An interstellar adventure of earthborn people seeking freedom from tyranny on another world from a Hugo Award–winning author.The totalitarian United Republic of America rose from the ashes of a nation that once represented democratic liberty on Earth. Its rulers wish to expand their ideological ambitions to the stars where they will establish a new colony on an inhabitable moon known as Coyote.The crew and colonists aboard the Alabama undertaking thi...

Journey Through the Past and Into Infinity with Allen Steele!From the multiple Hugo Award-winning author of Coyote comes twelve astounding stories of science fiction (yes, old-timers, the pun is intentional). Twelve tales of adventure, mystery, and romance in the grand tradition by "one of the field's very finest writers" (Robert J. Sawyer).From the deserts of Mars to the distant frontiers of the galaxy, from an island paradise of the 1930's to an ...

The Hugo Award–winning author returns to the Coyote Universe with this science fiction adventure about a disgraced pilot facing nature's deadliest force."The master of science fiction intrigue." — Washington PostDismissed from the Union Astronautica space fleet for conduct unbecoming, Jules Truffaut faces a bleak future as a grounded pilot on an Earth ruled by a social collectivist regime that denies individual freedoms. Hoping to st...

Winner of the Locus Award: Space-station workers discover a shocking global surveillance plot in this novel from "the master of science-fiction intrigue" ( The Washington Post).Popeye Hooker knows that space isn't all it's cracked up to be. A former fisherman who takes a job building low orbital stations to escape a failed relationship, he finds that in space, construction work is still a grind. And when they aren't building the space stat...

A standalone Coyote Universe story from the Hugo Award–winning author that's "the best first contact novel in a long time" ( Rocky Mountain News)." Spindrift is classic SF in the best sense." —Nebula Award-winning author Jack McDevittThe year is 2288. Earth scientists have picked up a transmission originating from outside the solar system. Eager to confirm that the signal may have been sent by an alien civilization, Europe d...

Earth's past and future are altered by twenty-fourth-century time travelers in this "significant work of science fiction" from the author of Arkwright ( Rocky Mountain News).Chrononaut Franc Lu has come a long, long way—from the twenty-fourth century, in fact—to be in New Jersey on the evening of May 6, 1937. Traveling four hundred years into the past, he and his partner have been sent by the Chronospace Research Centre to observe the infamous expl...

The future of an orbiting space colony is threatened by a fugitive and the assassin on her trail in this science fiction adventure from three-time Hugo Award winner Allen SteeleSkycorp has always expected the near-Earth space colony Clarke County to serve as a cash cow, bringing the corporate behemoth a substantial return on its investment through food production and tourism. Now that the Church of Elvis is planning a major revival meeting on the colony, the execs a...

On Mars, a research team encounters an ancient puzzle that only a guitarist can solveIn 2029, an American research team ventures to Mars to investigate an astounding find: a labyrinth older than humanity itself, whose maze of rooms conceals the deepest secrets of the red planet. In the final chamber, strange music plays, as chilling as it is beautiful. It will be the last thing the scientist who discovers it ever hears. As the music rises to a climax, the chamber do...

An alien philosophy has the power to unite—or divide—humanity on a colonized world in this science fiction adventure from a Hugo Award-winning author.Besieged by overpopulation, dwindling resources, governmental collapses, and environmental destruction, the people living on Earth and its solar system colonies face a dire future. Light years away, the colony planet of Coyote offers humanity the best chance of survival, but its leaders are limiting immigration from E...

In this "fast-paced"* science fiction adventure, an expedition from a distant human colony travels to Earth to find a lost spiritual leader.Multi-Hugo Award-Winning AuthorDecades have passed since a bomb planted onboard a spaceship destroyed the starbridge between Earth and the colony planet of Coyote. It was the act of an extremist desperate to prevent the chaaz'maha—a teacher of the alien hjaad ethical philosophy—from sh...

Set in the Hugo Award–winning author's Coyote Universe, a science fiction story of an alien civilization offering humanity a brave new world to colonize.A species that has always kept to themselves, the arachnid-like danui are brilliant engineers, and one of the most respected member races of the alien coalition known as the Talus—which now includes the Coyote Federation, representing humankind, among them. With no previous communication between them, Coyot...

A Hugo Award–winning author presents a generational saga about the fate of human freedom on a colonized alien world.The settlers of the extrasolar moon Coyote escaped the tyrannical United Republic of America on Earth to create a home for themselves where they could pursue lives free from persecution—a colony they named Liberty. But that regime was overthrown by the Western Hemisphere Union, a social collectivist government that seized Republic resources and followe...