C.J. CHERRYH

They said that Ciaran Cuilean was fey - that he had the touch of the Sidhe on him, and on his lands.  And it was true.  Elvish blood ran in his veins, and he had been to that other world that parallel and magical land of Eald, where Arafel, the Lady of Trees, held dominion.

But what should have been a blessing was as much a curse - for jealousy and fear grew in the lands of men.  Shadows of newly awakened evil swarmed across both landscapes threatening to bring the clang and reek of war from the warm hearthstones of the mortal keeps to the silvery heart of Ealdwood.  And Ciaran knew that he must once again put his humanity aside and reclaim his haunted weapons from the Tree of Swords or see both his worlds fold into darkness!

TRIBESMEN
OF GOR

The Others were on the move!  The Priest-Kings had received a message: "Surrender Gor."  The date had been set for conquest or destruction.

Tarl Cabot could no longer linger in Port Kar - now he must act on behalf of the Priest-Kings, on behalf of Gor, and on behalf of Gor's teeming, unsuspecting, twin world known as Earth.

Evidence pointed to the great wasteland of the Tahari, the desert known only to the clannish, militant tribes of desert-wanderers.  There must Cabot go.  There among the feuds, along the trails of slavers, beyond the forbidding salt mines to a rendezvous with treachery, with a woman warlord, with a bandit chief, and with the monster intelligences from the worlds of steel.

John Norman at his best!

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VICTORY!
Our invincible space fleet has occupied the monsters' worlds!
VICTORY!
Our mighty space force has seized the aliens' home planet!
VICTORY!
Our triumphant space warriors have captured the enemy system!  But then why are we suffering so beneath the tread of those heartless conquerors from the stars?

TRIPLE DETENTE is Piers Anthony's alternate to interstellar warfare.  It is a thought-provoking novel of cultures in conflict and the enigma of outworld psychologies.

-A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL-
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WATCH FOR
HERE ABIDE MONSTERS
BY ANDRE NORTON
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Bestselling author C. J. Cherryh proves once again that SF can be thrilling, knife-edged human adventure.  Set in the complex future of Downbelow Station, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, here is her latest Merchanter adventure...

TRIPOINT

Merchanter Cargo Chief Marie Hawkins has never forgiven the crime, nor sought justice.  Only vengeance.  And, for 23 years, the Hawkins’s clan ship, Sprite, has lived with her vendetta - and with her son, Tom, the boy sired in the violent assault.

Marie’s attacker, Austin Bowe, is captain of the Corinthian.  When both ships dock at Mariner Station, Marie vanishes and Tom searches for his mother... only to find himself trapped on Austin's ship with a half-brother he never knew he had and a crew fanatically loyal to Bowe.  Now as the Corinthian flees the
pursuing Sprite and a raider guns after both, the lives on board the two Merchanter ships are in the hands of Tom Hawkins.  To save them all, Tom must trust his sworn enemy...

His father.

"SUCCEEDS... MAKES THE CONFLICTS AND CHANGES [THE CHARACTERS] EXPERIENCE FEEL VITAL AND REAL."
- Cleveland Plain Dealer

"PSYCHOLOGICALLY COMPELLING... SATISFYING."
- Publishers Weekly

A MAIN SELECTION OF THE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB®

The bestselling Star Wars® saga continues in this spellbinding adventure that brings to life George Lucas's dazzling universe and his beloved movie characters.  In The Truce at Bakura, the Rebel Alliance struggles to survive in the fateful days following the events in Return of the Jedi.



No sooner has Darth Vader's funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance faces a new challenge at the far-flung Imperial outpost of Bakura.  The Ssi-ruuk, a race of cold-blooded reptilian invaders, plan to enslave human minds to pilot their invincible machines of war and destruction.  With the hope of turning Bakura's loyalties toward the fledgling New Republic with defensive aid, Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Princess Leia race to the besieged planet.  Yet, as the eve of the final onslaught rapidly approaches, Rebel and Imperial forces still must come to terms with each other.  And there is already evidence of a traitor hidden in their midst....

