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Far from Home
by Walter Tevis&“SF writing of a rare quality&” lifts this collection of stories from the renowned author of The Hustler and The Man Who Fell to Earth (Time Out). The author of the competitive pool thriller The Hustler and the groundbreaking sci-fi novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walter Tevis was also a master of the short story. His work was published in Playboy, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and many other magazines. This anthology collects some of his best short work. Full of wit, surprise, dark humor, and deep emotion, these stories pack a punch—and are ideal for fans of his longer work or those looking for an introduction to one of America&’s most iconic sci-fi writers. &“The poetic imprints of a fine writer&’s trail.&” —The Times (London)
For Love of Mother Not
by Alan Dean FosterHe was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely campelling stare when Mather Mastiff first saw him an the auctioneer's block. One hundred credits and he was hers.For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew -- even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip.Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip's venom . . . and Flinx's unusual Talents.From the Paperback edition.
For Love of Mother-Not (Gateway Essentials #522)
by Alan Dean FosterThey called him Flinx...He was just a freckle-faced, redheaded kid with green eyes and a strangely compelling stare when Mother Mastiff first saw him on the auctioneer's block. One hundred credits and he was hers. For years the old woman was his only family. She loved him, fed him, taught him everything she knew - even let him keep the deadly flying snake he called Pip. Then Mother Mastiff mysteriously disappeared and Flinx took Pip to tail her kidnappers. Across the forests and swamps of the winged world called Moth, their only weapons were Pip's venom...and Flinx's unusual Talents.
Forgotten News: The Crime of the Century and Other Lost Stories
by Jack FinneyThe author magically transports his readers back into the strange and fascinating 19th-century world with this collection of mysterious and lurid stories that time forgot!
Forty Thousand in Gehenna
by C. J. CherryhWhen 452 standard humans and 40,000 programmed clones were sent to colonize a new world, their government lied them about their mission. The colonists are to be deliberately abandoned, as an experiment in human survival. When promised supply ships never arrive, the colonists rapidly lose their technology and are forced to struggle against Gehenna's predominant life-form, the calibans. Dragon-like mound-builders, the calibans are an enigma that prove as intelligent as humans--but in an unusual way. And calibans aren't happy that human squatters have come to change their world... Forty Thousand in Gehenna is set in the universe of Downbelow Station and Cyteen.
Frost (Saga of Frost #1)
by Robin Wayne BaileyA warrior woman embarks on a sword-and-sorcery adventure in the first novel in the Saga of Frost trilogy from the renowned fantasy author. How do you fight a supernatural battle without the most secret and ancient of powers? This is precisely the question that Frost must answer when she is given the awesome task of delivering the Book of the Last Battle to those who have work in good magic. Frost must rely solely on the physical strength of her sword and the magic contained within her beauty to succeed in her quest and regain her powers.
Futuretrack Five
by Robert WestallHenry Kitson makes his first mistake when he scores a hundred per cent in his exams. Not for him therefore the glamorous cushy career pattern of most of his contemporaries. Promoted to Tech, he is equipped with a white coat and a clipboard and becomes one of that small body who keep the country's computerized living systems going. His second mistake is going on the razzle. In London, where survival depends on skill and daring and the population is controlled by fear and sensationalism, Kitson becomes pinball champion and meets blond, leather-clad Ken, London's bike-racing champion of Futuretrack 5. Together they go north in an uneasy partnership. And what they learn as they go, they don't like, for this is Britain of the twenty-first century and if you question the system too much you come to regret it. But who does know the answers? And what is Kitson's destined role? As a fortune teller predicts, "You'll regret what you'll do for the rest of your born days. And you'll have plenty of time to regret it." In this major new novel, Robert Westall has brilliantly created a future world which is all too plausible.
Gods of Riverworld (Riverworld #5)
by Philip Jose FarmerThirty billion people from throughout Earth's history have been resurrected along the great and winding waterways of Riverworld. Most began life anew--accepting without question the sustenance provided by their mysterious benefactors. But a rebellious handful, including Mark Twain, Richard Burton, and Peter Jairus Frigate, burned to confront the unseen masters who controlled their fate--and these few launched an invasion that will ultimately yield the mind-boggling truth. The story was chronicled in four previous volumes, and is now concluded in Gods of Riverworld. Riverworld's omnipotent leaders must finally be confronted, and the renegades of Riverworld--led by the intrepid Sir Richard Francis Burton--will control the fantastic mechanism that rules them. But the most awesome challenge lies ahead. For in the vast corridors and secret rooms of the tower stronghold, an unknown enemy watches and waits to usurp the usurpers....
