Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in November, 1993. Instead, he woke up in August, 2125, in a binary star system 152 light years from home. Without any memory of the otherworldly abductors who spirited them away in cold sleep, Murphy and 100 other "Lost Soldiers" have been retrieved and awakened by officers of the Consolidated Terran Republic.Promising to return to the 55 Tauri B system after completing a distant mission...

In the six months since the raid that destroyed the makeshift transmitter, the Lost Soldiers have scratched out a permanent base on the world of R'Bak. But life in an often surprising and very alien binary system has not become any easier. Major Mara "Bruce" Lee's pregnancy becomes a powerful reminder of that: without special indigenous plants, she might lose both her unborn child and her life. And, in the process of securing enough of that rare compound, her friend and crew chief Elroy Fr...

Within these pages lie eighteen stories, from eighteen worlds shaped by some of today’s best writers of science fiction and fantasy, all guests on the Aurora Award-winning podcast The Worldshapers during its first year. Some are international bestsellers. Among them are winners and nominees for the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Aurora, Sunburst, Aurealis, Ditmar, British Science Fiction Association, and Dragon Awards. Some have been writing for decades, others are at the beginning ...

Charles E. Fritch was a writer and editor who began publishing science fiction in the early 1950s, racking up an impressive number of sales to many of the top magazines of the day. This volume assembles ten of his stories. In this volume are:ONCE UPON A MONBEAST...COME INTO MY PARLORBREATHES THERE A MANTHE ODYSSEY OF SAM MEECHAMSKIN GAMEDANGER IN THE VOIDTHE BIG LEAPTHE PACIFISTSESCAPE MECHANISMI LIKE MARTIAN MUSIC...

The Angle, a 'desirable residence' on the outskirts of the small town of Carden, has stood empty for years, the bane of local estate agents. The prospect of anyone purchasing the property becomes even more remote when the body of a murdered man is discovered inside. Called to investigate the crime, Inspector Head is dismaed to find that his clue towards identifying the culprit is single a copper hairpin, discovered near the corpse...Originally published in 1936, this is a vintage m...

Superintendent Wadden is spending his day off hunting out a likely spot for the tomato plantation he means to establish during his impending retirement. But his day off comes to an abrupt end when the area he is looking to purchase turns out to contain a highly secret experimental aircraft - and the corpse of Harry Gatton, its murdered pilot. What could such a plane possibly be doing in Westingborough? And who killed Gatton? In the shadow of impending war, it is up to Wadden and Inspector ...

Nell Cummins, former barmaid and now manager of the Duke of York hotel, is an institution. But her impeccable reputation, and that of the hotel she oversees, is threatened when one of the guests, a stranger to the district, is found stabbed. Inspector Head, tasked with unearthing the truth surrounding the murder, is annoyed to recieve a number of insistent phone calls from Enthwaite of Enthwaite House demanding that he attend immediately to an urgent matter of his own, details of which he ...

Two Complete Stellar Guild Books:The Aethers of Mars by Eric Flint and Charles E. GannonTau Ceti by Kevin J. Anderson and Steven Sevile-----------------------------------------------------THE AETHERS OF MARSWelcome to Mars…circa 1900. Cecil Rhodes rules Mars and is on his way to transforming the British Empire into his vision of a powerful force, managed by the "right" type of people.But what of Savinkov…presumably on board the British aether...

On a snowy Winter's morning, Inspector Head arrives at Westingborough Grange to investigate the murder of Mr Edward Carpenter, who was shot after answering the door to a stranger in the early hours of the morning. Head imagines the trail of footprints leading from the door of the Grange into the surrounding countryside will make things easy. But when the prints stop, suddenly and mysteriously, at the base of an ash tree in a nearby field, it appears that things may not be as straightforwar...

Introducing: The Rainbow Screen, the latest project of entrepreneur Gerard Logan and the brainchild of two aspiring inventors currently residing at The Firs in the village of Todlington near Westingborough. A revolution in colour cinema, Logan and his proteges are convinced that the screen will cause a sensation. But when Logan disappears after attending the final demonstration of the new equipment, his daughter begins to fear the worst. Could it really be a publicity stunt, as the London ...

CONTENTS: ALEXANDER PUSHKIN 1. The Queen of Spades ALGERNON BLACKWOOD: 2. Confession 3. S. O. S. 4. The Wings of Horus ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE 5. B. 24 ARTHUR O. FRIEL: 6. The Spider 7. The Vulture ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH: 8. Statement of Gabriel Foot, Highwayman 9. The Affair of Bleakirk-on-Sands 10. The Countess of Bellarmine ARTHUR STRINGER: 11. The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven 12. The Button Thief 13. The Wire-Tappers ARTHUR TRAIN: 14. Extradition 15. The Baron de Ville 16. The Golden To...

SOLDIERS LOST IN TIME, 152 LIGHT-YEARS FROM HOME, WITH A DAUNTING TASK FOR SURVIVALNEW NOVEL SET IN THE AWARD-WINNING TERRAN REPUBLIC SERIESTaken from their planet and their century, they are not just the Lost Soldiers: they are Murphy’s Lawless.Major Rodger Y. Murphy should have died when his helicopter crashed off the coast of Mogadishu in 1993. Instead, he woke up in 2125, 152 light-years from home. Murphy and a ...