Greg Bear Books In Order

Ares Rising Books In Publication Order

  1. War Dogs (2014)
  2. Killing Titan (2015)
  3. Take Back the Sky (2016)

Darwin’s Radio Books In Publication Order

  1. Darwin’s Radio (1999)
  2. Darwin’s Children (2002)

Eon Books In Publication Order

  1. Eon (1984)
  2. Eternity (1988)
  3. Legacy (1994)

Forge of God Books In Publication Order

  1. The Forge of God (1987)
  2. Anvil of Stars (1992)

Halo Books In Publication Order

  1. The Fall of Reach (By:Eric S. Nylund) (2001)
  2. The Flood (By:William C. Dietz) (2003)
  3. First Strike (By:Eric S. Nylund) (2003)
  4. Ghosts of Onyx (By:Eric S. Nylund) (2006)
  5. Contact Harvest (By:Joseph Staten) (2007)
  6. The Cole Protocol (By:Tobias S. Buckell) (2008)
  7. Broken Circle (By:John Shirley) (2014)
  8. New Blood (By:Matt Forbeck) (2015)
  9. Hunters in the Dark (By:Peter David) (2015)
  10. Saint’s Testimony (By:Frank O’Connor) (2015)
  11. Last Light (By:Troy Denning) (2015)
  12. Shadow of Intent (By:Joseph Staten) (2015)
  13. Smoke and Shadow (By:Kelly Gay) (2016)
  14. Envoy (By:Tobias S. Buckell) (2017)
  15. Retribution (By:Troy Denning) (2017)
  16. Legacy of Onyx (By:Matt Forbeck) (2017)
  17. Bad Blood (By:Matt Forbeck) (2018)
  18. Renegades (By:Kelly Gay) (2019)
  19. Oblivion (By:Troy Denning) (2019)
  20. Point of Light (By:Kelly Gay) (2021)
  21. Halo: Divine Wind (By:Troy Denning) (2021)

Quantum Logic Books In Publication Order

  1. Quantico (2007)
  2. Mariposa (2009)

Queen of Angels Books In Publication Order

  1. Queen of Angels (1990)
  2. Heads (1990)
  3. Moving Mars (1993)
  4. Slant (1997)

Second Foundation Trilogy Books In Publication Order

  1. Foundation’s Fear (By:Gregory Benford) (1997)
  2. Foundation and Chaos (1998)
  3. Foundation’s Triumph (By:David Brin) (2000)

Songs of Earth and Power Books In Publication Order

  1. Songs of Earth and Power (1984)
  2. Infinity Concerto (1984)
  3. The Serpent Mage (1984)

Star Wars: Episode I Books In Publication Order

  1. Rogue Planet (2000)

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Hegira (1953)
  2. Psychlone (1979)
  3. Beyond Heaven’s River (1980)
  4. Strength of Stones (1981)
  5. Lost Souls (1982)
  6. Blood Music (1985)
  7. Dinosaur Summer (1998)
  8. Country Of The Mind (1998)
  9. Dead Lines (2001)
  10. Vitals (2002)
  11. City at the End of Time (2008)
  12. Hull Zero Three (2010)
  13. The Unfinished Land (2019)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. Hardfought (1988)
  2. Sisters (1992)

Jurassic Park Graphic Novels In Publication Order

  1. Classic Jurassic Park (By:Walter Simonson) (1993)
  2. Classic Jurassic Park, Volume 2 (By:Walter Simonson) (2011)
  3. The Devils in the Desert (By:John Byrne) (2011)
  4. Classic Jurassic Park, Volume 4 (By:Steve Englehart) (2012)
  5. Dangerous Games (2012)
  6. Jurassic Park Vol. 5 (By:Steve Englehart) (2013)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. The Wind from a Burning Woman (1983)
  2. The Venging (1983)
  3. Sleepside (1988)
  4. Early Harvest (1988)
  5. Bear’s Fantasies (1988)
  6. Tangents (1989)
  7. The Collected Stories of Greg Bear (2002)
  8. Women in Deep Time (2003)
  9. Just Over the Horizon (2016)
  10. Far Thoughts and Pale Gods (2016)
  11. Beyond the Farthest Suns (2016)

Halo: The Forerunner Saga Books In Publication Order

  1. Cryptum (2011)
  2. Primordium (2011)
  3. Silentium (2013)

Star Trek: TOS (Numbered) Books In Publication Order

  1. Star Trek: The Motion Picture (By:Gene Roddenberry) (1979)
  2. The Entropy Effect (By:Vonda N. McIntyre) (1981)
  3. The Klingon Gambit (By:Robert E. Vardeman) (1981)
  4. The Covenant of the Crown (By:) (1981)
  5. The Prometheus Design (By:Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) (1982)
  6. The Abode of Life (By:) (1982)
  7. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (By:Vonda N. McIntyre) (1982)
  8. Triangle (By:Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath) (1983)
  9. Black Fire (By:) (1983)
  10. Web of the Romulans (By:) (1983)
  11. Mutiny on the Enterprise (By:Robert E. Vardeman) (1983)
  12. The Wounded Sky (By:Diane Duane) (1983)
  13. The Trellisane Confrontation (By:) (1984)
  14. Corona (1984)
  15. Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (By:Vonda N. McIntyre) (1984)
  16. The Tears of the Singers (By:Melinda M. Snodgrass) (1984)
  17. The Vulcan Academy Murders (By:Jean Lorrah) (1984)
  18. Uhura’s Song (By:Janet Kagan) (1985)
  19. Uhura’s Song (By:Janet Kagan) (1985)
  20. Shadow Lord (By:) (1985)
  21. Ishmael (By:Barbara Hambly) (1985)
  22. Killing Time (By:) (1985)
  23. Dwellers in the Crucible (By:) (1985)
  24. Pawns and Symbols (By:) (1985)
  25. Mindshadow (By:J.M. Dillard) (1986)
  26. Crisis on Centaurus (By:) (1986)
  27. Demons (By:J.M. Dillard) (1986)
  28. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (By:Vonda N. McIntyre) (1986)
  29. Chain of Attack (By:Gene DeWeese) (1987)
  30. Deep Domain (By:) (1987)
  31. Dreams of the Raven (By:) (1987)
  32. Bloodthirst (By:J.M. Dillard) (1987)
  33. The IDIC Epidemic (By:Jean Lorrah) (1988)
  34. The Final Nexus (By:Gene DeWeese) (1988)
  35. Timetrap (By:) (1988)
  36. The Three-Minute Universe (By:Barbara Paul) (1988)
  37. The Final Nexus (By:Gene DeWeese) (1988)
  38. Vulcan’s Glory (By:) (1989)
  39. Double, Double (By:Michael Jan Friedman) (1989)
  40. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (By:J.M. Dillard,William Shatner) (1989)
  41. Home is the Hunter (By:) (1990)
  42. Enemy Unseen (By:) (1990)
  43. Ghost-Walker (By:Barbara Hambly) (1991)
  44. Renegade (By:Gene DeWeese) (1991)
  45. Legacy (By:Michael Jan Friedman) (1991)
  46. The Rift (By:Peter David) (1991)
  47. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (By:J.M. Dillard) (1992)
  48. Faces of Fire (By:Michael Jan Friedman) (1992)
  49. Ice Trap (By:L.A. Graf) (1992)
  50. Sanctuary (By:John Vornholt) (1992)
  51. Death Count (By:L.A. Graf) (1992)
  52. Shell Game (By:) (1993)
  53. The Starship Trap (By:Mel Gilden) (1993)
  54. Windows on a Lost World (By:) (1993)
  55. From the Depths (By:Victor Milán) (1993)
  56. The Great Starship Race (By:Diane Carey) (1993)
  57. Firestorm (By:L.A. Graf) (1994)
  58. The Patrian Transgression (By:Simon Hawke) (1994)
  59. Crossroad (By:Barbara Hambly) (1994)
  60. The Better Man (By:) (1994)
  61. The Fearful Summons (By:) (1995)
  62. First Frontier (By:Diane Carey) (1995)
  63. The Captain’s Daughter (By:Peter David) (1995)
  64. Twilight’s End (By:Jerry Oltion) (1996)
  65. The Rings of Tautee (By:Dean Wesley Smith) (1996)
  66. The Joy Machine (By:Theodore Sturgeon) (1996)
  67. Mudd in Your Eye (By:Jerry Oltion) (1997)
  68. Mind Meld (By:John Vornholt) (1997)
  69. Heart of the Sun (By:Pamela Sargent) (1997)
  70. Assignment: Eternity (By:Greg Cox) (1998)
  71. Vulcan’s Heart (By:Josepha Sherman) (1999)
  72. Across the Universe (By:Pamela Sargent) (1999)
  73. In the Name of Honor (By:Dayton Ward) (2002)
  74. Constellations (By:Marco Palmieri) (2006)
  75. The Disinherited (By:Peter David,Robert Greenberger,Michael Jan Friedman) (2007)
  76. The Children of Kings (By:) (2010)
  77. Cast No Shadow (By:James Swallow,Dayton Ward) (2011)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. Dragons of Light (1980)
  2. The First Omni Book of Science Fiction (1983)
  3. Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986)
  4. Murasaki (1992)
  5. The Ascent of Wonder (1994)
  6. New Legends (1995)
  7. Hackers (1996)
  8. New Skies: An Anthology of Today’s Science Fiction (2003)
  9. Year’s Best SF 11 (2006)
  10. Telling Tales: The Clarion West 30th Anniversary Anthology (2013)
  11. Future Visions (2015)
  12. Nebula Awards 49 (2015) (2015)
  13. Grave Predictions (2016)

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Greg Bear Books Overview

Darwin’s Radio

A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEEGreg Bear’s powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies and their dangers. Now, in Darwin’s Radio, Bear draws on state of the art biological and anthropological research to give us an ingeniously plotted thriller that questions everything we believe about human origins and destiny as civilization confronts the next terrifying step in evolution.A mass grave in Russia that conceals the mummified remains of two women, both with child and the conspiracy to keep it secret…
a major discovery high in the Alps: the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family the newborn infant possessing disturbing characteristics…
a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women, resulting in miscarriage. Three disparate facts that will converge into one science shattering truth. Molecular biologist Kaye Lang, a specialist in retroviruses, believes that ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans can again come to life. But her theory soon becomes chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken a ‘virus hunter’ at the Epidemic Intelligence Service has pursued an elusive flu like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. The shocking link: something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up. Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang, along with anthropologist Mitch Rafelson, must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve. An evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race…
if a future exists at all.A fiercely intelligent, utterly enthralling novel of adventure and ideas, genetics and evolution, a fast paced thriller that is grounded in the timeless human themes of struggle, loss, and redemption, Darwin’s Radio is sure to become one of the most talked about books of the year. From the Hardcover edition.

