Twelve light-years from Earth, Lieutenant Commander Valory Jeanne is alone in the astrophysics lab when an unexpected meteor storm strikes the United Earth Space Force ship, Copernicus, after just four orbits around a newly discovered planet in the Tau Ceti star system.
In the mist of The Cybronian War, which has encompassed over 120 systems in The League, Rengalor and his team of Draconian warriors are dispatched to Rook to help aid the Military efforts on the planet.
An action/comedy with astronauts taking off on one journey which turned into many adventures throughout the galaxiesThis is the first book in a series about a wealthy family of the future.
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.
MISSION OF EMPIREEarthmen had colonized hundreds of planets in the four centuries of deep space exploration-independent new civilizations founded by the discontented and adventurous of Terra.
After centuries of intercontinental war, chaos, and reconstruction, Earth wants to reassert itself on the planet it built and colonized at great cost nearly a millenium before.