By the Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of "Gateway", this novel centres around Sandy Washington, a young man who has been raised on a spaceship by aliens. The Hakh'li have done everything to give Sandy an earth-type boyhood. Now they are...
Beneath dense gray clouds through which no sun shone lay a forgotten planet. It was a nightmare world of grotesque and terrifying animal-plant life. Gigantic beetles, spiders, bugs and ants filled the putrid, musty earth-ready to kill and devour...
Charts of lost gold... breathtaking art and rare volumes... maps of hidden oil and mineral deposits that could change the world's balance of power. Now DIRK PITT discovers the secret trail of the treasures of Alexandria-- a trail that plunges him...
A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage at gunpoint, killing one and causing a massive standoff.
A plume of radiation above New York City leads to a warehouse where, it seems, a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled just...
Introducing Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master thief.
At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down. At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the...
A mind-opening collection of short science fiction from one of the genre’s most revered Grand Masters.
Legendary author Robert A. Heinlein proclaimed, “To read science fiction is to read Simak. A reader who does not like Simak stories...
Tales of science fiction and adventure from the Hugo Award–winning author of Way Station and City.
The long and prolific career of Clifford D. Simak cemented him as one of the formative voices of the science fiction and fantasy genre....
Ten stories of wonder and imagination by an author named Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
In the collection’s title story, Frederick Gray is closing in on seventy and has outlived his usefulness as a...
Collected tales of wonder, danger, and the future, including the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning title story. Tales of the unknown in which a fix-it man crosses into another dimension—and more.
Hiram Taine is a handyman who can fix...
From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others—the basis for the Academy Award–nominated film Arrival—comes a groundbreaking new collection of short fiction: nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories. These are...