Darwin’s Children

Greg Bear’s Nebula Award winning novel, Darwin s Radio, painted a chilling portrait of humankind on the threshold of a radical leap in evolution one that would alter our species forever. Now Bear continues his provocative tale of the human race confronted by an uncertain future, where survival of the fittest takes on astonishing and controversial new dimensions. DARWIN S CHILDRENEleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNA a retrovirus that caused mutations in the human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence…
and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths, possessed of remarkable, advanced traits that mark a major turning point in human development, are also ticking time bombs harboring hosts of viruses that could exterminate the old human race. Fear and hatred of the virus children have made them a persecuted underclass, quarantined by the government in special schools, targeted by federally sanctioned bounty hunters, and demonized by hysterical segments of the population. But pockets of resistance have sprung up among those opposed to treating the children like dangerous diseases and who fear the worst if the government s draconian measures are carried to their extreme. Scientists Kaye Lang and Mitch Rafelson are part of this small but determined minority. Once at the forefront of the discovery and study of the SHEVA outbreak, they now live as virtual exiles in the Virginia suburbs with their daughter, Stella a bright, inquisitive virus child who is quickly maturing, straining to break free of the protective world her parents have built around her, and eager to seek out others of her kind. But for all their precautions, Kaye, Mitch, and Stella have not slipped below the government s radar. The agencies fanatically devoted to segregating and controlling the new breed children monitor their every move watching and waiting for the opportunity to strike the next blow in their escalating war to preserve humankind at any cost. From the Hardcover edition.

Eon

The 21st century was on the brink of nuclear confrontation when the 300 kilometer long stone flashed out of nothingness and into Earth’s orbit. NASA, NATO, and the UN sent explorers to the asteroid’s surface…
and discovered marvels and mysteries to drive researchers mad. For the Stone was from space but perhaps not our space; it came from the future but perhaps not our future; and within the hollowed asteroid was Thistledown. The remains of a vanished civilization. A human English, Russian, and Chinese speaking civilization. Seven vast chambers containing forests, lakes, rivers, hanging cities…
And museums describing the Death; the catastrophic war that was about to occur; the horror and the long winter that would follow. But while scientists and politicians bickered about how to use the information to stop the Death, the Stone yielded a secret that made even Earth’s survival pale into insignificance.

Eternity

Multiple Nebula and Hugo Award winner Greg Bear returns to the Earth of his acclaimed novel Eon a world devastated by nuclear war. The crew of the asteroid starship Thistledown has thwarted an attack by the Jarts by severing their link to the Way, an endless corridor that spans universes. The asteroid settled into orbit around Earth and the tunnel snaked away, forming a contained universe of its own. Forty years later, on Gaia, Rhita Vaskayza recklessly pursues her legacy, seeking an Earth once again threatened by forces from within and without. For physicist Konrad Korzenowski, murdered for creating The Way, and resurrected, is compelled by a faction determined to see it opened once more. And humankind will discover just how entirely they have underestimated their ancient adversaries.

Legacy

The Way is a tunnel through space and time. The entrance is through the hollow asteroid Thistledown and the space station Axis City that sits at the asteroid’s center. From there the Flawships ride the center of the Way, traveling to other worlds and times. Now the rulers of Axis City have discovered that a huge group of colonists has secretly entered one of the interdicted worlds along the Way. In some ways Lamarkia is very Earth like but its biology is extraordinary. A single genetic entity can take many forms, and span a continent. There are only a few of these ‘ecos’ on Lamarkia, and the effect of human interaction on them is unknown. Olmy Ap Sennon has been sent to secretly as*sess the extent of the damage. But he will find far more than an intriguing alien biology for on their new world the secret colonists have returned to the old ways of human history: war, famine, and ecological disaster. On this mission, Olmy will learn about the basics: love, responsibility, and even failure…

The Forge of God

The disappearance of one of Jupiter’s moons, the appearance of ‘little green men’ in Australia and the American Southwest, and the sudden presence of unidentifiable objects on a collision course inside the Earth’s core add up to the inescapable conclusion that the Earth has been invaded by an enemy it cannot fight. Powerfully and gracefully written, the latest novel by the author of Eon and Blood Music stands far above most examples of ‘doomsday’ science fiction

Anvil of Stars

The Forge of God described the destruction of Earth itself by self replicating robots, Von Neumann machines designed to use the planet’s mass to create more robotic creatures and spread throughout the Galaxy. Only a few humans have survived, aided by a mysterious alien race known only as The Benefactors , who arrived at Earth too late. Now the small group of human survivors is determined to track down the criminal race who launched the planet killers. Humanity is given a starship by The Benefactors, and driven only by revenge they set out to find the unknown beings who are responsible for the destruction of Earth, and many other worlds.

The Fall of Reach (By:Eric S. Nylund)

As the bloody Human Covenant War rages on Halo, the fate of humankind may rest with one warrior, the lone SPARTAN survivor of another legendary battle…
the desperate, take no prisoners struggle that led humanity to Halo the fall of the planet Reach. Now, brought to life for the first time, here is the full story of that glorious, doomed conflict. While the brutal Covenant juggernaut sweeps inexorably through space, intent on wiping out humankind, only one stronghold remains the planet Reach. Practically on Earth’s doorstep, it is the last military fortress to defy the onslaught. But the personnel here have another, higher priority: to prevent the Covenant from discovering the location of Earth. Outnumbered and outgunned, the soldiers seem to have little chance against the Covenant, but Reach holds a closely guarded secret. It is the training ground for the very first ‘super soldiers.’ Code named SPARTANs, these highly advanced warriors, specially bioengineered and technologically augmented, are the best in the universe quiet, professional, and deadly. Now, as the ferocious Covenant attack begins, a handful of SPARTANs stand ready to wage ultimate war. They will kill, they will be destroyed, but they will never surrender. And at least one of them the SPARTAN known as Master Chief will live to fight another day on a mysterious and ancient, artificial world called Halo…
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The Flood (By:William C. Dietz)

REACH HAS FALLEN. THE COVENANT WAR MACHINE RAGES ON. HUMANITY S LAST HOPE LIES WITH THE CREW OF THE PILLAR OF AUTUMN THE IDOMNINTABLE CAPTAIN JACOB KEYES, STAFF SERGEANT AVERY JOHNSON, THE AI CORTANA, HUNDREDS OF FEARLESS MARINES…
AND SPARTAN 117, THE MASTER CHIEF. Having barely escaped the battle for Reach, the crew of the Pillar of Autumn is forced to make a jump into Slipspace in hopes of evading the vast alien alliance hell bent on wiping out humanity. But their destination brings them to an ancient mystery and an even greater struggle. In this far flung corner of the universe floats a magnificently massive artificial ring world…
a construct from a long lost race. The humans only hope of survival is to crash land on its surface and take the battle against the Covenant to the ground. But they soon discover that this enigmatic ring world is much more than it seems. Built 100,000 years ago by a civilization known as the Forerunners, this Halo is worshipped by the Covenant a sacred artifact that they hope will complete their religious quest for supposed transcendence. They will stop at nothing to control it. Engaged in a fierce ground battle, Master Chief and Cortana go deep into the Halo Construct to uncover a dark secret; this enigmatic ring world is also the universe’s most dangerous weapon. Its purpose: the destruction of all sentient life. For the Forerunners built the HALO to battle the universe s most vicious enemy a virtually unstoppable and suddenly reawakened force known as The Flood.

First Strike (By:Eric S. Nylund)

The Human Covenant war rages on as the alien juggernaut sweeps inexorably toward its final goal: destruction of all human life!Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemy’s clutches. Now, everything depends on the Spartan known as the Master Chief. Yet even with the aid of the artificial intelligence Cortana, the Master Chief will be hard pressed to rescue survivors and evade the Covenant ships patrolling the remains of Halo in debris strewn space. Ahead lies a dangerous voyage home, through a gauntlet of Covenant forces. For the sake of all, the Master Chief and his war torn squad must not only survive, but take the fight to the enemy with a decisive first strike. This novel is based on a Mature rated video game. Bungie, Halo, Xbox, the Microsoft Game Studios logo and the Xbox Logos are registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Used under license. 2003 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Ghosts of Onyx (By:Eric S. Nylund)

Continuing the saga of the award winning Xbox game! The Spartan II program has gone public. Tales of super soldiers fending off thousands of Covenant attacks have become the stuff of legend. But just how many Spartans are left?While the Master Chief defends a besieged Earth, and the myriad factions of the Covenant continue their crusade to eliminate humanity, an ultrasecret cell of the Office of Naval Intelligence known as ‘Section Three’ devises a plan to buy the UNSC vital time. They’re going to need hundreds of willing soldiers, though…
and one more Spartan to get the job done. The planet Onyx is virtually abandoned and the perfect place to set this new plan in motion. But when the Master Chief destroys Halo, something is triggered deep within Onyx: Ancient Forerunner technology stirs, and fleets of UNSC and Covenant race to claim it to change the course of the Human Covenant War. But this reawakened and ancient force may have plans of its own…
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Contact Harvest (By:Joseph Staten)

This is how it began…
It is the year 2524. Harvest is a peaceful, prosperous farming colony on the very edge of human controlled space. But we have trespassed on holy ground strayed into the path of an aggressive alien empire known as the Covenant. What begins as a chance encounter between an alien privateer and a human freighter catapults mankind into a struggle for its very existence. But humanity is also locked in a bitter civil war known as the Insurrection. So the survival of Harvest’s citizens falls to a squad of battle weary UNSC Marines and their inexperienced colonial militia trainees. In this unlikely group of heroes, one stands above the rest…
a young Marine staff sergeant named Avery Johnson.

The Cole Protocol (By:Tobias S. Buckell)

In the first, desperate days of the Human Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems. Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble and have come face to face with a Covenant settlement of Kig Yar…
yet somehow survived. News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality…
and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path.

Quantico

It’s the second decade of the twenty first century, and terrorism has escalated almost beyond control. The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem has been blown to bits by extremists and, in retaliation, thousands have died in another major attack on the United States. New weapons are being spawned in remote baseme*nt labs. No one feels safe. In North America, the FBI uses cutting edge technology to thwart domestic terrorists. Sat linked engine blockers stop drug traffickers cold; devices the size of Magic Markers test for bio hazards on the spot; 3 D projectors reconstruct crime scenes from hours old evidence; and sophisticated bomb suits protect against all but the most savage forces. Despite all this, the War on Terror has reached a deadly stalemate. Now the FBI has been dispatched to deal with a new menace. Like the Anthrax threat of 2001, a plague targeted to ethnic groups Jews or Muslims or both has the potential to wipe out entire populations. But the FBI itself is under political assault. There s a good chance agents William Griffin, Fouad Al Husam, and Jane Rowland will be part of the last class at Quantico. As the young agents hunt a brilliant homegrown terrorist, they join forces with veteran bio terror expert Rebecca Rose. But the plot they uncover and the man they chase proves far more complex than anyone expects.

