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Book 2: Ruler of Naught In the sequel to The Phoenix in Flight, Brandon vlith-Arkad, who fled the Mandalic Palace and his old life only hours ahead of assassination, is now heir to the Panarchy. He wants only to rescue his father, the Panarch. But everyone wants a piece of him. The Dol’jharians, who smashed the Panarchy and took his father prisoner. A Rifter pirate and her crew, who helped him escape a doomed planet—twice—and now wonder what to do about a royal prisoner with the price of ten planets on his head. And the remnants of the government of the Thousand Suns, for whom he'd at best be an inconvenience. And that’s before things go seriously pear-shaped. Racing ahead of the light-speed news of their attack with FTL comms and weapons looted from a fortress built millions of years ago, the Dol'jharians and those Rifters allied with them are consolidating their victories. Elements of the Panarchist Navy struggle to understand what’s happening, find surviving units, and strike back. And Eusabian of Dol’jhar, now master of the Mandala from which his defeated enemy once ruled the Thousand Suns, awaits news of the Heart of Kronos, the missing key to ultimate power. Which lies in the hands of Brandon’s captor. The chase is on, and unexpected detours await. SPECIAL OFFER: Get started on the Exordium series with Book 1: The Phoenix in Flight for only $0.99! Read a Sample: Chapters 1-4 ISBN: 978 1 61138 148 1 Publication date: December 27, 2011 DRM-free formats: EPUB, MOBI/Kindle, PDF
The Phoenix in Flight Smith and Trowbridge describe the flavor of their five-book space opera Exordium as a cross between Star Wars and Dangerous Liaisons with a touch of the Three Stooges. With its fast-moving blend of humor and horror, of high-tech skiffy and the deep places of the human heart, The Phoenix in Flight launches the reader into a complex, multi-layered universe as Brandon nyr-Arkad, dissolute youngest son of the ruler of the Thousand Suns, abandons the life of Service planned for him and flees into the lawless Rift. Only slowly does he discover that the world he rejected now lies in smoking ruins as the ritual vengeance of Jerrode Eusabian against Brandon’s father, twenty years in preparation, culminates in an explosion of interstellar violence. With both his brothers dead and his father the Panarch imprisoned, Brandon becomes the Panarchy’s last hope.
...has been writing high-tech marketing copy for almost thirty years. This has made him an expert in what he calls “pulling stuff out of the cave of the flying monkeys,” so science fiction is a natural career move. He lives in the Santa Cruz Mountains with his writer wife, Deborah J. Ross, and a tri-lingual German Shepherd Dog responsible for three cats. SPECIAL OFFER: To celebrate the publication of Ruler of Naught, the second book in the Exordium series, Book 1: The Phoenix in Flight is available for only $0.99! Publication date: May 17, 2011 ISBN: 978161138 059 0 DRM-free formats: epub, mobi, pdf, prc
Jaydium • Northlight An Omnibus edition of Jaydium and Northlight. Publication date: June 1, 2011 An excerpt from Northlight: Chapter 1 An excerpt from Jaydium: Chapter 1-4 DRM-free formats: epub/Sony, mobi/Kindle, pdf, prc
The Chronicles of Nuala Katharine Eliska Kimbriel Now available as DRM-free eBooks:
Fires of Nuala “Fire Sanctuary, her first novel, is a new entry in the unnamed sub genre of science fiction where the Darkover Books of Marion Zimmer Bradley and the Pern books of Anne McCaffrey fall. The intricacies of the well-controlled plot are far too great to go into here — there is much upheaval, much intrigue, and much romance. . .a particularly fine mix.” — LOCUS Magazine “...when one of Katharine Kimbriel’s Nuala books comes into my hands, I am instantly hooked. The climactic scenes in the trinium mines are equal to any I have ever read in excitement and impact.” — Quantum 39
a prequel to the Nanotech Succession For Katie Kishida, the nanotechnology revolution begins with an act of love. Katie is a young mother with a successful career and a loving marriage, when her perfect life is shattered by the sudden death of her husband, Tom. Putting her faith in a science that hasn’t been invented yet, Katie has Tom’s body placed in cryonic suspension—frozen in liquid nitrogen against a time when advances in nanotechnology might heal his injuries and restore his life. Katie never suspects the consequences that will follow. Tom’s death and his costly entombment spark immediate political controversy. It’s a debate that only grows more passionate as the years pass. Katie’s life is taken over by the need to defend her husband’s future and to shepherd into existence the controversial technologies that might let him live again... even as she’s haunted by the question: Does Tom really want to come back? Tech-Heaven is a compelling story of devotion and unyielding determination set amid the tumultuous politics of our time, in a world that is teetering on the cusp of a technological revolution like no other in history. Enjoy all four books of the Nanotech Succession, a collection of stand-alone novels exploring the rise of nanotechnology and the strange and fascinating future that follows—beginning tomorrow and reaching far into time. Read a Sample: EPUB/Nook MOBI/Kindle Electronic ISBN 978-0-9831100-0-2 Publication date: September 2011 DRM-free formats: epub, mobi
