Category
Science Fiction
Beyond This Horizon 2002
In a future where humanity has seemingly perfected itself through genetic engineering, society is orderly, prosperous—and quietly constrained. Individuals are bred for intelligence, health, and stability, creating a world in which conflict is rare and efficiency reigns. Yet beneath this carefully...
The Big Time 2001
Have you ever worried about your memory, because it doesn't seem to recall exactly the same past from one day to the next? Have you ever thought that the whole universe might be a crazy, mixed-up dream? If you have, then you've had hints of the Change War. It's been going on for a billion years and...
The Black Orb 2025
The object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn’t chasing Jeong-su fast enough to catch him, it was unrelenting and persistent in its pursuit…
One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside...
Blackout 2010
Oxford Time Travel, Book 3
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees...
The Blind Assassin 2001
The bestselling author of *The Handmaid's Tale* and *The Testaments* weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named Laura Chase in 1945.
Decades later, Laura’s sister Iris...
The Blood Gift 2024
The Blood Gift, Book 2
After discovering the depth of betrayal, treachery, and violence perpetrated against her by Mareen’s Tribunal Council and exposing her illegal blood-gift to save her Praetorian squad, Ikenna becomes a fugitive with a colossal bounty on her head. Yet, somehow, that’s the least of her worries. Her...
Blue Mars 1997
The Mars Trilogy, Book 3
The red planet is no more. Now green and verdant, Mars has been dramatically altered from a desolate world into one where humans can flourish. The First Hundred settlers are being pulled into a fierce new struggle between the Reds, a group devoted to preserving Mars in its desert state, and the...
Burning Chrome 2003
Known for his seminal science fiction novel Neuromancer, and for the acclaimed books Pattern Recognition, The Peripheral, and Agency, William Gibson is actually best when writing short fiction. Tautly written and suspenseful, Burning Chrome collects 10 short stories, including some written with...
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine...
Carpe Jugulum 2024
Witches, Book 6
In a fit of enlightened democracy and ebullient goodwill brought on by the birth of his new daughter, King Verence invites Uberwald’s undead, the sophisticated Magpyrs, into Lancre. Everyone knows you don’t allow vampires into your castle—unless you want permanent guests. Now that they’re here,...
Ancillary Justice 2013
Imperial Radch, Book 1
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren—a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.
Now, an act of...
Count Zero 1987
Sprawl, Book 2
Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact.
But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human....
Neog, Book 4
When you’re trapped in space, there’s no way out. The mission of the Near-Earth Orbital Guard is to ensure the peace and security of the solar system. Commander Maxine Carmichael and Lieutenant Commander Saqib Vahid are at the Mars Orbital Station (MOS) to help facilitate the official handover from...
The Dark Forest 2015
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 2
Earth is no longer alone—and it has learned the terrifying truth too late. As news spreads that an alien civilization is on its way to invade, humanity unites in preparation for a war that will not arrive for centuries. Yet the enemy has already found a way to cripple Earth’s defenses, placing...
Darkside 2024
Planetside, Book 4
Colonel Butler has paid his dues and just wants to enjoy his retirement on a remote planet. But the galaxy has had other plans. He has been roped into searching for a politician’s missing son and an industry magnate’s missing daughter. He has been kidnapped, violated numerous laws, and caused the...
Zones of Thought, Book 2
After thousands of years searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. The group that opens trade with the aliens will reap...
The Diamond Age 2000
Decades into our future, a stone’s throw from the ancient city of Shanghai, a brilliant nanotechnologist named John Percival Hackworth has just broken the rigorous moral code of his tribe, the powerful neo-Victorians. He's made an illicit copy of a state-of-the-art interactive device called A Young...
The Dispossessed 1994
The Hainish Cycle, Book 5
Anarres, Shevek’s homeland, is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization, where there is no government, and everyone, at least nominally, is a revolutionary. It has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—defined by warring nations, great poverty, and...
Doomsday Book 1993
Oxford Time Travel, Book 1
For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant...