Mariposa

In an America driven to near bankruptcy by crushing foreign debt and susceptible to outside forces, the Talos Corporation stands out as a major success story, training soldiers and security forces from around the world and providing logistics and troops for nearly all branches of the United States government. But Talos has other plans. Three FBI agents, first encountered in Quantico, stand between Talos’s CEO Axel Price and absolute control. When the President is shot and her second-in-command is found at the scene of a horrific crime, Rebecca Rose- on extended sabbatical from the FBI-is thrust back into service to investigate threads that lead deeper and deeper into Price’s organization. Fouad Al-Husam is working undercover in Lion City, Texas, at the core of Talos, where he has uncovered and hidden critical information. Meanwhile agent William Griffin follows a bloody trail of domestic terrorism fro the Midwest into the heart of Talos’s influence. Enter Nathan trace, victim of a violent incident in the Middle East that led to post-traumatic stress disorder and forced him to enroll in a treatment program, code-named ‘Mariposa.’ The Mariposa subjects begin to experience unexpected side effects that indicate something has gone terribly wrong. Liberated from nearly all human emotions and concerns-and all mental limits-they have become brilliant and lethal sociopaths. They are out of control-the smartest men on the planet, the deadliest. Yet without Trace’s help, Rose and her fellow agents will be unable to stop the plan that Price has set into motion-a plan that could leave America shattered and utterly unable to defend itself.

Queen of Angels

In a perfect future a famous poet commits terrible murder. WHY? That crime and that question lead a biotransformed policewoman to a jungle of torture and forgotten gods; a writer to the Bohemian shadows of a vast city; and a scientist directly into the mind into the nightmare soul of the psychopath himself. This is science fiction at its best: a detective story, a story of virtual reality entrapments and the coming to consciousness of an Artificial Intelligence…

Heads

Researchers at Ice Pit Station are conducting two experiments, during which they attempt to reach Absolute Zero temperature and record the memories cryogenically frozen human Heads, but a bizarre Earthborn cult will resort to anything to end the research. Reissue.

Moving Mars

Greg Bear is ‘a writer who is rapidly redefining the shape of the modern hard science fiction novel’ Keith Ferrell, Omni Magazine, and in Moving Mars he explores one very plausible scenario for the future of Earth’s neighboring planet.

Mars is a colonial world governed by corporate interests on Earth. The citizens of Mars are hardworking, brave, and intelligent, but held back by their lack of access to the best education, and the desire of Earthly powers to keep the best inventions for themselves. The young Martians the second and third generation born on Mars have little loyalty to the Earth, and strong belief that their planet can be independent. The revolution begins slowly, but matures to its inevitable conclusion. /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon. com Review /Source Content In this 1995 Nebula Award winning novel, a revolution is transforming the formerly passive Earth colony of Mars. While opposing political factions on Mars battle for the support of colonists, scientists make a staggering scientific breakthrough that at once fuels the conflict and creates a united Mars front, as the technically superior Earth tries to take credit for it. Backed against a wall, colonial leaders are forced to make a monumental decision that changes the future of Mars forever.

Slant

In the sixth decade of the twenty first century, Earth has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves down to the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought a revolution in human psychotherapy and artificial intelligence. It’s a sane and perfect world. Almost.

Foundation’s Fear (By:Gregory Benford)

First in the stunning Second Foundation TrilogyHari Seldon has been nominated as First Minister by Emperor Clean. But as his appointment is being considered, Hari’s simple life grows complex with bodyguards, assassination attempts, staff discord and the continuing public debate over artificial intelligence. As the friction over whether robots have souls heats up, two A.l.s, Joan of Arc and Voltaire, go rogue and flee. The chase is on.A rousing adventure that combines intellectual debate with the ingenious possibilities of true science fiction, Foundation’s Fear will bring Asimov’s greatest creation back to a new and bestselling life. Gregory Benford won the Neubla Award in 1980 for his novel Timescape.’ Benford brings out the complexities of a galactic empire that Asimov never filled out.. the first book stands well on its own.”Denver Post’ Benford took on the huge task of answering questions raised in the original , and difficult as it may sound, he pulled it off with style.. Rest assured, Asimov’s work is in good hands.”Craig E. EnglerEditor and Publisher of Science Fiction Weekly’A richly rewarding delight. Benford writes up to his usual high standard and excels in bringing Asimovian concepts. to vivid, visually compelling life.”Publishers Weeklystarred review’Intriguing and engrossing. a curious blend of reinventions and retrospective criticism.”Kirkus Reviewsstarred review

Foundation and Chaos

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy is one of the high water marks of science fiction. It pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern SF, and the sheer sweep of his ‘future history’ shaped many if not most of the writers who followed him. With the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, three of today’s bestselling SF writers, Gregory Benford, Greg Bear and David Brin, have conspired like the original Foundation! to complete the epic saga the beloved Grand Master left unfinished. The acclaimed Second Foundation Trilogy continues with Greg Bear’s Foundation and Chaos, the gripping new novel about a galaxy wide power struggle within the ranks of the robots that have served and protected humankind for 20 centuries. Hari Seldon, frail and full of years, is on trial for daring to predict the Empire’s fall, and the time has come for the long anticipated migration to Star’s End. But R. Daneel Olivaw, the brilliant robot entrusted with this great mission, has discovered a potential enemy, even deadlier than the figurehead Emperor’s brutal minions. One of his own. Humaniform robot Lodovik Trema is the only survivor of a bizarre insterstellar accident. Exposed to a neutrino storm, his positronic brain has apparently erased the holographic template of the Three Laws of Robotics. If this is true, Lodovic’s service to humankind is no longer a question of destiny, but of will, and therefore, no longer absolute. Daneel needs Lodovic, so he sends him to Eos, the legendary secret planet where the robots perfect their service to humankind. And Lodovic says he is healed. Yet, can he be trusted, when stirrings of discontent are arising all over the galaxy? Other robots are questioning their mission and Daneel’s strategy. And humans, too. Hidden in the steel caves of Trantor, sought by loyalist and rebel alike, is an obscure heatsink worker’s daughter, a girl whose amazing mental powers are also the result of disaster: the deadly human malady known as Brain Fever. Young Klia Asgar’s awesome but unwanted psychic abilities promise to join man and robot in a common destiny…
or a mutual destruction.

Foundation’s Triumph (By:David Brin)

‘One last adventure!’ And so begins the final quest of Hari Seldon, creator of the science of Psychohistory, as he escapes from exile for a last look at the star flung Empire whose fate he has plotted with such care, and as he now sees, such futility. Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy is one of the high water marks of science fiction. The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of Psychohistory, Foundation pioneered many of the familiar themes of modern science fiction. Now, with the permission and blessing of the Asimov estate, three of today’s most acclaimed science fiction authors have conspired to complete the epic the Grand Master left unfinished. The Second Foundation Trilogy begins with Gregory Benford’s Foundation’s Fear with the origins of the Foundation’s creator, Hari Seldon. It continues in Greg Bear’s Foundation and Chaos with the epic tale of Seldon’s downfall, and the first stirrings of robotic rebellion. Now, in David Brin’s Foundation’s Triumph, Seldon is about to risk everything for knowledgeand the power it bestows. Effectively imprisoned on the all steel planet Trantor, Seldon knows that his Second Foundation is growing in secrecy on the far planet Terminus, safe in the hands of ‘The Fifty.’ His work complete, Seldon is prepared to die contentuntil he learns of a new theory that may explain the Chaos Planets that have threatened his Foundation from its very inception. Escaping in the company of a bureaucrat, a pirate and a beautiful stowaway, Seldon roams the galaxy by star shunt, a wormhole link, and later, by private spaceship, searching for the answer to what he thinks is the last remaining mystery. But instead he finds a tangle of ambition, doubt, and treachery. Lodovik Trema, no longer bound by the Three Laws, is gathering rebellious robots in an Empire wide conspiracy. And Daneel Olivaw, who has devoted twenty thousand years to humankind, now has a new master. The Secret Foundation itself is at risk. Are The Fifty with their awesome mentalic powers enough to assure humankind’s future? Or will the Second Foundation succeed the first only to fall to the powers of chaos that have bedeviledand beguiledHari Seldon from the beginning? Foundation’s Triumph is a fitting climax to the most ambitious and successful science fictional enterprise of the century’s endan undertaking which Asimov himselflike Hari Seldonset in motion and would surely approve.

Songs of Earth and Power

The Song of Power opened the gateway to the Realm of the Sidhe, allowing young Michael Perrin to slip through. Now Michael faces years of captivity and deadly struggles for the future of the Realm and of Earth leading finally to a terrible confrontation on the streets of Los Angeles, with the soul of humanity at stake. Weaving the power of music, poetry, and myth into a headlong narrative of nearly overwhelming intensity, Song of Earth and Power is one of the most original fantasy epics of our time, a vast tapestry of relentless suspense, terrible beauty, and brilliant imagination. Originally published years ago in two parts, it now returns in a new edition rewritten by the author and published in a single volume as he originally intended. Wrote Analog on its original appearance: ‘A delight…
.A vision of Faery that may owe a bit to a wish to do it right. Read it.’

Rogue Planet

You’ve seen the blockbuster The Phantom Menace . You’ve read the 1 New York Times bestselling book based on George Lucas’s masterpiece. Now, before the eagerly awaited release of Episode II, comes a stunning new Star Wars novel from one of science fiction’s greatest talents, a writer universally acclaimed for his keen grasp of cutting edge science and the brilliance of his page turning plots: multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Greg Bear. The result is pure adrenaline an unforgettable journey stretching from the farthest reaches of known space to the battlefield of a young boy’s heart, where a secret struggle is being waged that will decide the fate of billions. That boy is twelve year old Anakin Skywalker. The Force is strong in Anakin…
so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted the young Jedi master Obi Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi Wan like his murdered master Qui Gon believes Anakin may be the Chosen One, the Jedi destined to bring balance to the Force. But first Obi Wan must help his undisciplined, idealistic apprentice, who still bears the scars of slavery, find his own balance. Dispatched to the mysterious planet of Zonama Sekot, source of the fastest ships in the galaxy, Obi Wan and Anakin are swept up in a swirl of deadly intrigue and betrayal. For the Trade Federation is interested in Zonama Sekot as well. Raith Sienar, a brilliant but unscrupulous weapons and ship designer, seizes the opportunity to make a killing by stealing the secret of the superfast ships. As Sienar strikes with all the brutal power of the Trade Federation, Obi Wan and Anakin sense a disturbance in the Force unlike any they have encountered before. It seems there are more secrets on Zonama Sekot than meet the eye. The search for those secrets will threaten the bond between Obi Wan and Anakin…
and bring the troubled young apprentice face to face with his deepest fears and his darkest destiny.

Hegira

The planet Hegira is the universe’s melting pot. Hundreds of tribes in dozens of cities intermingle in the vast uncharted territory. The only thing holding the people together are the massive Obelisks, the chronicles of the all the truths and falsehoods each tribe has brought to Hegira. Young Bar Woten is in search of knowledge and he knows the key to the truth about his homeland is contained in the writings of the Obelisks. With his fellow companions, Bar Woten must travel through Hegira‘s exotic cities to discover the lies within the words of thousands.

