Marine Peacekeeper Denise Westermann has come to infamous Welkin Station.To find someone.Someone whose safety she’s concerned for.And if she finds them, she may well get them killed.***Read the novelette that links EXCLUSION ZONE with THIRD CONTACT

13 years before THIRD CONTACT ...For the last 6 months, Marine Private Westermann's been stuck guarding a hyperspace entry point on the very edges of colonized space.Guarding a planet no one ever visits.Until a suspicious cargo ship arrives, bringing with it a storm of death and destruction...Outnumbered and outgunned.Her ship destroyed.Her backup days away.And the only place to hide is the most feared planet...

Like Full Metal Jacket in SpaceBetrayal is just the beginning... somewhere in orbit off one of Saturn's moons, a ship sits in darkness, awaiting its own destruction.An elite squad approaches.Malfunction.Destruction.Three friends are set on the path to bitter rivalry. Before Timberwolf Vélez became a legend, before Emmanuel Gray became a bishop, and Michael Solandro became his right hand, they were soldiers.Together.And before twenty y...

From the Hugo Award-winning hosts of the Writing Excuses writing advice show comes a collection of all-new stories of the fantastic, with beautiful illustrations and a behind-the-scenes look at each story’s creation.Brandon Sanderson’s “Sixth of the Dusk,” set in his Cosmere universe shared by the Mistborn books and the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive, showcases a society on the brink of technological change. On the deadly island of Patji, where predators ...

Ace fighter pilot Anastasia Seivers is offered a secret assignment: to join a squadron taking the fight to Concorde's true enemies. But this squadron isn't part of the regular Concorde military, it is attached to the Legion Libertus, the independent force responsible for saving thousands of lives after the nuclear attack. After initial hope that her new commanders will be different, Seivers starts to suspect that they too are prejudiced against her.Determined to remove the chip from...

They thought they were the only ones left. They were wrong.After the unexpected revelation at the end of the first book, Donna and Jefferson are separated. Jefferson returns to NYC and tries to bring a cure to the Sickness back to the Washington Square tribe, while Donna finds herself in England, facing an unimaginable new world. Can the two reunite and prevent an even greater disaster than the Sickness?This second book in The Young World trilogy w...

Flight Decurion Seivers is stranded on a frozen moon, far from the Legion. The Perception of Prejudice is barely functioning and Percy is offline. Seivers' future is measured in days.Captain Lusimi searches for enemy survivors. By the order of the Protectors, the Sidexan Fleet is to avenge the Legion's violation of Protected System Five. He will follow his orders, but protecting his warriors and crew is his highest priority.The hunt is on.

THE MAN FROM THE SOUTHIt was getting on toward six o'clock so I thought I'd buy myself a beer and go out and sit in a deck chair by the swimming pool and have a little evening sun.I went to the bar and got the beer and carried it outside and wandered down the garden toward the pool.It was a fine garden with lawns and beds of azaleas and tall coconut palms, and the wind was blowing s...

Cas teaches Pilar to shoot. Considering Cas is an acerbic mercenary and Pilar is a delightful admin, this goes about how you'd expect.

A murder on the moon leads a lunar engineer into the crosshairs of a global conspiracy in this acclaimed sci-fi thriller.The Moon smells like gunpowder. Every lunar walker since Apollo 11 has noticed it. Caden Dechert, the chief of the U.S. mining operation on the edge of the Sea of Serenity, thinks the smell is just a trick of the mind—a reminder of his harrowing days as a Marine in the war-torn Middle East back on Earth.It's 2072, and lunar helium-3 mining ...

An uncontrollable plague has left the city in ruins and trapped in perpetual quarantine. A thief hires a guide to lead him safely through the city’s many dangers to the one person who can give him the travel papers he needs to escape.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn’t just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness and download it into one new body after another.Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more . . . trading sleuthing for soldiering ...