Earth barely survived the 21st Century. Now, in the 22nd, after unifying Earth, the UN has rediscovered the colony of Minerva. Prosperous and technologically advanced, Minerva quickly submits to UN supremacy. Surprisingly quickly...Operative: Stone Chalmers Codename: Hybrid Cover Story: Hypnotically implanted Mission: Investigate newly-rediscovered colony worldOn Minerva, while workers prepare to place a wormhole link to Earth, Stone infiltrates...

TOO OLD TO FIGHT, TOO YOUNG TO DIE…For nearly a decade, the relentless warriors of Clan Jade Falcon have held the world of Jangso in the A Place system, using it as a training ground for their next generation of warriors. When the planet's garrison departs to join other Falcon forces in the fight for Terra, the Clans' ultimate prize, aging Star Commander Hasara is ordered to remain behind. Deemed too old to be worthy of going to Terra, he still...

TRADITIONS RUN DEEP… Other mercenary units fly flags at two flagpoles at their headquarters, one with their unit's flag, and other bearing the flag of their current employer. However, the Third Regimental Combat Team-a.k.a. the Eridani Light Horse-leaves one flagpole bare, as a reminder of the death of the Star League, and the other pole flies the Light Horse's unit and regimental flags at half-mast. What triumphs and tragedies shaped the Eridani...

Futurist and award-winning author Karl Schroeder imagines infiltrating the elite of a marginal society in The Million. Every thirty years, ten billion visitors overrun Earth during one month of madness: partying, polluting, and brawling. In between, the world is ruled by the Million; the inheritors and custodians of all of humanity's wealth and history, they lead unimaginable lives of privilege and wealth, and they see it as their due. Gavin Penn-of-Chaffee...

Andalusia is no ordinary pirate – she's a runaway princess.She ran to save her people from her betrothed. He intends to use her to start a galactic war, unless she can stay out of his clutches.When she runs into one of her old guards, she's pulled back into the life she disavowed.She can no longer afford to run. It is time to rise up and do what she should have done from the start - go to war.…A Princess Lost is the first instalment of the Rising...

Nothing ruins a good cup of kaff than a spider teleporting on board… and these were in the six-foot-business-suite-and-tie range, all carrying blasters and a sense of entitlement like you wouldn't believe. They gave me a job to do, and held my ship hostage while I went to do it-and that's when everything went all to Hell. Exactly how I'm gonna get us out of this one, is a mystery to me. First step, though, is to bust Mack and the ship right out...

Before Owen Deathstalker, there was the Twilight of the Empire... Ghostworld. Unseeli. A dead world, at least since the Ashrai Rebellion ten years before. A world of metal trees crucial to the Empire, as crucial as Captain John Silence will one day be to the Empress. But not now. Silence botched the Empire's response to the Rebellion, and bears the burden for a world wiped clean of all life, save its precious metal trees. Now, Base Thirteen has gone...

Prohibidas las Estrellas A finales del siglo XXI, un catastrófico accidente en el cinturón de asteroides dejó dos topógrafos muertos. No hay rastro de su pequeño hijo, Alex Manez, ni del asteroide en sí. En el límite exterior del sistema solar, la primera misión tripulada a Plutón, liderada por la astronauta más joven en la historia de la NASA, ha hecho un descubrimiento histórico: hay un marcador dejado allí por una raza alienígena...

As an operative for the Qoarthi Empire's Internal Security Service, Manolo Garces investigates and brings to justice all manner of plots against the Empire's integrity.No villain ever escapes his grasp.Until a plot against the Emperor's sister draws him into deeper waters than he ever imagined he would wade.Heaven's Gate is a short science fiction story.

A base under the ocean comes to life when a boating accident is picked up on its sensors. Atlanta, the last remaining survivor of the base, orders the base's automated systems to rescue the survivors and bring them back. Has she found a new commander for the base and the starting of a crew to bring the base back from the brink of destruction? A destruction in the form of an alien race hell bent of wiping out or capturing her kind. One of the young...