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Chi
by Alexander BesherWiny Fat, head of a South-east Asian biotech drug cartel, is siphoning off vital chi essence from enslaved humans held on plantations in the former Golden Triangle. And bootleg chi products are flooding the world's black markets, offering global consumers everything they have always craved: super-enhanced intelligence, greater creativity, heightened sexual powers, multimedia implants and even short-term immortality.
Prentice Alvin (Tales of Alvin Maker #3)
by Orson Scott CardThe Tales of Alvin Maker series continues in volume three, Prentice Alvin. Young Alvin returns to the town of his birth, and begins his apprenticeship with Makepeace Smith, committing seven years of his life in exchange for the skills and knowledge of a blacksmith. But Alvin must also learn to control and use his own talent, that of a Maker, else his destiny will be unfulfilled.
Wyrms
by Orson Scott CardThe sphere is alien in origin, but has been controlled by man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this constructed world: When the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvation... or the destruction of the cosmos.<P> Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father before her, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family. For she has learned the true ruler’s honor: Duty to one’s race is more important than duty to one’s self.<P> But the time for prudence has passed, and that which has slept for ages has awakened. And Patience must journey to the heartsoul of this planet to confront her destiny... and her world's.
Gods of Riverworld (Riverworld #5)
by Philip Jose FarmerThirty billion people from throughout Earth's history have been resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Riverworld. Most began life anew--accepting without question the sustenance provided by their mysterious benefactors. But a rebellious handful, including Mark Twain, Richard Burton, and Peter Jairus Frigate, burned to confront the unseen masters who controlled their fate--and these few launched an invasion that will ultimately yield the mind-boggling truth. The story was chronicled in four previous volumes, and is now concluded in Gods of Riverworld. Riverworld's omnipotent leaders must finally be confronted, and the renegades of Riverworld--led by the intrepid Sir Richard Francis Burton--will control the fantastic mechanism that rules them. But the most awesome challenge lies ahead. For in the vast corridors and secret rooms of the tower stronghold, an unknown enemy watches and waits to usurp the usurpers....
Traitor to the Living
by Philip Jose FarmerA machine that enables the living to communicate with the dead threatens to allow angry and vengeful ghosts to reenter the world of the living and enact cruel revenge
1945
by Newt Gingrich William R. ForstchenThe year is 1945, In Europe, the Third Reich reigns triumphant. The Soviet Union is a fragment of its former self, and Britain has accepted a dictated armistice. In the Pacific, after a brief, sharp war with Japan, America is the only significant military presence. Now the world's two superpowers eye each other warily across the Atlantic Ocean that grows smaller daily. The Big Show is about to start... Who will win? The Americans with their formidable industrial base and superior logistical techniques-or the Germans with their science fiction super weapons that turn out not to be fictional after all? Only one thing is certain: if America is beaten, this alternate Reich will last a thousand years...
The Angel is Near
by Deepak ChopraIn a burned-out village in Kosovo, two soldiers are struck down by a flash of blinding light ... In New York, a doctor runs to help a stricken neighbor, only to be charged with the bloody murder of the man he came to save ... In a Nevada laboratory, a cynical scientist analyzes a bizarre life form-and discovers the impossible ... All around the world the fabric of reality is unraveling. Scientists scramble to understand it. Ordinary people confront strange, terrifying phenomena. And an American doctor named Michael Aulden stands at ground zero in a war of the body, mind and soul-as humankind must choose between the goodness that has always been ours, or the evil that has found a home on earth...
Between Planets
by Robert A. HeinleinThe message had seemed simple, yet it was more complex than Don could have imagined. He was being called from Earth to an alien world for reasons unknown--save only that his life depended on it. But setting out for Mars and getting there in good shape turned out to be a lot more complicated than Don ever would have guessed possible. It was trouble enough being inexplicably hounded by Earth's secret police. But when he was hijacked by Venusian rebels, Don suddenly realized that he was trapped in the center of a war between worlds that could change the fate of the Solar System forever.
Star Trek: Corona
by Greg Bear"just a small-planet girl" may hold the key to the future of the Universe! Join the crew of the Enterprise as they struggle against weird aliens, the fourth estate, and Star Fleet monotirs as they once again try to save the Universe!
The Positronic Man
by Isaac Asimov Robert SilverbergAndrew Martin is more than the average robot and when he is brought home to the Martin' s home he quickly shows how he has additional skills to what the normal 'Android' had . He develops amazing skills allowing him to create the most beautifully hand made clocks, as well as other artistic features mainly all from wood. He wins freedom and legal rights and wishing his positronic brain could be replaced - he applies to the World court to be counted as a human in all respects.
