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Hey, you! (Reading the description of this book) Is this your first Harold and Clara? Wow, you're in for a real treat! Evil aliens, secret missions, and an underground base on the moon. Sound interesting? How about space battles, mysteries of the universe to solve, and of course, a sassy cat and brave dog? A mysterious request to join a top-secret group: The Planetary Exploration Team (or P.E.T for short). Its mission: to save the Earth...

TARGET: TERRA The world of Northwind has been ravaged in the fierce battle between the Highlanders and the Steel Wolves-and now the Clan warriors have set their sights on Terra. The fate of the birthplace of humankind now rests in the hands of three very different MechWarriors: Ezekiel Crow: Betrayer of the Highlanders-and on the run from both political and military enemies. Anastasia Kerensky: Ruthless leader of the Steel Wolves-and if she has...

What do you do when an alien with exceptional physical abilities crash lands on Earth and leaves a path of death and destruction in its wake? You use biological modification to create an enhanced human able to match the alien in strength and speed. But is the result still human? Find the answer to this question in Randall Garrett's novel Anything You Can Do...

Besides being born (that is an ordeal, no less an ordeal because you forget it) the worst thing to be gone through is to be a new boy in a small Southern town. Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today's best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy...

There is no going back. Fifteen years ago, Sarah was a biology student with a lot of potential. Since then, she's been drifting from city to city, leaving behind friends and family to follow her ambitious husband as he rises to the top of his biology field. "We're going to Mars." As she packs up to follow him again, this time on a one-way mission to join the growing colony on Mars, Sarah struggles with the choices she has made in her past and...

Twelve Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Jesse F. Bones. Featured here: "Cultural Exchange", The Fourth Planet", "A Price For Edi", "Noble Redman", "A Question of Courage", "To Choke an Ocean", "Insidekick", "Survival Time", "Pandemic", "Founding Father", "The Issahar Artifacts", and "Assassin".

Trials is a fast-paced science fiction thriller that explores the roots of human nature through the characters of Jonah and Evie Shepherd. Jonah and Evie watch their lives and marriage disintegrate as Jonah is wrongly arrested and found guilty of treason during a midnight military tribunal. Accompanying this devastating news is the reality that Evie will never see her husband again as he is exiled to a penal colony on Mars. Jonah, a retired and tormented...

Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Hugo Gernsback. Featured here: "Grove of the Unborn", "Homesick", and "Time Enough At Last".

Three great action short stories by Frank Banta from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "The Handyman", "Droozle", and "The Connoisseur".

Tin Tony Trotz had only one job-to watch out for something a little odd-in a universe that was insane! Lafferty was the winner of the Hugo and World Fantasy Award and a six time Nebula Award Nominee. His quirky style made his work hard to pigeonhole and market, but he still managed to influence a wide array of today's best writers. Simply on of the best writers the science fiction and fantasy field has ever produced.