Eons after the last stars have died, inhabitants of the universe’s lone civilization, Venthralli, scour the lightless expanse in search of frozen remnants from those ancient supernovae in order to heat their colony ship.Tasked with physically retrieving these icy chunks fuel, a young citizen named Salem sets out on a historic journey through unexplored space, guided by his childhood friend, and ship’s new navigator, Ank. Salem traverses the ruins of their dead univ...

Margaret Turie, a marketing coordinator for Hydro Electrix Incorporated, becomes rattled when one of her coworkers returns from a prolonged medical leave in a frightened, fugue state, believing to have died and gone to Hell. As the condition spreads across rural Massachusetts with no medical explanation, Margaret dives into an obsessive investigation of the “null space” mystery, following a trail of spreading psychosis, mad science, and supernatural forces.The Null Space i...

“A gripping time travel adventure that hooks the reader from the beginning and keeps their attention to the very last page.” - Literary Titan"Compelling and fascinating." - Whispering Stories Book Review“Readers who enjoyed The Expanse series by James S.A. Corey will appreciate Dilation’s grand scale, well-rendered characters, and ingenious melding of scientific possibilities with logical speculation.” - Independent Book ReviewThe human rac...

A soldier experiences the toll of interstellar war against a deadly alien foe in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning science fiction masterpiece.In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers' Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic—inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film—man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever a...

Meetings are the bane of many a work life. Theyre boring, unfocused, too long, and just plain ineffective. But all of this can be cured. It just takes some organization, technique, and common sense. In fact, meetings can be turned into incredible engines for results and morale. Heres how its done.

From the author of Ready Player One, a rollicking alien invasion thriller that embraces and subverts science-fiction conventions as only Ernest Cline could.Zack Lightman has never much cared for reality. He vastly prefers the countless science-fiction movies, books, and videogames he's spent his life consuming. And too often, he catches himself wishing that some fantastic, impossible, world-altering event could arrive to whisk him off on a grand spacefarin...

Center of Gravity is the second book in the explosive Star Carrier series by Ian Douglas—and a breathtaking new high in military sf, the strongest of the science fiction subgenres. Battlestar Galactica fans will adore this saga of ultimate war in deep space, as humankind risks its very future, battling a vast alien evil empire in order to achieve transcendence and become a major power in the universe. Douglas’s Center of Gravity belongs on every action-lover’s sf...

“A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture.”—Charles DuhiggFortune, mania, genius, philanthropy—the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains presents an “expertly reported [and] deftly written” (San Francisco Chronicle) account of Paul English, the founder of Kayak and Lola.In A Truck Full of Money, Tracy Kidder, t...

Agoraphobic millionaire Joe Tesla and his service dog, Edison, are enjoying Christmas in New York when Edison rescues a kitten on the subway. Joe can't take the kitten to the pound, not at Christmas, so he uses his cyber sleuthing skills to find the little girl who the kitten belongs to. And, he's not alone: he has Edison by his side. But can the intrepid duo reunite girl and subway kitten in time to save Christmas?

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The fourth book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendenceHumanity had appeared to fend off the Sh'daar assault once and for all, though they never learned why the alien empire was driven to halt Earth's advancement toward technological Singularity.But in this war of worlds, victory is always elusive. And now a new battle begins.After 20 years of peace, not one but two fragile truces are unraveling. Alexander Koenig, the former Navy comman...

Hiring great employees isnt a foolproof process. Were talking about human beings in all their multifaceted, imperfect glory - and sometimes the wrong person will be hired for the right reasons. What you want to avoid is hiring the wrong person for the wrong reasons. Following these steps will go a long way to avoiding that costly outcome.