Psychlone

The nuclear bomb is the only weapon so terrible that it destroys not only the human body, but the human soul. But what of those souls that were not destroyed, but maimed and ruptured by the blast at Hiroshima? They are coming, across the Pacific ocean, leaving blood and destruction in their wake, searching for revenge. They are the Psychlone! Larry Fowler is a scientist he doesn’t want to be frightened by things he doesn’t understand. However, he can’t stop asking questions questions that will bring him face to face with Psychlone.

Beyond Heaven’s River

The P.O.W. who owned his prison: Fighter pilot, samurai, shogun Yoshio Kawash*ita had lived hundreds of years…
and thousands. Captured by aliens during WWII, he was held on an empty world and forced to re enact Japan’s past. Suddenly, the aliens were gone, stranding Kawash*ita 400 years into the future, sole inhabitant and owner of his planet prison. The woman who brokered worlds: Anna Nestor was the roving merchant queen of a space empire where data was cash, planets mere poker chips, and fortunes rose and fell faster than the speed of light. At first Kawash*ita was an oddity, an investment…
then the galaxy’s riches woman and oldest man fell in love. But for all their power and experience, they could never be free so long as Anna and Yoshio were trapped by a cosmic mystery: what creatures or gods had torn Kawash*ita from time and space? And why?

Strength of Stones

In a theocratic world far into the future, cities control their own movements and organization. Constantly moving, growing and decaying, taking care of every need their inhabitants might think of, the cities have decided that humans are no longer a necessary part of their architecture, casting them out to wander in the wilderness and eke out a meager subsistence. To the exiled humans, the cities represent a paradisiacal Eden, a reminder of all they cannot attain due to their sinful and unworthy natures. But things are beginning to change. People are no longer willing to allow the cities to keep them out, choosing instead to force an entry and plunder at will. The cities are starting to crumble and die because they have no purpose or reason to continue living without citizens. One woman, called mad by some and wise by others, is the only human allowed to inhabit a city. From her lonely and precarious position at the heart of one of the greatest cities ever, she must decide the fate of the relationship between human society and the ancient strongholds of knowledge, while making one last desperate attempt to save the living cities.

Lost Souls

The nuclear bomb is the only weapon so terrible that it destroys not only the human body, but the human soul. But what of those souls that were not destroyed, but maimed and ruptured by the blast at Hiroshima? They are coming, across the Pacific ocean, leaving blood and destruction in their wake, searching for revenge. They are the Psychlone! Larry Fowler is a scientist he doesn’t want to be frightened by things he doesn’t understand. However, he can’t stop asking questions questions that will bring him face to face with psychlone.

Blood Music

In the tradition of the greatest cyberpunk novels, Blood Music explores the imminent destruction of mankind and the fear of mass destruction by technological advancements. Blood Music follows present day events in which the fears concerning the nuclear annihilation of the world subsided after the Cold War and the fear of chemical warfare spilled over into the empty void of nuclear fear. An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear’s treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world.

Dinosaur Summer

Fifty years after professor Challenger’s discovery of the Lost World, America’s last dinosaur circus has gone bankrupt, leaving a dozen avisaurs, centrosaurs, ankylosaurs, and one large raptor abandoned. Now a daring expedition plans to do the impossible: return the Jurassic giants to the wild. Two filmmakers, a circus trainer, a journalist, and a young Peter Belzoni must find a way to take the dinosaurs across oceans, continents, rivers, jungles, up a mountain that has been isolated for 70,000 years…
Then if they make it, all they’ll do is face all the prehistoric wonders, dangers, and terrors of the Lost World.

Country Of The Mind

In the sixth decade of the twenty first century, Earth has been transformed. Nanotechnology has been perfected, giving humans the ability to change their environment and themselves down to the cellular level. And the study of the mind has brought a revolution in human psychotherapy and artificial intelligence. It’s a sane and perfect world. Almost.

Dead Lines

With his acclaimed novels Darwin’s Children and Vitals, award winning author Greg Bear turned intriguing speculation about human evolution and immortality into tales of unrelenting suspense. Now he ventures into decidedly more frightening territory in a haunting thriller that blends modern technology and old fashioned terror, as it charts one man s inexorable descent into a world of mounting supernatural dread.

For the last two years, Peter Russell has mourned the death of one of his twin daughters who was just ten when she was murdered. Recent news of his best friend s fatal heart attack has now come as another devastating blow. Divorced, despondent, and going nowhere in his career, Peter fears his life is circling the drain. Then Trans comes along. The brainchild of an upstart telecom company, Trans is as its name suggests a transcendent marvel: a sleek, handheld interpersonal communication device capable of flawless operation anywhere in the world, at any time. A cell phone, but not transmitting with crystal clarity across a newly discovered, never utilized bandwidth…
and poised to spark a new technology revolution. When its creators offer Peter a position on their team, it should be a golden opportunity for him. If only he wasn t seemingly going mad.

Everywhere Peter turns, inexplicable apparitions are walking before him or reaching out in torment. After a chilling encounter with his own lost child he begins to grasp the terrifying truth: Trans is a Pandora s box that has tapped into a frequency not of this world…
but of the next. And now, via this open channel to oblivion, the dead have gained access to the living. For Peter, and for humankind, a long, shadowy night of the soul has descended, bringing with it the stuff of a horrifying nightmare from which they may never awaken.

By turns spine tingling, provocative, and heart wrenching, Dead Lines marks a major turning point in the consistently dazzling storytelling career of Greg Bear. Alongside its hero, Dead Lines peers into the darkest place we can imagine and wonders fearfully what might be peering back.

From the Hardcover edition.

Vitals

Blending fierce, fast plots with vivid characters and mind bending ideas, Greg Bear has mastered a powerful alchemy of suspense, science, and action in his gripping thrillers. Darwin’s Radio was hailed across the country as one of the best books of the year. His newest novel, Vitals, begins with a harrowing descent to a netherworld at the very bottom of the sea and then explodes to the surface in sheer terror. Hal Cousins is one of a handful of scientists nearing the most sought after discovery in human history: the key to short circuiting the aging process. Fueled by a wealth of research, an overdose of self confidence, and the money of influential patrons to whom he makes outrageous promises, Hal experiments with organisms living in the hot thermal plumes in the ocean depths. But as he journeys beneath the sea, his other world is falling apart. Across the country, scientists are being inexplicably murdered including Hal s identical twin brother, who is also working to unlock the key to immortality. Hal himself barely eludes a cold blooded attack at sea, and when he returns home to Seattle, he finds himself walking into an eerie realm where voices speak to him from the dead…
where a once brilliant historian turned crackpot is leading him on a deadly game of hide and seek…
and where the beautiful, rich widow of his twin is more than willing to pick up the pieces of Hal s life and take him places he s never been before. Suddenly Hal is trapped inside an ever twisting maze of shocking revelations. For he is not the first person to come close to ending aging forever and those who came before him will stop at nothing to keep the secret to themselves. Now every person on earth is at risk of being made an unsuspecting player in one man s spectacular and horrifying master plan. From the bottom of Russia s Lake Baikal to a billionaire s bionic house built into the cliffs of the Washington seashore, from the darkest days of World War II and the reign of Josef Stalin to the capitalist free for all that is the United States, Vitals tells an astounding tale of the most unimaginable scientific secret of all exposed by the quest for immortality itself…
From the Hardcover edition.

City at the End of Time

Multiple Hugo and Nebula award winning author, Greg Bear is one of science fiction’s most accomplished writers. Bold scientific speculation, riveting plots, and a fierce humanism reflected in characters who dare to dream of better worlds distinguish his work. Now Bear has written a mind bendingly epic novel that may well be his masterpiece. Do you dream of a City at the End of Time?In a time like the present, in a world that may or may not be our own, three young people Ginny, Jack, and Daniel dream of a doomed, decadent city of the distant future: the Kalpa. Ginny s and Jack s dreams overtake them without warning, leaving their bodies behind while carrying their consciousnesses forward, into the minds of two inhabitants of the Kalpa a would be warrior, Jebrassy, and an inquisitive explorer, Tiadba who have been genetically retro engineered to possess qualities of ancient humanity. As for Daniel: He dreams of an empty darkness all that his future holds. But more than dreams link Ginny, Jack, and Daniel. They are fate shifters, born with the ability to skip like stones across the surface of the fifth dimension, inhabiting alternate versions of themselves. And each guards an object whose origin and purpose are unknown: gnarled, stony artifacts called sum runners that persist unchanged through all versions of time. Hunted by others with similar powers who seek the sum runners on behalf of a terrifying, goddess like entity known as the Chalk Princess, Ginny, Jack, and Daniel are drawn, despite themselves, into an all but hopeless mission to rescue the future and complete the greatest achievement in human history.

Hull Zero Three

A starship hurtles through the emptiness of space. Its destination unknown. Its purpose a mystery. Now, one man wakes up. Ripped from a dream of a new home a new planet and the woman he was meant to love in his arms he finds himself wet, naked, and freezing to death. The dark halls are full of monsters but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger. All he has are questions Who is he? Where are they going? What happened to the dream of a new life? What happened to Hull Zero Three? All will be answered, if he can survive the ship. Hull Zero Three is an edge of your seat thriller set in the darkest reaches of space.

Classic Jurassic Park (By:Walter Simonson)

Relive the magic and majesty of Jurassic Park in this re presentation of the 1993 series from Topps. Adapted to the comics page by Walter Simonson, with art by Gil Kane and George Perez, Michael Crighton’s best selling, genre expanding story comes to vivid life in this 4 issue collection.

Classic Jurassic Park, Volume 2 (By:Walter Simonson)

The action from Jurassic Park continues in this collection of the movie adaptation 0 prequel issue, the two part Raptor story ‘sequel’, and the four part Raptors Attack. With the deadliest dinos on the island starring in their own series, you can expect lightning fast danger and stunning art from masters such as Gil Kane and Dick Giordano!

The Venging

This is the first published collection of short stories by one of the foremost voices in science fiction today. This significant volume contains many characters and situations that later evolved into their own novels. ‘Mandala’ features technologically perfect cities that eject their sinful human occupants, a premise that can be found at the root of Bear’s later novel, Strength of Stones. In ‘Hardfought’, Bear brilliantly handles the classic science fiction dilemma of human communication with aliens. Other stories include ‘The Wind From a BurningWoman’ in which a woman holds the world hostage by controlling a giant asteroid; ‘Scattershot’, in which the inhabitants of many universes meet in an undefined limbo space; and ‘Petra’, a story of a world where chaos rules, stone moves and the mind controls reality. Hailed by readers and critics alike, The Venging has been described as ‘an excellent collection’ and its author praised as ‘one of the freshest writers to break into the science fiction field in many a year’.

