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The Star Dancers: A Novel By Jeffrey Caminsky New Alexandria Press Paperback (404 pages) List Price: $19.99* Lowest New Price: $14.99* Lowest Used Price: $38.04* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:19 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Getting a ship starworthy is always quite a challenge, but dealing with bureaucrats has driven people crazy throughout history-and the 26th Century is no exception. In The Star Dancers, Volume II of the Guardians of Peace adventure series, Captain Cook and his crew leave bureaucracies behind and begin an epic saga that will see them journey across half the known galaxy in search of love and adventure. Battling space pirates and hobnobbing with alien diplomats, Cook and the rest of the Cosmic Guard bring the 26th Century to life for their 21st Century readers.

Defeated (Darkness Among the Stars) By S. D. Mckee Behler Publications Released: 2005-10-01 Paperback (380 pages) List Price: $17.95* Lowest New Price: $11.81* Lowest Used Price: $3.00* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:19 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here ISBN13: 9781933016238 Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description: The year is 2271. Jonathon Quinn, decorated war hero and captain of the flagship ICS Intimidator, has been ordered to oversee Operation Giant Leap, mankinds latest attempt to shatter the technological barriers of interstellar travel. Scientists at the lunar research facility manage to create a cosmic wormhole into the Polaris System, only to make a shocking discovery. But in a universe where all is not as it seems, discovery often proves deadly. A catastrophic accident triggers a ripple effect that reaches far beyond the Solar System, provoking an ancient darkness that stalks among the stars. Mankind is plunged into chaos. Jonathon, plagued by rising casualties, begins having induced nightmares that foreshadow the enemys fierce appetite for destruction. Did the scientists grave mistake trigger the war, or would the darkness have been set in motion anyway? The answer brings Jonathon face-to-face with his own extraordinary destiny, which he must accept if he is to have any hope of altering the dire fate of all humanity.

Death Hawk: The Soulworm Saga Volume One By Mark Ellis Transfuzion Publishing Perfect Paperback (128 pages) List Price: $16.99* Lowest New Price: $16.99* Lowest Used Price: $38.04* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:19 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Death Hawk: You can hire him, but can't buy him...until now! This collection features the 25th century salvage expert and his protosymbiotic partner, Cyke. The hard-luck heroes and the beautiful but treacherous con-artist Vanessa Bouvier find themselves unwilling partners as they engage in a quest to discover the secrets behind the ancient alien race known as the Skril and the sole surviving relic of their culture---the mysterious Soulworm. Featuring art by Adam Hughes. Foreword by New York Times best-selling writer, Douglas Clegg. If you're a fan of Joss Whedon's Firefly, the art of Adam Hughes or just good ol' blaster-blazing space opera, Death Hawk: The Soulworm Saga is a must-have!

Trigger By Todd Durrant Outskirts Press Paperback (380 pages) List Price: $18.95* Lowest New Price: $16.81* Lowest Used Price: $22.85* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:19 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: What if we could build a machine to guarantee survival...at all costs! The survivors of a devastating mechanical invasion have used every possible resource to flee to Epsilon Eridani where humanity must start over. With unimaginable ingenuity and determination they build a new home in New Eden, a huge habitat orbiting the star. But despite the true pioneering spirit that keeps them alive, there is a growing division. Should humanity continue to spread among the stars, or launch a powerful counterattack and retake Earth from the mysterious enemy? Most important of all-- would a military victory be tantamount to suicide? "Trigger" is an imaginative piece of speculative history where multiple timelines are brought together to unveil a story where grand designs cause havoc on the space-time continuum. Even the best intentions of brilliant minds and the altruistic desires of rising leaders can collide and crumble into chaos when the truth is only revealed in the shadows.