The Second World War is drawing to a close.  Alan Turing, the code-breaker who has been critical to the allied war effort, is called in to break a mysterious new cypher.  It's coming from Germany, and everyone assumes that it is German - everyone except Turing's new friend, the Doctor.  Indeed is seems the Doctor knows too much about the code, and the code-makers - and when people start to die, even Turing wonders if the Doctor is the one to blame.

Graham Greene, novelist and spymaster, has also encountered the Doctor, and thinks he's a rum enough chap, but in a remote African village he has encountered something far stranger.

To find out the truth, they must cross the front line and travel through occupied Germany - right into the firing line of the bloodiest war in history.  What they find there has no human explanation - and only the Doctor has the answers.  Or maybe they're just more questions…

Of all the companions ever to travel with the Doctor in the TARDIS, Turlough was the most enigmatic and the most disturbing. Exiled from his home world, he saw the Doctor as a means of escape from Earth - and for that he was prepared to kill. But just who was Turlough? And what happened to him after he left the Doctor? Now Turlough has returned to Trion, but to a Trion much changed since his exile. Who are the mysterious Gardsormr? What is their secret purpose? And what is the shocking and terrifying link between Trion and planet Earth?

The rift in the fabric of space was fast approaching the Well World, and time was running out. Troops all over the planet were gathering for the final battle.

Nathan Brazil and Mavra Chang somehow had to reach the Well of Souls in time to save the universe and before any of the hostile natives managed to kill them.

At best, a difficult mission. At worst, impossible - especially since there was a price on Brazil's head and many would-be claimants! For Brazil, the difficult was but the work of a moment - the impossible would take a little longer!

'They're Menoptera,' the Doctor exclaimed, ' and this must be Vortis! But why are you treating them like this? They're a peaceful people, not slaves! What's been happening here?'

Many years have passed since the Doctor's first visit to the Web Planet, and he finds a very different world from the one he knew; a world now embroiled in a bitter interplanetary war between the opposing factions of a divided race.

To restore peace, the Doctor must first resolve a deadly ideological conflict, solve the paradox of the nature of life on Vortis, and finally confront the Gods of Light themselves.

As the stakes are raised, can the Doctor contain the ancient terror that threatens to devastate an entire star system?

'Oh, why not,' Benny said. 'After all, I've died before and it never did me any harm then.'

The once peaceful planet of Dellah lies in ruins. The god-like beings who infest the place have lured the inhabitants into holy wars, suicide cults and genocidal pogroms. As they run out of victims, the deities plan to invade more planets - and other races are preparing pre-emptive strikes to stop them. Humankind's small sector of the galaxy is about to become the battleground of leviathans.

There is just one hope. Professor Bernice Summerfield is, surprisingly, alive and well. And she's coming home. Bernice and her friends are determined to dispose of the gods once and for all - at any cost.

STAR WARS

In the wake of the shattered alliance, the New Republic fights a relentless new enemay in an all-new adventure in the bestselling Star Wars® saga...

TYRANT'S TEST

Faced with an alarming image of Han as a battered hostage of the Yevetha, Chewbacca takes on an urgent mission.  Meanwhile, Leia calls upon the Senate to take a stand and eliminate the Yevetha threat - even at the cost of Han's life.  As a former Imperial govenor takes his battle to the runaway Quella spaceship, Luke's continuing search for his mother brings him dangerously close to Nil Spaar's deadly forces.  And as the Yevetha close in on the forces of the New Republic, Luke takes a desperate gamble with an invisible weapon....

"Dick never leaves the reader on safe ground." - Village Voice

Glen Runciter is dead.  Or is everbody else?  Someone died in an explosion orchestrated by Runciter's business competitors.  And, indeed, it's the kingly Runciter whose funeral is scheduled in Des Moines.  But in the meantime, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering - and sometimes scatalogical - messages from their boss.  And the world around them is warping in ways that suggest that their own time is running out.  Or already has.

Philip K. Dick's searing metaphysical comedy of death and salvation (the latter available in a convenient a aerosol spray) is a tour de force of paranoiac menace and unfettered slapstick, in which the departed give business advice, shop for their next incarnation, and run the continual risk of dying yet again.