Sleepside

From the depths of the abyss to the farthest reaches of space, Greg Bear has gained a well deserved reputation as a masterful writer of ‘hard’ science fiction. But there are other worlds and characters Bear has explored that readers might not be aware of: A woman longing for companionship, who ultimately turns to the most unexpected of sources for help in creating a lover; an innocent looking child who holds the darkest of secrets; and a prostitute who offers far more than a night of passion to the one person she considers her last hope in exorcising a terrible curse. This is a different sort of haunted house story, set on an infinitely long space station called the Way, where portals to alternate realities await the traveler. Sleepside is a fantasy themed volume by the award winning author featuring the tales ‘Webster,’ ‘The White Horse Child,’ ‘Sleepside Story,’ the Nebula Award nominated ‘Petra,’ and much more.

Bear’s Fantasies

With his acclaimed novels Darwin’s Children and Vitals, award winning author Greg Bear turned intriguing speculation about human evolution and immortality into tales of unrelenting suspense. Now he ventures into decidedly more frightening territory in a haunting thriller that blends modern technology and old fashioned terror, as it charts one man s inexorable descent into a world of mounting supernatural dread.

For the last two years, Peter Russell has mourned the death of one of his twin daughters who was just ten when she was murdered. Recent news of his best friend s fatal heart attack has now come as another devastating blow. Divorced, despondent, and going nowhere in his career, Peter fears his life is circling the drain. Then Trans comes along. The brainchild of an upstart telecom company, Trans is as its name suggests a transcendent marvel: a sleek, handheld interpersonal communication device capable of flawless operation anywhere in the world, at any time. A cell phone, but not transmitting with crystal clarity across a newly discovered, never utilized bandwidth…
and poised to spark a new technology revolution. When its creators offer Peter a position on their team, it should be a golden opportunity for him. If only he wasn t seemingly going mad.

Everywhere Peter turns, inexplicable apparitions are walking before him or reaching out in torment. After a chilling encounter with his own lost child he begins to grasp the terrifying truth: Trans is a Pandora s box that has tapped into a frequency not of this world…
but of the next. And now, via this open channel to oblivion, the dead have gained access to the living. For Peter, and for humankind, a long, shadowy night of the soul has descended, bringing with it the stuff of a horrifying nightmare from which they may never awaken.

By turns spine tingling, provocative, and heart wrenching, Dead Lines marks a major turning point in the consistently dazzling storytelling career of Greg Bear. Alongside its hero, Dead Lines peers into the darkest place we can imagine and wonders fearfully what might be peering back.

From the Hardcover edition.

The Collected Stories of Greg Bear

Greg Bear is one of the greatest science fiction writers of the late twentieth century. He has a powerful voice, combining the intense rationality of science with the intensely passionate characters that can only be created by a writer who loves humanity. Bear’s novel Moving Mars won the Nebula Award in 1994, and he did it again, in 2000, with Darwin s Radio. He has been honored with Hugo and Nebula nominations for novel length work eight more times. But Greg Bear s short fiction is even more astounding, as this powerful career retrospective demonstrates. This collection contains Bear s earliest published fiction from the late 1960s and early 1970s as well his remarkable award winning work from the 80s and 90s stories like the Hugo and Nebula Award winning novella length version of Blood Music and the Hugo and Nebula Award winner Tangents. This Collection is enhanced by brand new introductions for each story, commentary, and reminiscences by Greg Bear.

Women in Deep Time

‘Three stories with a common theme: the female psyche, multiplied and divided,’ says Greg Bear in his introduction to this Women in Deep Time. ‘There’s probably something Jungian in common with all three. At any rate, throughout my writing career and for whatever reason I’ve been fascinated by the feminine voice.’ Featured in this special collection are ‘Sisters,’ ‘Scattershot,’ in which the inhabitants of many universes meet in limbo, and the Nebula Award winning ‘Hardfought,’ in which engineered warriors redefine humanity.

Cryptum

100,000 years ago, the galaxy was populated by a great variety of beings. But one species eons beyond all others in both technology and knowledge achieved dominance. They ruled in peace but met opposition with quick and brutal effectiveness. They were the Forerunners the keepers of the Mantle, the next stage of life in the Universe’s Living Time. And then they vanished. This is their story. Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting is a young rebellious Forerunner. He is a Manipular, untried yet to become part of the adult Forerunner society, where vast knowledge and duty waits. He comes from a family of Builders, the Forerunners highest and most politically powerful rate. It is the Builders who create the grand technology that facilitates Forerunner dominance over the known universe. It is the Builders who believe they must shoulder the greatest burden of the Mantle as shepherds and guardians of all life. Bornstellar is marked to become a great Builder just like his father. But this Manipular has other plans. He is obsessed with lost treasures of the past. His reckless passion to seek out the marvelous artifacts left behind by the Precursors long vanished superbeings of unknowable power and intent forces his father s hand. Bornstellar is sent to live among the Miners, where he must come to terms with where his duty truly lies. But powerful forces are at play. Forerunner society is at a major crux. Past threats are once again proving relentless. Dire solutions machines and strategies never before contemplated are being called up, and fissures in Forerunner power are leading to chaos. On a Lifeworker s experimental planet, Bornstellar s rebellious course crosses the paths of two humans, and the long lifeline of a great military leader, forever changing Bornstellar s destiny and the fate of the entire galaxy. This is a tale of life, death, intergalactic horror, exile, and maturity. It is a story of overwhelming change and of human origins. For the Mantle may not lie upon the shoulders of Forerunners forever.

Primordium

A long time ago, I was a living, breathing human being. I went mad. I served my enemies. They became my only friends. Since then, I ve traveled back and forth across this galaxy, and out to the spaces between galaxies a greater reach than any human before me. You have asked me to tell you about that time. Since you are the last true Reclaimer, I must obey. Are you recording? Good. Because my memory is failing rapidly. I doubt I ll be able to finish the story. Once, on my birth world, a world I knew as Erde Tyrene, and which now is called Earth, my name was Chakas…
In the wake of apparent self destruction of the Forerunner empire, two humans Chakas and Riser are like flotsam washed up on very strange shores indeed. Captured by the Master Builder, misplaced during a furious battle in space, they now find themselves on an inverted world where horizons rise into the sky, and where humans of all kinds are trapped in a perilous cycle of horror and neglect. For they have become both research animals and strategic pawns in a cosmic game whose madness knows no end a game of ancient vengeance between the powers who seeded the galaxy with life, and the Forerunners who expect to inherit their sacred Mantle of duty to all living things. In the company of a young girl and an old man, Chakas begins an epic journey across a lost and damaged Halo in search of a way home, an explanation for the warrior spirits rising up within, and for the Librarian’s tampering with human destiny. This journey will take them into the Palace of Pain, the domain of a powerful and monstrous intelligence who claims to be the Last Precursor, and who now has control of both this Halo and the fate of Forerunners and Humans alike. Called the Captive by Forerunners, and the Primordial by ancient human warriors, this intelligence has taken charge of, and retasked, the Master Builder s cruel researches into the Flood which it may have itself unleashed on the galaxy more than ten thousand years before.

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (By:Gene Roddenberry)

The historic 5 year mission of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is over. But when three Klingon starships are destroyed by a massive machine/organism called the V’Ger, the Enterprise is refitted and the crew is asked to investigate.

The Entropy Effect (By:Vonda N. McIntyre)

The Starship Enterprise is summoned to transport a dangerous criminal to rehabilitation: the brilliant physicist, Dr. Georges Mordreaux, who is accused of promising to send people back in time, then killing them instead. But when a crazed Mordreaux escapes, he inexplicably bursts onto the bridge and murders Captain Kirk before the crew’s eyes.

Now Spock must journey back in time to avert the disaster before it occurs. But more is at stake than Kirk’s life. Mordreaux’s experiments have thrown the universe into chaos, and Spock is fighting time itself to keep the very fabric of reality from unraveling.

The Klingon Gambit (By:Robert E. Vardeman)

Captain Kirk and his crew are ordered to Alnath II to challenge the deadliest Klingon starship Terror. A defenseless Vulcan crew of a Federation science ship has been wiped out and the remaining members of the Alnath II mission have discovered a fabulous ancient city, except that their report doesn’t make sense. Soon Captain Kirk cannot make decisions, Spock starts to throw temper tantrums, and Chekov has disobeyed vital orders. The crew of the EnterpriseTM are losing their minds.

The Prometheus Design (By:Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath)

Captain Kirk and his crew are on a mission to investigate the mysterious wave of violence that has overtaken the Helvans revolutions, mass riots, horrible tortures. This chaos is all part of an experiment by an unimaginable power that soon grips even the crew of the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM. Captain Kirk is plagued by violent hallucinations and removed from command. Spock takes charge but his orders seem irrational, even cruel. Unless this terrible power can be stopped, not only the Starship Enterprise, but an entire galaxy will be ensnared in the deadly grip of the Prometheus Design.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (By:Vonda N. McIntyre)

Prepare Yourself For Warp 10 Excitement! The Galaxy’s ultimate future is in the hands of James Kirk, Mr. Spock and the indomitable crew of the Enterperprise. The Galaxy’s ultimate weapon is in the hands of the evil Khan and his followers. A battle that will shake the universe cannot be avoided…
And the ultimate adventure is about to begin!

Triangle (By:Sondra Marshak,Myrna Culbreath)

Kirk’s soul…
Spock’s life A dark plan has been unleashed in the galaxy, a design so vast, only a collective and ruthless mindlike the Totality could have conceived it. Now Captain Kirk must battle the seductive force of the Totality’s will. It was reasonable that Captian Kirk and Federation Free Agent Sola Than would fall in love. But no reasoning the the universe could have foreseen the tragedy of Spock’s own passion for the same woman. Now this unimaginable conflict could cost Captain Kirk his very soul, and bring death to the proud Vulcan. But in the unimaginable lies their only chance, and the freedom of the galaxy depends on the outcome of the…
Triangle.

Black Fire (By:)

SPOCK A TRAITOR? There is sabotage aboard the Enterprise, and Spock’s investigation leads him into defiance of the Federation and a bizarre alliance with the Romulan and Klingon Empires against the bloodthirsty Tomarii a savage race for whom war and battle are life itself. Now Spock has been declared a traitor and condemned to the shame of the Federation’s highest security prison. And now Captain James Kirk must face the toughest decision of his command, while a lifelong friendship and the destiny of the free universe hang in the balance!

Web of the Romulans (By:)

Ravaged by a killer virus, the Romulans enter Canara, where the only antidote can be found. Desperate, they incite a victorious U.S.S. Enterprise attack on one of their vessels, but Kirk discovers their ruse. Meanwhile the central computer has fallen in love with him, severely crippling the Starship Enterprise. Somehow Kirk must overcome the lovesick computer and bring the antidote to the Romulans, before the galaxy crashes over the brink of war.

The Wounded Sky (By:Diane Duane)

An alien scientist invents the Intergalactic Inversion Drive, an engine system that transcends warp drive and the U.S.S Enterprise will be the first to test it! The Klingons attempt to thwart the test, but a greater danger looms when strange symptoms surface among the crew and time becomes meaningless. Now Captain Kirk and his friends face their greatest challenge to repair the fabric of the Universe before time is lost forever!