Downbelow Station 2001
Pell Station stands as a fragile refuge at the edge of human space, a vital hub of trade and survival in a region torn apart by war. As the conflict between Earth and the breakaway Union intensifies, waves of displaced ships and desperate refugees flood the station, straining its resources and...
Dune 1990
Dune, Book 1
Set in a distant future among a vast interstellar empire, Dune follows Paul Atreides, the young heir to House Atreides, whose family is entrusted with the stewardship of Arrakis—the desert planet that is the only source of the universe’s most valuable substance: spice. This rare resource grants...
Edge 2012
Edge begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault. The fears of California someday tumbling into the sea—that have become the stuff of parody—become real. But even the terror resulting from this catastrophe pales in comparison to the understanding behind its happening, a...
Ender's Game 1991
The Ender Saga, Book 1
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than...
The Fallen Fruit 2025
On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she inherited from her father’s family. The quest leads her to uncover a dark secret: in every generation, one offspring from each Bridge family unit vanishes—and is mysteriously...
Farmer in the Sky 2012
When Bill Lermer and his family leave an overcrowded Earth for a new life on Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s moons, they are chasing the promise of opportunity on a distant frontier. But the reality of colonization is far harsher than they imagined. Ganymede is a frozen, hostile world, only recently made...
A Fire Upon The Deep 1993
Zones of Thought, Book 1
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function.
Nobody knows what strange...
Forever Peace 1998
2043 A.D.: The Ngumi War rages, fought by “soldierboys”—the remote control war machines run by soldiers hundreds of miles away. Julian Class is one of these soldiers, and for him, war is indeed hell. The psychological strain of being jacked-in to his soldierboy—and the genocidal results—are becoming...
The Forever War 2009
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away.
A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and...
Foundation's Edge 1991
Foundation, Book 4
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious, and now they return to Hari Seldon’s long established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is...
Renowned structural engineer Dr. Vannevar Morgan seeks to link Earth to the stars—through the construction of a space elevator connecting to an orbiting satellite 22,300 miles from the planet's surface. The elevator would lift interstellar spaceships into orbit without the need of rockets to blast...
Original and classic science fiction about Japan from some of the greatest writers in the world.
A web browser that threatens to conquer the world. The longest, loneliest railroad on Earth. A North Korean nuke hitting Tokyo, a hollow asteroid full of automated rice paddies, and a specialist in...
Gateway 2004
The Heechee Saga, Book 1
Seeded among the stars are troves of valuable artifacts left behind by the enigmatic, long-vanished alien race called the Heechee. For the right price, anyone can climb aboard one of the abandoned Heechee spaceships, cast off on an autopilot voyage to parts unknown, and take a chance on finding...
Neog, Book 3
Ensign Nell “Sapphi” Zika has been working hard to get past her trauma, but the unnerving pleas for help she’s hearing in the Verge and the song she can’t get out of her head are making that increasingly difficult.
As Zuma’s Ghost gears up for a final run at the Boarding Games, their expert hacker...
One of Tsutsui’s best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she...
The Gods Themselves 1990
In the twenty-second century, Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and a parallel universe, using a process devised by the aliens. But even free energy has a price. The transference process itself will eventually lead to the...
Green Mars 1995
The Mars Trilogy, Book 2
Nearly a generation has passed since the first pioneers landed on Mars, and its transformation to an Earthlike planet is under way. But not everyone wants to see the process through. The methods are opposed by those determined to preserve their home planet’s hostile, barren beauty.
Led by the first...
Guards! Guards! 2024
City Watch, Book 1
Insurrection is in the air in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to face off. Again. It’s old news to Captain Sam Vimes of the city’s ramshackle Night Watch. But this time, something is different—the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant, lethal weapon that even they...
Hell 2010
Fifty-seven-year-old Takeshi has just been involved in a traffic accident. When he wakes up, he is in a strange bar and is no longer crippled as he has been for most of his life, but able to walk without crutches in his everyday business suit. Looking around, he sees a number of familiar...
