Product Description: Frederik George Pohl, Jr. (November 26, 1919 – September 2, 2013) was an American science fiction writer, editor and fan, with a career spanning more than seventy-five years—from his first published work, the 1937 poem "Elegy to a Dead Satellite: Luna", to the 2011 novel All the Lives He Led and articles and essays published in 2012...read more

The kingdom of Ile-Rien is in peril, menaced by magical threats and court intrigue. As the weak King Roland, misled by treacherous companions, rules the country, only his ruthless mother, the Dowager Queen Ravenna, truly guards the safety of the realm. But now Urbain Grandier, the dark master of scientific sorcery, has arrived to plot against the throne and Kade, bastard sister of the king, has appeared unexpectedly at court. The illegitimate daughter of the old king and the Queen of Air and Darkness herself, Kade's true goals are cloaked in mystery. Is she in league with the wizard Grandier? Or is she laying claim to the throne? It falls to Thomas Boniface, Captain of the Queen's Guard and Ravenna's former lover, to sort out who is friend and who is foe in a deadly game to keep the Dowager Queen and the kingdom she loves from harm.Martha Wells was born in 1964 in Fort Worth, Texas, and graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.A. in Anthropology. Her first novel, The Element of Fire, was published by Tor in hardcover in July 1993 and was a finalist for the 1993 Compton Crook/Stephen Tall Award and a runner-up for the 1994 Crawford Award. The French edition, Le feu primordial, was a 2003 Imaginales Award nominee. Her second novel for Tor, City of Bones, was a 1995 hardcover and June 1996 paperback release. Both novels were on the Locus recommended reading lists. Her third novel The Death of the Necromancer (Avon Eos) was a 1998 Nebula Award Nominee and the French edition was a 2002 Imaginales Award nominee. Her fourth novel Wheel of the Infinite (HarperCollins Eos) was a 2000 hardcover and 2001 December paperback release. The Wizard Hunters (HarperCollins Eos/May 2003) was the first book in a fantasy trilogy taking place in the world of Ile-Rien from The Element of Fire and The Death of the Necromancer. The second book in that trilogy is The Ships of Air (HarperCollins Eos/July 2004) and the third is The Gate of Gods, released in November 2005. She also has a media tie-in novel, Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary, released in March 2006. She has had short stories published in Realms of Fantasy, Black Gate, Lone Star Stories, and the Tsunami Relief anthology Elemental, and has essays in the non-fiction anthologies Farscape Forever and Mapping the World of Harry Potter (BenBella Books, 2005). Her books have been published in eight languages, including French, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Polish, and Dutch.

Product Description: Chernobyl: The very name conjures the catastrophe that the world feared could happen someday at a nuclear power plant. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused the core of one of the reactors to explode, spewing a cloud of radioactive steam into the air...read more

Product Description: Two thousand years after Pompeii’s destruction, a thriller of upheaval—volcanic and political—as only SF Grandmaster Frederik Pohl can write it!  In All the Lives He Led, in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, a compelling human drama unfolds in a near-future science-fiction thriller...read more

Just as medicine is not a science, but rather an art -- a device, practiced in a scientific manner, in its best manifestations -- time-travel stories, some would argue, are not science fiction. But whether they are or aren't, time-travel has become acceptable to science fiction readers as a traditional device in stories some might call admissible in the genre. Here, Frederik Pohl employs it to portray the amusingly catastrophic meeting of three societies.

Product Description: The Nebula Award–winning masterwork by the author of GatewayIn the not-too-distant future, a desperate war for natural resources threatens to bring civilization to a crashing halt. Nuclear warships from around the globe begin positioning themselves as the American government works feverishly to complete a massive project to colonize Mars...read more

Product Description: Two thousand years after Pompeii's destruction, a thriller of upheaval--volcanic and political--as only SF Grandmaster Frederik Pohl can write it!With a keen eye for the humanity in any situation, science fiction icon Frederik Pohl has crafted a compelling new novel of a not-too-distant future we can only hope is merely science fiction...read more

Product Description: En Portico, Frederik Pohl retoma y vigoriza la linea especulativa que le puso a la cabeza de la ciencia ficcion mundial. Esta es la primera novela de una tetrologia cuyo hilo conductor es una misteriosa especie de extraterrestres, los Heechee...read more

Product Description: When Ranjit Subramanian, a Sri Lankan with a special gift for numbers, writes a three-page proof of the coveted “Last Theorem,” which French mathematician Pierre de Fermat claimed to have discovered (but never recorded) in 1637, Ranjit’s achievement is hailed as a work of genius, bringing him fame and fortune...read more

Product Description: Earth, 2031: Alien contact.Signals are received: a crude depiction of creatures pantomiming the cataclysmic destruction of the universe.Soon after, scientists note unusual radiation emanating from an abandoned Earth-orbital observatory...read more

The peaceful existences of the Heechee gateway creators and the human survivors of a post-apocalypse Earth are threatened by the alien Kugel and an insane human's plot to destroy the galaxy.

A new compilation of short fiction from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author includes a never-before-published Heechee story; 'Fermi and Frost,' his award-winning novella; and other memorable tales that exemplify the best in the science fiction genre. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Product Description: The first of a trilogy whose common thread is a mysterious species of extraterrestrials, the Heechee, this novel follows a group of humans as they discover a space base and the legacy of a civilization that fled the galaxy far before the origin of mankind...read more

One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time

A new compilation of short fiction from the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author includes a never-before-published Heechee story; 'Fermi and Frost,' his award-winning novella; and other memorable tales that exemplify the best in the science fiction genre. 20,000 first printing.

Product Description: In a vastly overpopulated near-future world, businesses have taken the place of governments and now hold all political power. States exist merely to ensure the survival of huge transnational corporations. Advertising has become hugely aggressive and boasts some of the world’s most powerful executives...read more

Traces the author's ongoing fascination with science as observed in museums, national laboratories, and the heart of a volcano, in an updated edition by the editor of Worlds of SF and Galaxy magazines. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: Ill luck made Roger Torraway the subject of the Man Plus Programme, but it was deliberate biological engineering which turned him into a monster -- a machine perfectly adapted to survive on Mars. For according to computer predictions, Mars is humankind's only alternative to extinction...read more

A new collection of 'Grand Master' stories, science fiction tales penned by Nebula Award winners voted lifetime achievers by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc., includes the fiction of Lester del Rey, Frederik Pohl, Damon Knight, A. E. Van Vogt, and Jack Vance. Reprint.

A collection of 'Grand Master' storiesscifi tales penned by Nebula Award winners voted lifetime achievers, includes the fiction of Andre Norton, Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Alfred Bester, and Ray Bradbury. (view table of contents)

The powerful conclusion to the Eschaton Sequence follows the copy of Dan Dannerman as he attacks the Beloved Leaders and acquires control of some dangerous knowledge, and it is up to his clones to unravel the alien technology before Earth is destroyed. Reprint.

A computer hacker who is able to instantly transport himself to the planet Tupelo finds himself elected mayor of the human population and mediator among a range of disparate species

Thwarted in their initial invasion by secret agent Dan Dannerman, the aliens have armed themselves with high-tech devices and a secret network on Earth and in space, leaving it up to Dannerman and fellow humans to avoid an all-out war. Reprint. PW. NYT. K.

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