Science Fiction

The comfortable world of Martris Drayke, second son of King Bricen of Margolan, is shattered when his older half-brother, Jared, and Jared¿s dark mage, Foor Arontala, kill the king and seize the throne. Tris is the only surviving member of the royal family aside from Jared the traitor. Tris flees with three friends: Soterius, captain of the guard; Carroway, the court¿s master bard; and Harrtuck, a member of the royal guard. Tris harbors a deep secret. In a land where spirits walk openly and influence the affairs of the living, he suspects he may be the mage heir to the power of his grandmother, Bava K¿aa, once the greatest sorceress of her age. Such magic would make Tris a Summoner, the rarest of magic gifts, capable of arbitrating between the living and the dead. more...

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"And everywhere the Humans went, they found life ..." This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind -- all the way to the end of the Universe itself. Here, in luminous and vivid narratives spanning five million years, are the first Poole wormholes spanning the solar system; the conquest of Human planets by Squeem; GUTships that outrace light; the back-time invasion of the Qax: the mystery and legacy of the Xeelee, and their artifacts as large as small galaxies; photino birds and Dark Matter; and the Ring, where Ghost, Human, and Xeelee contemplate the awesome end of Time. Stephen Baxter is the most acclaimed and accomplished of a brilliant new generation of authors who are expanding the vision of science fiction and taking itto a new golden age. more...

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The third book in the stunning fantasy series from Gail Z Martin. This novel follows the break out success of The Summoner and The Blood King. more...

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Days before his college graduation, Scott Madison is considering whether the next step in his life will be grad school in marine biology or a real job. His father, an Army colonel, is pushing a third option: enlisting. An ad on the dorm bulletin baits Scott into accepting a job with Jake Kesten, a Ph.D. in math, who knows martial arts and helps the Government thwart computer hackers, sometimes in search-and-destroy fashion. Two years later, Scott still works for Jake, is enrolled part-time in grad school, and has finally lost his virginity. Working for Jake is not without its occasional hazards, though. While he’s recovering from a recent slipup, Arion, with pointed ears and clad in a wizard’s robe, shows up at his apartment. Arion wants him for an offworld mission, which Scott is convinced is a dream, especially when Jake doesn’t seem at all bothered by it. Nevertheless, he goes along for the ride. Except the ride consists of stepping though a lighthole that Arion gestures into existence inside Scott’s living room. And on the other side, he encounters a world out of a fantasy role-playing game, complete with flying horses and crystal dragons. Joining them is a group of individuals, all of whom appear human and who were collected from their various worlds not always in accord with their wishes. Jen-Varth is filled with self doubt and sees the past ten years of his life as wasted. Trax is a cocky young Mage who has the Staff of Chaos, a lesser artifact that he can’t control and which is sure to cause trouble. Kedda is the jovial gambler no one can figure out. And there’s Enelle, the young woman popped into their midst against her will and who immediately demands to be sent back home. Their mission is to retrieve an alien artifact from a Psi-competent humanoid bent on revenge against Arion and whoever gets in the way. This artifact will magnify his Psi power to planet-destroying proportions. Scott supposedly has the ability to control more...

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After two years of bitter conflict with the hordes of invading Canim, Tavi of Calderon, now Captain of the First Aleran Legion, realizes that a peril far greater than the Canim exists-the mysterious threat that drove the savage Canim to flee their homeland. Now, Tavi must find a way to overcome the centuries-old animosities between Aleran and Cane if an alliance is to be forged against their mutual enemy. And he must lead his legion in defiance of the law, against friend and foe--or no one will have a chance of survival . . . more...

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