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Tom Clancy's Patriot Games is filled with the exceptional realism and authenticity that distinguished the author's two previous bestsellers, Hunt for Red October and Red Storm Rising. Patriot Games puts us on the cutting edge of another type of war -- the international battle of terrorism. Years before the defection of a Soviet submarine will send him hurtling into confrontation with the Soviets in Red October,... (more)

Neal Stephenson Metaverse: Book 1

Snow Crash

by Neal Stephenson

Only once in a great while does a writer come along who defies comparison--a writer so original he redefines the way we look at the world. Neal Stephenson is such a writer and Snow Crash is such a novel, weaving virtual reality, Sumerian myth, and just about everything in between with a cool, hip cybersensibility to bring us the gigathriller of the information age. In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza... (more)

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Rude Astronauts

by Allen Steele

A collection of fascinating short stories and science articles from a respected writer includes his first published story, the popular Diamondback Jack trilogy, and several nonfiction pieces written when he was a science reporter. Reprint.

Honor Harrington: Book 9

Ashes of Victory

by David Weber

Proclaimed a dead woman by the People's Republic of Haven, Honor Harrington has escaped her prison with half a million others and will tip the balance in favor of the Allies.

Fortune's Stroke

by David Drake, Eric Flint

EVIL FROM BEYOND TIME RULES THE GREATEST EMPIRE ON EARTH! Link, the supercomputer from a future that should not exist, has used terror and gunpowder weapons to forge the Malwa Empire, harnessing the vast manpower of the Indian subcontinent and using the barbarian races of the periphery to bind the whole together. No power on Earth in the 6th century could stand against Link's evil. Aide, a human soul embodied... (more)

Get Shorty

by Elmore Leonard

Mob-connected loanshark Chili Palmer is sick of the Miami grind -- plus his "friends" have a bad habit of dying there. So when he chases a deadbeat client out to Hollywood, Chili figures he might like to stay. This town with its dreammakers, glitter, hucksters, and liars -- plus gorgeous, partially clad would -be starlets everywhere you look -- seems ideal for an enterprising criminal with a taste for the... (more)

The Last Don

by Mario Puzo

The author of The Godfather returns with a violent and darkly humorous saga of the last great American crime family and its reach into Hollywood and Las Vegas. With keen insights into the authentic life of the mafia, Puzo tells the story of Domenico Clericuzio, a ferocious old man who is determined to secure his family's future in an era of legalized gambling, motion-picture investments, and the threat of... (more)

Carnivores of Light and Darkness (Journeys of the Catechist , Book 1)

Journeys of the Catechist: Book 1

Carnivores of Light and Darkness (Journeys of the Catechist , Book 1)

by Alan Dean Foster

Ehomba is a simple herdsman from an isolated tribe--a "catechist" in search of answers. When a lone survivor of a shipwreck pleads for the safe return of the Visioness Themaryl, who had been kidnapped by an evil sorcerer, Ehomba sets forth on a journey through a world he has never seen to rescue a woman he has never met--for the sake of a man he never knew.

Into the Thinking Kingdoms (Journeys of the Catechist/Alan Dean Foster, Bk 2)

Journeys of the Catechist: Book 2

Into the Thinking Kingdoms (Journeys of the Catechist/Alan Dean Foster, Bk 2)

by Alan Dean Foster

An adventure of epic proportions continues as a man bound by honor travels through exotic and perilous lands on a quest to find and protect a beautiful princess he has never met.

The Prey Series: Book 11

Easy Prey

by John Sandford

The past presents a harrowing case and an unsettling personal dilemma for Lucas Davenport when the death of a model leads him to suspect one of his own men.