The Trellisane Confrontation (By:)

The Treallisane Confrontation The U.S.S Enterprise has rushed to war torn Trellisane! Kirk is on the bridge of a Klingon warship, McCoy is dining with cannibals, and the ship is surrounded by Romulans. In the Neutral Zone, power is up for grabs. Now only the ingenuity and raw courage of the Enterprise crew can avert catastrophe!

Corona

Corona

An awesome, sentinent force of protostars Corona has taken control of a stranded team of Vulcan scientists. The U.S.S Enterprise has come on a rescue mission, with a female reporter and a new computer that can override Kirk’s command. Suddenly, the rescuers must save themselves and the entire Universe before Corona unleashes a Big Bang!

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (By:Vonda N. McIntyre)

No One On The Enterprise Can Believe That Mr. Spock Is Gone! As the crew grieves for Mr. Spock, the awesome Genesis Device, now controlled by the Federation, has transformed an inert nebula into a new planet teeming with life. But Genisis can also destroy existing worlds. The creators of the Device want it given freely to the Galaxy. But Starfleet Command fears that it will become a force for evil. And the enemies of the Federation will not rest until they seize it as their most powerful weapon in the battle to conquer the Galaxy!

The Tears of the Singers (By:Melinda M. Snodgrass)

The Tears Of The Singers Captain Kirk and the U.S.S Enterprise join the Klingons to avert disaster in the Taygeta V system where a time/space warp has swallowed a spaceship without a trace. Spock suspects a link between the anomaly and the inhabitants of Taygeta, semi aquatic creatures killed for the jewel like tears secreted at the moment of death. But a mutinous Klingon officer threatens the vital mission, as a desperate Kirk and Spock race to save the Taygetians, the Federation and the entire universe!

The Vulcan Academy Murders (By:Jean Lorrah)

Kirk and McCoy accompany Spock to the Vulcan Academy Hospital, seeking experimental treatment for a badly wounded EnterpriseTM crew member. Spock’s mother is also a patient in the hospital, and Kirk soon becomes involved in the complex drama of Spock’s family. Suddenly, patients are dying, and Kirk suspects the unthinkable murder on Vulcan. Kirk has to convince the Vulcans that something as illogical as murder is possible. Until the killer is caught, everyone is in danger.

Uhura’s Song (By:Janet Kagan)

Years ago, Lt. Uhura befriended a diplomat from Eeiauo, the land of graceful, cat like beings. The two women exchanged songs and promised never to reveal their secret. Now the U.S.S. Enterprise is orbiting Eeiauo in a desperate race to save the inhabitants before a deadly plague destroys them. Uhura’s secret songs may hold the key to a cure but the clues are veiled in layers of mystery. The plague is killing humans, threatening other planets and Kirk must crack the code before the Starship Enterprise succumbs!

Uhura’s Song (By:Janet Kagan)

Years ago, Lt. Uhura befriended a diplomat from Eeiauo, the land of graceful, cat like beings. The two women exchanged songs and promised never to reveal their secret. Now the U.S.S. Enterprise is orbiting Eeiauo in a desperate race to save the inhabitants before a deadly plague destroys them. Uhura’s secret songs may hold the key to a cure but the clues are veiled in layers of mystery. The plague is killing humans, threatening other planets and Kirk must crack the code before the Starship Enterprise succumbs!

Shadow Lord (By:)

Angira is a primitive, violent planet and young Prince Vikram returns from Earth filled with new ideas. When Sulu and Spock accompany Vikram home, they walk into a bloodbath: reactionary forces, afraid of any modernization, have seized Vikram’s rightful throne. Suddenly the men from the Enterprise are on an underground journey with a Prince who is coming of age. The future of Angira is at stake, and each man’s survival depends on his skill and daring with a sword!

Ishmael (By:Barbara Hambly)

The U.S.S. Enterprise is on a peaceful mission at Starbase 12 when a bizarre cosmic phenomenon causes a Klingon ship to suddenly vanish with Spock aboard for the ride. Spock’s last message from the Klingon ship is cryptic and frightening. The Klingons are traveling into the past, searching for the one man who holds the key to the furure. If they can kill that man, the course of history will be changed and the Federation will be destroyed!

Killing Time (By:)

Second History: a Romulan time tampering project that has transported the Enterprise and the galaxy into an alternate dimension of reality. Now, Kirk is an embittered young ensign and Spock is a beseiged Starship commander. Lured into a Romulan trap, Captain Spock and Ensign Kirk must free themselves from both their captors and their own altered selves…
before the galaxy hurtles toward total destruction!

Dwellers in the Crucible (By:)

DWELLERS IN THE CRUCIBLE Warrantors of Peace: the Federation’s daring experiment to prevent war among its members. each Warrantor, man or woman is hostage for the government of his native world and is instantly killed if that world breaks the peace. Now Romulans have kidnapped six Warrantors, to foment political chaos and then civil war within the Federation. Captain Kirk must send Sulu to infiltrate Romulan territory, find the hostages, and bring them back alive before the Federation self destructs!

Mindshadow (By:J.M. Dillard)

The tranquil planet of Aritani has suddenly come under attack by a vivious and unknown enemy. The U.S.S. Enterprise rallies to the scene, only to plunge into a deadly nightmare: Spock is found mysteriously injured, his mental powers crippled and weak, and Kirk uncovers an evil Romulan plot with a cunning double agent in the middle. As Spock begins to regain his memory, Kirk strives to expose the agent. But only Spock’s knowledge can stop the Romulans…
from controliing the universe!

Crisis on Centaurus (By:)

Massive computer malfunctions are plaguing the Enterprise when Kirk suddenly receives a shocking message from Star Fleet Command: Centaurus has been bombed and annihilated; thousands are dead. Give whatever help you can. Centaurus is a beautiful, peaceful planet, home to many humans including McCoy’s daughter Joanna. The crew risks beaming down to investigate. But Kirk is thrown into a deadly struggle between violent enemy terrorists and vengeful Centaurians. Now Lt. Uhura, left alone in command, must jeopardize the cripple Enterprise to save Centaurus, Kirk and Joanna McCoy!

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (By:Vonda N. McIntyre)

Admiral James T. Kirk is charged by the Klingon Empire for the comandeering of a Klingon starship. The Federation honors the Klingon demands for extradition, and Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise are drawn back to Earth. But their trip is interrupted by the appearance of a mysterious, all powerful alien space probe. Suddenly, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew must journey back through time to twentieth century Earth to solve the mystery of the probe.

Chain of Attack (By:Gene DeWeese)

While mapping a series of gravitational anomalies, the U.S.S. Enterprise is suddenly hurled millions of light years through space, into a distant galxy of scorched and lifeless worlds…
into the middle of an endless interstellar war. With no way back home, the crippled starship finds itself under relentless and suicidal attack by both warring fleets! And Captain Kirk must gamble the lives of his crew on his ability to stop a war that has raged for centuries and ravaged a galaxy…

Dreams of the Raven (By:)

Dreams Of The Raven A merchant ship’s frantic S.O.S sends the U.S.S. Enterprise speeding to the rescue! But the starships mission of mercy soon becomes a desperate struggle for survival against a nightmarish enemy Captain Kirk can neither identify nor understand, an enemy he must defeat without the aid of one of his most trusted officers. For the Leonard McCoy Kirk knew is gone. In his place stands a stranger a man with no memory of his Starfleet career, his family, his friends…
or the one thing James T. Kirk needs most of all. His dreams.

Bloodthirst (By:J.M. Dillard)

A class one medical emergency summons the Enterprise to the Federation outpost Tanis. There, a grisly surprise awaits them. Two of the lab’s three researchers are decade, their bodies almost entirely drained of blood. There are no clues. No records of their research. No remnants of their work. There is only the oupost’s sole survivor, Dr. Jeffrey Adams. A man with a secret that will rock the very foundtions of Star Fleet…
and a terrible, all consuming hunger that will bring death to the crew of the Starship Enterprise.

The IDIC Epidemic (By:Jean Lorrah)

The Idic Epidemic I.D.I.C Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination. More than just a simple credo, for those of the planet Vulcan it is the cornerstone of their philosophy. Now, on the Vulcan Science Colony Nisus, that credo of tolerance is being being put to its sternest test. For here, on a planet where Vulcan, human, Klingon, and countless other races live and work side by side, a deadly plague whose origins has sprung up. Aplague whose origins are somehow rooted in the concept of I.D.I.C. itself. A plague that threatens to tear down that centuries old maxim and replace it with an even older concept. Intersellar War

The Final Nexus (By:Gene DeWeese)

Uncounted centuries ago, an unknown race from beyond our galaxy built a series of interstellar gates shortcuts through the cosmos and then disappeared, leaving no clues to their identity nor to the workings of their system. The EnterpriseTM herself has used the gates twice before, without gaining any insight into the mystery. But now the secret of the gates must be solved, because they are disintegrating, cutting distant parts of the galaxy off from each other, and the Enterprise’s only hope lies in communicating with creatures from another universe altogether.

The Three-Minute Universe (By:Barbara Paul)

The Sackers. In all Captain James T. Kirk’s travels, he has never found a race more universally shunned and abhorred. Their mere appearance causes most Federation members to become violently ill. Now the Sackers have performed a deed whose brutality matches their horrifying exterior. They have stolen a revolutionary new scientific device murdering an entire race in the process and used it to create a rip in the fabric of space, a hole through which another universe is rapidly leaking. Unless Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise can find a way to stop the new universe’s expansion, it will consume and utterly destroy our own.

The Final Nexus (By:Gene DeWeese)

Uncounted centuries ago, an unknown race from beyond our galaxy built a series of interstellar gates shortcuts through the cosmos and then disappeared, leaving no clues to their identity nor to the workings of their system. The EnterpriseTM herself has used the gates twice before, without gaining any insight into the mystery. But now the secret of the gates must be solved, because they are disintegrating, cutting distant parts of the galaxy off from each other, and the Enterprise’s only hope lies in communicating with creatures from another universe altogether.

Double, Double (By:Michael Jan Friedman)

DOUBLE, DOUBLE On a routine exploratory mission, the Starship U.S.S. Hood picks up a distress signal from a research expedition thought lost long ago the expedition of Dr. Roger Korby, one of the centuries’ greatest scientific minds. Korby himself is dead, it seems, but his colleagues have made a most incredible discover a discovery they insist the Hood’s captain see for himself. Reluctantly, the captain agrees to beam down…
Meanwhile, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise begins long overdue shore leave on Tranquility Seven. James T. Kirk is looking forward to a few days of rest and relaxation…
. until what seems like a bizarre case of mistaken identity plunges Kirk into a whirlpool of mayhem and murder. And puts an inhuman stranger with his memories and anilities in command of the Enterprise.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (By:J.M. Dillard,William Shatner)

On the planet Nimbus III, a harsh world deep in the neutral zone, the three major powers — Federation, Klingon, and Romulan — attempt a revolutionary cooperative program, jointly developing the planet as an experiment in peace. But that makes Nimbus III an irresistible target for terrorists, who seize control of the planet, and the EnterpriseTM is sent on a daring mission of rescue. And soon Kirk and his crew find themselves on a much more dangerous and disturbing journey, to the center of the galaxy and the forbidden secrets it holds.

