Poppy Wilde is a free-spirited budding photographer who falls in love with the enigmatic writer, Aurion Mooreland, who worksfor a big-time nature magazine and has a BIG-time secret.Poppy is an orphan and has learned to guard her heart well until Aurion and Avianna's lovebreak past her barriers.Along with his mother Avianna they have so far lived a safe and ordinary life untiltheir past and their secrets are put in danger by Samuel Geissler.Samue...

The starliner Pollyanna has experienced a catastrophic nav failure and is marooned in the far reaches of space. On board is Lucieus Estarion, powerfully talented member of the Psi-Corps, that was on his way home. Now, he is the only asset the stranded passengers and crew have as they experience humanity's First Contact.

Powerful mage and dandy, Vaj Uldarian, has settled down into a rather quiet life after decades of wild adventuring. He has long since escaped the memories of his youth and settled into his role as semi-respectable, sometime decadent adult. So when he receives word from his first lover that his mother is ill, for the first time in decades he returns to his childhood home and the family he left behind one horrible, heart-breaking night.A lush, fantasy world of magic and danger seen t...

The interstellar civil war between the breakaway System States Union and the Federation of Planetary States continues to escalate with the help of sophisticated planning computers on both sides. This is military SF that includes space battles, ground battles, political maneuvering, strategic deception, personal triumphs and personal tragedies. Watch as the necessities of war force protagonists on both sides to compromise their honor. This series concludes in Rumors of Salvation, which is n...

Rumors of Salvation is the 74,000 word conclusion to the System States Rebellion series of military science fiction that started with Rumors of Glory.With the System States Union now crushed and Trojan's new Empire on the rise, former foes become friends in a desperate attempt to prevent not only the collapse of human civilization but also the complete extermination of Humanity at the hands of a diabolical new power player. Is salvation really possible or was it all just rumors? Ro...

To anyone interested in the roots of modern science fiction, the name of Ray Cummings should be well known. He wrote science fiction and fantasy before the name "science fiction" had been coined, publishing fantastic yarns in Argosy, Munsey's Magazine, and other mainstream magazines. Of course, as soon as the science fiction pulps debuted, he moved to them, where his work received a hearty welcome from fans. Cummings publishing more than 750 novels and short stories over ...

The final contact made by the Daedalus Mission begins badly, even before the ship makes a hard landing in the middle of nowhere. The situation of the colony doesn't seem to make any sense, and neither does the situation of the indigenous aliens--the Sets--that have helped the colony survive and thrive. Alex Alexander doesn't take long to work out a hypothesis that might explain the mystery--a hypothesis that the people on the ground have already worked out for themselves--and he's fortunat...

The fourth landing of the Daedalus Mission confronts Alex and his companions with a colonial culture seemingly modeled on a classic Utopian dream, but all of its inhabitants are infected with a mysterious alien parasite, and they no longer seem entirely human. Are they being controlled by the parasite, or has the parasite merely enabled them to transform themselves? Can the visitors from Earth avoid infection themselves, and what will the consequences be if they cannot? For once, the risks...

Mack Reynolds was a frequent and prolific contributor to the science fiction magazines from the 1950s through the 1970s. This volume collects 23 choice tales, ranging from space opera to social science fiction—over a thousand pages vintage work from a master storyteller!Included are:HAPPY ENDINGULTIMA THULEGUN FOR HIREADAPTATIONSTOWAWAYMEDAL OF HONORI’M A STRANGER HERE MYSELFSTATUS QUOUNBORN TOMORROWSUMMIT...

n Damien Broderick’s haunting tale, “The Meek,” the survivors of humanity’s drive toward racial suicide must pay an awful price for their continued survival. John Glasby’s “Innsmouth Bane” tells how the alien entity Dagon first came to nineteenth-century America. In “Helen’s Last Will,” James C. Glass shows us that death may not always be “the end.” Charles Allen Gramlich’s “I Can Spend You” is a futuristic western which puts prospecting in a whole new light! “The Voice of the Dolphin in A...

The planet Attica has two continents: Lambda and Delta. The indigenous alien population being restricted to Delta, Earth's colony was planted on Lambda. Before the arrival of the Daedalus, two sailing ships had set out from Lambda to cross the ocean separating the two continents, and neither had returned. Now a third is on its way, and Mariel Valory and Alex Alexander of the Daedalus have hitched a lift, in order that Mariel might use her talent to try to make contact with the aliens. Unfo...

hey call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that they encounter far from home. On the world called Wildeblood, named for the ecologist/Emperor who founded it, the settlers' descendants harbor a terrible secret--a secret that Alex must uncover, if the colony is to...