SFWA Grand Master C. J. Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher return to the Hugo-award winning Alliance-Union Universe with a thrilling entry in her far-reaching sci-fi saga.
For years, the stations of the Hinder Stars, those old stations closest to Sol, have lagged behind the great megastations of the Beyond, like Pell and Cyteen. But new opportunities and fears arise when Alpha station, the oldest of them all, receives news of a huge incoming faster-than-light ship with no identification. The denizens of Alpha wait anxiously for news about the outsiders, each with their own suspicions about the ship and its motivations.…
Tiamat's Wrath is the eighth book in the New York Times bestselling and Hugo-award winning Expanse series.
Thirteen hundred gates have opened to solar systems around the galaxy. But as humanity builds its interstellar empire in the alien ruins, the mysteries and threats grow deeper.
In the dead systems where gates lead to stranger things than alien planets, Elvi Okoye begins a desperate search to discover the nature of a genocide that happened before the first human beings existed, and to find weapons to fight a war against forces at the edge of the…
Humanity has colonized the planets - interstellar travel is still beyond our reach, but the solar system has become a dense network of colonies. But there are tensions - the mineral-rich outer planets resent their dependence on Earth and Mars and the political and military clout they wield over the Belt and beyond. Now, when Captain Jim Holden's ice miner stumbles across a derelict, abandoned ship, he uncovers a secret that threatens to throw the entire system into war. Attacked by a stealth ship belonging to the Mars fleet, Holden must find a way to uncover the motives behind the…
John MacAlister’s latest job ends the way most of them do—on fire.
Waking up in a lunar holding cell wasn’t part of the plan—neither was sinking to the level of cargo smuggling just to stay afloat. Discharged from the Star Corps after a rescue mission went wrong, John’s been scraping by on bad contracts and worse decisions, helped only by Alvis—a junkyard robot with relentless logic, stubborn ethics, and no interest in sparing John’s feelings.
Freedom comes as an ultimatum: find a runaway girl named Ril, a street-smart teen carrying a secret powerful enough to topple one of the galaxy’s biggest corporations.
Hand her over and walk free. Protect her and make enemies he can’t outrun.
Saving his own skin is easy. Saving his soul may cost him the only freedom he has left.
Fast-paced, character-driven, and laced with sharp banter, Blanchland Blues kicks off a sci-fi adventure series about bad plans, found family, and what it costs to choose the right thing when everything’s already gone wrong.
