Something strange is going on on Las Ráfagas. When Gus-a name the beamslinger is only borrowing-arrives on the fuel mining station floating in the clouds of the gas giant Aeolus looking for a robot bountyhea, she finds the great mining rings still and not functioning. The town has been largely abandoned by its people, and the greedy administrators, Laszlo Leconte and his sons Junior and Aaron, like it that way. They have their own plans for the town. Gus has her own problems and wants noth...

Science Fiction and Fantasy stories of STRANGEST ilk.Other Tales: Volume IV contains seven bizarre and incredible tales of science fiction and fantasy, including rare comedies from Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury, three mysterious and moving yarns from prominent women of genre fiction, and an original science fiction tale by author E.S. Raye, writer of Gas Giant Gambit: A Tall Tale from Beyond the Cygnus Rift.Volume IV contains stories byIsa...

**“It’s the scenery—and the big guy standing in front of the scenery—that keeps us coming back to Craig Johnson’s lean and leathery mysteries.”—The New York Times Book ReviewThe hit drama Longmire is now streaming on Paramount+Walt journeys into the northern Mexican desert alone to save his daughter Cady, who has been kidnapped by the cartel**Welcome to Walt Longmire's worst nightmare. Winter is creeping closer, but for Sheriff Longmire this...

A romantic love story of Titanic proportions. The first book in the bestselling Starbound series. 'Intense, thrilling, and achingly beautiful.' - Marie LuA luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets to the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone.Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac ...

Firefly meets Dune in a breakneck race to escape across an alien moon thriving with aliens and criminalsTen Low is an ex-army medic, one of many convicts eking out a living at the universe's edge. She's desperate to escape her memories of the interstellar war, and the crimes she committed, but trouble seems to follow wherever she goes. One night, attempting to atone for her sins, she pulls a teenage girl – the sole survivor – from the wreck of a spaceship. But Gabr...

The big man knew that with no one left who could connect him with the train robbery, he was almost clear. No one, that is, except Frank Angel, special investigator for the US Justice Department. And Hainin realized that there was no stopping the lawman's pursuit. He might get away clear with the money, but Angel would never quit looking for him . . . never forget. It was a pity. But if Hainin was to ever know peace, Angel had to die!

"A first novel of considerable maturity: powerful, original, cunningly constructed, and timely." —Julian Barnes, author of The Sense of an EndingAfter years alone in a cell, an aging prisoner is released without explanation, expelled into a great city now utterly unfamiliar to him. Broken by years of brutality at the hands of the prison guards, he scrounges for scraps, sleeping wild, until a museum curator rescues him from an assault. The...

Set in a chillingly realistic far-future world, and featuring a gritty antihero even more frightening than the evil empire he serves as soldier and assassin, Death’s Head is sure to be one of the most talked-about novels of the year. David Gunn is loaded—and he shoots to kill.At the top of the galactic pecking order is the United Free, a civilization of awe-inspiring technological prowess so far in advance of other space-faring powers as to seem untouchabl...

Cattle rustlers were hitting the spreads of the biggest Texas ranchers. They were striking the most vulnerable ranches, those along the Rio, and running the cattle into Mexico. Even the cavalry couldn't stop them.The Texas and Southwestern Stock Raiser's Association hired Fargo to put a stop to the rustling once and for all. They offered him $30,000 to go into Mexico and bust off the ring of thieves. Fargo took on the job for the money but something else entered the picture—the beau...

Rem McAllister was on one of the toughest missions of his violent career. He rode into Mexico —and found a whole heap of trouble brewing. For one thing, he discovered that there were some mean hombres bent on invading Texas. For another, he found himself mixed up in a vicious war. And soon enough his outsize talent for trouble got him into a situation where two different leaders and a whole army was bent on hunting him down. Even for McAllister, these were fearsome odds...A gripping...

This is the story of the first human being born on Mars: Rose Fuller, who saw a better future than the one that came to pass.And Dylan Ward, a woman raised in the vast wilderness of the frontier, who will find her way back to it.It is a story about a man who went missing, and the man who wants to find out what he knew.A story about what makes us human - and how we might live once we leave our home.Th...

In a hail of thunder and gunfire, Jeston Nash fled a New Orleans billiards hall with a land deed in one hand, a blazing pistol in the other. He’d won his gamble with Quick Quintan Cordell fair and square. But in seconds, violence flared, Cordell lay dead, and Sheriff Pat Garrett’s promise still rang in Nash’s ears ... somewhere, someday, they would meet again ....Jeston Nash learned about robbery from his cousin, Jesse James. But it was the wild outlaw Billy the Kid who taught him ...