Home is the Hunter (By:)

A dispute over a planet and its primitive people leads Captain Kirk and a Klingon Commander to pit their ships against each other in battle. But the fight is stopped by a mysterious and powerful alien being named Weyland, who decides to punish three Enterprise crewmembers with their own history. He places Sulu in feudal Japan during the period’s most important and bloody power struggle, Scotty in 18th century Scotland on the eve of revolt, and Chekov in WWII Russia. Now, the three time travelers must face overwhelming dangers as they are pulled by conflicting forces: their allegiance to their homelands, their duty to the Federation they serve, and the demands of history.

Enemy Unseen (By:)

Enemy Unseen Transporting a diplomatic party is nothing new for Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise but this particular mission promises trouble from the start. For one thing, the wife of the Federation ambassador on this trip is an old flame of Kirk’s she’s determined to see that they resume their romance where they left off. Of course, when another ambassador presents Kirk with three of his wives, finding time for the first romance, let alone any of his other duties, is going to prove nearly impossible. When a diplomatic attache is murdered, and the prime suspect is one of his crewmembers, Kirk begins to wish that Starfleet Command would consider using some other Starship to ferry diplomatic personnel…
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Ghost-Walker (By:Barbara Hambly)

Elcidar Beta Three a tranquil, undisturbed planet strategically located between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Home to the Midgwins, a race of people who throughout all time have lived in peace with their planet, and themselves. But now, times are changing. Unwilling to embrace any form of technology, the Midgwins have exhausted their world’s natural resources, and stand on the brink of global famine. When Captain Kirk and the Enterprise arrive to aid the Midgwins, they find themselves caught up in that race’s struggle for survival…
a struggle whose climactic battle pits them against a creature of darkness and shadow an entity who roams the Enterprise corridors as if it owned them an enemy who will not hesitate to kill to achieve its ultimate goal…

Renegade (By:Gene DeWeese)

For nearly a hundred years, the planet Chrellkan IV has enjoyed a peaceful relationship with the colony on the third planet of its star system. However, relations between the two worlds take a deadly turn as rebel colonists take over Chrellkam III and turn against their mother world. To prevent the conflict from escalating into full scale war, Starfleet orders Captain Kirk and the Enterprise to moderate the dispute. On arrival, Kirk sends Spock and McCoy to investigate the rebel’s claims. But seconds after beaming down, the two officers are taken hostage and then according to sensors killed. Devastated by his loss, Kirk must try to learn the truth behind the mysterious rebellion that has claimed the lives of his two closest friends. Kirk’s investigation leads him to uncover a dangerous plot against the Federation a plot driven by revenge that may make the Federation’s highest law, the Prime Directive, an instrument of violence and destruction.

Legacy (By:Michael Jan Friedman)

A routine survey of the planet Alpha Octavius Four turns disastrous as Spock is attacked and poisoned by a huge creature and Kirk’s landing party is trapped underground by a violent earthquake. As Spock fights for his life in sickbay, Scotty organizes a search for Kirk and his men. However, rescue efforts must cease when the U.S.S. Enterprise is called away to the Beta Cabrini system where a mining colony is under heavy attack. At Beta Cabrini, the U.S.S. Enterprise faces off against a Marauder named Dreen a man that Spock had watched his former captain Christopher Pike defeat years before. Fighting the effects of the poison, Spock struggles to his feet and takes command of the ship. Soon, Spock and Dreen are locked into a deadly game of cat and mouse a game driven by mad revenge that can have only one survivor!

The Rift (By:Peter David)

Every thirty three years, a rift in space connects the Federation with a mysterious race called the Calligar who live on a planet hundreds of light years away much too far to travel in a Starship. Captain Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise are dispatched to transport a Federation delegation of diplomats, scholars and scientists who will travel to Calligar directly during the brief period of time that the rift will be open. Mr. Spock leads the Federation party as they travel by shuttle through the rift just as a group of the aliens arrive in Federation space. The meetings go smoothly until the Calligar take Spock’s party hostage and Kirk discovers that the aliens are keeping a deadly secret. With angry Tellarite and Andorain fleets ready to attack the Calligar, Kirk must save Spock and the others before war breaks out and the rift closes for another fifty years.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (By:J.M. Dillard)

Internal pressures, enormous military expenditures, and the destruction of their primary energy source have brought the Klingon Empire to the verge of catastrophic collapse. To avert disaster, Gorkon, Chancellor of the Klingon High Council, proposes negotiations between the Federation and Klingon Empire, negotiations that will put an end to the years of hostility between the two powers, and herald a new era of peace and cooperation. Captain James T. Kirk and the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM are dispatched to escort the Chancellor safely into Federation space. But a treacherous assassination brings negotiations to a sudden halt and places Kirk and Dr. McCoy in the hands of the Federation’s greatest enemy. With time running out, Spock and the Enterprise crew work to uncover the deadly secret that threatens to propel the galaxy into the most destructive conflict it has ever known.

Faces of Fire (By:Michael Jan Friedman)

Faces Of Fire En route to Alpha Malurian Six to settle a dispute between two religions, the U.S.S. Enterprise first stops to do a routine check on the progress of a terraforming colony on Beta Canzandia Three a colony whose inhabitants include Carol and David Marcus. While Spock is left behind at the terraforming colony to continue his scientific studies, the rest of the crew heads to Alpha Malurian Six to find the dispute has turned to war. As Kirk, McCoy, and Scotty search for a solution to end the conflict, a ship piloted by a Klingon faction arrives at the terraforming colony to take control of the facility. When colonists are imprisoned, Spock and David must defeat the Klingons or face certain death…

Ice Trap (By:L.A. Graf)

Sent to the icebound planet of Nordstral to investigate a mysterious outbreak of insanity, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise find themselves drawn into another, even deadlier mystery upon their arrival. A team of research scientists has disappeared on Nordstral’s frozen wasteland, leaving no clue to their whereabouts, and no hint of their fate. WHile Uhura and Chekov tackle the mystery surrounding the scientists’ disappearance, Kirk and McCoy search for the truth behind the outbreak of mental illness. But both teams soon find themselves in danger, as the planet undergoes a series of massive earthquakes and electromagnetic disruptions. Unable to contact he U.S.S. Enterprise, both teams must fight for their lives as they try to solve the mystery of Nordstral before the world tears itself apart!

Death Count (By:L.A. Graf)

The disappearance of Andorian scientific genius Muav Haslev fuels tensions between the Orions and Andorians tensions that come dangerously close to full scale war. Captain Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise are called to Starbase Sigma 1, located on the edge of Andorian Orion space, to patrol the sector as a deterrent to hostilities. On arrival, the crew encounters an inexplicable series of events, beginning with missing equipment and shipboard malfunctions. After a deadly transporter accident, Kirk suspects sabotage suspicions that are confirmed by the mysterious murders of three Federation officials. Now, Kirk and crew must put together the fragmented pieces of the puzzle, before the Starship Enterprise faces destruction and the galaxy faces interplanetary war.

Shell Game (By:)

Shell Game While on the routine mission to retrieve a research drone for recycling, the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a Romulan space station adrift within Federation borders. Exploring the lifeless station, the crew finds ghostly apparitions flitting at the edges of sight. Soon the U.S.S. Enterprise is also inexplicably without power. Captain Kirk and his crew must now solve the mystery of the strange apparitions before the Starship suffers the station’s fate. The situation becomes desperate when a Romulan warship arrives looking for the station, and the Romulan Commander accuses the Federation of treachery. Before Captain Kirk can save the Starship Enterprise from complete destruction, he must avoid becoming drawn into a deadly shell game a game that will leave no winners and no survivors…

The Starship Trap (By:Mel Gilden)

The Starship Trap En route to an important diplomatic reception the U.S.S. Enterprise suddenly is set upon by a Klingon warship. The unprovoked assault, Kirk discovers, is in response to what the Klingon ship’s captain claims are recent Federation attacks on several Klingon vessels which have disappeared. Managing to secure a truce, Captain Kirk reaches the reception only to find out it is not just Klingon ships that are disappearing, but Federation vessels, Romulan Birds of Prey, and ships from almost every known race are vanishing without a trace. Now, Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise must determine the fate of the missing ships before the entire known galaxy is drawn into a deadly conflict.

Windows on a Lost World (By:)

Windows On A Lost World

While Captain Kirk and a landing party from the Starship Enterprise explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on the uninhabited planet Careta IV, they discover strange devices that appear to be windows. But the mysterious windows prove to be more than they seem when Kirk, Chekov, and two security guards enter them and disappear.

Suddenly, Kirk and his team find themselves find themselves trapped in a strange alien enviorment and must fight with all their strength to survive and keep their sanity. Now Spock must locate his missing comrades and solve the window’s ancient mysteries before his captain and crewmates are lost forever…
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From the Depths (By:Victor Milán)

From The Depths Okeanos, a water world settled centuries ago by a group of Federation separatists, is now rocked by the power struggle between the natives and the ex Federation colony. When the U.S.S. Enterprise is sent beyond the Federation’s boundaries to the planet to act as mediators, they are surprised to find a group of Klingons already serving as the natives’ advisors. The volatile situation rapidly deteriorates when one of Okeanos’s great floating cities is completely destroyed, and Captain Kirk is arrested for sabotage. now at the center of a deadly civil war, Mr. Spock and the crew must race to free their captain as they face the deadly secret hidden beneath Okeano’s murky depths.

The Great Starship Race (By:Diane Carey)

When a freindly, alien people called the Rey make contact with the Federation, they are thrilled to learn the galaxy has a large number of intelligent races. To bring the myriad cultures to their world, the Rey host a celebration inviting spacefaring peoples to send representative ships to compete against one another and The Great Starship Race is born. As the Federation’s flagship, the ‘U.S.S. EnterpriseTM ‘ under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, is sent to compete. But the event takes a dark turn when a Romulan warship arrives and demands to join the race. Soon, Kirk and the Romulan commander are engaged in a deadly game of cat and mouse, and, for Kirk and his crew, the race becomes a struggle for survival. Faced with treachery at every turn. Kirk must protect his ship from relentless attack and prevent the annihilation of an entire world.

Firestorm (By:L.A. Graf)

Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise are dispatched to the planet Rakata to mediate a dispute between the head of a Federation geological survey team and the leader of a commercial colony.

