of final vengeance against God.

A tachyon star appears outside of Terran Union space, approaching at impossible speeds. The war-ravaged Union dispatches the destroyer Havok to determine if it’s a natural phenomenon, a desperately needed friend, or another genocidal foe.

They are an unstoppable force of mercenaries from every known Terran planet in the Galaxy. They have little in common, other than their love of wealth and adventure, and a bitter hatred for each other. Known simply as the Black Legion, they will blaze a trail of death and destruction that will be remembered for generations.For Xenophon, the Black Legion is an escape from the state that tried to kill him and his family. Exiled from his homeworld he joins the mercenaries, along with ...

A young ensign, recently graduated from the Northern Hemisphere Space Academy, is awakened abruptly in the middle of the night by alarms, flashing lights, and dire messages to abandon ship. The petite blonde pulls on some clothes and races through the spaceship in a desperate search for an available life pod-- but it appears all have already departed. So begins the epic story of Jenetta Carver. Get a tight grip on your book and prepare for an exciting adventure like few others because Jene...

For decades now Gardner Dozois has been presenting his annual selection of the very best of recently published SF stories, both byoutstanding up-and-coming writers and undisputed masters of the genre. It has been voted Year's Best Anthology by the readers of Locus magazine an unparalleled eighteen times and remains the definitive anthology for both diehard sci-fi fans and newcomers to the genre.Without fail, Dozois pinpoints the previous year's most exciting and ambitious ...