Charlaine Harris has topped the bestseller charts and has become a nationwide phenomenon, thanks to the unconventional-and otherworldly- life of Sookie Stackhouse. Now, in her own words, Sookie gives readers a look at her family, friends, enemies, adventures, and-of course-the lovers who set her
Professional... that was Harb Mallard. A hardened pro, able to shift the direction of developing alien cultures any way he needed to, with just a few well-placed punches to the tender spots. The Expansion Service depended on men like Mallard to boost potentially useful planets out of the Dark ages,
Is the entire universe just one of the atoms of some even greater cosmos? Such was the conception of one scientist -- and his effort to prove this theory was to take a party of Americans on an expedition to a place that was literally BEYOND THE STARS. Ray Cummings, one of the all-time masters of
It was a top secret government project, its funds coming quietly from the Bureau of Standards, its orders directly from the President. The project's goal was to survey the future. The survey would be made in person, by the use of the newly-developed Time Displacement Vehicle. Three specially
A SF novel co-written with Hilary Bailey, the working title of which was 'The Distant Suns', published in 1969, first by Ace Books in the US and later by Mayflower Books in the UK.
One of his best novels, in which time travellers from an imperial USA several hundred years hence are sent to acquire a recording of a lost speech of Abraham Lincoln; the two cultures are effectively contrasted. The ending, in which the protagonist is trapped in an 1856 far less unattractive than
In a universe that had been ravaged by a thousand years of interplanetary warfare between the star-shattering Romaghins and the equally voracious Setessins, there seemed now but one thing that might bring the destruction to an end. That would be the right catalyst in the hands of the right people.
A dying planet, dried up and hostile -- a planet of countless years and countless mysteries. When the Terrans came, they found a world of dead sea-bottoms, lost civilizations, and secretive tribes bitterly resenting their intrusion on the fading glory of an ancient planet. The Earthmen looked
If obstinate dead people were all that Maddy had to worry about, life would be much easier. But the best-laid plans of Agents and fallen angels often go awry. Deaths are occurring contrary to the natural order, Maddy’s being stalked by foes inside and outside of her family, and her two loves-her
When Major Dam Stormdragon was chosen to serve as part of Castalia's military tithe to the Mother World he had no choice but to go - much as he loather Terra and everything she stood for. He knew that given the combination of arrogance and paranoia that Terran's displayed towards all Colonials he
