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The Gathering (Point Signature)

by Virginia Hamilton

Newbery medalist Virginia Hamilton's third book in "The Justice Cycle" is the riveting tale of four extraordinary young adults battling to save the earth from an evil force. .

Justice and Her Brothers (Point Signature)

Justice and Her Brothers (Point Signature)

Justice's two brothers are identical twins. Although they look exactly alike, Thomas is mean while Levi is kind. One summer, mysterious, extrasensory powers threaten to tear the entire family apart. This is the first book in the "Justice" trilogy.

Defiant (Kris Longknife)

by Mike Shepherd

As part of an agenda to oust her father from his political position, Kris Longknife is relieved of command. But when an alien enemy launches an invasion, she defies both government and military authority to lead a rag-tag fleet against the threat.

Revelation Space: Book 5

The Prefect

by Alastair Reynolds

A full-length novel set in the Revelation Space universe that’s “sublime entertainment” and “gripping in the extreme.”( Locus ) Tom Dreyfus is a Prefect, a law enforcement officer with the Panoply. His beat is the multi-faceted utopian society of the Glitter Band, that vast swirl of space habitats orbiting the planet Yellowstone, the teeming hub of a human interstellar empire spanning many worlds. His... (more)

The Solarians

by Norman Spinrad

For 300 years the Solarians had isolated themselves from the galaxy with the promise to reappear one day to bring victory. With the human race at stake in a war with machine-like beings, can Jay Palmer accept them and their dangerous plan to surrender Earth?

The Search (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)

by Diane Carey

The Dominion: The mysterious rulers of the worlds on the other side of the wormhole. The Dominion: a ruthless planet-conquering race unknown even to those they rule. The Dominion: the most dangerous foe the Federation may ever face. At the edge of the wormhole, the space station Deep Space Nine™ and the planet Bajor sit on what will be the front line in any Dominion attack. To try and prevent the conflict,... (more)

The Way of the Warrior (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)

The Way of the Warrior (Star Trek Deep Space Nine)

by Diane Carey, Ira S. Behr, Robert H. Wolfe

The entire Alpha Quadrant has been threatened with deadly infiltration by the shape-shifting Founders of the Dominion. Already the Romulans and Cardassians have been decimated by the clandestine machinations of the Founders. Now the newly promoted Captain Benjamin Sisko of Deep Space Nine™ has another problem: a massive fleet of Klingon warships has arrived at DS9 on a secret mission. Unable to learn anything... (more)

The Laertian Gamble (Star Trek Deep Space Nine, No 12)

The Laertian Gamble (Star Trek Deep Space Nine, No 12)

by Robert Scheckley

When a mysterious alien woman from the planet Laertes convinces Dr. Bashir to gamble for her at Quark's gaming tables, things seem innocent enough. Yet the more Dr. Bashir wins, the more things go wrong in the Federation: Ore ships vanish. Planets lose their atmosphere. Suns go nova. The cause and effect is hard to understand, but is proven by the bizarre Laertian science called Complexity Theory. When Bashir... (more)

Uncanny X-men (No. 288)

The X-Men take the time-traveller Bishop into New York for site-seeing and by sheer luck he stumbles across Stygut, a criminal from his own future era. They have a big destructive fight and Bishop realizes things are rather different in the present, when you battle in a public area...

Last Man Running (Doctor Who Series)

by Chris Boucher

Arriving on a jungle planet, Doctor Who and Leela soon find themselves hunted by a hideous alien lifeform, which appears to be some kind of robot with a taste for human flesh.

X Men: The Fall of the Mutants (X-Men)

by Chris Claremont, Brent Anderson

The Uncanny X-Men. Magneto, master of magnetism. The bitterest of enemies for years. But now they must join forces against a new adversary who threatens them all and the entire world besides... in the name of God. One of Chris Claremont's most powerful and influential stories, the partial basis for "X-Men 2," is reprinted here for the first time in years. Collects Marvel Graphic Novel #5: God Loves, Man Kills.

Down in the Bottomlands (And Other Places)

Down in the Bottomlands (And Other Places)

by Harry Turtledove

In our world, the Mediterranean basin has dried up several times, only to refill. If it hadn't, it would have become a savage desert. But in his world, that's just the way mild-mannered Radnal vez Krobir likes it.

The Accidental Time Machine

by Joe Haldeman

Joe Haldeman "has quietly become one of the most important science fiction writers of our time" ( Rocky Mountain News ). Now he delivers a provocative novel of a man who stumbles upon the discovery of a lifetime-or many lifetimes. Grad-school dropout Matt Fuller is toiling as a lowly research assistant at MIT when, while measuring subtle quantum forces that relate to time changes in gravity and electromagnetic... (more)

The Best of Lester Del Rey (Del Rey Impact)

The Best of Lester Del Rey (Del Rey Impact)

by Lester Del Rey

The Pyrotechnics of Lester del Rey SF's most protean personality--writer, editor, critic, publisher--sets off an incomparable fireworks display in these tales of robots and humans, animals and aliens, ghosts and gods, science and the supernatural . . . HELEN O'LOY If you want an ideal mate, build her! HEREAFTER, INC. This is Heaven? The hell it is! LITTLE JIMMY The invisible kid was a ghost for sure. But... (more)

The Farseekers: The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book Two (Obernewtyn Chronicles)

The Farseekers: The Obernewtyn Chronicles - Book Two (Obernewtyn Chronicles)

by Isobelle Carmody

A Children’s Book Council of Australia Honor Book In this powerful sequel to Obernewtyn , young Elspeth Gordie-possessed of extraordinary mental powers-has united with others Misfits for refuge on the remote mountain keep of Obernewtyn. Yet the threat from the totalitarian Council to their safety is ever present. Their only defense is to work hard to develop their mental powers before an inevitable... (more)

Doppelganger: Book 1

Doppelganger

by Marie Brennan

When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. But what happens when the doppelganger survives? Mirage, a fierce bounty hunter, lives by her wits and lethal fighting skills. She always gets her mark. But her new mission will take her into the shadowy world of witches, where her strength may be no match against magic. Miryo is a witch who has just... (more)

Galactic Empires Volume TwoBrian Aldiss

Galactic Empires Volume Two

by Brian Aldiss

Galactic Empires Volume 1Brian Aldiss

Galactic Empires Volume 1

by Brian Aldiss

The Orbit: Science Fiction Yearbook 1

The Boxes

by William Sleator

Annie's Uncle Marco goes on one of his mysterious trips, leaving her in charge of two sealed boxes on one condition: she must not open either one while he is away. But she is tempted...and soon she has unleashed the unspeakable. The creatures inside the box are crab-like and grotesque. And they possess a power Annie could never have imagined: the power to transmute time.

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