These are tenebrous, ominous days. The armies, Lifeseekers and Scavengers have learned that their mother planetEarth, is now the battlefield of a galactic war. Two superior species seek domination through technological and physical powers. Earth is suffering in a sea of flames, and only the true heroes can prevent the ultimate demise. With their limited resources and fearsome enemies, can the humans defend their own planet against invaders, or shall the entire planet fall into the hands of...

When Sora's swallowship is taken out by a swarm during the war she is rescued by Merlin, a legendary man who has allegedly discovered a super-weapon built by the Way creators; a gun so powerful it I said to have stopped the previous war. Sora is sceptical, though, for Merlin has been missing for ten thousand years, yet he has not aged a day. As the current war between aliens and humans intensifies, the need to find this weapon becomes unquestionably urgent. They must find the gun before th...

Winner of the Hugo Award: This classic is an "evocative look at a crumbling Earth of the far future and a human race struggling to survive" (George R. R. Martin)."Roum is a city built on seven hills. They say it was a capital of man in one of the earlier cycles. I knew nothing of that, for my guild was Watching, not Remembering."For a thousand years, mankind has lived under the threat of invasion from an alien race. After the oceans rose and the continents ...

Kedna has been consigned to fostering on the empty world of Iskan when her power and her health become dangerous. Being mentored by a planetary Avatar is difficult, but moving the weather for an entire world is second nature.When she is older and her skills are needed off world, she is paired with her first member of the Sector Guard. He is a pain in the butt and harbours resentments toward her for hogging his ancestral planet. She simply concentrates on the job and earns his respe...

"[With] bigger-than-life characters and far-future tech and terminology," this sci-fi space opera "will keep readers glued to the page" ( Booklist ).Continuing from Count to a Trillion, Menelaus Illation Montrose—Texas gunslinger, idealist, and posthuman genius—has gone into cryo-suspension following the discovery that, in 8,000 years, a powerful alien intelligence will reach Earth to assess humanity's value as sl...

I am the last of my type existing today in all the Solar System. I too am the last existing who in memory sees the struggle for this System and in memory I am still close to the Center of Rulers for mine was the ruling type then. But I will pass soon and with me will pass the last of my kind a poor inefficient type but yet the creators of those who are now and will be long after I pass forever.

From a multiple Hugo Award winner: Four more novels in a brilliantly imaginative series.In the second half of the World of Tiers series, Kickaha embarks on a journey to the eternally shifting landscape of the Lavalite World of Lord Urthona—and the ultimate clash with his arch nemesis.On Earth, Kickaha and the Lord Anana pursue a rogue Beller called Thabuuz. They thought they had wiped out the last of the biolab-generated artificial intelligences created by ...

A collection of five bite-size myths from across the globe, The Wrath of the Gods by Anthony Horowitz includes exciting tales from Greek, Norse and Inuit mythology.Part of the Legends series of six books, The Wrath of the Gods tells the dramatic stories of those who dared to disobey the heavens - and it does not pay to anger the gods . . . If you’re lucky, you might just end up being transformed into a spider, falling hopelessly in love with your reflection or bei...

The Acre was the only part of an entire world where Earthmen were allowed to live as they pleased and as they were accustomed. For elsewhere on Quallavarra, humanity was forced into servitude by the Vorra, THE SUPER BARBARIANS, who has somehow managed to conquer space.But within the Acre, the underling Terrestrials had cooked up a neat method of keeping teir conquerors from stamping them out altogether. They had uncovered a diabolical Earth secret the Vorra couldn't abide - and yet...

The human race is dying. An unknown enemy came from the stars with one goal Kill all the humans! Our technology, as impressive as it is with colonists spread across a large portion of the galaxy, is useless in the face of this new threat. One small ship, the Lost Cavalier, hatches a desperate plan to find a new weapon against this unstoppable enemy; magic. The desperate crew attempt to travel back in time to retrieve the Last Wizard of Earth. They need to alter or even avoid the war that m...

"For the fairest." Past, present, and future. Again.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Clarkesworld is a Hugo Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month they bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art. Our January 2014 issue contains: Original Fiction by Ken Liu ("The Clockwork Soldier"), Cheng Jingbo ("Grave of the Fireflies") and Yoon Ha Lee ("Wine"). Classic stories by Aliette de Bodard ("Ship's Brother") and Robert Charles Wilson (...