In the wake of the chaos surrounding a powerful interstellar communications blackout, operative Mai Wa is sent by the Capellan Chancellor to assist freedom fighter Evan Kurst in his struggle to liberate his homeworld, but Evan is reluctant to trust an ally who had once betrayed him. Original.

Product Description: What if North Korea detonates a nuclear weapon in space and silences dozens of satellites? What if an Iranian missile threatens to destroy Israel, while a Venezuelan “research” satellite endangers one of the US’s most promising space initiatives?What if tech-savvy terrorist cells unleash back-to-back horrors in California while national leaders, robbed of spy satellite imagery, are forced to make “blind” decisions?These are the scenarios of Counterspace, a frighteningly plausible look at threats to the United States and the world...read more

A veteran of years of simulated war games, Ender believes he is engaged in one more computer war game when in truth he is commanding the last fleet of Earth against an alien race seeking the complete destruction of Earth.

Product Description: In Harry Turtledove's The Gladiator, the Soviet Union won the Cold War. The Russians were a little smarter than they were in our own world, and the United States was a little dumber and a lot less resolute. Now, more than a century later, the world's gone Communist, and capitalism is a bad word...read more

When Neil Andertol and a motley crew of video-gaming whizzes accidentally download top-secret training software and are recruited by the military to restore a botched aircraft mission, they're no longer playing for points—they're playing to save the world! Part action movie, part slapstick comedy, debut author Jeff Miller's The Nerdy Dozen is a madcap adventure for the middle grade set.

Product Description: On an ordinary Tuesday in November 2012, First Sergeant Matt Storey becomes another afternoon casualty during a bungled Union charge on the Confederates. It's his worst death in several months. Back by popular demand: The War Between the States, portrayed with gritty realism by Civil Warfields' cast of thousands...read more

A chilling look at an all-too-real scenario of nuclear warfare explains why World War III will be won or lost in outer space, journeying behind the scenes of America's top secret Strategic Command to reveal the actual technologies and strategies America must use to protect itself and its allies from terrorists and other enemies. 75,000 first printing.

On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals―the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado―and to the darker side of life in a resort town.Late one night, Charly disappears without a trace, and Udo's well-ordered life is thrown into upheaval; while Ingeborg and Hanna return to their lives in Germany, he refuses to leave the hotel. Soon he and El Quemado are enmeshed in a round of Third Reich, Udo's favorite World War II strategy game, and Udo discovers that the game's consequences may be all too real.Written in 1989 and found among Roberto Bolaño's papers after his death, The Third Reich is a stunning exploration of memory and violence. Reading this quick, visceral novel, we see a world-class writer coming into his own―and exploring for the first time the themes that would define his masterpieces The Savage Detectives and 2666.

Product Description: On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war games champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals—the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado—and to the darker side of life in a resort town...read more

Usually Crosstime Traffic concerns itself with trade. Our world owns the secret of travel between parallel continuums, and we mean to use it to trade for much-needed resources with the worlds next door. Preferably without letting them know about any of that parallel-worlds stuff.But there’s one parallel world that’s different. In it, the atomic war broke out in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love. Now, Crosstime Traffic has been given a different sort of mission: find out what on earth, or on the many earths, went wrong.