Gods of Riverworld (Riverworld #5)
by Philip Jose FarmerThirty billion people from throughout Earth's history have been resurrected along the great an winding waterways of Riverworld. Most began life anew - accepting without question the sustenance provided by their mysterious benefactors. But a rebellious handful burned to challenge the unseen masters who controlled their fate Now, these adventures of Riverworld have penetrated the great tower which rises from the amazing planet's north polar seas - and within it is the mighty computer which controls the resurrection of billions of human beings. It is inside this giant tower that Sir Richard Burton, Alice Liddell Hargreaves, Peter Frigate and Li Po meet their greatest challenge - and their deadliest foe.The incredible secret behind the Riverworld is about to be unveiled . . .
Golden Witchbreed (Gateway Essentials #386)
by Mary GentleOrthe - half-civilized, half-barbaric, home to human-like beings who live and die by the code of the sword. Earth envoy Lynne Christie has been sent here to establish contact and to determine whether this is a world worth developing. But first Christie must come to understand that human-like is not and never can be human, and that not even Orthe's leaders can stop the spread of rumors about her, dark whisperings that could cost Christie her life.And on a goodwill tour to the outlying provinces, these evil rumors turn to deadly accusations. Christie is no offworlder, Church officials charge: she is a treacherous and cunning descendant of Orthe's legendary Golden Witchbreed - the cruel, ruthless race that once enslaved the whole planet. Suddenly, Christie finds herself a hunted fugitive on an alien world, where friend and foe alike may prove her executioners. And her only chance of survival lies in saving Orthe from a menace older than time...
Golden Witchbreed (Golden Witchbreed #1)
by Mary GentleOrthe - half-civilized, half-barbaric, home to human-like beings who live and die by the code of the sword. Earth envoy Lynne Christie has been sent here to establish contact and to determine whether this is a world worth developing. But first Christie must come to understand that human-like is not and never can be human, and that not even Orthe's leaders can stop the spread of rumors about her, dark whisperings that could cost Christie her life.And on a goodwill tour to the outlying provinces, these evil rumors turn to deadly accusations. Christie is no offworlder, Church officials charge: she is a treacherous and cunning descendant of Orthe's legendary Golden Witchbreed - the cruel, ruthless race that once enslaved the whole planet. Suddenly, Christie finds herself a hunted fugitive on an alien world, where friend and foe alike may prove her executioners. And her only chance of survival lies in saving Orthe from a menace older than time...
Greetings from Earth (Battlestar Galactica, #8)
by Ron Goulart Glen A. LarsonIn the vast emptiness of space, the Galactica at last makes the long-awaited contact a spaceship of fellow humans from Earth! The Council wants to keep them under observation, but Apollo sets out with the Earthlings on a secret and perilous mission toward their destination, the planet Paradeen, that battleground of space giants where he must confront the old enemy the Cylons and the new the awesome Alliance and make it back to the Galactica
Hardfought
by Greg BearA Nebula Award–winning novella by the author of Moving Mars and the Eon trilogy. Humans have been engaged in a long war against an advanced alien race, the Senexi. But the possibility for peace may finally exist, thanks to a young girl who learns of the enemy&’s larger role and humanity&’s opportunity to evolve, in this award-winning story by the author of Darwin&’s Radio and many other highly acclaimed works of science fiction.
Harold and the Purple Crayon
by Crockett JohnsonThis timeless classic kindles every child's imagination as it follows Harold's adventure with his purple crayon. Images and image descriptions available.
Harold and the Purple Crayon
by Crockett Johnson<p>From beloved children’s book creator Crockett Johnson comes the timeless classic Harold and the Purple Crayon! <p>One evening Harold decides to go for a walk in the moonlight. Armed only with an oversize purple crayon, young Harold draws himself a landscape full of wonder and excitement. <p>Harold and his trusty crayon travel through woods and across seas and past dragons before returning to bed, safe and sound. Full of funny twists and surprises, this charming story shows just how far your imagination can take you.</p>
Hart's Hope
by Orson Scott CardThe power to name is the power to make. Because you dared to unmake what he dared to make, you are Queen Beauty and eternity is yours to savor revenge.
Heaven Here on Earth
by Carole MortimerRe-read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author CaroleMortimerThe loan of her friend's studio should mean three blissful weeks of peace for artistRyan to sketch and paint. But arriving at Montgomery Hall, she finds she'll be sharing herstay with her friend's arrogant and uncompromising brother, Grant!Everything about Grant sends shivers of excitement through Ryan. But hismisunderstanding of her situation evokes a response too powerful to ignore. Nothing shecan say can convince Grant of her integrity. And resisting the Lord of the manor is moredifficult than she thought! Originally published in 1983
Helliconia Summer
by Brian AldissThe second novel in the epic Helliconia trilogy. It is the summer of the Great Year on Helliconia. The humans are involved with their own affairs. Their old enemies, the phagors, are comparitively docile at this time of year; yet they can afford to wait, to take advantage of human weakness - and of the king's weakness. How they do so brings to a climax this powerfully compelling novel, in which the tortuous unwindings of circumstance enmesh royalty and commoners alike, and involve the three Helliconia continents.
