The plan had been to un-man the battlespace, replacing flesh and blood with steel and carbon fiber. Machines, both remote-controlled and autonomous A.I.s, would fight and be destroyed in the name of freedom; sparing the troops at the cost of the nation's treasure. However, as with any arms race, the opposing side's technology eventually catches ups to yours, resulting in the need to put lives back in harm's way on the frontline; to deal with, and...

Dans un futur o l'immortalité coexiste avec la surpopulation et la crise énergétique, Sohail Sekkal, un homme puissant, est à la fois un chef politique et membre d'une société secrète descendant de la Confrérie du serpent, franc-maçon et illuminati, les Metanoïa. Parti en secret explorer d'autres mondes vingt ans auparavant, le vaisseau spatial Ares se perd dans l'espace. Sur Terre, un laboratoire dirigé par Marina Romanov est attaqué...

Julith clasped the star-man's arm with one hand, while her other arm gripped his waist. The generator in Jorun's skull responded to his will…they rose quietly and went slowly seaward…

We've often wondered what would happen if Robert Young should cease to be a lyrically intense writer for a story or two, forsaking the bright, poetic worlds of miss katy three and the first sweet sleep of night to become dispassionately analytical on a cosmic scale. Now we know! He'd chill us to the bone by setting two squixes to brooding over a never-to-be born Earth, exactly as he has done here. And thrill us, too-with the liveliest kind of entertainment....

Under the new system of the Managerials, the fight was not for life but for death! And great was the ingenuity of-The Victor.

When a cultural observation probe malfunctions and crash-lands on a pre-warp world, the S.C.E. is sent in to destroy it before the technology falls into the hands of a civilization not prepared for it. Unfortunately, when Commander Gomez and her team arrive, they find that the device has already been captured by terrorist forces who intend to reverse-engineer the technology into a weapon that will change the balance of power on their world to deadly...

Knox defends his own.Space is a deadly business, a truth Knox has experienced first hand. That's why he's so protective of his ship and family. So when pirates plunder an impoverished town--a town that's earned Knox's guarded friendship--he's going to do something about it.Knox knows the pillagers will be back for more, so his town needs protection from any and all pirates, for years to come. Only one way to do that. His friends need shields to keep...

Our Empyrean Dreams are stories from a future civilization, where Humankind is only one of several star-faring cultures struggling to coexist in a shared galaxy. The most powerful of these cultures are, joined together in a treaty organization known as the Collective. Commerce and self-interest are the binding principles of the Collective: member states hold standing to the degree their culture proves its economic power and value to the whole. The...

The newest edition in the line of Amazon deluxe Star Wars titles - The Jedi Path, Book of Sith, and The Bounty Hunter Code - brings the sinister and yet functional details of the Empire to light in the form of an Imperial handbook. As the Imperial Empire expands, high-ranking officials from each branch of the Imperial Military have set down tactical guidelines and procedures for all newly ascending commanders. Set in-universe, this compendium of ordinance,...

First Contact is imminent, but it comes with conditions…Laura and Jason are on vacation when their lives are turned upside down by otherworldly creatures that fall to Earth in the dead of night.Frightened and bewildered, they become trapped in a dark and mysterious conflict between clandestine Earth forces and the alien wave-and Laura's world starts to unravel.But everything may not be as it appears. Could the aliens have an ulterior motive? And...