Mission of Empire: Earthmen had colonized hundreds of planets in the four centuries of deep space exploration - independent new civilizations founded by the discontented and adventurous of Terra. Trouble was, they were too independent - and the Terran government had ambitions for a space empire. A giant battle cruiser went out into the starlanes, with instructions to persuade the colonial planets to join the Empire - and with a couple of thousand...

Maita wants to make some overhauls and changes so Z goes to a world in a pre-industrial stage for a vacation.As one would expect, it's a working vacation. There is something very wrong on this world – something that could prove disastrous in a century or so.Critic commentInteresting concept about how a racial psychological trait can be manipulated – either for the positive or negative.I see what P means about the golems. Hilarious

The complexities and storms of the Telnarian Histories are brought to their unexpected and rousing climax. Following a palace coup, in the midst of intrigue and turmoil, Otto, the blond barbarian giant, King of the Otungs, a tribe of the Vandal Nation, has set aside the boy emperor, Aesilesius, and seized the throne of the vast, unstable, threatened Telnarian Empire. A raging torrent of complex, perilous events ensues. Can the throne be held? Can...

When man and machine are one and the same, death is no longer an inevitability. But in the darkest reaches of space, neither is life. Includes all three novels (Exin Ex Machina, Of a Darker Void, and The Stars Like Gods) in the cyberpunk/space opera trilogy Asterion Noir. Seven hundred thousand years ago, the Asterions fled persecution for their pro-synthetic beliefs. In the safe harbor of a distant galaxy, they have evolved into a true biosynthetic...

As First Officer on the part passenger ship, part space freighter, The Fiscal Restraint, Jack Dexter (Dex to his friends) thinks he knows all there is to know about "Murphy's Law": If anything can go wrong, it will. And on the perpetually under-staffed, under-funded Restraint, it generally does. But he never expected to actually meet Murphy. The real Murphy. Dex hires Orville Sod onto the Restraint just before the ship makes the jump to deep space....

This edition brings to you 34 exciting Sci-Fi stories by Philip K. Dick in one convenient volume. These tales are guaranteed to thrill you with their exhilarating plots and exciting twists and turns! Contents: Second Variety The Variable Man Adjustment Team The Hanging Stranger The Eyes Have It The Skull Mr. Spaceship Beyond the Door Beyond Lies the Wub The Golden Man The Gun The Defenders Tony and the Beetles The Crystal Crypt Upon the Dull Earth...

With the Haederan Empire mostly ousted from Asria, Avery Rendon should feel freer than she has in years-certainly since the Haederan invasion. Yet when she's nearly assassinated on the day of her long-overdue coronation, intelligence suggests the perpetrator is her estranged brother, Quen. He may have denied wanting the throne years ago, but now it seems he wants another shot-and he won't stop until she no longer stands in his way. Convinced her life...

Drawn to a desert world by the legacy of a traitor, the crew of the TFR Beijing discover something abandoned, something forgotten... something mysterious.Buddha once said, "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast...... for a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."The scars of betrayal runs deep... and Captain Melissa Liao will find out just how far the slighted will go for revenge.Book...

Alexandra Humboldt, priviledged reality creatress, enjoys the solitude of the garden. Usually nobody gets alone time in the precious gardens of the spaceship. Their only real memory of Earth and source of their fresh food. Despite the peace around, work problems creep back into her mind. She pushes them back out. In vain. Alexandras job description requires a vivid imagination. A traitor turns that upside down, when he steals the artefact she needs...

Millennia ago, planet Helios held a grand technological civilization. But the Cataclysm tore the land apart, and the survivors were forced to flee to the Six Stations, the artificial planetoids that orbited Helios. It did not take long for their society to devolve into a virtual medieval world, with barely enough technology to survive the harshness of life in space. Out of this culture arose a line of monarchs called the Reign of Four. Alexis Teirmont...