Helliconia Summer (Gateway Essentials #326)
by Brian AldissThe second novel in the epic Helliconia trilogy. It is the summer of the Great Year on Helliconia. The humans are involved with their own affairs. Their old enemies, the phagors, are comparitively docile at this time of year; yet they can afford to wait, to take advantage of human weakness - and of the king's weakness. How they do so brings to a climax this powerfully compelling novel, in which the tortuous unwindings of circumstance enmesh royalty and commoners alike, and involve the three Helliconia continents.
Helliconia Summer: Helliconia Spring; Helliconia Summer; Helliconia Winter (The Helliconia Trilogy #2)
by Brian W. AldissThe Grand Master of Science Fiction&’s &“monumental&” epic continues as Helliconia nears its larger star—and a strange visitor joins its civilization (The Times, London). A handful of centuries on, Helliconia is close to the larger star in its binary system, and the Phagors have been driven into exile, but conflicting religions and hostility to science keep human civilization fragmented and constantly fighting wars over petty power and fertile land as a plague devastates populations. However, everything changes when a secret visitor from the observer satellite from Earth accepts a slow death in order to visit the planet and spend his time in the sunlight and open air. More than thirty years after the original publication of Helliconia Spring, the first volume of the Helliconia Trilogy, the series is newly available, now with a map, an afterword, and an introduction by the author.
Hiero Desteen
by Sterling E. LanierHiero Desteen is a 530 page science fictionwork written by Sterling E. Lanier. It contains two novels, hiero's Journey, first published in 1973, and The Unforsaken Hiero, published in 1983. Nelson Doubleday's summary reads as follows: Welcome to North America, 5,000 years after The Death. The ruins of the civilized world are overgrown with post-holocaust forest and deadly desert wasteland. The five Great Lakes have merged to form a vast Inland Sea. Evolution has remodeled much of the plant and animal kingdoms. In what was once the Canadian West, the small Metz Republic, led by the scholar-priests of the Abbeys, is struggling to recapture the glow of knowledge, order and civilization. But the savage forces of the Brotherhood of the Unclean seem determined to crush anything that stands in the way of its evil plans for domination. The Most Reverend Abbot Kulase Demero believes there is hope for the outnumbered Metz-but it depends on a long-lost secret that must be recovered from deep in dangerous Brotherhood territory. And if anyone can bring it back, it is bold Per Hiero Desteen, telepath, warrior and priest. Hiero's journey chronicles the warrior-priest's daring quest. Setting forth on Klootz, his telepathically controlled mount, Hiero is soon joined by Gorm, an intelligent bear... by Luchare, a beautiful, dark-skinned princess whom Hiero has rescued from torturers ... by Brother Aldo, a mysterious ''Elevener"... and by, among others, the strange Captain Gimp. Hiero and his companions face peril at every turn. But nothing can prepare them for the surprise that awaits them at their destination. The Unforsaken Hiero scatters the band of compatriots across the face of the continent. Hiero, who journeys wit!h Luchare to her troubled homeland of D'alwah, will face capture by the Unclean, death by dehydration in the Deserts of Death, murderous mutated animals, and the most devastating terror of all-loss of his unparallelled mental powers. Hiero and his allies will be tested to the very limits of their abilities. But they are bolstered by a fierce determination to defeat the Unclean. It is that determination upon which their survival depends ... and which may bring victory in their ultimate confrontation with the Unclean.
Hoka!
by Poul Anderson Gordon R. DicksonA collection of science fiction and fantasy stories about aliens who closely resemble teddy bears.
Hoka!: Hoka Book 3
by Poul Anderson Gordon R DicksonOne Hoka is a threat to human sanity. Two Hokas are a menace to civilization. And three Hokas . . . Heaven help the galaxy, in this hilarious science fiction adventure from two of the best writers in the genre.
Hyacinths
by Chelsea Quinn YarbroThose who dream for the entertainment of the masses must pay a terrible price in Grand Master Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's breathtaking vision of a dark, dystopian future America In tomorrow's world, Dreams are big business. When all labor is drudgery, when unhappiness runs rampant and violent rioting is the norm in America's cities, Dreams are the opiate of the masses, designed to keep the general population docile and entertained with calculated breaks added in for advertisements. Only a talented few have what it takes to be Dreamers--those whose nocturnal visions are suitably imaginative, coherent, and consistent enough to be shared with the public. It is the responsibility of professionals like Jehanne Bliss and her ex-husband, Tony MacKenzie, to discover potential Dreamers and help hone their remarkable abilities--and Honor Gordon, an unfulfilled worker in a hydroponics plant, appears to be a veritable diamond in the rough. But there is a terrifying dark side to this burgeoning entertainment industry, for to Dream is to court madness . . . and death. Named Grand Master of the World Horror Convention in 2003 and a Living Legend by the International Horror Guild, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro dreams up a frightening dystopian future in her extraordinary science fiction classic, Hyacinths.
I Was A Second Grade Werewolf
by Daniel PinkwaterThough he has turned into a werewolf, his parents, teacher, and classmates still see him as Lawrence Talbot, second grader.