In this first collaboration by science fiction masters Larry Niven ( Ringworld ) and Gregory Benford ( Timescape ), the limits of wonder are redrawn once again as a human expedition to another star system is jeopardized by an encounter with an astonishingly immense artifact in interstellar space:... (learn more about this book)
Concepts once purely fiction -- robots, cyborg parts, artificial intelligences -- are becoming part of everyday reality. Soon robots will be everywhere, performing surgery, exploring hazardous places, making rescues, fighting fires, handling heavy goods. After a decade or two, they will be as... (learn more about this book)
Set a billion years into the future, this novel by the multiple award-winning author of "The Martian Race" involves the idea of a Library of Life, which preserves earlier life forms. (learn more about this book)
The border between science fiction and science fact is crossed in this collection of stories and essays by such renowned authors as Asimov, Bradbury, and Clarke. Respected science fiction author-editors Gregory Benford and George Zebrowski present an anthology, with unique color... (learn more about this book)
Esteemed Mars guru Bob Zubrin calls The Martian Race "one of the finest novels about human exploration of the Red Planet ever written. "But then again, Bob is a character in the book (albeit in the briefest of cameos), so what else could he possibly say? That notwithstanding, Zubrin's right--he... (learn more about this book)
Combining the logical rigor with the lyrical finesse of a novelist , award-winning author Gregory Benford explores these and other fascinating questions in this provocative analysis of humanity's attempts to make its culture immortal. In Deep Time he confronts our growing influence on events... (learn more about this book)
A collection of millennial apocalypse scenarios by science fiction masters offers frightening, and sometimes plausible, glimpses into the end times, with contributions by Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven, William Barton, and nine others. Original. (learn more about this book)
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is 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. Now, with the permission -- and... (learn more about this book)
UFO's have long been a topic of fascination and speculation, generating best-selling books, blockbuster movies, popular TV shows, and questionable tabloid articles. Now tapping into the public's insatiable interest in the subject, these all-new stories by some of today's top writers explore... (learn more about this book)
The Nebula Award-winning author concludes his Galactic Center series with the final battle of the violent aliens known as the mechs to destroy the human race. By the author of Furious Gulf. (learn more about this book)