Book 1 of The Nanotech Succession Nikko is the first true “post human”—a man genetically engineered to survive in the airless void of space—but the research permit that allows his existence is about to expire. His body has already begun an insidious, pre-programmed failure that will end in his death. Nikko’s only hope for survival rides on an illegal and extremely powerful nanotech device known as the Bohr Maker, that will allow him to rewrite his genetic code and extend his life. He attempts to steal the Maker from the archives of the Commonwealth police, but his plan goes awry. The device escapes into the wild, infecting a young woman named Phousita who lives in an impoverished slum where nanotechnology is regulated only by the black market. Phousita’s genetic code is rewritten by the Maker. Her senses are enhanced, and she gains extraordinary powers of healing, but like Nikko she has become a fugitive. The Commonwealth police are on the hunt, determined to sterilize all traces of the Bohr Maker before it can be copied and spread throughout the population. Together, Phousita and Nikko must evade a ruthless pursuit, both to preserve their own lives and to save the Bohr Maker, which holds the promise of re-defining humanity—for good or for ill. A brilliantly original, fast-paced thriller, The Bohr Maker won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. The Nanotech Succession is a collection of stand-alone novels exploring the rise of nanotechnology and the strange and fascinating future that follows.
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Book Two of the Nanotech Succession Lot is a young man haunted by the past. As a boy he came with his father’s fanatic army to the sky city of Silk, perched on the column of a space elevator 200 miles above the planet known as Deception Well. Battle ensued, thousands were killed, and Lot’s father disappeared, while Lot was made a ward—or a prisoner—of the Silken government. Now he wants the truth. The people of Silk claim the wild, unsettled world of Deception Well is a deadly stew of runaway nanotech, the fallout of an ancient, alien war. But Lot’s father once visited the planet’s lush surface and survived. Jupiter Apolinario was a charismatic leader who preached that the Well offered life, not death. He promised his disciples they would find refuge and an ecstatic communion when they followed him to the planet’s surface. Lot isn’t so sure—and then human “ghosts” are videoed, walking within the ruins of a long-abandoned settlement at the foot of the elevator column. Is it a trick? Or is it redemption? Lot is determined to find out. But he is a charismatic too, with a seductive presence. As the city’s resources run low, conflict ignites around him, and when Silk is rocked by revolt Lot is forced to flee. His only refuge: the haunted world of Deception Well, where he will discover a past deeper than he’d ever imagined, and a razor-thin dividing line between bliss and damnation. Enjoy all four books of the Nanotech Succession, a collection of stand-alone novels exploring the rise of nanotechnology and the strange and fascinating future that follows.
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Book 3 of the Nanotech Succession Aboard Null Boundary, a giant starship thousands of years old, four survivors of an ancient alien war are making a desperate journey: Lot, son of a fiery prophet and carrier of an insidious virus that spreads a cult-like religious mania among those it infects; Urban, Lot’s boyhood friend from the city of Silk, and a man in search of challenge and adventure; Clemantine, cast adrift when her world was destroyed and yearning for revenge; and Nikko, sometimes a living man, but always, the ship’s disembodied mind. They are bound into unknown territory. Ahead of them loom vast, lightless clouds of dust and gas where stars are born, and where the alien Chenzeme are believed to live. The Chenzeme are an enigmatic race, whose automated warships have ravaged the living worlds of the galaxy’s Orion arm for millions of years... but why? Null Boundary’s crew is driven to find out — though in their quest to discover the source of the Chenzeme, they must also explore the terrible truth of their own past, the meaning of revenge, and the price each one of them is willing to pay for survival. The Nanotech Succession is a collection of stand-alone novels exploring the rise of nanotechnology. Vast is the culmination of the strange and fascinating future that follows.
