Product Description: Nine new stories from a long-time star of the science fiction field including the Hugo Award winner "The Erdmann Nexus" and Nebula Award winner "The Fountain of Age." These stories have been reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction, Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, and Best of the Web...read more

Product Description: The year is 2035. After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, 26 survivors—the last of humanity—are trapped by an alien race in a sterile enclosure known as the Shell. Fifteen-year-old Pete is one of the Six—children who were born deformed or sterile and raised in the Shell...read more

Product Description: Lightspeed (www.lightspeedmagazine.com) is the critically-acclaimed, online science fiction magazine edited by bestselling anthologist John Joseph Adams. Lightspeed publishes all types of science fiction, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between...read more

Product Description: SPECIAL SHRINKWRAPPED BUNDLE! Improve your writing, one element at a time with the Elements of Fiction Collecction. With these books you'll learn how to draw on various sources to create authentic characters and which viewpoint tells their story best with Characters & Viewpoint (Orson Scott Card); start your story strong and carry your readers through to the compelling end with Beginnings, Middles & Ends (Nancy Kress); keep readers turning the page to find out more with Conflict, Action & Suspense (William Noble); create atmosphere and move your story forward with Description (Monica Wood); build a sturdy framework for your novel and craft scenes that move the reader moment by moment toward the resolution in Scene & Structure (Jack M...read more

Product Description: SPECIAL SHRINKWRAPPED BUNDLE! The tools you need to take your fiction to the next level are all right here with the Writer's Digest Write Great Fiction Collection. From creating irresistible plots and rich characters, to crafting engaging dialogue and authentic settings, to techniques to help you polish your manuscript off before submitting it for publication, you'll have your bases covered with this series of five books each devoted to a specific aspect of the craft of fiction writing...read more

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The product of an experiment in genetic manipulation, superintelligent Leisha Camden is forced to live a life apart from most 'ordinary' people and seeks the companionship of other superhumans

Product Description: The threat of terrorism and biological warfare become all too real in this riveting thriller when the danger comes from a family's most cherished pets. Tessa Sanderson, ex-FBI agent, has moved to a sleepy Maryland town to escape her tragic past...read more

Product Description: Blending a focus on cutting-edge technology with deep emotional impacts, this enticing collection draws its stories from various Year's Best and Reader's Choice lists. The pathos of the human condition is explored in such stories as "My Mother, Dancing," in which seedlings are planted and those responsible must decide if they will play God with them, or let natural selection progress; or in "Nano Comes to Clifford Falls," where nanotechnology brings every wish to everyone—yet dire problems still ensue...read more

Product Description: Humankind has expanded out into interstellar space using star gates-technological remnants left behind by an ancient, long-vanished race. But the technology comes with a price. Among the stars, humanity encountered the Fallers, a strange alien race bent on nothing short of genocide...read more

Product Description: This is a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by Mike Resnick, showing the depth and range that has not only made him a popular seller, but also placed him fourth (and climbing) on the all-time award list of all science fiction writers living and dead (as compiled by Locus)...read more

A sequel to Crossfire finds the distant-future human settlers of a new world, having allied themselves with the plant-like Vines race, facing a war against the technologically superior Furs and spreading a Vines-created virus designed to stop aggressive behavior. Reprint.

Product Description: Create Complex CharactersHow do you create a main character readers won't forget? How do you write a book in multiple-third-person point of view without confusing your readers (or yourself)? How do you plant essential information about a character's past into a story?Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint by award-winning author Nancy Kress answers all of these questions and more! This accessible book is filled with interactive exercises and valuable advice that teaches you how to:Choose and execute the best point of view for your storyCreate three-dimensional and believable charactersDevelop your characters' emotionsCreate realistic love, fight, and death scenesUse frustration to motivate your characters and drive your storyWith dozens of excerpts from some of today's most popular writers, Write Great Fiction: Characters, Emotion & Viewpoint provides you with the techniques you need to create characters and stories sure to linger in the hearts and minds of agents, editors, and readers long after they've finished your book...read more

Product Description: In this guide, award-winning author Nancy Kress explores the crucial relationship between characterization and plot, illustrating how vibrant, well-constructed characters act as the driving force behind an exceptional story. In teaching writers the fundamentals of creating characters that will keep their readers spellbound, Kress utilizes: Dozens of excerpts from well-known fiction; Enlightening exercises to help writers build strong characters starting from the outside-in; Beginning chapters that focus on the physical elements that comprise a character, providing techniques for using external qualities to reflect personality; Building skill upon skill, writers blend these qualities with emotional and mental characterization, forming multi-dimensional characters that initiate exciting action, react to tense situations, and power the plot from beginning to end...read more

When members of a human colony on a distant planet, led by Jake Holman, stumble upon a primitive humanoid species on their world, they soon realize that the aliens are not native to the planet and find themselves suddenly caught in the middle of an interstellar war between two very different alien species. Reprint.

As humans face defeat at the hands of the alien Fallers, four Earth dwellers travel deep into space to test a theory, and hopefully defeat their enemy, in the epic conclusion of the Probability Trilogy, which began with Probability Moon and Probability Sun. Reprint.

Product Description: Told from the perspective of several generations of teenagers, this science fiction novel involves an Earth ravaged by mankind, high-tech manipulative aliens, and advanced genetics. Early in the 21st century, global warming has caused sickness and death among plants, animals, and humans...read more

An anthology of Nebula Award-winning fiction selected by the members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America includes works by Catherine Asaro, Jack Williamson, Severna Park, Kelly Link, and others, accompanied by commentary on the current status of science fiction in the twenty-first century and its significance as a form of literature. Original.

In the midst of an interstellar war between humankind and a dangerous alien race callled Fallers, a team of scientists from Earth is sent to study an enigmatic artifact discovered on a distant planet, an artifact that is not only a powerful weapon but could prove to be a doomsday device for humans and aliens alike. Reprint.

A rash of strokes among otherwise healthy black men transforms FBI Agent Robert Cavanaugh's otherwise boring post in Southern Maryland into a suddenly fascinating and dangerous job as he investigates. Reprint.

Product Description: "Anyone who has ever doubted the psychological link between fantasy and life will be quickly corrected by this insightful and highly recommended novel".--Roger C. Schlobin, "Fantasy Newsletter".

The acclaimed author of Maximum Light and Beggars Ride offers a collection of her finest science fiction stories of the 1990s, including the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella 'Beggars in Spain.' Reprint.