Sci-Fi/UFO

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  • Book III of Blood Angels. Following the tragic events that led the Blood Angels to the brink of civil war, the Chapter's strength has been badly depleted. The Blood Angels must act and act quickly, before their enemies learn of their weakness and attack. With tempers flaring and mutants running wild on their homeworld, can the Blood Angels and their successor Chapters put aside their rivalries and rebuild their forces before it's too late? Cover art by Adrian Smith.
  • Warhammer 40,000. Book I of Deathwatch. The world of Herodian IV is doomed when the nightmarish tyranid hive fleets descend from the depths of space intent on devouring every living thing there. In the vital hours before the planet is lost, Inquisitor Kalypsia and a team of Deathwatch Space Marines are sent on a mission to investigate  a mysterious research outpost. The terrible secret they uncover could affect the fate of all humanity but can they escape to safety before they are torn apart by the ravenous alien hordes? Cover art by Phil Sibbering.
  • Warhammer 40,000. Book VIII of Gaunt's Ghosts.  Book 1 of The Lost sequence. A high-ranking Imperial officer has been captured by the foul forces of Chaos. Gaunt must assemble a squad of his most trusted men and venture deep into enemy territory. Their mission: rescue the officer if they can. However - if he has been compromised their rescue mission may become an assassination. Cover art by Adrian Smith.
  • When Internet trolls start to drop dead,  the Doctor thinks there might be more to it than just a sedentary lifestyle and high blood pressure. From the backstreets of South Korea to the jungles of Brazil, the Doctor and Donna follow the leads until they find the source of this online infection. But they aren't the only ones interested in these sudden deaths at the computer screens or what's causing them. Before long, Donna and the Doctor are fighting for their lives - and the lives of everyone else on planet Earth who uses the internet. In;lcuding some people very dear to Donna...
  • Book XII of Pern.  Five  episodes of early Pern - from the very first space survey recommending colonisation, to the last, where the early world, its young dragon culture undetected, is condemned to be isolated in space. There is the saga of the mass evacuation from the volcanic southern continent, an entire group of people moved across the dangerous seas, guarded and guided by a flotilla of dolphins; the story of the creation of Ruatha Hold; and one of the most fascinating dragon tales; when Fort Weyr was the only weyr and when dragonriders and dragons were overcrowded to danger point. As the news broke of three fresh weyrs to be established, a young girl, Torene, came to realize that her dragon could be the next Queen of the newly formed Benden Weyr. Contents: The P.E.R.N. Survey; The Dolphins' Bell;The Fort of Red Hanrahan; The Second Weyr; The Rescue Run. Cover art by Steve Weston.
  • Book III of Homecoming. The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai and all their family must brave the desert wastes and cross the wide continents to Harmony's hidden spaceport - silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar ships ready for flight. But of these sixteen people, only a few have chosen their exile. Rasa's spiteful daughters and their husbands and Wetchik's oldest son Elemak have been forced against their will. Their anger and hatreds make to difficult journey harder. Cover art by Keith Parkinson.
  • Book III of Prelude To Dune. From the royal planet Kaitain, the Padishad Emperor Shaddam IV strikes at planets which defy his merciless edicts. Soon he will grasp absolute power with a new, artificial spice substitute that he alone will control. On Dune, Liet Kynes leads the Fremen as they strike crippling blows against the planet's Harkonnen overlords. Prince Rhombur Vernius, exiled on Caladan, is ready to free his unhappy planet from the tyranny of the Tleilaxu Masters. But the final war - the one which will change the future of worlds - will be between two men: Leto Atriedes of Caladan and Vladimir Harkonnen of Geidi Prime. Cover art by Gerry Grace.
  • Book V of Homecoming. High above the earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundred of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. She now wears the Cloak of the Starmaster, and the Oversoul wakes her sometimes to watch over her descendants on the planet below. The population has grown rapidly--there are cities and nations now, whole peoples descended from those who followed Nafai or Elemak. But in all the long years of watching and searching, the Oversoul has not found the thing it sought. It has not found the Keeper of the Earth, the central intelligence that also can repair the Oversoul's damaged programming. Cover art by Keith Parkinson.
  • Book II of The Homecoming Saga. As Harmony's Oversoul grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden technology. now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plain.Basilica remains in turmoil. Wetchik and his sons are not strong enough to stop a army. Can Rasa and her allies defeat him through intrigue, or will Moozh take the city and all who are in it? Cover art by Keith Parkinson.
  • Book III of The Pearl. Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's expectations: within the body of a beautiful young woman is the mind and spirit of a unique Kundalan female who is joined in mystical partnership with the mind and spirit of Annon Ashera, a V'ornn male, the last survivor of a noble family. Together the two adolescents have matured and merged into a new joint  identity. Now their common destiny, and Kundala's, is in their own hands. Other characters who will play their roles: Riane, the Dar-Sala-at; Eleana, the woman she loves twice over; Kurgan, the V'ornn usurper who raped Eleana and sired her child; Marethyn Stogggul, Kurgan's defiant sister, an artist who joins the Kundalan resistance; Marethyn's lover, chief trader Sornnn SaTrryn, who secretly helps the resistance as well; and the fabulous Krystren, the Sarakkon woman from the mysterious southern continent, who comes north on a secret mission and will change the lives of everyone she meets. All the while, the evil Sauromicians threaten the world as they seek to use banestones to bind a dragon. Cover art by John Howe.
