A single mother and her two children live in a farmhouse in rural Kentucky. Each night they find themselves tormented by mysterious Black-eyed children. There love and the help of a shaman and his sidekick are the only things that stand between the black-eyed children and the family. A MUST READ FOR THE PARANORMAL LOVER!!!

Ever wonder what happens after a major breakthrough? It's not always glamorous, often it's plain hard work. After the events covered in Saint Vladnitz, humanity's path to the stars seems clear and the most junior crew member from that voyage is determined to participate. Ernestine Borgia becomes the Imperial Navy's prize recruit. Trouble is, she keeps getting into trouble. Her fellow cadets resent her, the naval officers barely tolerate her, and the retrofitted ship to which she's assigned...

Mankind has spread across the galaxy but struggles to remain united. The latest incarnation of civilization, the Second Empire, is held together by means both official (the doctrines of the Church Universal) and unofficial (squads of Church-sponsored assassins, called Tawiin). The Tawiin, each led by a Missionary, conduct purges of those opposed to the Church dogma, ensuring the ideological and genetic purity of the only intelligent race in the galaxy.Now a self-styled preacher has...

The Imperial Astrophysical Institute's official position is that, as a planet, Demeter should not exist. In a stellar system far older than Sol's, the lack of metal should have prevented any planet from forming around the weak red sun. But Demeter overcame the odds and the planet and its life survived for billions of years, even after the first human settlers arrived. Now something has happened to catch the eye of the Church Universal.The Church Universal is the glue that holds the...

A corporation, Alchemistica, sends a team to Gondwana, a planet covered with a thick jungle. The planet is perfect for pharmaceutical prospecting, full of exotic vegetation loaded with even stranger chemical compounds that may make Alchemistica rich or kill the prospecting team or both, it is all the same to their corporate bosses. The newest member of the team, biochemist Lani Callis, wants to impress the team's veterans on her first prospecting trip, but she must overcome her own limitat...

Over five hundred years since the start of the Space Age and humanity has still not yet broken out of the prison of the solar system. Generation ships have been sent to nearby star systems, but the sublight speeds involved means that nobody has returned yet. Warp drives and worm holes have been around for centuries, although only in science fiction. Running short on resources in the solar system–even Saturn's rings have been strip-mined–humanity needs some divine intervention. Instead, the...

Over a century after the seedship Lazarus completed its near 1,200 year journey, the Terran colonies found themselves in conflict with a hostile alien race.In a world decimated by a long, drawn-out war where a never-ending stream of fresh clones are fed to the Terran war machine, a genetically engineered squad of soldiers must fight to survive against all odds.When society is ruled from behind the scenes by massive corporate conglomerates that control powerful secret organiza...

Ryan Richmond has dreamed about going to space since the age of seven. Reading space updates—and seeing pictures of Neil Armstrong on the lunar surface in National Geographic—was the ignition of this dream.At nineteen he sold his first company and employed the remnants of the Russian Space Program, three of the best space brains in the world.In his twenties he founded and sold two more companies and hired the most outstanding scientists and engineers from the European Space...

To wake up a lost girl from the ice, two brothers must face an empire.Deep in the Far Outworlds, a derelict space station holds the bones of a long-dead people—and a beautiful young woman locked in cryofreeze. When the star-wandering brothers Isaac and Aaron Deltana find the sleeping girl, they soon realize that they are her only hope for rescue. If they don't take her, then slavers certainly will.With no way to revive her, they set a course for the New Ple...

A special commemoration of this longrunning themed science fiction anthology edited by multiple #1 best seller, Larry Niven. Here is the 25th anniversary edition of the original volume that started it all. Includes an allnew introduction by Larry Niven for this reissue of the first volume in a series that now numbers fourteen volumes and is still going strong.Larry Niven’s bestselling ManKzin series begins! The kzin, formerly invincible conquerors of all they encountered, had a har...

Here is one of the tightest, tautest stories of interplanetary adventure in a long while... a story of science fiction exceptionality, serene futuristic awesomeness, and the tranquility that comes from devouring a work of sci fi so utterly brilliant, so utterly thorough...