Science fiction: space exploration

He had but one ambition, one desire: to pilot the first manned rocket to the moon.

Trapped in a protective underground world made of reinforced concrete they can here their enemies chipping away at their walls day after day, year after year, eventually they will get through, then what happens?

American Diplomat, Brion Bayard, is on assignment in Stockholm, Sweden, when he is kidnaped by agents of The Imperium who are from a parallel world.

Four walls do not a prison make, unless they look out upon a world that doesn't exist any more.

When the Great Galactic Union first encounters Earth .

He was as ancient as time-and as strange as his own frightful battle against incredible odds!

Collected here for the first time in this massive omnibus collection are three novels and twenty-two short stories by multiple Hugo and Nebular Award nominated author, Keith Laumer.

Collected here are eighteen stories that bend time and space by the incomparable R.

Fourteen exciting stories by Hugo and Nebula nominated author Algis Budys, one of science fiction's most influential authors.

You don't have to be crazy to be an earth diplomat-but on Groac it sure helps!

Retif is a galactic diplomat extraordinaire.

Blast you, Retief!

Retief knew the importance of sealed orders-and the need to keep them that way!

It was a simple student exchange-but Retief gave them more of an education than they expected!

The Fustians looked like turtles-but they could move fast when they chose!

Retief had just one job on Northroyal-to save the galaxy from madness and war.

Sly, brave and truculent, the Qornt held all humans in contempt-except one!

He was a sort of taxi-driver, delivering a commuter to the city.

The general was bucking for his other star-and this miserable contraption bucked right back!

Two Billion Years ago, a unit of life had the urge to climb out of the sea.

When Legion signed on as a soldier he did not expect to expect to wind up as the master of a private island.

Using this machine you can look at the world through someone else's eyes.

Odd planet!

You think you know all about prairie dogs but I bet you don't even know this.

The Sea is ugly and monotonous, with only four or five faces, and all of them coarse, but mankind has just decided to deny this ugliness for subconscious reasons.

Besides being born (that is an ordeal, no less an ordeal because you forget it) the worst thing to be gone through is to be a new boy in a small Southern town.

Johnny O'Conner got off at the same corner every night.

It Was a Dull, Routine Little World.

The Fifth or Zurichthal glaciation of the Pleistocene began on the morning of April 1, 1962, on a Sunday about nine o'clock by eastern time.

He appeared in glory and sank with out a trace.

Tin Tony Trotz had only one job-to watch out for something a little odd-in a universe that was insane!

Adam had three brothers, named Etienne, Yancy, and Rreq.

True History (2nd century C.

Tara and Gahan are each Barsoomian royalty, residing in two prominent cities, Helium, and Gathol.

Off on a Comet is a high-stakes adventure novel and is included in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaire series.

Continuing the narrative from Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon, Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michael are ready to travel to the moon in All Around the Moon.

Neal Asher takes us on a thrilling ride into interstellar politics and impending war, in this second volume of Rise of the Jain.

An epic adrenaline-filled space opera, The Human is the final thrilling book in Neal Asher's Rise of the Jain trilogy.

The Last Emperox is the explosive conclusion to John Scalzi's Interdependency series.

The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi is the dazzling follow-up to The Collapsing Empire, the second in the Interdependency series - a space opera in a universe on the brink of destruction.

In the far future, humanity has left Earth to create a glorious empire.

The first two books in "e;the most important series in science fiction"e; from the New York Times-bestselling author of Dreamsnake (Ursula K.

A collection of eleven stories from the New York Times-bestselling author, including Nebula Award winner "e;Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand.

Red Thunder, Red Lightning, and Rolling Thunder-"e;action-packed, science-packed homages to Heinlein's best work"e;-now in one volume (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing).

The third book in the Thunder and Lightning Series is "e;a smashing success .

The sequel to Red Thunder is "e;a cosmic coming-of-age novel .

"e;A serious SF novel sneakily posing as an enormous golden-age thrill ride"e; from the Hugo Award-winning, #1 New York Times-bestselling author (Locus).

A gripping story of otherworldly mystery and magic from an acclaimed Grand Master of Fantasy.

The saga begun in The Stars Are Ours!

This science fiction fantasy novel features "e;an intriguing premise-the Islamic conquest of space-and an engagingly ingenuous hero.