"Dick was... one of the genuine visionaries that North American fiction has produced in this century, and his best novels constitue as significant body of work as that of any writer in this country in the last 30 years."
- Steve Erickson, L.A. Weekly

On Wednesday 27 February 1985 the BBC announced that their longest running sci-fi series, Doctor Who, was to be suspended. Anxious fans worldwide, worried that this might mean an end to the Time Lord's travels, flooded the BBC with letters of protest. Eighteen months later the show returned to the TV screens. But missing from the Doctor's adventures was the series that would have been made and shown during those lost eighteen months. Now, available for the first time as a book, is one of those stories: The Ultimate Evil. With the TARDIS working perfectly the Doctor and Peri find themselves at something of a loose end. A holiday in Tranquela, a peace-loving country where there has been no war for over fifty years, seems the ideal solution. Unfortunately their visit coincides with that of an unscrupulous arms dealer - the Machiavellian Dwarf Mordant...

The seers of Gelsandor foretell the coming of many visitors to their planet, all in search of the lost treasure of the fabulously wealthy Rovan Cartovall, who vanished 5000 years ago…

An innocent shopping jaunt for the Doctor and Peri ends in violence and incarceration as they become caught up in a mysterious transaction involving the sale of co-ordinates leading to Rovan's hoard - the ultimate treasure.

The Doctor and Peri join the quest, but the Time Lord remains skeptical.  What will they find - and why has it remained undiscovered for so long?

The resourcefulness of the travellers is tested to the limits as they race to be the first to the treasure.  And among a seemingly endless array of tricks, tests and traps lurk some deadly surprises.

From librivox.org:

The star Mira was unpredictably variable. Sometimes it was blazing, brilliant and hot. Other times it was oddly dim, cool, shedding little warmth on its many planets. Gresth Gkae, leader of the Mirans, was seeking a better star, one to which his "people" could migrate. That star had to be steady, reliable, with a good planetary system. And in his astronomical searching, he found Sol.

With hundreds of ships, each larger than whole Terrestrial spaceports, and traveling faster than the speed of light, the Mirans set out to move in to Solar regions and take over.

And on Earth there was nothing which would be capable of beating off this incredible armada - until Buck Kendall stumbled upon THE ULTIMATE WEAPON. (Introduction by John W. Campbell)

Winner of the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for her most recent novel, Doomsday Book, Connie Willis is widely regarded as one of the most powerful imaginative writers of our time.  Now she weaves together all the drama, lyricism, and warmth of her earlier work in an eagerly awaited new tale.

UNCHARTED
TERRITORY

Findriddy and Carson are two explorers sent to Boohte to survey the ridges and scrub-covered hills of the planet.  Back home, their adventures are followed by countless breathless fans, but the reality is far less romantic as they deal with dust, nitpicking regulations, and uncooperative aliens.  Teamed with a young intern whose specialty is mating customs, and a native guide of indeterminate gender, the group sets out for a previously unexplored sector of the planet.  As they survey canyons and cataracts, battle dangers, and discover alien treasures, they will soon find themselves in alien territory of another kind: exploring the paths and precipices of sex.  And love.

"CONNIE WILLIS DEPLOYS THE APPARATUS OF SCIENCE FICTION TO ILLUMINATE CHARACTER AND RELATIONSHIPS, AND HER WRITING IS FRESH, SUBTLE, AND DEEPLY MOVING."
- The Yew York Times Book Review

STRANGE ALLIES

JORRY was a space freebooter, a member of the dying breed of individualistic adventurers who roamed through space, doing what they wished, taking what they wanted, and fleeing the growing tyranny of the intergalactic empire.

AXXAL was born an underling, one of a despised race whom the space lords had made their helpless servants.  But Axxal unlike his brothers refused to obey the Imperial edicts, and dreamed of freedom not only for himself but for all the oppressed.

No two men could have been more different.  Yet together they vowed to topple the mightiest power that the universe had ever known...

