Earth’s future is bright. But it’s based on a lie.York’s technological skills make him the best at his position in Chase, the world’s most popular team sport. When he helps his City’s team reach World Championships, his expertise is tested beyond anything he has experienced. In a world where no one dies and the Central Computer lovingly cares for Her people, York must fight for his life, his sanity, and most of all, for his friends.This is a cliffhanger prequel to the Amazo...

A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana—the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox.The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christmas perennial, gaining in stature and fame with each succeeding year. Its affectionate, wacky, and wryly realistic portrayal of an American family’s typical Christmas joys and travails in small-town Depression-era India...

A couple investigating murder on a cold planet discovers their first challenge is staying alive.Forensic investigator Luka Foxe has begun a new life with security specialist Mairwen Morganthur (Overload Flux) and left his troubled past far behind. Only a plea from his old friend and mentor can lure him back to investigate a violent crime scene frozen in an ice cave. Unfortunately, Luka's old friend knows far more than he's telling, which could get them all killed, ...

In the far future, an Earth-born woman must negotiate with a fearsome mutant race: "On a par with Ursula LeGuin or Arthur C. Clarke" ( Chicago Tribune).Two thousand years into the future, runaway pollution has made the earth uninhabitable except in giant biodomes. The society is an anarchy, with disputes mediated through the Machiavellian Committee for the Revolution. Mars, Venus, and the moon support flourishing colonies of various political stripes. On th...

Return to the universe of the classic Alien movies with this sci-fi horror collection featuring Original Sin and DNA War!Original Sin by Michael Jan Friedman: Centuries after the death of the original Ellen Ripley, her clone has joined the fight against the Alien threat. With the help of an android named Call, a brutal hired gun named Johner, and a paraplegic mechanic named Vriess, she will battle an Alien horror...

Nine stories travel through time and space to share insights into the human—and not so human—experience in this gripping science fiction anthology from respected author and critic Algis BudrysThrough stories of humans mistaken for gods and assimilation into an android society, this stunning collection illustrates our inability to understand and communicate with one another.In "Silent Brother," the spaceship Endeavor returns to Albu...

MERCURY, the intense and dedicated captain of a secret division of Canada's JTF2 Special Operations, has one mission tonight. Get Daria from the safety of her bed, through the rebels who just overtook the embassy, to the rendezvous helicopter on the other side of town.Guarding Daria has been Mercury’s long standing cover assignment, so even though he finally admitted he loves her, before letting himself loose beneath her silk sheets, he's now faced...

From the bestselling author of S.D. Stuart's Minecraft Adventures comes an exciting action-adventure series set in the land of OZ."This is THE must-read action-adventure series for all YA readers!""Even though it is set over a hundred years in the past, this could very well be the next great dystopian YA series.""I never imagined OZ could be like this!"There is no yellow brick road here. No emerald city. No lollipop guild. This is the Australis Penal Colony,...

The adventures of a family of hedgehogs are vividly portrayed in these tales of life amongst the animals of the forest. The author aims to show how the tragedies of everyday life can be overcome by positive thinking and sensitive behaviour towards oneself and others, as the Prickles family manage to keep their heads up and survive the dangers and obstacles that nature throws at them. A book for children and adults alike, portraying in traditional style the art of survival and living. The i...

Terminal-cancer patient Julian Park doesn't believe in God. But when the friend beside him gets a clean bill of health, and Julian's nurse keeps trying to convert him, he checks himself out of the hospital and calls on these two to celebrate his "release." When they join him in a nearby coffee shop, however, all three are in for an eternal surprise.

Episode 6, Quantum Troopers. Johnny Winger, rescued from the Engebbe dig site, has come under suspicion by UNIFORCE Security of being a double agent. It's a setup orchestrated by UNSAC, but Winger can't convince anybody of that. He has to undergo memory trace and ANAD penetration. He passes the test but several troopers in the unit don't…they're angels and have to be removed. Winger is depressed by this and wants Major Kraft to authorize a special op to find out where the missing troopers ...

Pioneering science fiction writer Alice Sheldon, who found fame using the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr., among others, left behind a remarkable body of short fiction, much of it uncollected or out of print. Now The Voice That Murmurs in the Darkness, co-edited by Jeffrey D. Smith and two-time Booker Prize nominee Karen Joy Fowler, brings new light to some of Tiptree’s best and overlooked stories.The stories represented span Tiptree’s career, and were primarily selected from...