Author: Jay Lake
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: escapement
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2009-03-03
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765356376
ISBN-13: 9780765356376

In his 2007 novel Mainspring, Lake created an enormous canvas for storytelling with his 100 mile high Equatorial Wall that holds up the great Gears of the Earth. Now in Escapement, he explores more of that territory. Paolina Barthes is a young woman of remarkable intellectual ability – a genius on the level of Isaac Newton. But she has grown up in isolation, in a small village of shipwreck survivors, on Wall in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She knows little of the world, but she knows that England rules it, and must be the home of people who possess the learning that she so desperate

Authors:Andre Norton, Lyn McConchie,
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: beastmaster, quest, master, beast
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-05-29
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0765353342
ISBN-13: 9780765353344

Laris is a young orphaned ex-refugee gifted with the beast master ability allowing her to communicate with animals. Her closest companion is a remarkably intelligent and mysterious cat-like creature named Prauo, whose origin is shrouded in mystery. Laris, having made a home for herself with the Quades, a family of Arzor ranchers, also has become friends with beast masters Tani and Hosteen Storm, who help her develop her beast master skills. When Laris inherits a spaceship from a distant relative, she realizes that she might now fulfill her dream of finding Prauo’s home planet. But it won’

Author: Greg Bear
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: eon, legacy
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 1996-06-15
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0812524810
ISBN-13: 9780812524819

The Way is a tunnel through space and time. The entrance is through the hollow asteroid Thistledown and the space station Axis City that sits at the asteroid’s center. From there the Flawships ride the center of the Way, traveling to other worlds and times.Now the rulers of Axis City have discovered that a huge group of colonists has secretly entered one of the interdicted worlds along the Way. In some ways Lamarkia is very Earth-like--but its biology is extraordinary. A single genetic entity can take many forms, and span a continent. There are only a few of these "ecos" on Lamarkia, and

Author: Jack Williamson
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: gate, stonehenge
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-05-02
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0765347954
ISBN-13: 9780765347954

In a basement in New Mexico, four poker buddies and amateur adventurers who have discovered a dark mystery buried beneath the sands of the Sahara desert decide to do something about it.In the deep Sahara, they find an ancient artifact that will change their lives and the world, forever… a gateway between planets that links Earth to distant worlds where they discover wonders and terrors beyond their wildest imagination.Jack Williamson, the dean of science fiction writers, masterfully weaves an exciting tale that takes the friends to the far corners of the universe. While one leads an oppresse

Author: Vernor Vinge
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: rainbows
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-04-03
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0812536363
ISBN-13: 9780812536362

Four time Hugo Award winner Vernor Vinge has taken readers to the depths of space and into the far future in his bestselling novels A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky. Now, he has written a science-fiction thriller set in a place and time as exciting and strange as any far-future world: San Diego, California, 2025. Robert Gu is a recovering Alzheimer’s patient. The world that he remembers was much as we know it today. Now, as he regains his faculties through a cure developed during the years of his near-fatal decline, he discovers that the world has changed and so has his pl

Author: John Scalzi
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: dream, android
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-10-30
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765348284
ISBN-13: 9780765348289

A human diplomat creates an interstellar incident when he kills an alien diplomat in a most…unusual…way. To avoid war, Earth’s government must find an equally unusual object: A type of sheep ("The Android’s Dream"), used in the alien race’s coronation ceremony.  To find the sheep, the government turns to Harry Creek, ex-cop, war hero and hacker extraordinaire, who with the help of Brian Javna, a childhood friend turned artificial intelligence, scours the earth looking for the rare creature. And they find it, in the unknowing form of Robin Baker, pet store owner, whose genes

Author: Catherine Asaro
Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
Keywords: empire, skolian, saga, sun, ascendant
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0812566653
ISBN-13: 9780812566659

Ascendant Sun is the direct sequel to The Last Hawk, in which Kelric, heir to the Skolian Empire, crash-landed his fighter on the Restricted planet of Coba. He was imprisoned by the powerful mistresses of the great estates--women who, over time, fell in love with him. After 18 years of living in their gilded cage, Kelric finally made his escape.In Ascendant Sun, Kelric returns to Skolian space, only to find the Empire in control of the Allied forces of Earth. With little more than the clothes on his back, Kelric is forced to take work on a merchant vessel. But when that vessel enters Euban sp