"Here is a sea story of an imaginary war that somes very close to matching - in suspense, action and physchic strain - any chronicle of real war by C. S. Forester or Herman Wouk...  In this fine blend of speculation and action, Mr. Herbert has created a novel that ranks with the best of modern science fiction." - The New York Times

"It's a spy story, a chase thriller, and a psychological mystery rolled into one, with solid characterization and something to say about the tensions of cold war.  It's one of the few science fiction novels I'll recommend to anyone." - Pittsburgh Press

"This is a fictional story of the future that we should pray will never become a new story of the present." - The Stringfield Daily News

"Energy and complexity... Adept fans will snap this one up!" - Kirkus

PIERS ANTHONY
UNICORN POINT

Neither the magic of Phaze, nor the technology of Proton, can save the parallel worlds from a ruthless takeover.  The fight for freedom must be waged by Mach and Bane, robot and wizard, linked between worlds.  But they are not the only ones with this strange ability.  For their children have been born - each possessing powers the enemy could never imagine...

One of Anthony's most popular series!" - Library Journal

In the spectacular finale of the New Jedi Order series, Luke, Han, and Leia rally for their last stand against the enemy that threatens not only the galaxy but the Force itself.

Includes a bonus interview on the creation of The New Jedi Order!

The Galactic Alliance's hard-won success in countering the Yuushan Vong onslaught has proven all too brief - and the tide has turned once more to the invaders' advantage.  The marauding aliens have pushed deeper into the galaxy in their ruthless quest for domination.  The remnants of the resistance are struggling to form a united front.  Clearly the stage is set for endgame.

Now, as Luke and his team try desperately to convince the living world of Zonama Sekot to join the Jedi's final campaign against the Yuuzhan Vong, a lone space station is all that stands in between Alliance headquarters and ferocious enemy forces, which are poised to wage their most decisive assault.  For both sides, too much has been sacrificed - and too much is at stake - to ever turn back.  And now nothing can stand in the way of seizing victory... or facing annihilation.

'They called it the Millennium Effect,' said the Doctor.  'But the millennium was only beginning.'

San Francisco has changed since the start of 2000.  The laws of physics keep having acid flashbacks.  There are sightings of creatures from outside our dimensions, stranded aliens and surrealist street performers.  The city has become a mecca for those who revel in impossible creatures - and those who want to see them pinned down and put away.

Sam's past is catching up with her - a past she didn't know she had.  The Doctor is in danger of becoming the pièce de rèsistance in a twisted collection of creatures.  And beneath the waters of the Bay, something huge is waiting.

With time running out, the Doctor must choose which to sacrifice - a city of wonders, or the life of an old and dear friend.

One of the most extraordinary novels ever!  The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathon Hoag - science fiction?  Detective novel?  Horror?  Fantasy?

All of these and more.  From the eye-popping opening.  Johnathan Hoag will hold you utterly enthralled straight through one astonishment after another - until its appalling and unforgettable climax.

Also from the pen of the master - five classic stories:
The Man Who Traveled in Elephants
"-All You Zombies-"
They
Our Fair City
"-And He Built a Crooked House-"

The epic Star Wars odyssey enters a new frontier as the heroes of the New Jedi Order confront a monstrous evil - insidious, unseen, and insatiable....

Despite being given new worlds to populate, the insectoid Killiks have not found peace.  An unknown enemy has been attacking the new nests - and the Killiks hold the Jedi responsible.  Traveling back to the Unknown Regions to unravel a mystery, the Skywalkers and Solos discover an evil far more familiar than they ever expected... and even more terrifying.  Why does the Dark Nest want to kill Mara?  Will Jacen's apocalyptic vision triger another galactic war or prevent one?  And perhaps the most ominous of all, what deadly secret are the Killiks hiding?

To find out, Luke, Mara, Han, and Leia must embark on a perilous journey into the uncharted void between right and wrong.  The ferocious Unknown Terrors are only the beginning of the awesome challenges that lie ahead in their quest to fathom the unfathomable.  For an obscure dispute in about to explode into chaos, pitting Jedi against Jedi - and threatening the very galaxy itself.

From audible.com:

The future is a dangerous place

Commander Joe Pikeman is on a mission he didn’t ask for…and wasn’t ordered on.

Then again, he isn’t in the mood to sit back while Fairfax takes over the galaxy, either.

Fairfax’s power stretches across the stars, and he’s calling in all his favors. From sparking a bot rebellion to engineering godlike monsters to crush his enemies, he seems determined to ruin Joe’s day.