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A quest, a puzzle, and multiple lives: Jubilee is a bold young woman of seventeen, on the cusp of leaving the security of her family home to seek out her own future. But her life is thrown into tumult by a visit from a forbidding stranger who has come looking for Jubilee’s beloved brother, Jolly — who is seven years dead. Jolly died as a child, consumed in an unprecedented flood of “silver”— a mysterious substance resembling a thick, glowing fog. Silver is a force of both destruction and creation. Sometimes it dissolves what it touches, at other times it randomly rebuilds structures from the lost past, but no person caught within its reach has ever survived it. And yet . . . If Jolly is truly dead, how could this stranger know him? And if Jolly is alive, how did he survive the silver? And where has he gone? Jubilee soon discovers that the stranger is not the only person interested in her brother’s fate. Looming over all is the question of the silver’s nature and purpose. Silver is rising in the world, flooding ever more often and more deeply so that someday soon the world must drown in it. Determined to find answers, Jubilee leaves home one step ahead of a ruthless pursuit. The quest she undertakes will unlock the memory of a past reaching back farther than she ever imagined. Publication date: June 29, 2011 DRM-free formats: EPUB, MOBI/Kindle
Virgil Copeland, Randall Panwar, and Gabrielle Villanti are all brilliant young biotechnologists, working together on an artificial life-form affectionately known as “LOVs,” an acronym for Limit Of Vision, because in size LOVs are just at the boundary of what the human eye can easily see. LOVs contain bioengineered human neurons. They enhance brain function when implanted in test animals. Experimentation on humans is, of course, highly illegal. But it’s the nature of brilliant and ambitious young minds to ignore the rules. Believing the LOVs to be perfectly safe, Virgil, Panwar, and Gabrielle experiment on themselves, using implanted LOVs to enhance their own cognitive abilities. But there is a limit of vision, too, when we try to foresee the consequences of technology—especially of a living, thinking technology that can evolve into new forms in a matter of hours. When the experiment goes terribly wrong, the consequences are bizarre and unforeseeable. Virgil finds himself on the run, riding the whirlwind of a runaway biotechnology that could lead to the next phase of human evolution. ISBN: 978-0-9831100-6-4 DRM-free formats: EPUB/Nook MOBI/Kindle
Skye was found as an infant, adrift in a lifepod in an isolated star system. Now she's a bold teen who wants to know where she came from. Helping in her search for answers are best friend Zia, handsome young astronomer Devi, and the courageous Buyu Mkolu. Their adventure will take them from their high-tech home to an alien wilderness and then up, to the dangerously fascinating zone of high orbit. DRM-free formats: EPUB/Nook/eReader, MOBI/Kindle
Anala Nadim is a free woman until she travels to the planet Mehtar to procure supplies for her father’s mining operation on Mehtar’s impoverished sister world—the colony planet Avasa. When a twist of fate enslaves Anala to the Lord Prince Jaya Sarojin, Anala is engaged in a battle to free herself from slavery and her world from subjugation to a corrupt Mehtaran consortium. So begins a tale of greed, betrayal, political intrigue and love that introduces both Jaya and Anala to lives they had never before imagined. DRM-Free ebook formats: EPUB/Nook/Sony, .mobi (Kindle), .lit, .lrf, PDF .prc/Palm
On March 16, 1912, British polar explorer Titus Oates commits suicide by walking out of his tent into an Antarctic blizzard, to save Robert Falcon Scott and the other members of the English exploration team. His body is never found — because he was snatched away into the year 2045 by scientists experimenting with a new faster-than-light drive. The first section of this novel appeared as a novella in Analog Science Fiction magazine (April 2001) under the title “May Be Some Time.” It was a finalist for both the Nebula and the Hugo awards. Available in DRM-Free ebook formats: .pdf, .mobi (Kindle), .epub, .lit, .lrf, .prc
Graham Smith is a 33 year old office messenger. To the outside world he’s an obsessive compulsive mute — weird but harmless. But to Graham Smith, it’s the world that’s weird. And far from harmless. He sees things other can’t...or won’t. He knows that roads can change course, people disappear, office blocks migrate across town — all at night when no one’s looking. Only by following a rigid routine can he lessen these effects. If he walks the same route to work every morning and catches the same train, and keeps himself to himself, then there’s a good chance his house will still be where he left it when he returns home in the evening. Then he meets Annalise Mercado. Annalise Mercado hears voices. Sometimes she thinks they’re spirit guides, sometimes she thinks she’s crazy. But then they start telling her about Graham Smith, the danger he’s in and how only she can save him. So begins the story of two people whose lives appear fragmented across alternate realities. And how, together, they hold the key to the future of a billion planets... “Resonance is a tremendously accomplished book ... and immediately raises Dolley into the ranks of writers to watch. It’s a head-over-heels romp through ever-changing realities, crammed with great set-pieces, excellent hooks and some nice one-liners.” — Keith Brooke, Infinity Plus “This is one of the most original new science fiction books I have ever read. In fact, as an inspired new take on a familiar SF idea it’s original enough to stand comparison with The Time Traveler’s Wife or Memoirs of an Invisible Man. If it is as big a hit as it deserves, it may well be this book which becomes the standard by which SF stories about ... are judged.” — Marshall Lord “I have read a lot of science fiction and have gone through tons of plots, so when I find one that is unique I certainly take notice. Resonance is one of those books that have it all. Interesting plot with plenty of mysteries and twists, characters you care about, and solid writing that strings it all together.” — Jeffrey Miller DRM-free formats: epub/Nook, mobi/Kindle, prc
The titles in this series: Nightmare, Dreamer, Trickster, Offspring. The Silent Empire Omnibus includes all four volumes.
