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When the empire is challenged by a band of machine-augmented humans who seek to put their own gods in control by kidnapping the Immortal Child Empress, captain Laurent Zal of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is charged with her rescue.

"It is twenty-five years since China established the first colony on the moon, and the lives of three people are about to collide. American Fred Fredericks is making his first trip there, his purpose to install a communications system for China's Lunar Science Foundation. But hours after his arrival he witnesses a murder and is forced into hiding. It is also the first visit to the moon for celebrity travel reporter Ta Shu. He has contacts and influence,...

Recently cut off from her home planet with the rest of her colony, psychic detective Amaryllis Lark is approached by Lucas Trent, the head of Lodestar Exploration, to help him expose a corporate thief.

The dragons of Pern are dying...and the only person who can save them has been dead for over 400 Turns. This fantasy is written by Anne McCaffrey's son, Todd, heir to the literary world of Pern.

As Harmony's Oversoul (a sentient computer) grows weaker, a great warrior has arisen to challenge its bans. His name is Moozh, and he has won control of an army using forbidden technology. Now he is aiming his soldiers at the city of Basilica, that strong fortress above the Plain. Wetchik and his sons are not strong enough to stop this army, but meanwhile, inspired by a dream from the Oversoul, Wetchik's family prepares to return to Earth.

As the conditions necessary to sustain life on Tvíbura grow erratic, the populace attempts two monumental undertakings that will span generations: rejuvenating the ecosphere and building a literal bridge to Tvíbura's uninhabited twin planet, Tvíburi.

The solar system is torn by civil war when a conflict breaks out between the residents of the Met, a network of space cables spanning the inner planets, and the pioneers of the outer planets, where the boundaries between human and artificial intelligenceare indistinct.

An alternative history in which the enemies of World War II suspend hostilities to fight invaders from outer space. In this, the third volume in the series, a shortage of gasoline has forced them to fall back on World War I-style regiments of cavalry, horse-drawn artillery and troops of cyclists. They have also resurrected a banned weapon, poison gas. By the author of Worldwar: Tilting the balance.