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In hardcover for the first time, first entry in the Worlds of Honor anthology series, by three giants of military SF. Honorverse short novels by Weber, David Drake, and S.M. Stirling.The first entry in the Worlds of Honor anthology series, featuring stories set in David Weber's New York TImes best-selling Honorverse. Featuring "A Grand Tour" by master of military SF David Drake, "A Whiff of Grapeshot" by best-selling author S.M. Stirling: and ...

The fates of universes aren’t the only things time travel can impact. Sometimes the effect is a lot more mundane and closer to home. And when that happens, it’s up to the cops of Themis Division to make time turn out right.It was supposed to be a routine trip for the members of the Gordian Division, both human and AI: fly out to Saturn, inspect the construction of their latest time machines, then fly back. But when the division’s top scientist...

For centuries, the world of Safehold, last redoubt of the human race, lay under the unchallenged rule of the Church of God Awaiting. The Church permitted nothing new--no new inventions, no new understandings of the world. What no one knew was that the Church was an elaborate fraud--a high-tech system established by a rebel faction of Safehold's founders, meant to keep humanity hidden from the powerful alien race that had destroyed old Earth. T...

A "New York Times" bestseller. Following the near-extinction of humans, the rulers of the planet Safehold built a religion designed to keep society medieval forever. In a hidden chamber, an android from the past awakens, her fate set in motion centuries before--a rebirth that will kick off a new era of invention.

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In the hotly anticpaited sixth volume in the "New York Times"-bestselling Safehold series, the wars and intrigues that have cascaded from Charis' declaration of independence has caused the populous Republic of Siddermark to slide into chaos. Bursting with vivid invention and the sweep of lived history, this story will build its series' audience to a new level.

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Come for the games. Stay for the murder. A mystery in the Gordian Division universe.The Weltall Tournament’s professional VR games were supposed to be a symbol of cooperation between SysGov and its militaristic neighbor, the Admin. But that was before star Admin player Elly Sako received a death threat, written in blood next to a copy of her own severed head. The Admin’s Department of Temporal Investigation swiftly seizes control of the crime ...

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In a universe teeming with predators, humanity needs friends. And fast.We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other sentient bipeds who inhabit our planet.We took the technology they left behind, and rapidly built ourselves into a starfaring civilization. Because we haven't got a moment to lose. Because it's clear that ther...

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A NEW NOVEL FEATURING STEPHANIE HARRINGTON IN HONORVERSE PREQUEL SERIES Sex! Drugs! Rock 'n' Roll! And Treecats! Freshly home from an internship on Manticore, teenaged Stephanie Harrington is up to her eyebrows in trouble. There's the new treecat adoptee who needs to be kept from becoming a risk to the carefully guarded secret of just how smart the arboreal inhabitants of Sphinx really are. There's the overeager journalist whose campaign to pr...

THE HOTTEST MILITARY SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OF ALL TIME CONTINUES WITH A COLLECTION OF TALES SET IN DAVID WEBER'S NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING HONORVERSEThe hottest military science fiction series of all time continues. The mission: to boldly explore David Weber's Honorverse and to deliver all the action, courage, derring-do, and pulse-pounding excitement of space naval adventure with tales set in a world touched by the greatness of one epic he...

BOOK FOUR IN THE NATIONALLY BEST-SELLING MANTICORE ASCENDANT SERIES, SET IN THE WORLD OF DAVID WEBER'S MULTIPLE NEW YORK TIMES BEST-SELLING HONORVERSE SERIESYesterday, the Star Kingdom of Manticore was a small, unimportant interstellar backwater with no navy, but today, Manticore has become a target. The Star Kingdom isn't certain who is attacking it or why, but Queen Elizabeth I knows she has to find out. She knows that whatever some of her s...

Nach dem Ende von Maos Herrschaft stand die politische Führung in China Ende der siebziger Jahre vor gewaltigen Problemen: Wie sollte sie das bankrotte Wirtschaftssystem neu erfinden? Wie eine galoppierende Inflation vermeiden, die als Schreckgespenst durch das Land spukte? Durch Schocktherapie oder schrittweise Reformen? Letztendlich obsiegten die Kräfte, die für einen staatlich gelenkten Wandel plädierten. Anders als Russland, das nach dem Z...

AlpNik ist ein 14-jähriger Junge, der mit seinen ­Eltern, die eine Arztpraxis führen, in Grindelwald aufwächst. ­Zusammen mit seiner Schwester Hanni, der Hauskatze Sappi und der Schweizer Sennenhündin Betty erlebt er verschie­dene Rettungs­einsätze des ­Vaters am ­Eiger mit dem Helikopter. AlpNik träumt davon, ­Bergsteiger zu ­werden und den Eiger zu ­erklimmen. Eines Tages wird der Traum wahr und ­AlpNik macht sich frühmorgens um 5 Uhr auf de...