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"You are hereby banished from the North American continent. Should you reenter it, you will be executed upon recognition. Within this facility, you have the right to life and to defend that life, unto your death." These are the last words spoken to the exiles banished to the Square, a massive penal colony encompassing the western triangle of what was once the state of Texas. Paxton Stephens, a disgraced and exiled scientist, gave the authoritarian...

We were created by the Bestower, and placed on the world to rid it of its native life, unpleasing to Him. He gave us the living Bestowed to sustain us and replace what was there before. Thus say the priests, but now that myth is questioned: Native life has evolved; why not ourselves and the Bestowed that came with us? Are not all native, and necessary for survival? The evidence is contentious: Exterminate, or conserve? There is increasing dissension...

By now, it's hard to tell how human my father still is. But we're still family. What that means...is another question. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In the hard years of the Depression, young Travis lives with his uncle and aunt. Upstairs lives the mysterious Anna. Anna says she's going to be "changing," and she needs Travis's help...for purposes she won't explain. Robert Charles Wilson's A Hidden Place is a science fiction tale of passion, terror, and hope, opening out to a great, dark, and unsuspected universe. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management...

Veronica Korix's life was never ordinary. She has faced abandonment and betrayal, grown up in the wilds of Mount Vilgroth, and hunted down the worst thieves and criminals in the world. But nothing has prepared her for THIS. A great evil seeks her out and nearly succeeded in capturing her until she was rescued by - of all things - a massive, talking tree. Now, she and her allies must band together to withstand this new threat before it consumes them....

Nancy Kress returns with If Tomorrow Comes, the sequel of Tomorrow's Kin, part of an all-new hard science fiction trilogy based on a Nebula Award-winning novella 2019 Locus Finalist for Best Science Fiction Novel Locus 2018 Recommended Reading List iO9--28 New SFF Books Worth Checking out in March 2018 Kirkus--18 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books to Read in March 2018 Unbound Worlds--Best SFF Books of March 2018 The Verge-- 15 new science...

The Hermetic Millennia, by John C. Wright, is a kaleidoscopic vision of future history and human evolution- perfect for fans of hard sci-fi and space opera. Continuing from Count to a Trillion, Menelaus Illation Montrose-Texas gunslinger, idealist, and post-human genius- has gone into cryo-suspension following the discovery that, in 8,000 years, a powerful alien intelligence will reach Earth to assess humanity's value as slaves. Montrose intends to...

Set in the universe as Sheffield's previous novel Cold As Ice, Dark As Day is a hard science fiction novel set 30 years after the Great War, and interplanetary war that nearly destroyed the entire human race, and left horrifyingly dangerous weapons caches to threaten human survival. The Solar System is finally recovering from the Great War, a war that devastated the planets and nearly wiped out the human race, and the population of the outer moons,...

An edge of your seat hard SF adventure as colonists on a new world find that nothing is what they expected and that travelling to a distant star is far more dangerous than they'd ever imagined...in Allen Steele's Sanctuary.

The orbiting tachyon detector was designed by physicist Juan Obrion to identify life in other star systems, but even though he expected to find some signs of life, he certainly didn't expect to find any life on earth. Juan discovers that a culture has been concealed for many years far below Antarctica, and Obrion ventures out as part of a four-man team to explore the unknown. Juan, Lena, Malachi and Magnus are awestruck when they discover a myriad...