We're part of the cover-up!Did you know that there is a secret government agency dedicated to creating conspiracy theories? It's true! It's on Facebook!But it's not in this book. Our conspiracy theories are all fiction. At least, that's what we want you to think! Certainly, we did invite fiction writers to weigh in on conspiracy theories. The result includes (of course) the Masons and dragons (David Clements), the Bavarian Illuminati (Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald) and t...

A Hugo Award–winning author presents a generational saga about the fate of human freedom on a colonized alien world.The settlers of the extrasolar moon Coyote escaped the tyrannical United Republic of America on Earth to create a home for themselves where they could pursue lives free from persecution—a colony they named Liberty. But that regime was overthrown by the Western Hemisphere Union, a social collectivist government that seized Republic resources and followe...

A standalone Coyote Universe story from the Hugo Award–winning author that's "the best first contact novel in a long time" ( Rocky Mountain News)." Spindrift is classic SF in the best sense." —Nebula Award-winning author Jack McDevittThe year is 2288. Earth scientists have picked up a transmission originating from outside the solar system. Eager to confirm that the signal may have been sent by an alien civilization, Europe d...

The former head of a lunar mining operation returns to the moon and is immediately sucked into a dangerous morass of labor troubles, lies, larceny, and corporate wrongdoing in this wildly entertaining science fiction thrill rideThere is big trouble on the moon. The blue-collar working stiffs of Descartes Station, who mine the surface for minerals and the North Pole for water, have become increasingly dissatisfied with Skycorp's general disregard for its employees' w...

Earth's past and future are altered by twenty-fourth-century time travelers in this "significant work of science fiction" from the author of Arkwright ( Rocky Mountain News).Chrononaut Franc Lu has come a long, long way—from the twenty-fourth century, in fact—to be in New Jersey on the evening of May 6, 1937. Traveling four hundred years into the past, he and his partner have been sent by the Chronospace Research Centre to observe the infamous expl...

The Hugo Award–winning author returns to the Coyote Universe with this science fiction adventure about a disgraced pilot facing nature's deadliest force."The master of science fiction intrigue." — Washington PostDismissed from the Union Astronautica space fleet for conduct unbecoming, Jules Truffaut faces a bleak future as a grounded pilot on an Earth ruled by a social collectivist regime that denies individual freedoms. Hoping to st...

"The terrific conclusion to one of the best science fiction trilogies of the last decade." — BaryonEarth is dying. Corporate and political greed have devastated the environment and depleted natural resources. To ensure humanity's survival, people must take to the stars and find new worlds to inhabit.More than two hundred years ago, dissidents from Earth escaped from an authoritarian regime by hijacking a starship and colonizing the planet Coyote. It ...

The future of an orbiting space colony is threatened by a fugitive and the assassin on her trail in this science fiction adventure from three-time Hugo Award winner Allen SteeleSkycorp has always expected the near-Earth space colony Clarke County to serve as a cash cow, bringing the corporate behemoth a substantial return on its investment through food production and tourism. Now that the Church of Elvis is planning a major revival meeting on the colony, the execs a...

Set in the Hugo Award–winning author's Coyote Universe, a science fiction story of an alien civilization offering humanity a brave new world to colonize.A species that has always kept to themselves, the arachnid-like danui are brilliant engineers, and one of the most respected member races of the alien coalition known as the Talus—which now includes the Coyote Federation, representing humankind, among them. With no previous communication between them, Coyot...

An interstellar adventure of earthborn people seeking freedom from tyranny on another world from a Hugo Award–winning author.The totalitarian United Republic of America rose from the ashes of a nation that once represented democratic liberty on Earth. Its rulers wish to expand their ideological ambitions to the stars where they will establish a new colony on an inhabitable moon known as Coyote.The crew and colonists aboard the Alabama undertaking thi...

Treachery, greed, and a gargantuan sea monster threaten the inhabitants of a high-tech, deep-water research station in this thrilling undersea science fiction adventureA three-time Hugo Award winner and modern master of hard science fiction now departs from outer space for a vast, unexplored realm that is equally perilous and mysterious. Allen Steele's Oceanspace is a heart-racing near-future adventure of danger and discovery unfolding in the dark, cold, an...

Short stories and science writing from a Robert A. Heinlein Award winner: "Allen Steele is among the best." — St. Louis Post-DispatchIn Rude Astronauts, Allen Steele presents some of his finest stories—including the Diamondback Jack Trilogy and his first published story, "Live from the Mars Hotel"—along with excerpts of the nonfiction science writing with which he made his name. In Steele's universe, the stars are cold, space is big, and it's the ...