HUXLEY 2025
HUXLEY's original run of six digital-first comics took the internet by storm, forever changing the landscape of graphic novels. But that was just the beginning. Ben Mauro's epic, decade-long franchise quickly grew with prequels that dive deeper into the universe's deep lore and rich history.
The...
Hyperion 1989
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the reach of galactic law, waits a creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it. And there are those who have vowed to destroy it.
In the Valley of the Time Tombs, where huge, brooding structures move backward through...
Idoru 1997
Bridge, Book 2
21st century Tokyo, after the millennial quake. Neon rain. Light everywhere blowing under any door you might try to close. Where the New Buildings, the largest in the world, erect themselves unaided, their slow rippling movements like the contractions of a sea-creature...
Colin Laney is here...
Klara and the Sun 2022
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and...
The Hainish Cycle, Book 4
When Genly Ai, an envoy from a vast interstellar alliance known as the Ekumen, arrives on the icy planet of Gethen, his mission is simple in theory: persuade its nations to join a wider community of worlds. But Gethen is unlike any place he has known. Its inhabitants are ambisexual, taking on male...
All Clear 2010
Oxford Time Travel, Book 4
Stranded in the chaos of World War II London, a group of time-traveling historians from the future struggle to survive as history unfolds around them with relentless force. What began as a series of academic observations has turned into a desperate fight to endure the Blitz, with each of them cut...
Bridge, Book 3
Colin Laney, sensitive to patterns of information like no one else on earth, currently resides in a cardboard box in Tokyo. His body shakes with fever dreams, but his mind roams free as always, and he knows something is about to happen. Not in Tokyo; he will not see this thing himself. Something is...
Lord of Light 2004
On a distant colony world, a group of humans has remade itself into gods. Using advanced technology, they have taken on the identities and powers of the Hindu pantheon, ruling over the planet and controlling access to the very tools that could challenge their authority. For generations, they have...
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names.
In this dystopian world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San...
The Martian 2014
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to...
The Midnight Train 2026
The Midnight World, Book 2
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.
The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.
To see what kind of person you really were.
For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.
Before he gave it all away.
He...
Mona Lisa Overdrive 1997
Sprawl, Book 3
Enter the uniquely prescient world of the Sprawl—lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.
Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a...
The Martian 2014
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to...
The Midnight Train May 26, 2026
The Midnight World, Book 2
No one can change the past, but the Midnight Train can take you there.
The chance to re-live the moments that meant most.
To see what kind of person you really were.
For Wilbur his best days were with Maggie, the love of his life. On his honeymoon in Venice.
Before he gave it all away.
He...
Mona Lisa Overdrive May 5, 2026
Sprawl, Book 3
Enter the uniquely prescient world of the Sprawl—lyric and mechanical, sensual and violent, sobering and exciting—where multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace.
Into this world comes Mona, a young girl with a...
The Tower and the Ruin December 2, 2025
No writer has surpassed the epic achievement of J.R.R. Tolkien, who spent decades refining his Middle-earth—a world that has felt so real to so many readers that it is almost impossible to imagine that any single person could have simply created it, seemingly out of thin air.
In *The Tower and the...
HUXLEY December 2, 2025
HUXLEY's original run of six digital-first comics took the internet by storm, forever changing the landscape of graphic novels. But that was just the beginning. Ben Mauro's epic, decade-long franchise quickly grew with prequels that dive deeper into the universe's deep lore and rich history.
The...
On the Calculation of Volume November 18, 2025
On the Calculation of Volume, Book 3
Tara’s November 18th transforms when she discovers that she is no longer alone in her endless autumnal day. For she has met someone who remembers, and who knows as well as she does that “it is autumn, but that we’re not heading into winter. That spring and summer will not follow. That the reds and...
