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Wide and smooth, the Road was seared into planet Destiny's rocky surface by the fusion drive of the powered landing craft, Cavorite. The Cavorite deserted the origional interstellar colonists, stranding then without hope of contacting Earth. Now, descendants of those pioneers have many questions about the Road, but no settler who has gone down it has ever returned. For Jemmy Bloocher, a young farm boy, the questions burn too hot and he sets out to uncover the many mysteries of Destiny's Road. |
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A new generation is growing up on the island paradise of Camelot, ignorant of the Great Grendel Wars fought when their parents and grandparents arrived from Earth. Setting out for the mainland, this group of young rebels feels ready to fight any Grendels that get in their way. On Avalon, however, there are monsters which dwarf the ones their parents fought, and as the group will soon leasn, monsters also dwell in the human heart. |
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Having made him look a fool, she's been exiled to Basilisk Station in disgrace and set up for ruin by a superior who hate her. Her demoralized crew blames her for their ship's humiliating posting to an out-of-the-way picket station. The aborigines of the system's only habitable plante are smoking homicide-inducing hallucinogens Parliament isn't sure it wants to keep the place; the major local industry is smuggling; the merchant cartels want her head; the star-conquering, so-called "Republic" of Haven is Up To Something; and Honor Harrington has a single, over-age light crusier with an armament that doesn't work to police the entire star system. But the people out to get her have made one mistake. They've made her mad. |
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Helva had been born human but only her brain had been saved-saved to be schooled, programed and inplantede in the sleek, titanium body of an intergalactic scout ship. But first she had to choose a human partner-male or female-to share her exhilarating escapades in space. Her life was to be rich and rewarding. . . resplendent with daring adventures and endless excitement, beyond the wildest dreams of mere mortals. Gifted with the voice of an angel and being virtually indestructable, Helva XH-834 anticipated a sublime immortality. Then one day she fell in love. |
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"I myself have dreamed up an intermediate step between Dyson Spheres and planets. Build a ring ninety three million miles in radius-one Earth orbit-which would make is six hundred million mies long. If we make it a million mies wide, we get a thickness of about a thousand meters. The Ringworld would thus be much sturdier than a Dyson sphere. "There are other advantages. We can spin it for gravity. A rotation on its axis of seven hundred seventy miles per second would give the Ringword one gravity outward. We wouldn't even have to have a roof over it. Put walls a thousand miles high at each rim, aim it at the run, and very little air will leak over the edges. "The thing is rommy enough: three million times the area of the Earth. It will be some time before anyone complains of the crowding. -Lavy Niven |
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John Varley's monumental trilogy-Titan, Wizard, and Demon-has achieved cult status, hailed as a modern triumph of imagination by critics and fans. It begins with hunankind's exploration of a massive satellite orbiting Saturn. It aclminates in a shocking discovery: The satellite is a giant alien being. Her name is Gaea. her awesome interoir is mind boggling. Because it is a mind. A mind that calls out to explorers.. and transforms all who enter. |
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There he was in his sailboat in the middle of the Atlantic, all alone and loving it. Well, there was a US Navy carrier group on his southern horizon, but he was a Navy guy himself, so he didn't mind. Then came the UFOs, hurtling in from the Outer Black to overfly the carriers at Mach 17. Their impossible areobatics were bad enough-but then they started sooting at each other. And at the Navy. With nukes. Little ones at first, but winding up with a 500 megatonner at 90 miles that fried every piece of electronics within line-of-sight. Richard Aston thought he was just a ringside observer to these now over-the-horizon events. Until the cripples alien lifeboat cam drifting dorn and homed in on his sailboat; suddenly he has his hands full of an unconscious, critically wounded and inpossibly human alien warrior who also happens to be a gorgeous female. That's when things got interesting. |
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Peter Raeder became the Commonwealth's first ace pilot in the Molly war. That battle cost him his hand--and his right to fly the space fighters that had been his first love. Now he's Flight Engineer on the carrier Invincible, a crack new ship with a picked crew. With a Flight Engineer like this, Invincible is ready to meet and beat anything in space--only there are a few problems. |
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Ender's Game is a science fiction novel that tells the story of Andrew Wiggin (nicknamed Ender by his sister, Valentine.) The story takes place on Earth in the future. Earth has been attacked twice by an alien species called Buggers, nearly destroying the human race. Mankind begins training young geniuses to become soldiers and commanders to fight in Earth's defence if the Buggers should ever attack again. Ender is extremely intelligent, and at the age of six years old, he goes to Battle School to be trained. Ender quickly rises to the top in Battle School and begins training in order to command Earth's fleet. |
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Jordan McKell is a renegade star-freighter pilot struggling to survive in a galaxy where trade is monopolized by the opprezzive Patth. But when he takes a job flying a broken-down antique ship and its "special cargo" to Earth, neither Jordan nor his mechanic-partner Ixil (an alien being with two ferret like "outhunters" linked to his nerual system) has any idea of the stakes involved. Soon Jordan and Ixil find themselves lumbering through space on the Icarus with a ragtag crew, an unknown saboteur, and a large sealed container the Patth will do anything to intercept. It's not long before Jordan suspects he and Ixil are in the middlle of a vast conspiracy that could change the course of human history. Unfortuneatly, he's right. |