Three women, two planets, and a whale. For Marianne Woolsey, linguist and tutor, being empathically bonded to the leader of the Tolari turns out to be a bed of roses – complete with thorns. Especially thorns. With diplomatic relations severed and humans kicked...

In the dark world of medieval Paris, the deformed bell-ringer of Notre Dame Cathedral heroically fights to save the life of a beautiful Gypsy girl about to be unjustly executed. Told with simple vocabulary and set in large type, this adaptation of the classic tale is...

Reader Review: Rags to riches sounds familiar, as does the apprentice learning his trade... but has the game started so low, or ended so high, and remained sociologically credible? Like most "hard" scifi, the number of assumptions needed is limited. Contact with an alien race imp...

Reader Review: Drew Karpyshyn is a member of BioWare and helped create Anderson as a character for the game. As a result, he knows his stuff about the Mass Effect universe so if you have played the game it's very easy to imagine the setting Karpyshyn describes. If you aren't fami...

Reader Review: I was wowed by Tim Lebbon and Into the Void. It was a perfect balance of world building and story telling. Great prose mixed with a real feel for pushing the story breathlessly forward. Although the plot is modest, it encompass everything I'm looking for but haven't ...

A story that will appeal to fans of Marion Zimmer Bradley and Zenna Henderson, The Marann recounts one woman's experience on a world where everyone can read her emotions. Marianne Woolsey is a high school Spanish teacher in rural Iowa, when Earth Central Command de...

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

A millennium into the future two advancements have altered the course of human history:  the colonization of the galaxy and the creation of the positronic brain.  Isaac Asimov's Robot novels chronicle the unlikely partnership between a New York ...

Reader Review: I love John Jackson Miller's work on Knights of the Republic Comics and Knight Errant. He has a gift for the old bait and switch and for creating funny, touching, human characters without sacrificing action and plot movement. In addition to the previously rele...

The Lost Fleet: Relentless found its way onto the New York Times bestseller list... Now Victorious leads the charge again-and "Black Jack" Geary is in command... As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain "Black Jack" Geary is prom...

Reader Review: In a near future a scientist discover an infinite, clean and free energy source that is capable to supply all the energy that the humanity requires. But this Panacea hides a terrifying secret… Definitely this is my Asimov's favorite book. During the three parts ...

Timothy Zahn’s upcoming novel Scoundrels, starring Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Lando Calrissian, returns to the excitement of the classic Star Wars films. In this thrilling prequel eBook novella, Winner Lose All, Lando and a pair of unlikely allies find the...

Reader Review: I don't go for heist flicks so I found this color by numbers boring. Characters often smudged together for me early on. I didn't like Ocean's 11 when it was a Sinatra picture and I again didn't like it when it was a Clooney picture. I'm never invested in why they'...

Caleb Mitchell is a human weapon, engineered into a biologically enhanced killing machine in the war with the alien Tahni. The war is long over and now he just wants to live a normal life as a constable on his homeworld of Canaan...but his life is torn apart when a C...

The space-faring Yherajk have come to begin humanity’s first interstellar friendship. Unfortunately, they are hideous and they smell like rotting fish. They're going to need an agent... the best agent in Hollywood.

One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire.   Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all t...

The latest novel in the New York Times -bestselling Safehold series begun with  Off Armageddon Reef , By Schism Rent Asunder , By Heresies Distressed, and A Mighty Fortress .

Reader Review: Star Wars was introduced to the idea of Outbound Flight back in Heir to the Empire. Finally, the story of Jorus C’baoth's extragalactic expedition to the Outer Regions and beyond is told. And it's told well. Outbound Flight is a fairly thick read but I found i...

"Whatever you do, please, don't throw me in that brier patch!" Rabbits have been outwitting their enemies for as long as rabbits have had enemies, and that's a very long time indeed. But few bunnies have ever found themselves in as tight as a spot as recent Academy-...

At last -- the untold chapter in the history of Star Trek's most notorious villain, KHAN. Searing and powerful, To Reign in Hell masterfully bridges the time period between Khan Noonien Singh's twenty-third-century revival in the Original Series classic episode "Sp...