THE OPERATIVES OF THE AGENCY ARE A CUT ABOVEThe Agency – otherwise known as the Department of Covert Operations – is a sophisticated galaxy-wide organization made up of unsophisticated operatives. Take John Steel, for instance. Or is it Abner Jenkins? Is he actually an operative of the Agency, or is he carrying out a personal vendetta?Consider John Steel's ship, The Darling Buds of May, a sleek stealth fighter whose avatar is a fashion conscious black woman with a predilect...

One marker of the majesty of ancient Rome is its surviving architectural legacy, the stunning remains of which are scattered throughout the circum-Mediterranean landscape. Surprisingly, one truly remarkable aspect of this heritage remains relatively unknown. There exists beneath the waters of the Mediterranean the physical remnants of a vast maritime infrastructure that sustained and connected the western world’s first global empire and economy. The key to this incredible accomplishment an...

Ships of Steel is the first in a line of anthologies for the fan of Space Opera, Space Westerns and Science Fiction Adventure stories. Call it what you like, but these four novellas are filled with aliens, robots, spaceships, pirates, assassins all set on far planets or the depths of space."Rolling Stone" by M. D. Jackson introduces the space agent, Steel, and his spaceship Darling."The Hidden Heart" by G. W. Thomas features Sudana and Zaar, characters from his book Whisper...

Ride the trail to Devil's Gulch, a Western town where strange things lie in the shadows. The Weird West was never weirder in this shared world anthology set in a town haunted by ghosts and worse. "If Music Be the Food of Love" by M. D. Jackson gets things rolling with a man seeking a lost macabre masterpiece. "Dark Raven" by T. Neil Thomas follows hanging Judge Galbraith to a haunted house where he will win (or lose?) a bet. "The Black Lake" by Jack Mackenzie has a quest for the location o...

While exploring the Black Pyramid, Jonathan is confronted by the Goddess ISIS! She states that Jonathan has become too proud. She curses him with a three-part curse: First, he will lose his best friend, Second, he will lose his oldest friend and Third, he will lose his mentor. Jonathan tries to ignore the vision of ISIS, BUT The curse works. Nathan is kidnapped, and his best friend, Jonathan, is at a loss for how to save him. Now, Jonathan and Abdoullah will do anything to get their friend...

The only novel of its year to be nominated for both the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Starplex won Canada's Aurora Award for best novel of the year."Big spaceships, alien civilizations, the mysteries of the cosmos, and a story that roams through the vastness of time and space. All of the elements of a big-scale, hard science fiction adventure story are present right from the start. Starplex

Rogue, a combat android made as a human decoy is allowed to break away from the battlefield. After wandering across a post-apocalyptic wasteland for some time, she returns to civilisation in search of a technician who can help her with a systemic problem. When a gangster mistakes her for a famous Captain Rogue is drawn into a world of violent cyborgs and rare technology that will change the course of her future forever.In Rogue Assembly, you can expect to see an android with a comp...

Exoarchaeologist Evan McElroy has made a discovery about a long-extinct alien race. But his sponsors realize they can make huge gains if the new findings are kept completely secret. Step one of their plan is to kill the entire research team - starting with Evan.As Evan flees for his life, his trajectory awakens a long-buried struggle. The Infoterrorists, who believe all ideas are screaming to be free, have waited years for the right moment to take on the seven great families that c...

Major Jimjoy Earle Wright, secret agent of the Empire, is intelligent and highly trained. But he succeeds all too well in overthrowing a military dictatorship-and the result is a new government inimical to the Empire and disgrace for Jimjoy. After surviving two assassination attempts, Jimjoy realizes that it's his own imperial superiors who want him dead: that, in fact his worst enemies could now become his best friends. Jimjoy switches sides, joins the Ecolitan Institute and changes his i...

In this conspiracy thriller, a special investigator and a librarian go in search of treasure, uncovering a mystery with global historical consequences. Incomparable riches, like none other in history, are close to being revealed . . .An email from a dead man, and an encrypted letter from the sixteenth century both hint at a treasure trail, leading back to the greatest Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.India Summers and Brandon Walker team up to attempt to locate...

In the distant future, with Earth near barren and men willing to commit to marriage almost non-existent, a group of young women leave to find husbands in the Outer Colonies. On their way they're hijacked by men from a rebel planet called Gaia.Gaian men can only make love to a woman they match and Dr. Sarah Johnson turns out to be the match for the most hated Gaian of all, General Garran Doranth. To keep their promises, these two must look beyond what they think they know and learn ...

Miles and his Dendarii mercenaries are on a mission in Jackson's Hole to retrieve a geneticist, who unexpectedly says he won't leave until a certain "monster" is neutralized and a tissue sample is taken from it. What Miles finds is something vastly different from what he was led to expect… ("Labyrinth" follows ETHAN OF ATHOS in the Vorkosigan Saga)Written by Hugo and Nebula Award winning New York Times bestselling author Lois McMaster Bujold.Novella chronology: "The Mountai...