The Fallen Fruit September 16, 2025
On a rainy day in May 1964, history professor Cecily Bridge-Davis begins to search for the sixty-five acres of land she inherited from her father’s family. The quest leads her to uncover a dark secret: in every generation, one offspring from each Bridge family unit vanishes—and is mysteriously...
The October Country June 17, 2025
The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village, where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city, where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway, where a tiny man’s most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night.
The October Country’s...
The Black Orb February 4, 2025
The object was a black orb, roughly two meters in diameter. Despite its large size, it made no sound as it moved. Although it wasn’t chasing Jeong-su fast enough to catch him, it was unrelenting and persistent in its pursuit…
One evening in downtown Seoul, Jeong-su is smoking a cigarette outside...
The Dispossessed November 19, 2024
The Hainish Cycle, Book 5
Anarres, Shevek’s homeland, is a bleak moon settled by an anarchic utopian civilization, where there is no government, and everyone, at least nominally, is a revolutionary. It has long been isolated from other worlds, including its mother planet, Urras—defined by warring nations, great poverty, and...
And the Mighty Will Fall November 19, 2024
Neog, Book 4
When you’re trapped in space, there’s no way out. The mission of the Near-Earth Orbital Guard is to ensure the peace and security of the solar system. Commander Maxine Carmichael and Lieutenant Commander Saqib Vahid are at the Mars Orbital Station (MOS) to help facilitate the official handover from...
Carpe Jugulum October 8, 2024
Witches, Book 6
In a fit of enlightened democracy and ebullient goodwill brought on by the birth of his new daughter, King Verence invites Uberwald’s undead, the sophisticated Magpyrs, into Lancre. Everyone knows you don’t allow vampires into your castle—unless you want permanent guests. Now that they’re here,...
Darkside September 24, 2024
Planetside, Book 4
Colonel Butler has paid his dues and just wants to enjoy his retirement on a remote planet. But the galaxy has had other plans. He has been roped into searching for a politician’s missing son and an industry magnate’s missing daughter. He has been kidnapped, violated numerous laws, and caused the...
Guards! Guards! July 30, 2024
City Watch, Book 1
Insurrection is in the air in the city of Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to face off. Again. It’s old news to Captain Sam Vimes of the city’s ramshackle Night Watch. But this time, something is different—the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant, lethal weapon that even they...
The Ghosts of Trappist June 18, 2024
Neog, Book 3
Ensign Nell “Sapphi” Zika has been working hard to get past her trauma, but the unnerving pleas for help she’s hearing in the Verge and the song she can’t get out of her head are making that increasingly difficult.
As Zuma’s Ghost gears up for a final run at the Boarding Games, their expert hacker...
The Stars Too Fondly June 11, 2024
They just wanted to know why, twenty years ago, the entire Providence crew vanished without a trace. But then the stupid dark matter engine started all on its own, and now these four twenty-somethings are en route to Proxima Centauri, unable to turn around, and being harangued by a snarky hologram...
The Blood Gift June 4, 2024
The Blood Gift, Book 2
After discovering the depth of betrayal, treachery, and violence perpetrated against her by Mareen’s Tribunal Council and exposing her illegal blood-gift to save her Praetorian squad, Ikenna becomes a fugitive with a colossal bounty on her head. Yet, somehow, that’s the least of her worries. Her...
Project Hail Mary October 4, 2022
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.
Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
All he knows is that...
Klara and the Sun March 1, 2022
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and...
Artemis July 3, 2018
Jasmine Bashara never signed up to be a hero. She just wanted to get rich.
Not crazy, eccentric-billionaire rich, like many of the visitors to her hometown of Artemis, humanity’s first and only lunar colony. Just rich enough to move out of her coffin-sized apartment and eat something better than...
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time June 8, 2017
One of Tsutsui’s best-known and most popular works in his native Japan, The Girl Who Leapt through Time is the story of fifteen-year-old schoolgirl Kazuko, who accidentally discovers that she can leap back and forth in time. In her quest to uncover the identity of the mysterious figure that she...
