Featuring contributions from Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross and Greg Bear, this brilliant collection of sci-fi stories are centered around those that experience an ultimate - and wondrous - moment of understanding about the mechanics of the universe.

ORDER # S1210-1   $13-90   ISBN 9781907519529

Recruited for the Valhalla Project to take part in unspecified combat operations, former soldier Gideon Dixon finds himself fighting alongside the gods of the ancient Norse pantheon during one of the world's worst winters.

ORDER # S1210-2   $13-90   ISBN 9781907519413

A sequel to Daemon traces the outbreak of a brutal civil war in the American midwest stemming from the Daemon's civilization-rebuilding activities, a conflict during which reluctant Daemon operative Pete Sebeck leads a small band of enlightened humans in an effort to protect the new world order.

ORDER # S1210-3   $15-90   ISBN 9780451231895 

A sequel to the bestselling Empire finds Captain Cole becoming increasingly concerned about new U.S. President Averell Torrent's tough-handed foreign policy stance, a perspective that causes him to be targeted and prompts his investigation into the president's role in an assassination plot.

ORDER # S1210-4   $13-90   ISBN 9780765359711

Wyman Ford and a team of scientists must figure out how to destroy an alien doomsday weapon aimed at Earth, and the only tools at their disposal are the a handful of weaponless machines - the Mars Orbiter, a lander and a few satellites - not much to work with, especially since they only have 60 hours to save the planet.

ORDER # S1210-5   $15-90   ISBN 9780765356970 

Awakening in the Braintree Institute with a radical technology designed to correct her brain injury, Maddy Grant, sent to the nearby village of Harmony to be integrated back into society and monitored by Braintree scientists, soon discovers that she is being reprogrammed to become a killer.

ORDER # S1210-6   $13-90   ISBN 9780441020126

The catlike kzin and humans continue their uneasy peace as they encounter a planet populated by humans claiming to be part of the Roman empire, a man finds himself suspected by the police and an angry kzin of killing his employer, and the Protectors must stop the kzin from gaining access to a source of unimaginable power.

ORDER # S1210-7   $13-90   ISBN 9781439134108

While Spock is on Romulus trying to reunify the Vulcans and Romulans, which traps him in the middle of a major power struggle, Benjamin Sisko temporarily rejoins Starfleet to destroy the Borg and return to a peaceful life on Bajor with his wife and daughter.

ORDER # S1210-8   $13-90   ISBN 9781439160817

As the slave masters of Mesa plot against the Star Empire of Manticore and the newly liberated slave planet of Torch, secret agent Anton Zilwicki investigates a wave of mysterious assassinations, and a young security officer hired by Torch official and suspected terrorist Jeremy X grows attached to Queen Berry, whom he has sworn to protect.

ORDER # S1210-9   $15-50   ISBN 9781439134085 

While Earth prepares for battle, Carmen Dula and her crew travel to a distant solar system to attempt to forge a truce with "The Others" in this novel from the award-winning author of Marsbound.

ORDER # S1210-10   $13-90   ISBN 9780441019793

Led only by the slightly insane Indowy and a computer virus, the Posleen retrace the footsteps of their ancestors through space in search of their homeland, an endeavor that leads them down a new path, one that could mean war with the humans.

ORDER # S1210-11   $13-90   ISBN 9781439134092

While helping a hoard of magical creatures who need food and shelter, and planning her foster daughter's 10th birthday party, Persephone Alcmedi must help her boyfriend Johnny, the ruler of the waere world, unleash his power, which is locked in his tattoos.

ORDER # S1210-12   $13-90   ISBN 9781439190258

This original collection of urban fantasy stories, set in such locales as trailer parks, fishing shacks and sleepy little towns where otherworldly creatures can be themselves, features contributions from Gene Wolfe, Timothy Zahn, Linda P. Baker and Donald J. Bingle.

ORDER # S1210-13   $13-90   ISBN 9780756406530

A corrupt coven has denounced and shunned bounty-hunting witch Rachel Morgan for dealing with demons, a crime that is punishable by death, and now for the first time Rachel must face off against her own kind.

