Having fought his way from slave labor on a factory world to commander of the Eternal Emperor's bodyguard, the most dangerous weapons Sten has encountered in Prime World are the lies of Court politicians. When a bomb goes off, however, he discovers the danger and corruption behind Court intrigue. ...
Set three thousand years in the future, the eight Sten novels tell the tale of a tough, street-wise orphan who escapes his fate as factory planet «delinq» to become the strong right-hand of the most powerful man in the Universe – a man hailed by his billons of subjects as «The Eternal Emperor.» When the Emperor needs to pacify the Wolf Worlds, the planets of an insignificant cluster that have raised space piracy to a low art, he turns to Mantis ...
Who was the man who never grew old? Even in the enlightened society of near-future Earth, he was feared, reviled, castigated for remaining forever young. But when Matthew admits to his amazing longevity, and its source in biological science, he's called a liar. Life on Earth becomes intolerable, until he volunteers to travel on the world first interstellar spaceship–a multi-generation colony ship that will take centuries to complete its voy ...
Peter Lindsay lives in Melbourne, Australia. Charles Blackford is an American trying to relive a happier time in Athens. Both men have lost their wives. And now they must decide how to cope with the overwhelming changes being wrought by transcendent emergences from the sea. This is the quintessential “First Contact” story, a mind-bendingly brilliant exploration into what is alien…and what it means to be human. Library Journal called Jubilee “a h ...
This is the story of a Nazi hunter’s journey to find the man who tortured him and murdered his family, as he penetrates the depths of the Amazon jungle to experience an extraordinary «dream time.» Michael Swanwick called this gripping novel a “dark quest into the heart of dreams.” It is a magnificent depiction of a modern descent into hell…and the frightening–and profoundly surprising–consequences of redemption. ...
A COLLECTOR OF AMBROSES AND OTHER RARE ITEMS features four tales of SF and fantasy, including the title story, in which three unscrupulous book collectors encounter a true «Completist»; «The Boy in the Iron Mask,» which touches on the contamination of reality by dreams; «The Slaves of Moxon and Other Tales of Scientific Romance,» in which the SF world has to deal with an alternate history version of…itself!; and «A Reply to L. Ron Hubbard.» Grea ...
Richard Shaw thinks he's been blessed when he and his new bride Beryl survive a car smash. Both make rapid recoveries from their injuries, both have apparently fully recovered. But Beryl is strangely changed. As the doctor tells Richard: “As far as we can tell medically, she is normal again, except for one thing–the way she looks at you. I don’t think I have ever seen such a strange light in the eyes of a woman before!” Despite Beryl’s odd, ...
Despite being the cleverest man on Earth, Jonas Glebe becomes the unwitting tool of a baleful intelligence. He hopes that his new invention, the G-Bomb, will bring riches to himself and his daughter Margaret–but instead, it brings death, and a deadly threat to mankind. Val Turner knows the danger, but he is imprisoned, having been framed for Margaret’s murder. When Val’s eventually released, he’s too late to prevent the cataclysm that has engulf ...
For hundreds of years the male members of the Kilcannon family have considered themselves to be the beneficiaries of distortions in the statistical distribution of chance, associating their most fortunate windfalls with visual distortions that they call “streaks.” This belief has led to the accumulation of a vast heritage of superstitions—rules which, if broken, might allegedly terminate the privilege. The current heir, Canny Kilcannon, ...