One man's hell is another man's heaven... In these two classic stories from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells reveals two sides of the same coin: dystopia and utopia. The Sleeper Awakes What if you took a sleeping pill and awoke two centuries years later to find yourself the wealthiest man in the world? Everyone and everything you know is long gone ... but you are simultaneously the most exciting and most unfortunate thing to happen in centuries? Are you the Messiah or the Antichri...

ADVENTURES IN AN OTHER-WORLDLY NEW-AGE VENICE it is the year 1537. The great winged Lion stares over a Venice where magic thrives. The rich Venetian Republic is a bastion of independence and tolerance. Perhaps for that reason, it is also corrupt, and rotten with intrigue. But for the young brothers Marco and Benito Valdosta, vagabond and thief, Venice is simply-home. They have no idea that they stand at the center of the city's coming struggle for its very life. They know nothing of the po...

In northern India the Malwa have created an empire of unexampled evil. Guided or possessed by an intelligence from beyond time, with new weapons, old treachery, and an implacable will to power, the Malwa will sweep over the whole Earth. Only three things stand between the Malwa and their plan of eternal domination: the empire of Rome in the East, Byzantium; a crystal with vision; and a man named Belisarius, the greatest commander Earth has ever know. . . .

RESNICK ON THE LOOSE collects Mike Resnick's essays, editorials, interviews, introduction, and articles -- more than 75 of them -- covering everything from Hugo Awards to classic authors to the art of writing. An essential volume for anyone interested in looking beyond Resnick's award-winning novels and stories to the heart and soul of the creative genius behind them! Introduction by Eric Flint.

THE DEADLIEST PREDATORS OF THREE SEPARATE EONS Captain Andy Blacklock was overseeing the change of shifts at the state of Illinois' maximum-security prison when the world outside was suddenly ripped. They thought it was an earthquake until they found that the Mississippi River had disappeared, along with all signs of civilization. Then the sun came up-in the wrong direction. And a dinosaur came by and scratched its hide against the wall of the prison ... Something had thrown the prison bac...

Return to the Alternate Universe of 1632 and 1633 as the Top Writers of Alternate History and Military SF Join Forces in the Shared-Universe Volume of the Year The battle between democracy and tyranny is joined, and the American Revolution has begun over a century ahead of schedule. A cosmic accident has shifted a modern West Virginia town back through time and space to land it and its twentieth century technology in Germany in the middle of the Thirty Years War. History must take a new co...

History will never be the same after a Peterbilt tanker truck full of oil is transported back one thousand years in time. A new novel in Eric Flint's Assiti Shards series by Ring of Fire stalwarts Gorg Huff and Paula Goodlett.Michael and Melanie Anderle are hauling a tanker full of oil with their Peterbilt eighteen-wheeler when they're struck by a temporal irregularity that sends them, the truck, and their daughter back in time a thousand years. The bubble that tra...

The uptimers and their allies take on the Ottoman Empire at its height of power. The modern West Virginia town of Grantville has been displaced in time to continental Europe in 1632. Now four years have passed. The long-feared attack on Austria by the Ottoman Empire has begun. Armed with new weapons inspired by the time-displaced Americans of Grantville, the Turks are determined to do what they were unable to do in the universe the Americans came from: capture Vienna. The Ottomans have the...

Prince Manfred and his mentor and bodyguard, the deadly warrior Erik, survived dangers and enemies both naturaland supernatural, and if they thought that their new mission was going to be anything but more of the same, they soongave up on that hope. Returning from Jerusalem, they and their escort of knights of the Holy Trinity are escorting anenvoy of II Khan Mongol to the lands of the Golden Horde—between the Black Sea and the Carpathians, which happento be eas...

EVIL FROM BEYOND TIME The Malwa Empire squats like a toad across 6th century India, commanded by ruthless men with depraved appetites. The thing from the distant future that commands them is far worse. AN ADVISOR WITHOUT A BODY Those who oppose the purulent Hell the Malwa will make of Earth have sent a crystal, Aide, to halt their advance. Aide holds all human knowledge-but he cannot act by himself. A CHAMPION FOR ALL TIMES Count Belisarius, the greatest general of the age and perhaps of a...

THE BEST-SELLING RING OF FIRE SERIES CONQUERS THE NEW WORLD!It has taken almost five years for the United States of Europe to stabilize itsposition in 17th-century Europe. Now it turns its attention to the New World,where the English have ceded their colonial claims to France. There are vast landsand rich resources across the Atlantic for any nations powerful enough to rule andcontrol them—and equal incentive for other nations to block their path.T...

A mysterious cosmic force—the “Ring of Fire”—has hurled the town of Grantville from 20th century WestVirginia back to 17th century Europe, and into the heart of the Thirty Years War. With their seemingly magicaltechnology, and their radical ideas of freedom and justice, the time-lost West Virginians have allied with GustavusAdolphus, King of Sweden, to form the Confederated Principalities of Europe, changing the course of history—inways both small and large. The...