ORDER # S1210-14   $13-90   ISBN 9780061138041

Borenson and Myrrima endeavor to save their land and people in the aftermath of Borenson's merge with an otherworldly monster who transforms him into an enormous berserker warrior and renders him a pawn to supernatural rulers.

ORDER # S1210-15   $13-90   ISBN 9780765361400

Provided with a note of introduction to the head of the House Terafin, Jewel Markess escapes the chaos of the escalating demonic activity of the Undercity with her den of orphans, and discovers her destiny.

ORDER # S1210-16   $15-50   ISBN 9780756406448 

Even though he has a griffin - a sign of status - by his side, Arren Cardockson, unable to escape the prejudice associated with his Northerner slave origins, is betrayed by those he trusted and forced to fight for his life in a place where a kindred spirit also longs to be free.

ORDER # S1210-17   $13-90   ISBN 9780441019786

Determined to protect what's left of Horngate, their coven's home, Max, a deadly Shadowblade, and her closest ally, Alexander, embark on a desperate journey into the unknown where everything they believe in is put to the test.

ORDER # S1210-18   $13-90   ISBN 9781416598152

As they launch their ZombieBusters business, married couple Sarah and David, trying to be successful after the zombie apolocalypse, must take down a mad scientist who wants to keep zombies alive and use them for experimentation.

ORDER # S1210-19   $13-90   ISBN 9780316102957

As a new empire prepares to rise up from the deserts of Nehekhara, led by one of the most feared necromancers, Sigmar, the first Emperor and unbreakable warrior, must defend the living from the dead.

ORDER # S1210-20   $15-50   ISBN 9781844168996 

As the races of Tyria stand on the edge of destiny, and the age of mortals comes to an end, six heroic individuals will come together to fight for their people, becoming Destiny's Edge.

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Private investigator John Taylor becomes the successor to Walker, a shady agent who runs the Nightside on behalf of The Authorities.

ORDER # S1210-22   $13-90   ISBN 9780441019779

When the banished Hellion starts trespassing in her dreams and several of Deadtown's zombies are viciously attacked and become really dead, professional demon slayer Victory Vaughn discovers that the demon is somehow working through her dreams to unleash hell upon Deadtown.

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When her son Froan, armed with a dark magic he does not understand, sets out to claim his destiny, Yim, an ex-slave blessed by the goddess Karm, turns to Honus, the love she abandoned, for help in saving Froan from the evil that is in his blood.

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To get home from the twisted parallel universe in which she's been called to duty, FBI profiler Jace Valcheck must align herself with a sorcerer known as Asher in order to capture serial killer Aristotle Stoker and return to her own dimension.

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When his promotion makes him responsible for the impending rising of a zombie god, Steven de Selby, while planning a Death Moot, organizing a Christmas party, and averting the apocalypse, must find a way to manage Death.

ORDER # S1210-26   $13-90   ISBN 9780316077989

Caught in the war between werewolves and vampires, Jane Yellowrock, a shapeshifting skinwalker and vampire killer for hire, is rescued by a mysterious stranger who claims to be a Mercy Blade - a sacred position charged with killing vampires who have gone insane.

ORDER # S1210-27   $13-90   ISBN 9780451463722

At the behest of the Emperor, Leman Russ, Primarch of the Space Wolves, journeys to Prospero, a world filled with sorcerers, to apprehend his brother whose catastrophic mistake has endangered the safety of Terra.

ORDER # S1210-28   $15-50   ISBN 9781844167777 

While working on a task force that deals with paranormal crimes, homicide detective and demon summoner Kara Gillian gets herself into a situation with one of the most powerful demons, which threatens her relationship with her partners, while trying to solve a string of murders fuelled by sex, drugs, and rock'n'roll.

ORDER # S1210-29   $13-90   ISBN 9780756406523

When her usefulness as a Hound begins wearing thin in the supernatural community, tracker Genevieve Scelan must break all of her own rules and take a job that might pay off her debts and save her from a fate worse than death.

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Librarian and failed student of sorcery Portier de Savin-Duplais is asked by the King of Sabria to investigate an attempted murder with disturbing magical implications in the first book of a new fantasy trilogy.

ORDER # S1210-31   $13-90   ISBN 9780451463739

A latest entry in the popular new-generation Wild Cards series finds the Suicide Kings inciting chaos throughout America and Africa in their continuing struggle to reclaim their humanity in a world of fearful adversaries.

