A remote resource planet. A mysterious illness. And a rescue team frighteningly out of their depth.It was supposed to have been an easy job: go in, kidnap or kill his mark, get out. Shine's done plenty of jobs like this before, no problem. But when it all goes suddenly wrong, he has only one option left to save his skin.He finds himself an unwilling volunteer on a medical mission to a remote resource planet. It sent in a distress call a week earlier, and th...

The portal that appeared in what was once open space on the edge of the Joias System should be impossible. So should the alien capsule that came through it.What’s inside the capsule is even more unbelievable—proof that the aliens have a cure for a disease that's killed millions. And proof that they want to communicate.Aran Romeu, a field-scientist desperate to save his dying friend, will do anything to reach that cure.Alba Espina, the system's Chief...

On a desert settlement on a remote planet, the limited water is as precious as life. Until it starts to kill them…Thaddeus and the rest of the small medical crew have just arrived at their next assignment—a small, drought-ridden settlement, where people are dying in horrific, unnatural ways. They suspect the water source has something to do with it, but how do you live without water?The crew soon realizes the deaths are only part of the problem. The people ...

Avast, intrepid reader! Behold yon inky treasure!A beautiful airship corsair determined to reveal a government conspiracy. An interstellar outlaw bent on avenging the murders of her fellow crewmates. A pirate captain whose hatred of mer-people endangers his ship and crew. A ghost trapped in the wreckage of a privateering ship.From the early voyages of a young, ambitious Gaius Julius Caesar, to a sorceress hunting buccaneers along the post-Civil War Mississi...

In May 1997 the Faculty of Surgery from the University of Athens and elsewhere gathered with colleagues in Athens for the third time in 6 years to continue our discussions on the progress, problems, realization, and future of laproscopic surgery. The topics were rather inclusive with regard to the issues that defined the field, and the assembled investigators, educa tors, and clinicians brought a rich experience and clear vision of the field in the coming years. The decision had been made ...

Watching the hatching of a great tree-dwelling venomous tentacled land-devil has been field-scientist Aran Romeu's dream for as long as he can remember. And if land-devils are the most dangerous creatures known to humankind, and this whole thing might be a set-up from someone who wants to kill him, and there's a very good chance neither he nor his research assistant and best friend Istvay will come out of this alive … well, he and Istvay have never let something like that stop them before....

Here’s to hoping I get to Heaven at least once before Hell literally comes to Earth.It’s the find of the century – alien angels and the spaceships they arrived in. Cindy-lu should have been in biology research heaven; instead, she’s part of a team preparing for the apocalypse.Hell has entered the solar system, a behemoth that will decimate the planet – and its inhabitants. But there is hope for humanity if they can get enough people off-planet to start over. Howeve...

The Nommo Award Winner. The Nebula Award Finalist. The World Fantasy Award Finalist. The British Science Fiction Award Nominee.A contemporary fantasy filled with the mythos of Nigeria.Shigidi is the god of nightmares.Once a feared and powerful member of the Yoruba spirit world, these days he haunts people for scraps of power, which he must give up to the executives of the Orisha Spirit Company.

Humanity and creatures on an exoplanet are bound by tragedy.Oya Valette knows that her traditional family values, instilled by her grandmother, will be challenged by her desire to pilot the FTL transport ship HS Hurricane to Beta Hydri, where she and a small crew of base-line humans will ferret out genetically modified 'harpies' and set up their own master colony.Faced with the potential annihilation of the inhabitants of the planet, Oya must either choos...

Huntress of the Star EmpirePart Four: The ReleaseOnly her enemy can set her mind free!When Micah's incarceration brings him face to face with the head of the Union itself, he discovers a devastating weakness in the Union's stranglehold on the star system...and a shocking truth about his people.Now a fugitive from the Union she so loyally served, Treska is forced into uneasy alliance with the Restoration. As the lies holding ...

Huntress of the Star EmpirePart Three: The Catch (Episodes 7-9)He’s her captive…and her best chance to discover the truth.Micah’s mission to strike at the Union takes on dangerous complications when his suspicions about Treska’s mysterious past are confirmed. Treska's secret could hold the key to breaking the Union’s uncanny stranglehold on the star system...but at the cost of her mind.The Union gave Treska an identity and p...

In the future, corporations buy the life contracts of infants and raise them for specific careers. Jaymes, aka The Prince, is Erotic Bioware, Thoroughbred Class, trained to seduce and give pleasure in the highest tiers of society. But his latest client involves him in a political assassination, and Jaymes must flee the comforts of the city for the barbaric outlands.With Drue the Fox, Bioware, Exotic Class, Jaymes struggles through the last wilderness on his world in his quest to re...