Nightmare A novel of The Silent Empire
A Novel of The Silent Empire
A novel of The Silent Empire
A Novel of the Silent Empire
“Fasten your seatbelts and brace your tentacles. These all-star tales of epic wonder from the genre’s masters will sizzle through your mind like a spaceship on re-entry burn.”
— David Williams
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Polar City Blues “In some ways Polar City Blues is my tribute to the classic SF I read as a teenager. In other ways, it’s a heavily Revisionist book, where the Hero is female and the Object of Desire is male. Mostly, however, it’s a fast-paced adventure story complete with dead bodies, hookers, drugs, mysterious aliens, and several high-speed chases both on the ground and elsewhere.” — Katharine Kerr Publication date: June 14, 2011 DRM-free formats: epub, mobi, pdf, prc
The Nebula-winning novel has been optioned by Bill Mechanic (executive producer of The New World) and Pandemonium Films (producer of Neil Gaiman’s Coraline). It is in pre-production with plans to begin filming in Spring 2012.
— Publishers Weekly
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The healer Snake travels through a post-apocalyptic world with her genetically engineered serpents, the cobra Mist and the rattlesnake Sand, and with the alien dreamsnake Grass, whose venom eases pain and the fear of death. Dreamsnake won the Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and Pacific Northwest Booksellers' Awards. Book View Cafe presents it in its first legitimate ebook edition. Dreamsnake was featured on My Book, the Movie. Read “Casting Dreamsnake” and “Casting Dreamsnake Update,” and join the discussion at the Book View Café blog. Free online sample: Chapter One, "Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand " Free sample PDF: Chapters 1 & 2 DRM-Free formats: EPUB/Nook/eReader, MOBI/Kindle, PDF
Vonda N. McIntyre The first book of The Starfarers Quartet: Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, Nautilus. Read about the unique genesis of Starfarers at the Book View Cafe blog, comment on the novels, and let BVC know your favorite ebook formats. The Starfarers Quartet is available in an omnibus ebook edition.
Book 2 of The Starfarers Quartet On the starship Starfarer, alien contact specialist J.D. Sauvage finds that the job of alien contact specialist actually does exist, and that it’s her responsibility to explain to Civilization why Earth’s first starship arrived with an exploding nuclear warhead And why Earth should be welcomed into their society. But the alien humans Europa and Androgeos remain suspicious, and someone on Starfarer plans for the mission to fail. With fatal consequences. Read about the unique genesis of Starfarers at the Book View Cafe blog, comment on the novels, and let BVC know your favorite ebook formats.
Vonda N. McIntyre The third book of The Starfarers Quartet: Starfarers, Transition, Metaphase, Nautilus. Abandoned by the interstellar civilization and the alien humans, Starfarer and its faculty and staff meet the mysterious squidmoth, Nemo. Read about the unique genesis of Starfarers at the Book View Cafe blog, comment on the novels, and let BVC know your favorite ebook formats.
Book 4 of The Starfarers Quartet Nemo, the enigmatic, solitary squidmoth, welcomes Starfarer’s alien contact specialist, J.D. Sauvage, into its home, and befriends her. The interstellar Civilization is choosy about its members. It ignores and despises the squidmoths. Will it judge J.D. unfavorably because of her friendship with Nemo? Will it test human beings, find us lacking, and exclude us?
