In a world where the children of immortal parents find growing up hard to do, young prince Bascal and his equally disgruntled companions build an improbable spaceship and make a daring escape, which ultimately leads to a teenage revolution. Original.
The Nebula Award-nominated author of "The Collapsium" sweeps readers into the future on a thrilling odyssey of discovery and adventure aboard a ship of exiled rebels coming of age in an eternity that may be shorter than anyone has ever guessed. Original.
David Sanger, an ambitious young physicist, attends a party at which a pompous older scientist, who just happens to have thrwarted the younger man's innovative ideas, is murdered. Suddenly it is not just David's career, but his life that is at stake. Are his ideas that important? Who's out to stop David from changing the world?
The sudden development of two diametrically opposed technological breakthroughs threatens the fabric of the universe with utter destruction, unless two quibbling scientists can get past their differences and sort out the problem.
This collection of original new stories by today's masters of science fiction and fantasy contains classic fairy tales gone "techno, " with such familiar favorites as "Sleeping Beauty, " "The Emperor's New Clothes, " and "Goldilocks and the Three Bears" given an outer-space spin. Authors include Thomas Wylde, Ronnie Seagren, Stanley Schmidt, Tanya ...
McCarthy, chief technology officer for Galileo Shipyards, offers a glimpse, many years down the road, into programmable matter, complex structures that can be transformed from one substance to another by electronic manipulation at the atomic level. HACKING MATTER serves as a lay primer for a dream of science fiction that McCarthy promises will be ...
From the author of Agressor Six comes the story of human colonists on a pioneer planet who discover an intriguing alien mineral. Scientists from Earth travel 40 light years to investigate and encounter something far more interesting--aliens who can withstand the incredible conditions of a black hole.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2003, held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in June 2003. The 25 revised full papers presented together with an introductory survey article were carefully reviewed and selected from 77 submissions. Among the issues addressed are Web ...
The attack came from the belt of Orion without warning or reason--an invincible alien onslaught bent on blowing mankind into oblivion. Humanity is on the edge of extinction. Aggressor Six has a job to do and it isn't to fight. It is to think, act, and become the enemy. But then they stumble upon the unthinkable.
A plague of human-created, atom-sized machines, known as Mycora, has ravaged the Earth, driving the remnants of humankind further into space, where the temperature and lack of light make it hard for the machines to self-replicate. Several years later, an expedition is mounted to return to Earth to see how far the machines have evolved, and ...
In the conclusion to the epic interstellar adventure by the Nebula Award-nominated author, humanity stands at a crossroads as the heroes who fashioned a man-made heaven must rescue their descendants from eternal damnation. Original.
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