Comprador
by David R. CudlipShady back-room business deals and communist Chinese politics are the mainstays of this novel, set in the ont-too-distant future.
Chaos Mode (Mode #3)
by Piers AnthonyFantasy adventure where characters reunite from the precious Mode series books. They are able to mode easily between universes entering other worlds. Colene, a young lady fighting depression and Darius a king from another world who has won her heart in love, as well as Seqiro, who is a telepathic horse commence for one more adventure. This seems to be the beginning of the most intimidating adventure so far in this series, joining the threesome is an alien with tentacles known as Burgess. They have embarked on a journey to Earth where Colene would be able to make peace with her relatives and sorting out memories and reasons for her depression which have been troubling her since her childhood.
The True Game
by Sheri S. TepperSheri S. Tepper, author of the New York Times Notable Book Grass, has helped redefine speculative fiction. Award winner, national bestseller, and one of the genre's most respected and acclaimed talents, she has transcended the boundaries of science fiction and fantasy with her widespread success. Available for the first time in one volume, this is the long out-of-print trilogy that launched her remarkable career: King's Blood Four, Necromancer Nine, and Wizard's Eleven. In the lands of the True Game, your lifelong identity emerges as you play--Prince or Sorcerer, Demon or Doyen. Raising the dead is the least of the Necromancer's Talents-he is a wild card who threatens the True Game itself. A giant stalks the mountains. Shadowpeople gather by the light of the moon. Bonedancers raise up armies of the dead. And the Wizard's Eleven sleep trapped in their dreams. Players, take your places. The final Game begins now. . .
The Forever King
by Molly Cochran Warren MurphyHas King Arthur been reborn to live again at the end of the Twentieth century? And how do a washed-up alcoholic FBI agent and an insane -- or is he insane -- serial killer feature in the story? To say more would spoil this page-turner that spans the centuries.
Approaching Oblivion: Road Signs on the Treadmill Toward Tomorrow
by Harlan EllisonThe New York Times called him "relentlessly honest" and then used him as the subject of its famous Sunday Acrostic. People Magizine said there was no one like him, then cursed him for preventing easy sleep. But in these stories Harlan Ellison outdoes himself, rampaging like a mad thing through love ("Cold Friend", "Kiss of Fire", "Paulie Charmed the Sleeping Woman"), hate ("Knox", "Silent in Gehenna"), sex ("Catman", "Erotophobia"), lost childhood ("One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty") and into such bizarre subjects as the problems of blue-skinned, eleven-armed Yiddish aliens, what it's like to witness the end of the world and what happens on the day the planet Earth swallows Barbra Streisand. Oh yeah, this one's a doozy!
Farnham's Freehold
by Robert A. HeinleinThis is a survivalist story describing the struggle of one man to survive in an alternate universe along with his family. Blasted into the alternate universe by a nuclear holocaust, Hugh Farnham attempts to rebuild. But in this reality, white people are treated as slaves working for dark-skinned masters. Having lived as a free man, Hugh does not adapt well to this reality and strives desperately to free himself and his family. Heinlein used this plot line to warn of nuclear war, to describe the foolishness of racism and to preach a little about the rights of free men.
Friday
by Robert A. HeinleinHer name is Marjorie Baldwin--or that's what most of her friends and all of her family think. Her real name is Friday, and she isn't your everyday human, she is an Artificial Person, a person created through in vitro fertilization and raised in a creche with a lot of other children just like her. Since Artificial Persons have less status than a good machine, she must make her living where and how she can.
Highlander: the Element of Fire
by Jason HendersonDuncan's eyes flew up the main mast to the crow's nest, and as lightning linked its way across the sky he saw two women there, and by the strong presence, he knew they were both Immortals.. "Amber!' shouted Duncan, but the wind would not carry his voice. He saw the glint of steel. Who the other woman was, Duncan had no idea. But they were fighting. Lightning filled the sky and Duncan saw the mane of red hair, just like that of Khordas, the Salamander. Duncan shouted out to Amber again and began to run for the main mast, but now he saw Connor wrench one hand free from the wheel of the Rosemary and thrash at him furiously.. "No!" . "But. . .' Crashing waves. The two women were pitched in battle in a space no wider than a tabletop.. "She's not ready!' . "No!' Connor snarled again, over the elements.. "You may not interfere! It is forbidden!' Lightning crackled once again, and the two female figures were silhouettes against the gray clouds. Duncan heard the Salamander cry, "The God will be avenged, Highlander! I own the elements and will not be denied my duel."