Two Alien Stories
$2.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-214-3
Two linked stories by Vonda N. McIntyre: “Wings” and “The Mountains of Sunset, the Mountains of Dawn.” Alien people abandon their dying planet in a generation ship, but a few are left behind.
“Wings” was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards.
A Short Story
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$1.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-198-6
In a post-apocalyptic world, the young healer Snake ventures into unknown lands during her proving year. Her genetically engineered rattlesnake and cobra provide vaccines and medicines, while the rare alien dreamsnake eases pain and suffering.
“Of Mist, and Grass, and Sand” won SFWA’s Nebula Award. It is the first chapter of Dreamsnake, which won the Nebula, the Hugo, the Locus, and the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award. The story is presented by BVC as a stand-alone title, by request.
Six Science Fiction Stories
by Jeffrey A. Carver
$2.99 (Collection)
ISBN 978-1-61138-194-8
Encounter the alien, in six science fiction stories from the imagination of Jeffrey A. Carver! Wrestle a shapeshifter in the intragalactic IIMAWL amateur wrestling games. Make love between the stars. Make a last stand against the aliens who’ve destroyed Earth. Duel an interstellar dragon. These and more, with new introductions by the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End and The Chaos Chronicles.
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Five Science Fiction Stories
by Jeffrey A. Carver
$2.99 (Short Story Collection)
ISBN 978-1-61138-179-5
Five science fiction stories to ignite the imagination.
Explore an Earth being devoured by entropy, in the ultimate runaway environmental crisis. Dive the depths of the sea to prevent the mother of all oil spills. Rocket into space as a tourist. Mine the asteroids with your enhanced border collie, in the can-do spirit of classic science fiction. These stories appeared in publications as varied as Science Fiction Age, F&SF, and the Boston Sunday Herald. They include Carver’s first published short fiction, and his most recent. With new introductions, all from the author of The Chaos Chronicles and Eternity’s End.
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by Jeffrey A. Carver
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-180-1
The Flying Dutchman of the stars! Rigger and star pilot Renwald Legroeder undertakes a search for the legendary ghost ship Impris—and her passengers and crew—whose fate is entwined with interstellar piracy, quantum defects in space-time, galactic coverup conspiracies, and deep-cyber romance. Can Legroeder and his Narseil crewmates find the lost ship in time to prevent a disastrous interstellar war?
A Star Rigger Omnibus
by Jeffrey A. Carver
$5.99 (Omnibus) ISBN 978-1-61138-181-8
Dragons in the Stars and Dragon Rigger—two Star Rigger novels in one!
Between the stars, says legend, there lives a realm of dragons. When a young star rigger named Jael flies the forbidden route, she learns the reality—that the dragons are real, and deadly. Only after a dragon named Highwing befriends her does Jael realize she has been caught up in an ancient battle of good and evil, her appearance foretold by an ancient prophecy. Science fiction with mythic dimension, from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End. Individual novels appeared in print from Tor Books. Map included.
A Science Fiction Short Story
by Deborah J. Ross
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-161-0
The crew of the spaceship Juno expect to find a fertile planet ready for colonization. Instead, they discover a fiery grave and a space station filled with corpses. What happened here? A natural disaster… or an alien weapon capable of destroying an entire world? Honorable Mention, Year’s Best SF, 2009.