But he made one mistake: he screwed with Joe’s family. And as messed up as they are, that simply isn’t something Joe can allow.

Download Unsung Armada now and jump into the military sci-fi action.

From audible.com:

The galaxy's not big enough....

Commander Joe Pikeman has his share of demons. But after a long deployment, he just wants to enjoy some home leave with his daughter.

The galaxy has other plans.

His last assignment takes him to Earth, humanity's deserted homeworld. There, he finds Earth's last settlement littered with the bodies of the people who lived there.

As he hunts down those responsible, he runs head-first into some galaxy-shaking questions.

Why did humanity really abandon the galaxy for a computer simulation?

Who would want to start killing off the last real humans left?

There's one thing Joe knows for sure. If they're going after his neighbors...his family...his daughter....

They'll need to go through him first.

If you like action-packed, run-and-gun military science fiction, you'll love After the Galaxy. Fans of Firefly will also love After the Galaxy. Download this military space opera now and jump into the action.

From amazon.com:

David Brin's Uplift novels are among the most thrilling and extraordinary science fiction ever written.  Sundiver, Startide Rising, and The Uplift War--a New York Times bestseller--together make up one of the most beloved sagas of all time.  Brin's tales are set in a future universe in which no species can reach sentience without being "uplifted" by a patron race.  But the greatest mystery of all remains unsolved: who uplifted humankind?

As galactic armadas clash in quest of the ancient fleet of the Progenitors, a brutal alien race seizes the dying planet of Garth.  The various uplifted inhabitants of Garth must battle their overlords or face ultimate extinction.  At stake is the existence of Terran society and Earth, and the fate of the entire Five Galaxies.  Sweeping, brilliantly crafted, inventive and dramatic, The Uplift War is an unforgettable story of adventure and wonder from one of today's science fiction greats.

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the destiny of planets to suit the Culture through intrigue, dirty tricks or military action.

The woman known as Diziet Sma had plucked him from obscurity and pushed him towards his present eminence, but despite all their dealings she did not know him as well as she thought.

The drone known as Skaffen-Amtiskaw knew both of these people.  It had once saved the woman's life by massacring her attackers in a particularly bloody manner.  It believed the man to be a burnt-out case.  But not even its machine intelligence could see the horrors in his past.

Ferociously intelligent, both witty and horrific, Use of Weapons is a masterpiece of science fiction

'There is now no British SF writer to whose work I look forward with greater keenness'  THE TIMES

'Poetic, humorous, baffling, terrifying, sexy - the books of Iain M. Banks are all these things and more.'  NME

'A sophisticated, intricately structured novel packed with action and moral insights, and so beautifully written I never wanted it to end'  TIME OUT

MORE
THAN JUST
HUMANITY
WAS AT STAKE

The eerie battle that soldier of fortune, Eric Nelson, waged in the name of humanity was unlike any he had fought before.

Deep in the hidden Valley of Creation, Nelson fought valiantly and successfully against weapons that included centuries-old magic and superstition.  But then a day arrived when Nelson faced the acid test: he learned that more than just humanity was at stake... and he discovered the devastating alien secret that lay buried in the Cavern of Creation!

An outstanding fantasy-adventure story from one of America's most prolific science fiction writers.

A LODESTONE SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL

In the days when the Time Lords were young, their war with the Vampires cost trillions of lives on countless worlds.  Now the Vampires have been sighted again, in San Francisco.

Some want to coexist with humans, using genetic engineering in a macabre experiment to find a new source of blood.  But some would rather go out in a blaze of glory - and UNIT's attempts to contain them could provoke another devastating war.

The Doctor strikes a dangerous bargain, but even he might not be able to keep the city from getting caught in the crossfire.  While he finds himself caught in a web of old feuds and high-tech schemes, his new companion Sam finds out just how deadly travelling with the Doctor can be.

A mysterious disturbance in the hyperspacial vortex causes the Doctor and Sam to materialise the TARDIS in deep space.  Here they find that a huge derelict alien craft has become the subject of a dangerous confrontation between starships from the rival systems of Nimos and Emindar.  At the centre of the dispute is a ruthless politician with secrets of his own - a man who is willing to risk innocent lives to claim the derelict for himself.