The scarlet darkness cooled gradually to maroon as Mischa followed the rising caves toward Center. She was tired, thirsty, hungry. She had been in the deep underground for several days, wandering and exploring, guided by intuition and the experience of other, similar escapes. But now it was time to return to the city. She wished she could stay away longer and extend the limits of her range. The strangest sights were deepest in the earth, delicately sculpted by eons, or, rarely, rarely, built by people who had abandoned their immense constructs when they had no more need for weapons of war. Mischa heard a noise and stopped. The sound came again, a faint scratching of metal against rock. A few shards of stone clattered down the wall and fell at her feet. She looked closely, at shoulder height, and laughed. A tiny machine quivered at the edge of a small new hole, seeming to sniff the air. As Mischa watched, the antenna mouse extruded a shiny metal lead and backed away into the darkness, leaving behind a new connection to the communications network. This far from Center there was no one to use the leads, but the mice worked on, directed in a random and useless pattern by some lost and forgotten program. __________ “Rewarding as well as entertaining, with a memorable protagonist coming of age amid the ashes of old Earth. Vonda N. McIntyre writes skillfully, compassionately, tracing an exciting trail through darkness and danger.” Roger Zelazny Read an excerpt: Chapters 1 & 2
Barbary is emigrating from Earth to Einstein, an orbital space station. But she has a secret — and no one she can trust.
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She gave up her heart quite willingly. After the operation... Free Sample PDF: Ch. 1 & 2 DRM-Free Formats: PDF, .prc, MOBI, EPUB
J Book View Cafe presents Jaydium, serialized for free, one chapter per week, or you may buy the ebook. Formats: epub, lit. lrf, mobi, pdf, prc
Under its idyllic surface, uneasy forces stir in the land of Laurea, rumors of war with the savage north and the assassination of a beloved leader. Kardith, knife fighter and Ranger, joins forces with young scholar Terricel to discover a deadly conspiracy. With her sharp steel and his transcendent vision, they must find a way through old hatreds and new tyrants. But to do this, they must each confront and heal the past — Kardith must make her peace with the personal horror she has buried deep within her soul, while Terricel discovers a terrible, ancient secret which threatens not only Laurea, but the entire world. Newly revised, with a new Introduction by the author. Originally published by DAW, 1995. (romance/science fiction) Publication date: February 14, 2011 Read an excerpt: Chapter 1 DRM-free formats: epub/Sony, mobi/Kindle, pdf, prc
“Amy Sterling Casil is a rising star, joining the brightest new constellation of science fiction.”
— David Brin
“Robert Louis Stevenson tells us that ‘we’ve never made a statue worthy of our dreams,’ and that’s happily true, because it keeps writers like Amy hard at work carving new statues... watching her work, and seeing the results, has sent me down to the quarry for a new block of marble myself more than once. Amy’s a prodigious dreamer, and she’s got some statues that are about as worthy as they come.”
— James P. Blaylock
“Amy writes like Ray Bradbury doing real SF.”
— Thomas A. Easton
“Amy Sterling Casil’s first novel fulfills the promise of her excellent short stories.”
— Mike Resnick
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Rose Rico never believed the rumors that the government was secretly selling human beings to the Alphas in exchange for advanced alien technology. The idea that human sex slaves were a luxury item throughout the galaxy was just too ridiculous to take seriously—until Rose found herself, along with hundreds of other human captives, bound for the far reaches of space, and compelled to cater to the depraved desires of her new alien masters. As a rule, pleasure slaves don’t live very long, especially the stubborn ones. But Rose refuses to give up. Someday, somehow, she'll win back her freedom—or die trying! Originally published by Pocket Books (2003) as part of the Slave Trade trilogy including Slave Masters (2004) and Slaves Unchained (2005). Publication date: February 22, 2011 DRM-free formats: epub, mobi, pdf, prc
Squatter’s Rights A Rhys Llewellyn story Negotiations might go much more smoothly if we could only see things from the other party’s point of view. This can be difficult — especially if the other party is alien. This is the second in a series of stories about Rhys Llewellyn xenoanthropologist/archaeologist and was serialized in Analog magazine. 
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Fool’s War Original artwork by Donato Giancola It takes all kinds to save a world. 
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Other Doorways: Early Novels
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