Against A Diamond Sky: Tales from Orion's Arm Vol. 1 Outskirts Press Paperback (526 pages) List Price: $19.95* Lowest New Price: $15.26* Lowest Used Price: $15.26* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:19 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The future isn't here yet. But don't worry. It will be. Welcome to Orion's Arm, a scenario set thousands of years in the future where civilization spans the stars. Godlike ascended intelligences rule vast interstellar empires, and lesser factions seek to carve out their own dominions through intrigue and conquest. And out beyond the edge of civilized space and the human friendly worlds, adventure awaits those prepared to risk all. Collected here for your consideration are five stories exploring the Orion's Arm universe, spanning years and light-years to examine a vast and diverse future from its beginnings in the dying Solar System to its continuing advance toward an uncertain destiny. About the Orion's Arm Universe Project Orion's Arm is a work in progress, a space opera setting like no other. It spans the next ten thousand years of galactic history, from the near future interplanetary colonization to the far future where the galaxy is ruled by vast ascended intelligences. It incorporates hard science, and the "soft" or social sciences, as well as the mythological, archetypal themes, as the gods of the collective psyche incarnate in unforeseen new forms. Like all good art, this project is ever growing, and will therefore never be complete. We invite you to join us on this journey of imagination; after all it looks like we've barely gotten started, and there are still many worlds left to explore. www.orionsarm.com

Mindbender: A Novel Of The Systems By Linda Welch CreateSpace Paperback (288 pages) List Price: $9.50* Lowest New Price: $9.50* Lowest Used Price: $30.76* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:19 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Raithe looks like a teen but don't be deceived; as a tour guide on Touraine he's expert at meeting your requirements, especially if you're female. His father was a bounty hunter; Hero. His mother is only part Human. But Raithe, he's just a fun-loving, skirt chasing, easy-going . . . Mindbender. Ember spots Raithe in the Mary Rose tavern and sees a means to escape her sadistic master. But Marquesa returns from the dead, captures Raithe and forces him to use his unique abilities for interstellar thievery. Ember and the Dahle Feyeth search for Raithe throughout the Systems. With the help of Trik, a reviled and abused telepath doomed by a primitive inquisition, they will battle Marquesa for Raithe's life, soul and sanity. The quest challenges their self-perception and personal values and they are not always correct in their beliefs and assumptions. The powerful Dahle are not what they appear to be, and neither is Raithe.

Trinity on Tylos By Pamela J. Dodd Whiskey Creek Press Paperback (342 pages) List Price: $23.95* Lowest New Price: $16.99* Lowest Used Price: $16.95* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:19 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Enamored with her lover, yet governed by her sense of duty, Benice Dylenski, security chief of the colocization vessel Excalibur, has a fascinating, satisfying life. But the Excalibur is about to encounter Azareel, and alien captain with superior firepower and a hidden agenda. While seeking a home for human colonists, the crew of the Excalibur meets the Archeons, who take Venice and a companion captive. In short order, Azareel informs his prisoners that they will play a critical role in revitalizing his dying race, that of surrogate mothers to genetically engineered Archeon offspring. Venice, reluctant "to be the next Archeon soccer mom," strives to escape, but her companion seems all too willing to cooperate with their captor: Trinity on Tylos has complex characters faced with myriad problems to solve, set in a future where man may have escaped the bounds of his solar system, but not the bonds of human emotions.

Playing the Hero: Book one of the Natan Fleet Show By K.E. Ireland CreateSpace Paperback (290 pages) List Price: $9.95* Lowest New Price: $9.95* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:19 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Vathion used to be a normal Gilon boy, but the day his father was assassinated, he lost everything. To save his people from the tyrannical rule of a madman he must find a way to end Gilonnia's Civil War before word of his father's death spreads. Vathion's strength of will is put to the test as he struggles to maintain the loyalty of his crew and hide the truth. Playing the Hero is the first book in an epic story of one Gilon's loss of innocence mirroring the fall of his species.

History of science fiction: History of science fiction. Pulp magazine, New Wave (science fiction), Cyberpunk, Space opera, Cyberpunk derivatives, cientific romance Alphascript Publishing Paperback (64 pages) List Price: $41.00* Lowest New Price: $41.00* Usually ships in 24 hours* *(As of 15:19 Pacific 21 Mar 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: History of science fiction. Pulp magazine, New Wave (science fiction), Cyberpunk, Space opera, Cyberpunk derivatives, cientific romance, Golden Age of Science Fiction