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Torn between two dangerously seductive vampires - one who wants to kill her, and one who just wants her, New York P.I. Shiarra Waynest, while dealing with her jealous werewolf boyfriend, finds her beliefs challenged when she is asked to join a powerful vampire-hunting faction.

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While investigating a series of grisly attacks on supernatural, halfling and human females, Jane True must confront her darkest fears as well as her deepest desires.

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In search of the Stonewalkers and the ancient texts they supposedly possess, Wynn journeys to the mountain stronghold of the dwarves where she encounters an old enemy she thought she destroyed.

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A supertanker has crashed off the shores of San Francisco, producing the largest oil spill in history. Desperate to avert an ecological and public relations disaster, a multinational oil company releases an untested virus designed to break up the spill. What the company doesn't realize is that their microbe propagates through the air.

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The plans of the dark sorcerer Arunis have been thwarted--for now. But the battle for control of the gargantuan ship "Chathrand, " on which hinges the fate of empires, is far from over. A small band of allies on board, bound together less by trust than by need, must scramble to fight an imperial conspiracy, while the sword-wielding Lady Thasha Isiq and the deckhand Pazel Pathkendle find themselves unwillingly drawn in to Arunis's shadow games by unexpected secrets.

ORDER # S1210-37   $13-90   ISBN 9780345508867

For decades, inexplicable technology has passed into our world through the top secret anomaly called the Breach. The latest device can punch a hole into the future. What Paige Campbell saw when she opened a door into seventy years from now scared the hell out of her. She and her Tangent colleagues brought their terrible discovery to the President - and were met with a hail of automatic gunfire after leaving the White House. Only Paige survived.

ORDER # S1210-38   $13-90   ISBN 9780061584442

They called him the Terror of the East. Hidden beneath a suit of enchanted black armor and wielding a demon-forged axe, Corvis Rebaine carved a bloody path through Imphallion, compelled by a desire to see the land governed with some degree of honesty. Yet just when victory was in his grasp, Rebaine faltered, then vanished, taking a single hostage - a young noblewoman named Tyannon - to guarantee his escape.

ORDER # S1210-39   $13-90   ISBN 9780553593150

In a fantasy city reminiscent of 15thcentury Venice, a boy vampire captures the attention of Duke Alonzo's chief assassin, Marco, who aims to make the supernatural marvel his apprentice.

ORDER # S1210-40   $22-90   ISBN 9780316074391 

In the final instalment of a trilogy, the world is coming to an end as old rivals clash in epic battle and the fabric of the dimensions is torn, and the Raven must rise to the occasion.

ORDER # S1210-41   $24-90   ISBN 9781616142520 

Ruith must accept magic as his birthright and gather his father's spells together so he can destroy them, or he must turn away and permit his father's evil to take control over the Nine Kingdoms.

ORDER # S1210-42   $22-90   ISBN 9780425238639 

Torn between two worlds - the faery and the human, half-blood Jenni, one of the last surviving Mistweavers, must work with her ex-lover Tage to rescue her missing brother and save the Lightfolk from the darkness that threatens to consume them all.

ORDER # S1210-43   $22-90   ISBN 9780373803231 

Charged with enforcing peaceful relations between vampires and humans, wise-cracking vampire commando Lawson travels to Japan to pursue advanced ninja training only to find himself in the midst of a Yakuza turf war orchestrated by an organ trafficking lynchpin.

ORDER # S1210-44   $22-90   ISBN 9780312662233 

Long ago, in the deepest dark of the Black Forest, Peter Piper and his older brother Max encountered ominous forces that changed them both irreparably, in an epic tale of sibling rivalry, magic, music and revenge that spans medieval times to the present day. Illustrations.

ORDER # S1210-45   $22-90   ISBN 9781401225377 

Experiencing an awakening of supernatural powers on the eve of her coronation, Elizabeth I teams up with her lover and other high-ranking confidantes to hunt down the seductive vampire king, Mordred.

ORDER # S1210-46   $22-90   ISBN 9781439190333 

The resilience of the Raven are tested when the magical colleges of Balaia battle each other for supremacy.

