At interstellar brinkmanship Captain James T. Kirk has no match.  But now he faces a foe of incredible power and intelligence, a nightmare image from humanity's past.  The odds of failure: great.  Chances of success: slim to none.

THE SEED

Jason Worthing was a telepath, and the best of the ark captains sent to seed humankind anew on a hundred new worlds.  He vowed that his new world would be different from the stagnant one he had fled.  He established his colonists and his descendants; and when he was sure that they would survive, he sealed himself in the last somec chamber in all the galaxy, triggered to awaken him when his world had built a new civilization.

He slept for fifteen thousand years.  And when he awoke, it was to a future he had never dreamed of...

SOMEC

It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for a long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful - they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Somec created two societies: that of people who lived out their normal span and died, and those who slept away the decades, skipping over the intervening years and events. It allowed great plans to be put in motion. It allowed interstellar Empires to be built.

It came near to destroying humanity.

After a long, long time of decadence and stagnation, a few seed ships were sent out to save our species. They carried human embryos and supplies, and teaching robots, and one man. The Worthing Saga is the story of one of these men, Jason Worthing, and the world he found for the seed he carried.

Orson Scott Card is "a master of the art of storytelling" (Booklist), and The Worthing Saga is a story that only he could have written.

THE
WORTHING
SAGA

STAR WARS®
They are the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force - sleek, swift, and deadly.  For these X-wing fighters, no job is too dirty or too dangerous.  Now they must rise to meet an impossible challenge: stop a powerful warlord by pretending to be his ally.

X-WING
IRON FIST

Against all odds, the controversial Wraith Squadron has survived its first covert mission.  But now they are called upon the cheat death twice.  This time Wedge Antilles sends them in to stop the warlord Zsinj and his Super Star Destroyer, Iron Fist.  If Zsinj joins the Empire, it could turn the tide of war against the Rebels.  The Wraith Squadron's mission: infiltrate the warlord's fleet and uncover his carefully guarded plans.  To do so, they must pose as ruthless pirates seeking to join Zsinj's forces.  And that means first becomming pirates in space lanes teaming with Imperial Navy patrols.  If that isn't enough to get them killed, they'll have to pass one last test - a suicide mission for Zsinj.

Can they survive the test and turn the tables on Zsinj?

Or is this the end for Wraith Squadron?

PREPARE YOURSELF FOR
WARP-10 EXCITEMENT!

The Galaxy's ultimate future is in the hands of James Kirk, Mr. Spock and the indomitable crew of the Enterprise...

The Galaxy's ultimate weapon is in the hands of the evil Khan and his followers.

A battle that will shake the universe cannot be avoided...  And the ultimate adventure is about to begin!

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The sphere is alien in origin, but has been controlled by Man for millennia. A legend as old as the stars rules this constructed world: when the seventh seventh seventh human Heptarch is crowned, he will be the Kristos and will bring eternal salvation...or the destruction of the cosmos.

Patience is the only daughter of the rightful Heptarch, but she, like her father before her, serves the usurper who has destroyed her family. For she has learned the true ruler's honor: that duty to one's race is more important than duty to one's self. But the time for prudence has passed, and that which has slept for ages has awakened. Patience must journey to the heartsoul of this planet to confront her destiny...and her world's.

Wyrms is an Orson Scott Card classic, one of the novels that helped forge his young career.

THE WAR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET LISITANIA WILL BE FOUGHT IN THE HEART OF A CHILD NAMED GLORIOUSLY BRIGHT

On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different intelligent species could find common ground at last. Or so he thought.

Lusitania also harbors the descolada, a virus that kills all humans it infects, but which the pequininos require in order to tranform into adults.  The Startways Congress so fears the effects of the descolada, should it escape from Lusitania, that they have ordered the destruction of the entire planet, and all who live there. The Fleet is on its way, a second Xenocide seems inevitable.

Until the fleet vanishes.

The task of discovering how the ships were made to disappear falls to Gloriously Bright, the most brilliant analytical mind in a world of people bred to superintelligence.  There is little doubt that she can solve the puzzle: but will she choose life or death for the three races who live on Lusitania?

"Card has raised to a fine art the creation of suspense by means of ethocal dilemmas."  - Chicago Sun-Times

"XENOCIDE is certain to be one of the most sought-after new books of the year."  - Science Fiction Chronicles

"An undeniable heavyweight... This book combines Card's quirky style with his hard ethical dilemmas and sharply drawn portraits."  - New York Daily News

'Doctor!' said Anji.  This couldn't be happening, he couldn't just walk out on them!  'Look, give them a chance, they're frightened, they're only -'

'Human?'  He took a deep breath, as though to stop himself from saying anything more.  'Now stay!'

The weather is going to hell.  The tigers are coming to town.  And the Doctor has taken his violin and vanished.

The island world of Hitchemus is home to a colony of musicians and seemingly harmless alien animals.  When the storms and the tigers break loose, the Doctor tries to protect the humans - but the humans don't want him.  When he ventures into the wilderness in search of the tigers' secrets, Fitz and Anji find themselves on their own, trying to prevent war.

With both sides eager for blood, and hurricanes on the horizon, the Doctor must decide whether this time he's on the side of the human race.

YOUNG BLEYS is the newest volume in Gordon R. Dickson's masterpiece, "The Childe Cycle," a future history that has been thrilling readers for more than three decades.

By the workings of chance Bleys Ahrens was born the genetic equal of Hal Mayne, the hero of The Final Encyclopedia, but he was destined by nurture to a far different fate.  Raised alone by his unhappy Exotic mother, Bleys was an outcast from every society until his half-brother Dahno claimed him.

Disciplined by Friendlies, schooled by Exotics, Dahno was beginning to build an interplanetary network of half-breeds, who called themselves "Others."  But Dahno thought only of gaining wealth and power for himself; Bleys saw an opppor-tunity to challenge the Dorsai for control of the Human Worlds.

'Good morning. We're doomed. Would you like a cup of tea?'

On the far side of a break in the fabric of space is the planet Zamper, home of a secretive organization that constructs and sells the mightiest warships in the galaxy. It is to Zamper that the last warriors of the fallen Chelonian Empire have come in a final attempt to restore their race's glory.

Separated from the TARDIS, the Doctor and his companions are intrigued by the bizarre operations on Zamper. Why are accidents and power failures afflicting the planet? What is the true agenda of the mysterious Management? And what are the strange powers of the alien shipbuilders?

'You've decided to concentrate on deriving energy from the kinetic force of planetary movement...'

A glib remark from the Doctor to a desperate scientist has had far-reaching effects on the empire of Morestra.  Eminent Morestran scientist Sorenson, attempting to find a new power source for his planet, risked a universal catastrophe by attempting to steal anti-matter crystals from the distant planet Zeta Minor.  The Doctor averted disaster, but has in effect sent all Morestra up a technological cul-de-sac.

Now in his fifth regeneration, the Doctor becomes involved once again in Morestra's future.  The empire has become a theocracy, and the all-powerful Church, finally discovering that Sorenson's world-spanning energy tower will never work, is attempting to save face by covertly returning to Zeta Minor to steal the powerful minerals they need.  This time, they believe they are prepared for all eventualities...

With his companions embroiled in ever-shifting loyalties and intrigues of the Morestran court, only the Doctor accepts that the forces of the anti-matter universe can never interact with our own.  Can he stop something he started two thousand years ago?