  • Rendezvous With Rama told of the 2130 arrival of a mysterious, apparently untenanted spaceship, which during its visit, uncovered may wonders but answered few questions. One thing was clear - everything the enigmatic builders of Rama did, they did in threes. Now, in 2200, four years after a second approaching spacecraft has been detected, Earth knows what to expect and is ready to mount an expedition which may answer some of the questions posed by Rama.
  • Set before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, this is the sequel to Star Wars: Darth Plagueis. It's kill or be killed in the space penitentiary that houses the galaxy’s worst criminals, where convicts face off in gladiatorial combat while an underworld gambling empire reaps the profits of the illicit blood sport. But the newest contender in this savage arena, as demonic to behold as he is deadly to challenge, is fighting for more than just survival. His do-or-die mission, for the dark masters he serves, is to capture the ultimate weapon: an object capable of obliterating the Jedi and conquering the galaxy. Sith lords Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious are determined to possess the prize. And one of the power-hungry duo has his own treacherous plans for it. But first, their fearsome apprentice must take on a bloodthirsty prison warden, a cannibal gang, cutthroat crime lord Jabba the Hutt, and an unspeakable alien horror. No one else could brave such a gauntlet of death and live. But no one else is the dreaded dark-side disciple known as Darth Maul. Cover art by Scott Biel.
  • Thirty years after the Galactic Civil War, the First Order has risen from the fallen Galactic Empire and seeks to end the New Republic. The Resistance, backed by the Republic and led by General Leia Organa, opposes the First Order.  Luke Skywalker has gone missing; a Resistance plot with a map to Luke's whereabouts crashes on a desert world and is captured by Stormtroopers under the command of Kylo Ren but his faithful droid BB-8 escapes with the map. Poe reveals BB-8's existence under torture and Stormtrooper FN-2187 proves an unexpected ally and helps him escape. Meanwhile BB-8 has found a scavenger named Rey and when Stormtrooper FN-2187 - now with the name of Finn - and Poe crash, Finn believes Poe dead and when he finds BB-8 and Rey, the First Order are right behind. But All three escape in none other but Han Solo's old ship, the Millennium Falcon. But where's Solo and Chewbacca? Who is Kylo Ren and where in the Galaxy is Luke Skywalker? With photographs from the film.
  • Book III of Posleen War. After five years of battling invaders, human civilization prepares a strike to drive the aliens from the Earth. But the Clan-Lord of the Sten has learned from the defeats humans have dealt him, and has his own plan. When he squares off against Major O'Neal, the only winner will be Satan himself. Cover art by Patrick Turner.
  • Book II of Sprawl. A corporate mercenary wakes in a reconstructed body, a beautiful woman by his side. Then Hosaka Corporation reactivates him, for a mission more dangerous than the one he’s recovering from: to get a defecting chief of R&D - and the biochip he’s perfected - out intact. But this proves to be of supreme interest to certain other parties—some of whom aren’t remotely human...Cover art by Steve Stone.
  • Can four clones, saint-like, with perfect eidetic memories and rather plain features, find happiness in the brutish world of 2072? Or will they instead learn to accept the nasty conditions of life aboard a packed and harrassed Earth? Sprung illegally from Dr. Poynter's fertile imagination and sterile test tubes, nurtured separately by the current working class of intelligent apes, Alvin, Bruce, Colin & Desmond - alike as podded peas - are blissfully unaware of each other's existence till some very weird events begin to occur. Such as - Alvin claims to have remembrances of things yet to come. One of those things is a gorgeous green-eyed girl. Not to mention the psychic and teleportational talents the four develop when together, which understandably threaten and alarm the Omniscient Authorities. And there's the havoc they play on this tightly tuned society when they decide to give the bureaucracy just a taste of their awesome powers. Cover art by John Higgins.
  • Book X of Acorna. Khorii, the rebellious daughter of the near-mythic Acorna and her lifemate, Aari, has followed in Acorna's footsteps leading their people from danger, but the pressure to succeed and fulfill a legacy is tremendous. For the deadly foe that has ravaged the known worlds and weakened even her famous parents has launched its final assault, and only Khorii and her newly discovered sister, Ariin, are able to stop the brutal attack. But success is elusive, and fragile, and even time itself may not be enough to help their desperate quest to save their family - much less the universe. Cover art by Chris McGrath.
  • Guy Montag is a fireman. In a world where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen don't extinguish fires. They start them. Their job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family'. But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear and to a present where one sees the world through the ideas in books instead of the mindless chatter of television. When Mildred attempts suicide and Clarisse suddenly disappears, Montag begins to question everything he has ever known.