**Philip K. Dick Award FinalistA “ridiculously fun” series debut “with a well-thought-out space opera setting and lots of fancy reveals”—from a Hugo Award winner (Charlie Jane Anders, author of All the Birds in the Sky).A ragtag space crew discovers alien technology that could change the fate of humanity—or awaken an ancient evil that could destroy all life in the galaxy.**The shady crew of the White Raven run freight and salvage at the fringes of ...

Seventeen of the funniest science fiction stories published in the past decade (2005-2015), featuring alien invasions, global conspiracies, time travel, and even animal uprisings. Fiction by Hugo and Nebula award winners and nominees as well as talented newcomers. Stories were selected by the Unidentified Funny Objects series curator Alex Shvartsman.

From evil overlords to bumbling henchmen, talking cats to lovelorn fishermen, mad queens to wise opossums, the collected fourteen stories subvert popular fantasy tropes in surprising and delightful ways. This book collects some of the best funny fantasy fiction published in the past decade. Included are works by Hugo and Nebula Award winners, New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, as well as up-and-coming talented writers.Includes the following stories:“Dave the ...

Doctor Who meets Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Garden of Forking Paths” in this time travel sci-fi adventure from a Hugo Award winning author.What would you do if you woke up and found yourself in a parallel universe under an alien sky? This is the question Zax Delatree answers every time he closes his eyes.Every time Zax Delatree falls asleep, he travels to a new reality. He has no control over his destination and never knows w...

Everything has a beginning, even the death of history. When two novice Starfinders, the energetic Dae and somber Chk Chk, make a startling discovery, they unlock a link to one of the galaxy’s most momentous events: the Gap, and the disappearance of the now lost world of Golarion. Shrouded in mystery, the Gap ended with mortals across the cosmos suddenly finding themselves with memories stripped from their minds without warning or explanation. The android Tyrcell wakes up on Absalom Station...

Seven years after the galaxy awoke from a period of collective amnesia known as the Gap, the citizens of Absalom Station have established a new normalcy living at the hub of recently discovered interstellar Drift travel. But all is not well for the founding members of the Starfinder Society, as tensions between the living and undead inhabitants of the station come to a violent head. Now, the undead starships and invading troops from the dead world of Eox besiege the station, threatening ev...

A quirky new space opera featuring charming characters and sarcastic spaceships. Perfect for fans of Seven Devils.A witty and thrilling space opera with a touch of romance from the author of The Knife and the Serpent.Glenn is a normal graduate student (aside from his kinks and genderfluidity), living a normal life with his normal girlfriend, Vivy (a spy for an interdimensional agency with her own kinks).When Vivy i...

After escaping the ruthless Lector, Zax Delatree has a new enemy to fight in the sequel to Doors of Sleep.Every time Zaxony Delatree falls asleep he wakes up on a new world. His life has turned into an endless series of brief encounters. But at least he and Minna, the one companion who has found a way of travelling with him, are no longer pursued by the psychotic and vengeful Lector.But now Zax has been joined once again by Ana, a companion he thou...

From Hugo Award winning author Tim Pratt comes a new, high-concept space opera, exploring technology, family and the price we pay to follow our destiny, perfect for fans of Peter F. Hamilton and Adrian Tchaikovsky.Tamsin and Glenn, ordinary as anyone in the Bay Area. Tamsin is shocked when her grandmother is murdered.But the surprises keep coming when she finds out that grandma was an oligarch in exile from an adjacent universe in the Nigh-Space co...

The crew of the White Raven returns to save the galaxy, in this brilliant space opera sequel to The Wrong StarsAncient aliens, the Axiom, will kill us all – when they wake up. In deep space, a swarm of nanoparticles threatens the colonies, transforming everything it meets into computronium – including the colonists. The crew of the White Raven investigate, and discover an Axiom facility filled with aliens hibernating while their minds roa...

This “witty, heartfelt sci-fi romp” is the dazzling third installment in a diverse space opera series for fans of The Expanse and John Scalzi’s The Collapsing Empire—from a Hugo Award–winning author (Tor.com)The ancient alien gods are waking up—and there’s only one spaceship crew ready to stop them . . .Aliens known as the Liars gave humanity access to the stars through twenty-nine wormholes. They didn’t mention t...

The first novella collection set in the world of Pratt's popular Axiom space opera trilogy.In this collection of previously unpublished novellas, Hugo Award-winner Tim Pratt returns to the acclaimed sci-fi universe of his Axiom trilogy.Each of these three stories takes fans and new readers alike deeper into the rich world of the Axiom than ever before, revisiting the crewmembers of the White Raven as they strike out on new and enthralling adventures.