Sheri Tepper, one of the foremost science fiction writers in the world, gives us an exciting, evocative and thought-provoking tale where science and magic meet head-on.
Jacque LeFavre is a tamer - a member of one of the tough and honed exploration teams that, since the dramatic discovery of the Levant-Meyer Translation, humankind has been able to send to the stars.
Big Planet is Jack Vance's first major sf novel, and in the words of the Encyclopedia of SF, "e;provided an sf model for the planetary romance which has been of significant use for forty years"e;.
This collection by Lucius Shepard, one of the most exciting new writers to emerge in the 1980s, includes the eponymous story Barnacle Bill the Spacer , about an attempted mutiny on a space station, which won the Hugo Award, as well as Sports in America , about a man who finds out just how far he is willing to go when he is hired by a local crime boss to kill a man.
Three Mind-Jarring Space OperasMarooned:Four giant ships made of the wonder element synthium crash the asteroid belt and brave the cold of Jupiter's moons in mans last reckless dash to adventure.
Among the six hundred thousand stars in the vast Arm of Stars, over six hundred planets had been seeded with human stock by the greatest feat of technology ever achieved, the Ship.
Nineteen light years from Earth, on Sigma Draconis, an international space team stumbles upon the first evidence of another highly advanced civilization in the universe.
Kynance Foy was young, beautiful, intelligent an highly trained in both qua-space physics and business law when she left Earth to seek her fortune in the interstellar outworlds.
Whether or not he had wanted to turn back at the last minute, he couldn't have - the wave of dirty, hungry people carried him helplessly along in their fervour reach the temple.
Allyn Vage was once a beautiful woman, but due to an accident - which may have been a murder attempt - she was now a hopeless cripple, burned and disfigured and without the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch.
"e;[A] novel that combines exotic descriptions, slam-bang action and a mind-blowing secret history of the universe"e; - David Langford"e;Amazing story written with skill and literary excellence"e; - Goodreads ReviewerIn the aftermath of an interstellar war an enigmatic star is discovered, travelling towards the Solar System from the galactic core.