While the Doctor and Sam find themselves accompanying an expedition into the heart of the alien vessel, strange and frightening incidents spread terror through the watching ships.  But exploring deeper into the derelict disturbs a sinister presence and takes the expedition towards an inevitable confrontation with fate - and perhaps beyond the boundaries of life itself...

Imagine a world where death has meaning, where God exists and faith is untested.  Where people die with the purpose of their lives made clear to them in blissful understanding.  Such a world exists, hidden on the far side of the universe where a battered blue police box has just faded into being...

But unknown to the populace, unknown even to the Creator, an alien evil has stalked this world for hundreds of years.  When the Doctor, Fitz and Anji arrive, they soon find themselves embroiled in the alien's final, desperate plans for this planet - and in the hunt for a murderer who cannot possibly exist...

Unnatural deaths are being visited on the people.  Campaigns of terror threaten to tear this world apart.  It seems that the prophecy of the Vanishing Point where all life shall meet all death under the Creator's aegis is coming to pass.  For when God exists, prophecy, however fantastic or deadly, is fact.

The
Scourge
of
Enmity

Sol controlled the mountain, and Sos the Empire.  No one could calculate the destruction which would follow if they went to war.

Var - half animal, half man - rescued from the badlands, was the chosen one.  Exiled from his own legion, supported only by his courage and skill, he wandered the earth, fleeing certai deeth for him and for Soli, the valiant companion he loved more than life itself.

TANITH
LEE

I saw her, hanging in the sky like a flake of the moon.  A woman, her face masked by a black shireen, her body by a black shift, but her white arms spread, and her white, white, bone-white hair blowing all around her like a flame composed of smoke.  Recognition was immediate.  It was my mother.

I shouted at her: "Your son, Ettook's warrior!  Do you like what you have made of me?  I might have been a prince in Eshkorek Arnor, or is Ezlann.  I might have been a king with a great army at my back, beautiful women to please me, and Power to make all men do as I wished.  Do you like what you have made?"

It was crystal clear to me, what he had meant for me, my father, Vazkor, what she had robbed me of.  And I drew from by belt my hunting knife and threw it at her heart.

"Tanith Lee is, in my opinion, fast becoming the best woman sf writer around... she is already one of the best fantasy writers....  Tanith Lee writes one helluva book and I can't wait to see more."
- Baryon

A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL
NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

Twenty-one years after the Battle of Endor, the New Republic will face an even darker enemy....

More than two decades after the heoes of the Rebel Alliance destroyed the Death Star and broke the power of the Emperor, the New Republic has struggled to maintain peace and prosperity among the peoples of the galaxy.  But unrest has begun to spread and threatens to destroy the Republic's tenuous reign.

Into this volatile atmosphere comes Nom Anor, a charismatic firebrand who beats passions to the boiling point, sowing seeds of dissent for his own dark motives.  And as the Jedi and the Republic focus on internal struggles, a new threat surfaces from beyong the farthest reaches of the Outer Rim - an enemy bearing weapons and technology unlike anything New Republic scientists have ever seen.

Suddenly, Luke Skywalker; his wife, Mara; Han Solo; Leia Organa Solo; and Chewbacca - along with the Solo children - are thrust again into battle, to defend the freedom so many have fought and dides for.  But this time, the power of the Force itself may not be enough....

EXCLUCIVE AUTHOR INTERVIEW INSIDE

STAR TREK®
THE NEXT GENERATION™

The Borg - half organic being and half machine, they are the most feared race in the known galaxy.  In their relentless quest for technological perfection, they have destroyed entire systems, enslaved countless peoples, and, in a single brutal attack, decimated Starfleet's mightiest vessels.  Only a final desperate gambit by Captain Pickard and the U.S.S. Enterprise™ crew stopped the Borg from conquering the entire Federation.  And now they have returned...

VENDETTA

In the bestselling tradition of METAMORPHOSIS and THE LOST YEARS, here is the newest STAR TREK® Giant Novel, a story of vengeance and obsession.

