Able One

by Ben Bova

A North Korean nuke knocks out global communications—and two more are ready to be launched! With only a 747 and its untried laser, can the U.S. avert WWIII...especially when it appears there’s a saboteur on board?

Acorna's Children 2 Vol. Set: First Warning/Second Wave

Acorna's rebellious teenage daughter, Khorii, yearns to emerge from her parents' heroic shadow. But when an aggressive and highly lethal virus sweeps the Federation, Khori sets out to find a cure before it kills everyone, including her beloved parents. And that will have her dealing with a completely new problem—her own hero status. Later, on a distant planet, another Linyaari girl, a captive of the Grimalkin's crossbreeding program, escapes to the kin she's only just learned about, and comes face to face with her long-lost twin sister: Khorii.

The Alton Gift

by Marion Zimmer Bradley

It is four years since Darkover's ruler died, years of troubles and plagues. As the old ways pass, everyone's fate hinges on the Alton Gift, the power to compel others to do one's bidding — and on one Terran soldier against whom it was once used.

Anathem

by Neal Stephenson

Something is happening out in space…but what? To avert a mysterious disaster, the philospher-monk Raz is thrust on a dangerous mission into the roiling world outside the monastery walls…and beyond the sphere of Orth.

And Another Thing...

by Eoin Colfer

It’s been 30 years since Arthur Dent was first propelled into outer space by a spaceship equipped with the Infinite Improbability Drive. Now he's back, in the surprising book six of the Hitchhiker’s series.

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The Asteroid Wars (3-in-1)

by Ben Bova

The rapid increase of global warming has unleashed a plague of environmental disasters across the Earth: rising seas flooding coastlines; climate shifts turning croplands into deserts; mega-storms and earthquakes leaving millions homeless, sick and starving…or dead. Once one of the richest men in the world, Dan Humphries knows the raw materials of space are crucial to Earth’s survival, but his company, Astro Manufacturing, is close to bankruptcy. His business rival, fabulously wealthy Martin Humphries, isn’t burdened with Randolph’s social conscience; he doesn’t care if Earth perishes so long as he makes a profit. Pitching a can’t-miss business proposition, he knows Randolph will risk everything to save the planet—putting Humphries one step closer to his true goal: controlling Astro…. When top-notch pilot Pancho Lane came to work at Astro Manufacturing, her only thought was to keep her dead sister cryonically preserved until she could be revived. So when Martin Humphries offers her money to spy on her boss, it’s a no-brainer—until Dan Randolph taps her to fly the first fusion ship to the Asteroid Belt…. And while Starpower 1 steams on the launch pad, Martin Humphries ignites a vicious power struggle that will be felt from the bedroom to the boardroom, from the ravaged face of the Earth to the rocky depths of the asteroids, with the survival of humanity hanging in the balance. Includes The Precipice, The Rock Rats and The Silent War. Warning: Explicit sex and language. Jacket art by Stephan Martiniere. (982 pp. total). 2001-2004.

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The Audran Sequence (3-in-1)

by George Alec Effinger

Effinger’s classic mix of sci-fi and noir detection includes When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun and The Exile Kiss.

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Don’t let mega-corporate greed destroy the pristine jungle world of Pandora! Uncover classified secrets they don’t want you to know in this stunning, full-color companion to the most anticipated film of the year—Avatar.