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At first, the dueling machine seemed like a benign or even a helpful invention, allowing people to blow off steam and solve conflicts in a virtual reality-like environment. But before long, an evil tyrant discovers a way to use the device to inflict real and lasting harm on participants. Will the intrepid scientist who invented the technology be able to stop him before it's too late?
The six-time Hugo Award–winning author of Voyagers continues his first contact trilogy with a novel of an alien takeover of the mind.
Keith Stoner has been in a state of suspended animation for eighteen years, ever since he was an American member of a joint US-Soviet venture to capture an alien ship. But when the Soviets had to pull out, Stoner willfully persisted and it was then, during that time on the ship, that
An alien is unleashed in the final novel of the first contact Voyagers trilogy from the New York Times–bestselling author of Mars.
Dr. Keith Stoner—former astronaut and astrophysicist—has been awake for the last fifteen years, after being held in suspended animation since first contact with an alien starship.
Now Keith is married to Jo Camerata, the head of Vanguard Industries, which
4) Voyagers
A sci-fi thriller of humanity's first contact with aliens—and the global cover-up it sparks—from the New York Times–bestselling author of Mars.
Ex-astronaut turned physicist Keith Stoner knows that the signals he's picking up at his space station are anything but random. The fiery object heading toward Earth is an alien spacecraft. Yet the world may never know, for Keith is trapped in an iron
When Keith Stoner awoke, he found himself in a world changed almost beyond recognition. Eighteen years before, Stoner had been the American member of a joint US–Soviet mission to capture an alien ship. The Soviets had to pull out, but Stoner persisted, and while on the strange ship, he fell into suspended animation.
Jo Camerata, the ambitious young student who fell in love with Stoner, is now head of Vanguard Industries, which has recovered
...6) Colony
In the future, everything is different—but nothing has changed.
"The Earth has been poisoned by pollution, choked by overpopulation, and ravaged by the mindless greed of power-hungry corporations. A fragile peace is threatened by landless revolutionaries, and global anarchy seems imminent.Yet a single ray of hope remains..."
Island One is a celestial utopia, and David Adams is its most perfect creation—a man with
...Astronaut Keith Stoner, member of a joint US-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system, was trapped alone aboard the spacecraft. But he didn't die; he lay frozen in deep sleep for fifteen years, kept alive by alien biotechnology. Now Stoner is something more than just a man. While asleep he was inoculated with nanotechnology designed to repair his body, expand his brain, and let him live forever. Stoner also carries
...8) Death Wave
Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system.
In Ben Bova's previous novel New Earth, Jordan Kell led the first human mission beyond the solar system, where they discovered the ruins of an ancient alien civilization. But one alien AI survived, and it revealed to Jordan Kell that an explosion in the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy has created a wave of deadly
...9) Able One
When a nuclear missile launched by a rogue North Korean faction explodes in space, the resulting shock wave destroys most of the world's satellites and all global communication. US military satellites, designed to withstand such an assault, reveal two more missiles on launch pads in North Korea, ready to be deployed. Faced with the threat of a thermonuclear attack, the United States has only one possible defense: Able One.
Able One, or ABL-1,
...10) Future Crime
An exciting collection of SF stories by Hugo Award–winning author Ben Bova
No matter what strange forms the future takes, says Ben Bova in his introduction, crime and criminals will always be with us—and with them, the need for law enforcement. Included in this collection of short stories are the full-length novel City of Darkness and "Brillo"—the famous collaboration between Bova and Harlan Ellison.
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