Neuromancer October 25, 2016
Sprawl, Book 1
Case was the sharpest data-thief in the matrix—until he crossed the wrong people and they crippled his nervous system, banishing him from cyberspace. Now a mysterious new employer has recruited him for a last-chance run at an unthinkably powerful artificial intelligence. With a dead man riding...
The Three-Body Problem January 12, 2016
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 1
Amid the turmoil of China’s Cultural Revolution, a young physicist named Ye Wenjie makes a decision that will echo across decades—and beyond the boundaries of Earth itself. Years later, a series of strange and unsettling events begins to trouble the scientific community: experiments yield impossible...
The Man in the High Castle November 17, 2015
It’s America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names.
In this dystopian world, we meet characters like Frank Frink, a dealer of counterfeit Americana who is himself hiding his Jewish ancestry; Nobusuke Tagomi, the Japanese trade minister in San...
The Snow Queen October 27, 2015
Snow Queen, Book 1
The imperious Winter colonists have ruled the planet Tiamat for 150 years, deriving wealth from the slaughter of the sea mers. But soon the galactic stargate will close, isolating Tiamat, and the 150-year reign of the Summer primitives will begin.
Their only chance at surviving the change is if...
The Peripheral October 6, 2015
Jackpot, Book 1
Where Flynne and her brother, Burton, live, jobs outside the drug business are rare. Fortunately, Burton has his veteran’s benefits, for neural damage he suffered from implants during his time in the USMC’s elite Haptic Recon force.
Then one night Burton has to go out, but there’s a job he’s...
The Dark Forest August 11, 2015
Remembrance of Earth's Past, Book 2
Earth is no longer alone—and it has learned the terrifying truth too late. As news spreads that an alien civilization is on its way to invade, humanity unites in preparation for a war that will not arrive for centuries. Yet the enemy has already found a way to cripple Earth’s defenses, placing...
Way Station July 21, 2015
Enoch Wallace is not like other humans. Living a secluded life in the backwoods of Wisconsin, he carries a nineteenth-century rifle and never seems to age—a fact that has recently caught the attention of prying government eyes. The truth is, Enoch is the last surviving veteran of the American Civil...
The Windup Girl May 5, 2015
Anderson Lake is AgriGen’s Calorie Man, sent to work undercover as a factory manager in Thailand while combing Bangkok’s street markets in search of foodstuffs thought to be extinct, hoping to reap the bounty of history’s lost calories.
Emiko is the Windup Girl, a strange and beautiful creature....
The Martian October 28, 2014
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.
Now, he’s sure he’ll be the first person to die there.
After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to...
Beyond This Horizon October 7, 2014
In a future where humanity has seemingly perfected itself through genetic engineering, society is orderly, prosperous—and quietly constrained. Individuals are bred for intelligence, health, and stability, creating a world in which conflict is rare and efficiency reigns. Yet beneath this carefully...
Ender's Game March 4, 2014
The Ender Saga, Book 1
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than...
Ancillary Justice October 1, 2013
Imperial Radch, Book 1
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest. Once, she was the Justice of Toren—a colossal starship with an artificial intelligence linking thousands of soldiers in the service of the Radch, the empire that conquered the galaxy.
Now, an act of...
Farmer in the Sky April 1, 2013
When Bill Lermer and his family leave an overcrowded Earth for a new life on Ganymede, one of Jupiter’s moons, they are chasing the promise of opportunity on a distant frontier. But the reality of colonization is far harsher than they imagined. Ganymede is a frozen, hostile world, only recently made...
The Fountains of Paradise November 30, 2012
Renowned structural engineer Dr. Vannevar Morgan seeks to link Earth to the stars—through the construction of a space elevator connecting to an orbiting satellite 22,300 miles from the planet's surface. The elevator would lift interstellar spaceships into orbit without the need of rockets to blast...
Edge June 26, 2012
Edge begins with a massive and catastrophic shifting of the San Andreas fault. The fears of California someday tumbling into the sea—that have become the stuff of parody—become real. But even the terror resulting from this catastrophe pales in comparison to the understanding behind its happening, a...
