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The old certainties of the Cold War have been swept away by the new tide of detente that has washed over the superpowers. But even if international superpower relations have changed, human nature has not altered very much. The new powder keg is the Middle East where this adventure story is set.

Jurassic Park: Book 2

The Lost World

by Michael Crichton

In this sequel to Jurassic Park, Crichton delivers his trademark mix of speculative science and suspense.

The lark and the wren

by Mercedes Lackey

Possessing the potential to be the greatest bard her world has ever seen, young Rune rashly brags about her abilities and must prove herself by meeting the Ghost of Skull Hill, who forces her to fiddle an entire night. Reissue.

Dirk Pitt Adventures: Book 9

Treasure

by Clive Cussler

Charts of lost gold...breathtaking art and rare volumes...maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits that could change the world's balance of power. Now DIRK PITT discovers the secret trail of the treasures of Alexandria -- a trail that plunges him into a brutal conspiracy for total domination of the globe. Zealots threaten to unseat the governments of Egypt and Mexico, exposing America to invasion and economic... (more)

Starstrike (Daw Book Collectors)

by W. Michael Gear

Humanity's first contact with alien life is no less than a nightmare, as the Ahimsa take control of Earth and force humanity to do their bidding. Soon Earth's most skilled strike force, composed of Russian, American, and Israeli experts in the art of war and espionage, find themselves aboard the Ahimsa vessel, training for an offensive attack against a distant space station. Andas they struggle to overcome their... (more)

Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections (Myth-Nomers & Im-Pervections)

Myth Adventures: Book 8

Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections (Myth-Nomers & Im-Pervections)

by Robert Asprin

How could a thick-headed demon be so thin-skinned? But Ahaz, Skeeve's friend and mentor, has taken exception to something his partner has said and walked out. Now Skeeve must apologize for this thoughtless behavior and convince his scaly cohort to rejoin the firm--and finds himself trapped in the most demonic dimension of them all!.

Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center)

Galactic Center: Book 2

Across the Sea of Suns (Galactic Center)

by Gregory Benford

Lancer, a spaceship built to specifications found in the computers of an alien derelict, journeys to the star, Ra, from which the Earth has received mysterious radio transmissions in English

Future On Fire (Future on Fire)

by Orson Scott Card

YA-- A provocative collection of short fiction, edited by one of science fiction's best-known names. Ironically, this is both the strength and weakness of this anthology. Card's selections are excellent and include an interesting range of approaches to science fiction in the '80s. Of particular interest are several stories from the cyberpunk school, as well as Pat Murphy's Nebula award winning ``Rachel in Love''... (more)

Dixie City Jam

by James Lee Burke

Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux matches wits with neo-Nazi psychopath Will Buchalter to find a sunken German submarine, while a Mafia war explodes in New Orleans. Reprint.

The Simple Truth

by David Baldacci

Rufus Harms is rotting in a Virginia military prison. As readers learn in the terse opening of The Simple Truth, he was convicted 25 years ago of the brutal killing of a young girl. Readers also learn that Rufus did not commit the crime; out of a haze of memories and with fragments of evidence, he has reconstructed the truth about the horrid event that ruined his life. He knows his discovery could cost him his... (more)

THINGS HUNTING MEN (Starhunters, Vol 2)David Drake

THINGS HUNTING MEN (Starhunters, Vol 2)

by David Drake

Impossible Things

by Connie Willis

A collection of science fiction tales by the winner of six Nebula and two Hugo awards features a tale of an outrageous colony in outer space, a distraught woman obsessed with the past, and creatures who roam London during the Blitz.

Howling Stones

by Alan Dean Foster

Enter another realm in the amazing world of the Humanx Commonwealth--the interstellar empire governed jointly by humans and aliens! The newly discovered planet of Senisran was a veritable paradise--a sprawling world of vast oceans dotted with thousands of lush islands and copious deposits of rare-earths and minerals. First-contact specialist Pulickel Tomochelor's mission to Senisran was straightforward: Secure... (more)

The False Mirror

by Alan Dean Foster

For millennia, the alien union called the Weave had ben at war with evil Amplitur. When its new elite fighting unit appeared, it became frighteningly clear that Amplitur was subjecting humans to vile genetic manipulations. The Weave could reverse the effects, but the result could turn the former warriors into the most despicable creatures in the galaxy....

Rama: Book 2

Rama II

The Sequel to Rendezvous with Rama

by Arthur C. Clarke

Decades have passed since Commander Norton and his crew met with the enormous alien ship dubbed Rama and declared it an intelligent robot with no interest in the creatures of our solar system. But now another ship has been sighted near Earth, and this time, humanity will discover startling--perhaps deadly--differences.

Drakas!

by S. M. Stirling

THINK ABOUT HISTORY. NOW MAKE IT WORSE... The Domination of the Draka begins as a British possession in Africa, but soon becomes far more. Absorbing refugees after the American Revolution, and later the Civil War, the Draka become a people bred to rule with an iron fist. They permanently enslave the peoples of Africa, when they do not simply kill them. But this does not slake the Draka thirst for... (more)

There Won't Be WarHarry Harrison

There Won't Be War

by Harry Harrison

YA-- A collection of short stories by well-known science-fiction writers, all of which share an antiwar theme. Some are humorous, such as Isaac Asimov's ``Frustration;'' others, such as William Tenn's ``The Liberation of Earth,'' are poignant. Kim Stanley Robinson's ``Lucky Strike'' and James Morrow's ``Known but to God and Wilber Hines'' are about past conflicts, taking real events and twisting them into ``what... (more)

Sheva: Book 1

Darwin's Radio

In the Next Stage of Evolution, Human Are History

by Greg Bear

A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE Greg 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... (more)

Facets

by Walter Jon Williams

Williams, best known as a writer of cyber-punk novels ( Hardwired ), branches out in this collection of nine well-crafted short pieces "Video Star" and "Wolf Time" are fast-action cyber-punk. "Flatline" and "The Bob Dylan Solution" edge into a new subgenre, bio-punk, more fully realized in "Dinosaurs" and "Witness." The latter is the introductory story for George R. R. Martin's Wildcard series, but it stands well... (more)

The Cold Cash War

by Robert Asprin

International conglomerates plot a complete domination of the free world, facing off against world governments, who want only freedom, in a calculated and vicious battle of wits and blood.

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by Tom Clancy

by Michael Crichton

by Mercedes Lackey

by Clive Cussler

by W. Michael Gear

by Robert Asprin

by Gregory Benford

by Orson Scott Card

by James Lee Burke

by David Baldacci

by David Drake

by Connie Willis

by Alan Dean Foster

by Alan Dean Foster

The Sequel to Rendezvous with Rama

by Arthur C. Clarke

by S. M. Stirling

by Harry Harrison

In the Next Stage of Evolution, Human Are History

by Greg Bear

by Walter Jon Williams

by Robert Asprin