ORDER # S1210-47   $24-90   ISBN 9781616142506 

Lavishly illustrated with black-and-white art by the team behind Dark Horse Comic's "The Adventures of Two-Gun Bob," an anthology of Howard's classic desert adventures featuring legendary swordsman Dark Agnes restores each tale to its earliest, most definitive version. Illustrations.

ORDER # S1210-48   $25-90   ISBN 9780345505460 

When dark sorcery besieges the royal city of Merona, Anne de Vernase must take on her sister's magical legacy in order to uncover the truth behind her death in this novel from the author of The Spirit Lens.

ORDER # S1210-49   $23-90   ISBN 9780451463746 

In a version of America called "The Real," President Jimmy Carter promotes peace after years of war aimed at correcting wrongs in alternate-history versions of America, accessible through technology called Turing gates, but former CIA Adam Stone discovers a vast conspiracy to launch a new round of violence and change the history of every America, including The Real.

ORDER # S1210-50   $23-90   ISBN 9781616142513 

Maintaining a blog from inside a bookstore where she and five co-workers are trapped during the Zombie Apocalypse, Allison wryly documents the sensational adventures they share while carving their way through ranks of zombies and equally threatening humans.

ORDER # S1210-51   $22-90   ISBN 9780312658908 

The invasion begins . . . and the dead start to rise. There's panic in the streets of London as invaders from Mars wreak havoc on the living. But that's not the only struggle mankind must face. The dead are rising from their graves with an insatiable hunger for human flesh.

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While the meek and mild flying monkey Bufkin is trapped in Fabletown's collapsed business office with the evil witch Baba Yaga, Frau Totenkinder and the witches at the Farm upstate prepare to deal with Mister Dark down in what's left of Fabletown.

ORDER # S1210-53   $25-90   ISBN 9781401228804

Based on characters and situations from the Legend of Drizzt, "The Sellswords" is an omnibus that collects the complete text of all three novels: "Servant of the Shard, Promise of the Witch-King," and "Road of the Patriarch."

ORDER # S1210-54   $23-90   ISBN 9780786957163

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In Michael Moorcock's vast and imaginative multiverse, Law and Chaos wage war in a never-ending struggle over the fundamental rules of existence. Here, in this universe, Dorian Hawkmoon traverses a world of antique cities, scientific sorcery, and crystalline machines as he pulled unwillingly into a war that pits him against the ruthless and dominating armies of Granbretan.

ORDER # S1210-55   $22-90   ISBN 9780765324764

The Human-Covenant war rages on as the alien juggernaut sweeps inexorably toward its final goal: destruction of all human life! Halo has been destroyed, and the threat it posed to sentient life, neutralized. But victory has come at a terrible cost for the UNSC. Thousands of valiant soldiers fell in the battle to prevent the alien construct from falling into the enemy's clutches. Now, everything depends on the Spartan known as the "Master Chief." Yet even with the aid of the artificial intelligence Cortana, the Master Chief will be hard-pressed to rescue survivors and evade the Covenant ships patrolling the remains of Halo in debris-strewn space.

ORDER # S1210-56   $22-90   ISBN 9780765328342

In early-seventeenth-century Venice, a mysterious stranger tells Galileo about magnifying lenses he has seen in the Netherlands, inspiring the scientist to construct a workable spyglass and later view the bodies in the night sky with it. One night, in company with the visitor, Galileo is transported centuries into the future and spatially to the moons of Jupiter. He's the center of a dispute there between those who believe that, if he does certain things, their future will never come to pass and those who don't believe it.

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On an island where colonists abandoned a silver mine 70 years ago, the noble met'Oc family holds the weapons that help prevent island natives from overrunning the colonists, but soon, Gignomai of the met'Oc will meet the greatest challenge his family has ever seen.

ORDER # S1210-58   $22-90   ISBN 9780316038560 

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Seeking refuge in fantasy novel worlds throughout a youth under the shadow of a dubiously sane half-brother who dabbled in magic, Mori Phelps is forced to confront her mother in a tragic battle and gains unwanted attention when she attempts to perform spells herself.

