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Heechee Rendezvous (Heechee Saga #3)
by Frederik PohlAfter millennia had passed, Mankind discovered the Heechee legacy (an alien culture that fled to the reative safety of a black hole)--in particular an asteroid stocked with autonavigating spacecraft. Robinette Broadhead, who had led the expedition that unlocked the many secrets of Heechee technology, is now forced once more to make a perilous voyage into space--where the Heechee are waiting. And this time the future of Man is at stake....
The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels
by Robert Silverberg Martin GreenbergThe Beholder's Eye (Web Shifters #1)
by Julie E. CzernedaThey are the last survivors of their race, beings who live on and communicate through energy, who are capable of assuming the shape of any other species. When their youngest member is assigned to a world considered safe to explore, she is captured by the natives. To escape, she must violate the most important rule of her kind, and reveal the existence of her species to a fellow prisoner--a human being. Now her race is in danger of extinction, for even if the human does not betray her, the Enemy who has long searched for her people may finally discover their location....
The Sleep of Stone
by Louise CooperKILLING WAS OUT OF THE QUESTION One push, Ghysla thought again; then as quickly thrust the dreadful idea away. There was another answer. There had to be. Then it came to her. Something that would salve her conscience--but still allow her to go through with her scheme. She could not kill Sivorne, yet keeping her a living prisoner seemed equally impossible. But there was a middle way, a way that lay between life and death, and to one who remembered the old magics from the time before the humans came, that way was still open. Sivorne wouldn't be harmed; indeed, she'd have no knowledge of her fate, for she would be in a sleep that could endure without hurt for centuries if need be. Ghysla smiled. She would take Sivorne away to her cave in the peaks by Kelda's Horns, and there she would lay the sleep upon her. The old sleep. The great sleep. The Sleep of Stone.
Oath of Fealty
by Larry Niven Jerry PournelleIn the near future, Los Angeles is an all but uninhabitable war zone, racked by crime, violence, pollution and poverty. But above the blighted city, a Utopia has arisen: Todos Santos, a thousand-foot high single-structured city, designed to used state-of-the-art technology to create a completely human-friendly environment, offering its dwellers everything they could want in exchange for their oath of allegiance and their constant surveillance. But there are those who want to see the utopia destroyed, whose answer to tomorrow's best and brightest hope is mindless violence. And they have just entered Todos Santos. . . .
The Woman Who Loved the Moon and Other Stories
by Elizabeth A. LynnContaining the first, the favorite, the lyrical and lush short fiction of today's most celebrated new fantasy talent, the author of A DIFFERENT LIGHT and the winner of two World Fantasy awards in one year.
The Princess and the Barbarian
by Betina KrahnWhen the cunning barbarian Saxxe Rouen rescues Princess Thera from grave danger, he demands, as his reward, to spend three nights in the lovely princess's bed. By the author of My Warrior's Heart.
Crisis on Doona (Doona #2)
by Anne MccaffreyAs a twenty-five year contract--arranging the cohabitation of the planet Doona between humans and the cat-like Hrrubans--comes up for renewal, an unknown entity works to sabotage the heretofore successful alliance.
Life Probe
by Michael MccollumThe Makers searched for the secret to faster-than-light travel for 100,000 years. Their chosen instruments were the Life Probes, which they launched in every direction to seek out advanced civilizations among the stars. One such machine searching for intelligent life encounters 21st century Earth. It isn't sure that it has found any...
Metaphase (Starfarers #3)
by Vonda N. McintyreThe third installment in the Starfarers series finds J. D. Sauvage and the crew preparing to meet the reclusive alien ""squidmoth,"" who presents them with a dubious offer for which they must risk everything.
Nightside: The Long Sun, and Lake of the Long Sun
by Gene WolfeThe first two novels of The Book of the New Sun series about a far-future tetralogy, combined in one omnibus volume.
The Singers of Time
by Frederik Pohl Jack WilliamsonAnother classic sci-fi tale from the two masters of the genre.
Land's End
by Frederik Pohl Jack WilliamsonSURVIVING THE END OF THE WORLD ' When Comet Sicara brushed near enough to strip the ozc layer from the Earth's atmosphere, civilization effectively ended fact, life on Earth was nearly extinguished. But the underwater cit survived, and some heavily protected land enclaves held on as w When the "ozone summer" years were ending, submarine capti Ron Tregarth rediscovered his lost love, Graciela Navarro. But th triumph against all odds was only the beginning, for the alien kno\ as the Eternal stood between them and threatened to destroy they held dearest. The Eternal's goal was to absorb the minds every living thing, to create a death-in-life to enslave the planet
The King's Peace
by Jo WaltonThe Kings Peace Sulien ap Gwien was seventeen when the Jarnish raiders came. Had she been armed when they found her, she could have taken them all. As it was, it took six of them to subdue her. She will never forgive them. Thus begins her story--a story that takes her back to her family, with its ancient ties to the Vincan empire that once ruled in Tir Tanagiri, and forward to Caer Tanaga, where the greatest man of his time, King Urdo, struggles to bind together the squabbling nobles and petty princes into a unified force that will drive out the barbarian invader and restore the King's Peace. King Urdo will change Sulien's life. She will see him for what he is: the greatest hope the country has. And he will see her for what she is: the greatest warrior of her day. Together they will fight and suffer for an age of the world, for the things that the world always needs and which never last. Ringing with the clash of arms and the songs of its people, rich with high magic and everyday life, The Kings Peace begins an epic of great deeds and down-to-earth people, told in language with the strength and flexibility of sharpened steel. Jo walton lives in Wales. The King's Peace is her first novel.