Our annual slightly spooky double October/November issue is crammed full of novellas, novelettes, and short stories. Recent Novella Readers' Award winner, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, returns with an eerie new far-future novella about "Becoming One With the Ghosts." Recent Short Story Readers' Award winner and Hugo and Nebula Award finalist, Will McIntosh, gives us a urprisingly moving novelette about the oútre meeting of "Frankenstein, Frankenstein"! We plan to complement these two strange stories with an equally ...

She destroyed his resistance. His ship could be next.... The Orion, Book 2 As commander of the Orion, self-control is Captain Steve Craig's mantra. He'll do whatever it takes to keep his ship safe from predators, including keeping his romantic liaisons off ship. The women of his crew are strictly off limits--especially those among the lithe, lethal Serpentian Guard. Tessa Alligon is trained to kill with her bare hands, but nothing could prepare her innocent ...

When the Dawn probe detects strange energy readings in the asteroid belt, Colonel Sydney Nichols and the crew of the Archimedes are sent to find answers. They soon discover evidence a fifth planet once orbited between Mars and Jupiter. Seeking clues as to the fate of this lost world, the crew travels to the dwarf planet Ceres where they make astounding discoveries that alter mankind's future.

A rare space-opera from Landis in which a plant-like alien must try to understand his (her? its?) human crew-mates on a dangerous mission to explore a black hole.

Michael Brin, a homicide detective who has recently been transferred to mpStation-4, a remote space station, is sent to investigate a new murder. According to his partner, Jensen, who is already at the scene of the crime, a man's body has been found in an alley, his throat slashed. There are no eyewitnesses. Jensen says that the victim, Jeffrey Wright, owned a cloned woman, a companion named Deat. She is missing. After arriving at the ...

At last in paperback in one complete volume, here are the five classic novels from Douglas Adams's beloved Hitchiker series.The Hitchhiker's Guide to the GalaxySeconds before the Earth is demolished for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is saved by Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised Guide. Together they stick out their thumbs to the stars and begin a wild journey through time and space.The Restaurant at the End of the UniverseFacing annihilation at the ...

In the finale of the trilogy, Nolan Harrison learns there are two stories of the Wyld Wynd. One version is considered folklore while the other is based in science, but which is he to believe? The pureblood races, gifted with psychic powers, have chosen an ancient world for their final battle and if Nolan chooses incorrectly, it will affect the outcome?and the future of mankind is at stake.

towards the unMaking of Heaven, Not Now: Death, Dreams & Reasons for Living, is an sf exploration of desire, dreams and self-deceit. Okinwe Orbinson is recruited from his artificial city world - part of a moribund space civilisation - his mission is to save a rumoured hybrid-human race, Talkers, from self-extinction. Talkers are telepathic, and individual suicides among the Talkers are becoming epidemic. Left on one of their planets Okinwe is witness to 3 suicides ...