A dazzling science fiction novel about the unknown, technology, survival, life, love and hope. By 2361 the Earth has stabilized and created an ecologically balanced utopian civilization. No one is above the environmental laws in this future setting where one can own only six antique artifacts from the past for a price. Personal privacy has been eliminated in this hyper social society and electronic social interaction reigns supreme.Although beset with a strange affliction, Zeth Zami...

From a Nebula award-winning author, a classic hard sci-fi fantasy of a maverick astronaut who goes against NASA'S command when he discovers alien artifacts.2034. An indistinguishable sound is heard from the depths of space and one member of the search and survey team, Nigel, believes he knows its origins. Fifteen years earlier, he was the astronaut sent to implode a firey comet as it hurtled toward the Asian subcontinent. Once inside the fissure he made an unlikely ...

The Nebula-nominated novel of "a brave new world of nearly constant future shock"—plus all the short fiction of the Shaper/Mechanist universe ( The Washington Post).Acclaimed science fiction luminary and a godfather of the genre's remarkable offspring—cyberpunk—Bruce Sterling carries readers to a far-future universe where stunning achievements in human development have been tainted by a virulent outbreak of prejudice and hatred.Man...

Curious George embarks on an out-of-this world adventure and lends some helping hands—and feet—to save the space station astronauts.George is thrilled to visit the Space Center to help Professor Pizza and Professor Einstein. First up, he's making a special delivery to the international space station. Then it's time to help solve a problem with the Mars rover, and George dreams of going where no monkey (or human) has gone before—Mars! Join George on an exciting journ...

Cyborgs have been used to thrill, frighten, inspire, and educate us about just what it is to be human. Since the term was first coined in 1960—by Manfred Clynes and Nathan S. Kline—the science has finally caught up with the theory. There are cyborgs among us. Hugo Award-winning editor and cyborg, Neil Clarke has assembled here twenty-six of their stories as imagined by some of the best and brightest science fiction writers today. Among them are winners and nominees of the Hugo, Nebula, Wor...

The second volume of the official novelization of Death Stranding, the new franchise from legendary game-creator Hideo Kojima.Mysterious explosions have rocked the planet, setting off a series of supernatural phenomena known as the Death Stranding. Spectral creatures that devour the living have pushed humanity to the brink of extinction, causing countries to fall and survivors to scatter and live in pockets of isolation. Sam Porter Bridges, the legendary porter with the ability to ...

When Ray Jerome, a crotchety journalist on the Whiteford Examiner, is asked to investigate a case of spontaneous human combustion, his first reation is to ridicule the idea - but he is not able to back out of doing the story.To his own surprise, he becomes fascinated by the phenomenon of people who burn up for no obvious reason. It is a fascination which will make 1996 the most unbelievable year of his life.

Physical chemist Rosalind Franklin was one of the discoverers of DNA and an innovator of virology — yet despite her groundbreaking research, her contributions were often erased. In her memory, Rosalind’s Siblings collects over twenty original speculative fiction stories and poems, all focusing on scientists marginalized due to their gender. Edited by Hugo and Lambda award winner Bogi Takács, and featuring both established and newer authors from all around the world, the pieces in this anth...

Guardians of the Galaxy meets Minecraft in this hilarious new sci-fi series.TERRAFORMING 101 - An introduction to the sciences and technologies of extraterrestrial world-building. Open to first year students.Elara Adele Vaughn has everything it takes to become a top planetary designer: skills, talent, and a one-way ticket to the Seven Systems School of Terraforming Sciences and Arts. But for all her excitement, life at her new school is a ...

Mike Daniels, a high school dropout and auto mechanic, is cured of terminal cancer and becomes a professor of physics at Caltech through the power of The Being, a man who has evolved into a completely spiritual being over millions of years. Why did The Being return and choose to rescue Mike from among the seven billion people on Earth?

In an era of space travel and regular alien contact, Earthling Linda Pumpernickel has just celebrated her sixty-fifth birthday. Bumbling through her routines and losing herself in exceedingly odd daydreams, Linda wonders if there’s more to life after retirement . . . when an alien called a larvalux crashes through her door and tells Linda her old pitch pipe is the secret to saving the universe from going out of tune and causing a cosmic climate catastrophe. Bizarre aliens, peculiar planets...

The Final (Double) Part Five of the Dystopian Fiction Series, Newlander: Finally managing to find a way to escape the island, John is thrust into a whole new reality beyond his comprehension. Strapped and unable to move, he struggles to see and understand what is before him. A man called the Proctor is there to try to explain his predicament, and also his former enemy's role in his whole nightmare becomes brutally apparent. Everything had been leading up to...