ORDER # S1210-59   $35-90   ISBN 9780765321534 

Chosen to be the apprentice of an ailing protective assassin in a world dominated by a nihilistic urban cult, Nico accompanies his master on a retribution mission to kill the murderous son of the cult's ruthless matriarch.

ORDER # S1210-60   $35-90   ISBN 9780765331052 

Private investigator John Taylor finds himself suddenly the reluctant owner of the legendary sword Excalibur and must pay a visit to the Last Defenders of Camelot, who dwell in a place more frightening than Nightside, to find out why.

ORDER # S1210-61   $35-90   ISBN 9780441019700 

After he is ordered to investigate a murder, Al Jeery, a loyal member of The Cardinal's personal guard, must contend with The City's dead Incan forefathers, the Cardinal himself and a shadowy, above-the-law assassin.

ORDER # S1210-62   $28-90   ISBN 9780446551731 

Raised in a family where his cousins and he are directed to read a secret library of books written in a strange language, Dan North discovers that he is a member of an exiled clan of mages and that his birth has reignited a war.

ORDER # S1210-63   $35-90   ISBN 9780765326577 

Jewel, an orphan who survived the slums of Averalaan and the demonic dangers of Undercity, becomes a key figure in the House of Terafin of the Essalieyan Empire and must now take part in the House War.

ORDER # S1210-64   $35-90   ISBN 9780756406516 

In this third novel in the Noble Dead series, young Journeyor Wynn Hygeorht finds herself braving the wilderness on a dangerous question for knowledge that may ultimately lead to her doom.

ORDER # S1210-65   $36-90   ISBN 9780451463753 

A series conclusion picks up after the cliff-hanger ending in Dreamfever and finds faeseer and slayer MacKayla Lane succumbing to her passions while witnessing the crumbling of boundaries between the faerie and human worlds.

ORDER # S1210-66   $35-90   ISBN 9780385341677 

A follow-up to The Conqueror's Shadow finds Corvis Rebaine working to clear his name and stop the work of a killer bent on framing him for the murders of leading aristocrats and Guild members, a situation that is further complicated by the abduction of his daughter. Map.

ORDER # S1210-67   $35-90   ISBN 9780553807776 

As a U.S. mission to the moon prepares to lift off decades after the 1969 lunar mission, a secret Chinese trip to the moon is revealed when a distress signal is received, prompting the U.S. team to turn a journey of discovery into a desperate rescue mission.

ORDER # S1210-68   $35-90   ISBN 9781439134054 

People once thought the Cobra warriors - a guerilla force whose weapons are surgically implanted - were not worth their high cost, but now a Troft faction has invaded the Cobra planets in hopes of harnessing the fighting technology, using a strategy that even the formidable Cobra warriors may not be able to defeat.

ORDER # S1210-69   $34-90   ISBN 9781439134061 

After the Reclaimator Space Marines suffer terrible losses, Ciaphas Cain and Jurgen must fight their way through stowaway orks and other enemies in order to escape the drifting hulk of a crippled spaceship.

ORDER # S1210-70   $35-90   ISBN 9781844168910 

A first instalment in a planned trilogy set in the universe of the best-selling series by the Hugo Award and Nebula Award-winning author of Mariposa focuses on the ancient engineering race of the Forerunners to reveal the sources of their technological mastery and elevation to god status by the Covenant.

ORDER # S1210-71   $35-90   ISBN 9780765323965 

Marrying after college only to be separated by Chelle's tour of duty in a war against aliens from distant solar systems, Chelle and Skip find their relationship further complicated by time differentials that cause an injured and war-weary Chelle to age only a few months while Skip reaches his 40s.

ORDER # S1210-72   $35-90   ISBN 9780765328182 

A follow-up to the best-selling Star Wars: Death Troopers presents a zombie horror tale set in the Star Wars universe in which Sith academy apprentices fearfully react to new outbreaks of unexplained violence, the Dark Lord's withdrawal and a Jedi Master's efforts to rescue a hostage.

ORDER # S1210-73   $37-90   ISBN 9780345511171 

If they are ever going the claim the land between the Ohio River and Tennessee, Major David Valentine and the rest of the resistance must make a desperate dash by hijacked rail and a harrowing river journey to find help to defeat the merciless Kurian vampires.

ORDER # S1210-74   $35-90   ISBN 9780451463340