Vows and Honor: Book 3

Oathblood (Vows and Honor, Book 3)

by Mercedes Lackey

This exciting new anthology includes a new novella featuring Mercedes Lackey's most popular heroines, Tarma (one of the sword-sworn and most feared of all warriors) and Kethry (who wields magic and weapons for the greater good), whose fates are suddenly bound together in blood by the powers that control their destinies. Also included in the unique volume is the complete collection of Lackey's short stories about... (more)

Vows and Honor: Book 1

The Oathbound (Vows and Honor, Book 1)

by Mercedes Lackey

Tarma witnessed her clan's murder and, swearing vengeance, became a master warrior. Kethry fled her forced "marriage" and became an adept--pledging her power to the greatest good. When Kethry obtains a magical sword which draws her to others in need, the two vow to avenge the wrongs done to womanhood.

The Culture: Book 6

Inversions

by Iain Banks

Iain M. Banks, the international bestselling author of The Player of Games and Consider Phlebas, is a true original, a literary visionary whose brilliant speculative fiction has transported us into worlds of unbounded imagination. Now, in his acclaimed new novel, Banks presents an engrossing portrait of an alien world, and of two very different people bound by a startling and mysterious secret. On a backward... (more)

Ambient

by Jack Womack

Set in a future New York City that seems like a horrible amalgam of A Clockwork Orange's London, modern-day Beirut and Germany during the Thirty Years' War, this thriller, Womack's first novel, does not live up to its ambitious theme. In 21st century Manhattan, a good portion of the citizenry consists of freaks engendered by a nuclear accident on Long Island. The freaks, or "ambients," of the title still retain a... (more)

Roma Sub Rosa: Book 6

The Venus Throw

by Steven Saylor

On a chill January evening in 56 B.C. , two strange visitors to Rome—an Egyptian ambassador and a eunuch priest—seek out Gordianus the Finder whose specialty is solving murders. But the ambassador, a philosopher named Dio, has come to ask for something Gordianus cannot give—help in staying alive. Before the night is out, he will be murdered. Now Gordianus begins his most dangerous case. Hired to investigate Dio's... (more)

A Difficulty with Dwarves

by Craig Shaw Gardner

When a wizard is unable to cure his malady of magicks, he sends his apprentice Wuntnor to seek aid in the distant land of the Eastern Kingdoms which are ripe with fiendish peril.

The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell

by Harry Harrison

Slippery Jim diGriz , alias the Stainless Steel Rat, the galaxy's greatest thief and con artist, returns in his most devilish caper yet. DiGriz is strenuously fighting boredom on a ritzy pleasure planet when his beloved wife disappears while vising the Temple of Eternal Truth, an enigmatic institution that promises its patrons a sneak peek at Heaven--for a price. Determined to get his wife back, diGriz takes on... (more)

A Covenant of Justice

by David Gerold

A genetically altered vampiric race known as the Phaestor threaten to overrun the galaxy, but the opposition--an outnumbered band of malcontents--fights savagely to preserve their freedom.

Heechee Saga

The Gateway Trip

Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee

by Frederik Pohl

The Heechee were perhaps the greatest and most tantalizing mystery the human race had ever known. The first Heechee artifacts were uncovered on Venus, and in the beginning they were treated as nothing more than costly souvenirs and curiosities for tourists from Earth and Mars. But when an asteroid stocked with autonavigating spacecraft was discovered, suddenly the Heechee universe was thrown wide open, giving... (more)

Jericho Moon

by Matthew Woodring Stover

The "extraordinary"* epic of sorcery, sensuality, and the supernatural...the stunning sequel to Iron Dawn ... After the glories of Greece have begun to fade, Barra the Pict discovers that her efforts to save the Prince of Jericho may be thwarted--by a man named Joshua... Praise for Iron Dawn : "A masterful, extraordinary and dazzling achievement." --A.A. Attanasio* "A gripping, wild rollick through the... (more)

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by Tom Clancy

by Neal Stephenson

by Allen Steele

by David Weber

by David Drake, Eric Flint

by Elmore Leonard

by Mario Puzo

by Alan Dean Foster

by Alan Dean Foster

by John Sandford

by Mercedes Lackey

by Mercedes Lackey

by Iain Banks

by Jack Womack

by Steven Saylor

by Craig Shaw Gardner

by Harry Harrison

by David Gerold

Tales and Vignettes of the Heechee

by Frederik Pohl

by Matthew Woodring Stover