Answering a distress call from a planet under attack by the Borg, the U.S.S. Enterprise meets Delcara, the lone survivor of an alien race the Borg obliterated.  Blinded by hatred, Delcara seeks the ultimate revenge - the complete destruction of her race's executioners.  But the U.S.S. Enterprise crew learns that Delcara's vengeance carries a terrible price, for once unleashed, the destructive force she commands will annihilate not only the Borg, but countless innocents as well...

KILGORE TROUT'S
Epic Science-Fiction Saga of

The Space Wanderer
an Earthman wearing an eye-patch, levis, and a shabby gray sweater who roams the cosmos in a Chinese spaceship...

The Space Wanderer
a man without a planet who has gained immortality from an elixir drunk during a sexual interlude with an alien queen in heat...

The Space Wanderer
an intergalactic rover whose constant companions are a dog, an owl, and a female robot programmed for, among other things, unique fleshly delights...

The Space Wanderer
a pretty nice guy whose only fault is that he asks questions that no one can answer: primarily, Why are we created only to suffer and die?

Venus on the Half-Shell
Available for the first time without lurid covers!

'You want me to help you eat your children?' Ian said. Jellenhut's eye-stalks twitched. 'How else would we remember them?'

Venus is dying. When the Doctor, Barbara and Ian arrive they find an ancient and utterly alien civilization on the verge of oblivion. War is brewing between those who are determined to accept death, and those desperate for salvation whatever the cost.

Then a spacefaring race arrives, offering to rescue the Venusians by moving them all to Earth - three billion years before mankind is due to evolve. Are the newcomers' motives as pure as they appear? And will the Doctor allow them to save his oldest friends by sacrificing the future of humanity?

Jo Grant had no inkling of the ship that revolved in orbit like a discreet, preposterous thought in the mind of someone serene but bonkers.

High above London and its crust of smog, stretched tall above the soapy atmosphere of the Earth, is a ship the size and exact shape of St Pancras railway station.

On board, the Doctor and that mysterious lady adventurer, Iris Wyldthyme, are bargaining for their lives with creatures determined to infiltrate the 1970's in the guise of characters from nineteenth-century novels.

Without the help of UNIT, the Doctor and his friends face the daunting task of defeating aliens, marauding robot sheep, the mysterious Children of Destiny and… the being who calls himself Verdigris.

DRAY PRESCOT

The windup of Prescot's stark adventures as a living chesspiece in the city of blood-games was to be as terrifying as the perils that had gone before.  Because now that transposed Earthman had to fight his way back to his embattled Vallian homeland across a sky fu!I of danger and a sea full of death.

And when he returned - if he could - he wouid find the combat joined, his son at doom's door, his troops up against superior odds - and a battle he must personally fight that would be two battles in two different places at the same time!

A VICTORY FOR KREGEN is a taut and gripping novel in the Burroughs and Howard tradition - one of the best in this much-praised saga of the colorful world of Kregen that circles Antares twin suns.

- A DAW BOOKS ORIGINAL -
NEVER
BEFORE IN PAPERBACK

ARIANE EMORY
HAS RETURNED.
BEWARE.

WHAT IS ARIANE?

Fifteen-year-old Ari Emory must grab and wield vast political power.  She must prove her existence and identity to a world that fears her, that thinks her a programmed living puppet - because Ariane Emory is the replicate of the dead tyrant whose name and genes she bears.

Her struggle will rip the social order of planet Cyteen and turn family into foes and enemies into allies, as the possibility of eternal resurrection fuels the lusts of rulers and the terror of the ruled.

Ari alone knows that her predecessor discovered a "Worm" - a flaw - in the basic fabric of civilization.  If not corrected, it will inevitably destroy humanity.  And only Ari Emory can hope to stop the Worm, if given centuries of life and unlimited power.

But someone murdered Ariane Emory once.  And stands waiting to kill her again...

"An absorbing story of power, intrigue, and betrayal - a worthy addition to Cherryh's star - and century-spanning Merchanters universe." - POOL ANDERSON

"A compelling heroine... a future as detailed as that of Herbert's Dune... and finely orchestrated suspense right up to the end.  Strongly recommended." - NEWSDAY

CYTEEN PART III: THE VINDICATION

"One of the best science fiction novels of the year."
- OTHER REALMS

A MAIN SELECTION OF THE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK CLUB