The Future Is Japanese May 15, 2012
Original and classic science fiction about Japan from some of the greatest writers in the world.
A web browser that threatens to conquer the world. The longest, loneliest railroad on Earth. A North Korean nuke hitting Tokyo, a hollow asteroid full of automated rice paddies, and a specialist in...
All Clear October 25, 2011
Oxford Time Travel, Book 4
Stranded in the chaos of World War II London, a group of time-traveling historians from the future struggle to survive as history unfolds around them with relentless force. What began as a series of academic observations has turned into a desperate fight to endure the Blitz, with each of them cut...
Zero History August 2, 2011
Blue Ant, Book 3
Whatever you do, because you are an artist, will bring you to the next thing of your own...
When she sang for The Curfew, Hollis Henry's face was known worldwide. She still runs into people who remember the poster. Unfortunately, in the post-crash economy, cult memorabilia doesn't pay the rent,...
A Fire Upon The Deep August 1, 2011
Zones of Thought, Book 1
Thousands of years hence, many races inhabit a universe where a mind's potential is determined by its location in space, from superintelligent entities in the Transcend, to the limited minds of the Unthinking Depths, where only simple creatures and technology can function.
Nobody knows what strange...
Blackout September 14, 2010
Oxford Time Travel, Book 3
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees...
Hell March 23, 2010
Fifty-seven-year-old Takeshi has just been involved in a traffic accident. When he wakes up, he is in a strange bar and is no longer crippled as he has been for most of his life, but able to walk without crutches in his everyday business suit. Looking around, he sees a number of familiar...
The Forever War February 17, 2009
The Earth's leaders have drawn a line in the interstellar sand—despite the fact that the fierce alien enemy they would oppose is inscrutable, unconquerable, and very far away.
A reluctant conscript drafted into an elite military unit, Private William Mandella has been propelled through space and...
Downbelow Station December 2, 2008
Pell Station stands as a fragile refuge at the edge of human space, a vital hub of trade and survival in a region torn apart by war. As the conflict between Earth and the breakaway Union intensifies, waves of displaced ships and desperate refugees flood the station, straining its resources and...
Promenade of the Gods August 26, 2008
It begins with a woman's search to find her husband, who disappears after watching a TV show. She enlists the aid of her husband's best friend, and together they discover that the famous female personality of the TV show disappeared after the same evening's broadcast as well. The duo's search leads...
Spook Country June 3, 2008
Blue Ant, Book 2
Spook (spo͞ok) n.: A specter; a ghost. Slang for “intelligence agent.”
Country (ˈkən-trē) n.: In the mind or in reality. The World. The United States of America, New Improved Edition. What lies before you. What lies behind.
Spook country (spo͞ok ˈkən-trē) n.: The place where we all have landed,...
Starship Troopers June 27, 2006
Johnnie Rico never really intended to join up—and definitely not the infantry. But now that he’s in the thick of it, trying to get through combat training harder than anything he could have imagined, he knows everyone in his unit is one bad move away from buying the farm in the interstellar war the...
A Canticle for Leibowitz May 9, 2006
In the depths of the Utah desert, long after the Flame Deluge has scoured the earth clean, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz has made a miraculous discovery: holy relics from the life of the great saint himself, including the blessed blueprint, the sacred shopping list, and the hallowed shrine...
Count Zero March 7, 2006
Sprawl, Book 2
Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D—and the biochip he’s perfected—out intact.
But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human....
Dune August 2, 2005
Dune, Book 1
Set in a distant future among a vast interstellar empire, Dune follows Paul Atreides, the young heir to House Atreides, whose family is entrusted with the stewardship of Arrakis—the desert planet that is the only source of the universe’s most valuable substance: spice. This rare resource grants...
Pattern Recognition February 1, 2005
Blue Ant, Book 1
Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet—a world-renowned “coolhunter” who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she’s offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigmatic video clips being uploaded to the...