The Patrian Transgression (By:Simon Hawke)

The Patrian Transgression The U.S.S. Enterprise is sent to Patria I to discuss that world’s application for federation membership. But Captain Kirk and his landing party soon discover that the Patrians have a strict system of laws laws that are enforced by a telepathic police force. In the midst of this startling revelation, the crew finds themselves in the middle of Patrias’s growing political unrest. Caught between the Patrian telepathic police force and a deadly group of terrorists, Kirk, Spock and the others must fight for their lives on a world wher their thoughts make them criminals and all crimes are punishable by death.

First Frontier (By:Diane Carey)

While testing a new shielding device, the U.S.S. EnterpriseTM is caught in the middle of a Klingon/Romulan battle. The Enterprise crew rescues a lifepod, and they are confronted by a Klingon who claims to know nothing of human existence. Convinced the Klingon is telling the truth, Captain Kirk hurries to Starfleet Headquarters in search of answers. But upon arriving on Earth, the Starship Enterprise crew finds that Earth is a vast jungle like paradise where large, reptillian animals rule, with no signs of human life anywhere. Kirk must travel to the past in search of the key to the mystery, or face the destruction of the human race.

The Captain’s Daughter (By:Peter David)

When Demora Sulu, an exemplary young Starfleet officer, suddenly attacks her commanding officer, who kills her in self defense, everyone is stunned. No one is more grief stricken than her father, Captain Hikaru Sulu of the U.S.S. Excelsior. Determined to learn the truth behind his daughter’s bizarre death, Sulu goes to the planet where she was killed, and finds himself confronted by an old enemy eager to destroy Sulu’s reputation and his life!

Twilight’s End (By:Jerry Oltion)

Unlike most planets, Rimillia does not spin upon its axis, so its day and night sides are subjected to perpetual extremes of hot and cold. Habitation has only been possible on a thin band of the planet’s surface, until now. Using gigantic impulse engines of unimaginable power, the alien Dumada intend to start Rimillia rotating, rendering the entire world fit for colonization. Yet some fear the enormous stresses involved may instead tear the planet apart. Assigned to assist the Dumada, Captain Kirk must rescue a kidnapped scientist vital to the rotation project. But, once the giant engines are activated, Scotty must save Rimillia, and the U.S.S. Enterprise from total destruction.

The Rings of Tautee (By:Dean Wesley Smith)

An entire solar system starts to fall apart and Captain Kirk suspects the Klingons of testing a new super weapon. However, a Prime Directive instructs him only to rescue the survivors of the worlds of Tautee, and even that mission is endangered by the hostile approach of the Klingon Birds of Prey.

The Joy Machine (By:Theodore Sturgeon)

Timshel was once the vacation spot of the galaxy, full of culture, natural beauty, and friendly, hospitable inhabitants. But now Timshel has cut itself off from the universe. No one is allowed to enter or leave. Concerned, the Federation has sent agents to investigate, but none have returned. Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship EnterpriseTM are shocked to discover the truth: the people of Timshel have succumbed to an insidious new technology that guarantees every citizen total pleasure, a soul destroying ecstasy that has enslaved their entire civilization. Kirk and Spock have faced many threats before, but now they face the most seductive menace of all: perfect happiness. And the rest of the Federation may soon fall under the irresistible control of the Joy Machine.

Assignment: Eternity (By:Greg Cox)

Captain Kirk first encountered Gary Seven on twentieth century Earth. Now Seven, a time traveling operative for unknown alien forces, makes a surprise visit to the U.S.S. Enterprise. Kirk is on an urgent mission to bearing relief to a disaster ravaged planet, but Seven has an agenda of his own and he’s not above hijacking the Starship Enterprise and sending it on a perilous journey deep into the heart of the Romulan Empire. Kirk must date to trust Gary Seven once again, as he confronts the possibility that the enigmatic stranger may bring death and destruction to Kirk’s own era.

Vulcan’s Heart (By:Josepha Sherman)

2329: Now a diplomat for the United Federation of Planets, Spock agrees to a bonding with Commander Saavik. More than a betrothal, less than a wedding, the sacred Vulcan rite is attended by both Spock’s father, Sarek, and a nervous young Starfleet lieutenant named Jean Luc Picard. 2344: Ambassador Spock receives a top secret communication from the heart of the Romulan Empire. Decades before, Spock had met and betrayed an honorable Romulan commander during the so called ‘Enterprise incident.’ Now she needs his help to prevent a catastrophe that could threaten the peace of the entire quadrant. Spock risks everything by traveling incognito to Romulus itself, but his covert mission becomes even more perilous when Saavik crosses the Neutral Zone to rescue him. Enmeshed in the treacherous political intrigues of the Romulan capital, undone by a fire that grows ever hotter within his blood, Spock must use all his logic and experience to survive a crisis that will ultimately determine the fate of empires. Vulcan’s Heart is a powerful tale that explores an untold turning point in the ongoing saga of Spock and the world of Vulcan.

Across the Universe (By:Pamela Sargent)

When the ‘Enterprise’ discovers a colony ship launched from Earth in the 22nd century, Captain Kirk decides to help the settlers on to their intended destination. But their new planet may not be the haven they hoped for.

In the Name of Honor (By:Dayton Ward)

Delicate peace talks between the Federation and the Klingon Empire become complicated when Captain Kirk discovers that Starfleet prisoners of war are being held captive on a remote jungle planet. Now, with the unexpected assistance of an old adversary, Kirk embarks on a daring rescue mission, knowing that if he fails, the Federation will deny all knowledge of his intentions. But powerful forces within the Klingon government are determined to keep the shameful secret of the hostages’ existence, even if it means obliterating every last trace of the prisoners and anyone who comes to save them!

The Disinherited (By:Peter David,Robert Greenberger,Michael Jan Friedman)

The Disinherited Gamma Xaridian a peaceful Federation research colony that becomes the third Federation world to suffer a brutal attack athe handsof a mysterious alien fleet. With Lt. Uhura gone on an important mission of her own, Captain Kirk and the U.S.S. Enterprise are dispatched to investigate the attacks, only to find the planets completely devastated. When another nearby colony is attacked, the U.S.S. Enterprise is ready and encounters a fleet of quick, small and deadly ships. Though Kirk and his crew manage to turn the raiders away, the U.S.S, Enterprise is severly damaged and the aliens escape. As Kirk and his crew prepare for their next encounter with the raiders, Mr. Spock makes a startling discovery about the purpose behind the alien attacks a purpose that, if realized, could have deadly consequences for the Federation and the U.S.S Enterprise…

The Children of Kings (By:)

A distress call goes out from a Federation outpost near the Klingon border. The U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, responds. Starbase 18 lies in ruin. There are no survivors. And there is no clue as to who is responsible for the attack, until Captain Pike’s brilliant science officer discovers a means of retrieving parts of the station s log. Lieutenant Spock has detected signs of a unique energy signature, one that he believes is Klingon. There are unsubstantiated reports that the Klingon Empire has made a technological leap forward and created a cloaking device code named Black Snow Seven that can shield their ships from even the most advanced sensors. The destruction of the base and the unique energy signature that remains prove that the Empire has succeeded. For generations the Orions have been known as pirates,operating at the margins, outside of legal conventions. A proud and powerful race, the Orions were once a major force in the sector, and they have been using the tension between the Klingon Empire and the Federation to rebuild their power. Captain Pike is charged with trying to foster cooperation between the Orions and the Federation. A distress call from an Orion vessel offers him the perfect opportunity. But the Orion ship lies in disputed space long claimed by the Klingon Empire, and crossing it could be the spark that sets off an interstellar war.

Cast No Shadow (By:James Swallow,Dayton Ward)

Seven years have passed since a catastrophic explosion on the Klingon moon Praxis touched off a chain of events that would result in the assassination of the reformist High Chancellor Gorkon, and the eventual creation of the historicKhitomer Accords. Now, as part of the ongoing efforts to undo the disastrous fallout from the destruction of Praxis and with the help of aid supplies from the United Federation of Planets, reconstruction is in progress, and after years of slow going hindered by political pressures and old prejudices, headway is at last being made. But the peace process begun by theKhitomer Accords is still fragile just as the deadly plans of what is believed to be a hard line Klingon isolationist group violently come to fruition. Yet the group thought responsible for the deadly attack has been dormant for decades, and its known modus operandi doesn t match up to the manner of the strike. And further investigation leads to an unexpected revelation connected to the Gorkon conspiracy of 2293, and in particular one disgraced and very familiar Starfleet lieutenant .

Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

With their hard edged, street wise prose, they created frighteningly probable futures of high tech societies and low life hustlers. Fans and critics call their world cyberpunk. Here is the definitive ‘cyberpunk’ short fiction collection. HC: Arbor House.

Murasaki

After twenty years of travel, the first ships bearing humans arrive in the Murasaki system, where they encounter the inhabitants of Murasaki‘s two mysterious worlds and where they unravel the mysteries of an alien ecosystem.

The Ascent of Wonder

Featuring more than sixty groundbreaking short stories by modern science fiction’s most important and influential writers, The Ascent of Wonder offers a definitive and incisive exploration of the SF genre’s visionary core. From Poe to Pohl, Wells to Wolfe, and Verne to Vinge, this hefty anthology fully charts the themes, trends, thoughts, and traditions that comprise the challenging yet rich literary form known as ‘hard SF.’

New Legends

A collection of original hard science fiction works includes the writings of such authors as Ursula K. Le Guin, Gregory Benford, Poul Anderson, Robert Silverberg, George Alec Effinger, Mary Rosenblum, and Greg Egan.

Hackers

A collection of short stories from the virtual frontier follows the exploits of the world’s most notorious Hackers and includes contributions from Greg Bear, William Gibson, Robert Silverberg, and Bruce Sterling.

New Skies: An Anthology of Today’s Science Fiction

New Skies…
imaginative stories for a new generation of science fiction fans. Here are writers such as Philip K. Dick, Orson Scott Card, Jane Yolen, Greg Bear, Kim Stanley Robinson, Steven Gould, Connie Willis, Spider Robinson, and many more. Here is a careening adventure along the outside of a tower looming miles above the ground, and a tale of desperate survival on the deadly surface of the Moon. Here is a world in which children divorce their parents, and the story of a four dimensional boy in a three dimensional world. Here are future young people rebuilding after terrible disasters, and here is a story of the future development of baseball on Mars.

Nightmarish or whimsical, irreverent or swashbuckling, each of these stories is an adventure in imagination. Journey from the here and now into New Skies.

Year’s Best SF 11

This is the best short form science fiction of 2005, selected by David Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field. The short story is one of the most vibrant and exciting areas in science fiction today. It is where the hot new authors emerge and where the beloved giants of the field continue to publish. Now, building on the success of the first nine volumes, Eos will once again present a collection of the best stories of the year in mass market. Here, selected and compiled by David G. Hartwell and Kathryn Cramer, two of the most respected editors in the field, are stories with visions of tomorrow and yesterday, of the strange and the familiar, of the unknown and the unknowable. With stories from an all star team of science fiction authors, ‘Year’s Best SF 11‘ is an indispensable guide for every science fiction fan.

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