by Alma Alexander
$2.99 1.99 Limited Time!
(Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-487-1
A Book View Café Original
It’s the Friday before a science fiction convention weekend. Hundreds of fans are lined up at the registration desk. The posters for the Media Guests of Honor aren’t done, there’s a problem with the Program Booklet, the Author Guest of Honor has gone AWOL, and the coffee in the Green Room is DREADFUL. The convention chair’s boyfriend has just smashed up his car.
A Sherlock Holmes Scientific Romance
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-086-6
In which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle hires Mr Sherlock Holmes to investigate crop circles, and Dr Watson demonstrates to Mr Holmes the usefulness of astronomy.
“The Adventure of the Field Theorems” was originally published in Sherlock Holmes in Orbit and is reprinted with the kind permission of the editors, Mike Resnick & Martin Harry Greenberg.
by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
$3.99 (Short Fiction Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-389-8
Time travel is a dream long held by human beings. Who hasn’t had fond thoughts about showing Nicola Tesla their personal Tesla Coil or taking him for a drive in an electric car that bears his name? The devil is in the details of the technology, which is what ties together this collection of short fiction—the stories in this collection appeared in Analog science fiction magazine between 1990 and 2000.
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by Sara Stamey
A Book View Café Original
$3.99
(Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-482-6
A Journey to the Crossroads of Science and Myth
A Cygnus Speculative Fiction Award Winner and Chanticleer Global Thriller Grand Prize
The New Leprosy pandemic and a geomagnetic reversal threaten the world’s precarious balance.
When jaded American expat Peter Mitchell agrees to transport mysterious Ariadne Demodakis to sacred sites in the Greek islands, the sailor convinces himself it’s just another “freelance import” job.
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by Sherwood Smith
$1.25 (Novelette) ISBN 978-1-61138-176-4
Lys and her family win a chance to be a “real family” on reality TV. That means real money, desperately needed in the rotten economy these days, but they only get that money as long as they stay on the air. What can they do to be real enough to please the viewers?
An Anthology of Hope
by Shannon Page
$4.99
(Anthology)
ISBN 978-1-63632-005-2
A BVC Original
It’s time to send some GOOD energy out there into the world.
by Steven Popkes
$5.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-954-8
A BVC Original
Dot 1.0, a performing software robot, does as she is told.
Dot 2.0 has other ideas.
Book 5 of Reeves & Worcester Steampunk Mysteries
by Chris Dolley
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-940-1
A BVC Original
It’s Groundhog Day, 1906. February 2nd is stuck on repeat, and only our intrepid trio appear to have noticed. Emmeline senses the meddling of a higher power – possibly her aunt. Reggie’s sure it’ll be the handiwork of the subterranean horror one least suspects. And Reeves considers it all ‘most disturbing.’
by Cynthia Felice
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-545-8
It’s easy to say what you’ll live for. The hard question is–what will you die for?
Ten years ago Calla had been the center of Jason’s life. Then Jason followed his career downtime, leaving Calla to the elite Praetorian Guard and separating them–but not forever.
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Confederated Star Systems #2
by C.F. Bentley
$4.99
ISBN 978-1-61138-552-6
A spiritual journey, with a literary twist, in a space opera landscape
Aboard the space station First Contact Cafe, General Jake Devlin and High Priestess of Harmony Sissy confront the mystery of an odd stowaway, a mystical refugee, and clues to the origin and genetic breakdown of enemies and allies alike. But their time is limited as the station seems determined to break orbit and plunge them all into the local sun.
The Chronicles of Nuala Book 3
by Cat Kimbriel
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-056-9
Poised between empires, the people of Nuala are survivors. They have fought the deadly radiation levels of their world, battling frightening mutations and genetic shift.
An Axis Empire soldier is about to marry a Nualan princess. But there are those who would kill to keep an Axis warrior from marrying a Nualan . . .
The Chronicles of Nuala Book 1
by Cat Kimbriel
$4.99
She will sever every tie she has ever known to save a planet under siege.
On the planet Nuala, the scam that beguiling free-trader Silver has come to join has just been blown to the skies, along with the throne lines of three separate sovereign nations.
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Edge to Center: Book 3
by Brenda W. Clough
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-770-4
A BVC Original
Somewhere, somewhen, time traveler Jack Wragsland has an enemy, an implacable and pitiless foe. It will cost Jack more than his life to defeat him.
What is time travel good for? Well, you need never lose. Redo that failure, rerun that war, reboot that relationship, until it flies. You can do and be whatever you desire.
by Katharine Kerr
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-246-4
The Aliens are invading! Or are they?
When Maggie Corey throws the Devil over her back in 1960s San Francisco, she has no idea of what she’s set in motion, nor will she live to see the end of it. Over the next hundred years, however, her descendants see pieces of the puzzle fall into place in this “mosaic novel”, a very different take on fiction from the author of the Deverry series of epic fantasies.
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by Dave Smeds
$4.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-456-7
A future where murder is only a misdemeanor. A colony world where humans can remain only if they are worthy of their tenancy. A woman who journeys to postapocalytic Africa in search of her childhood best friend. Welcome to a dozen tales of futures near and far, transformative or lethal, prospects to show us who we are.
A Saturn’s Daughter Novel
by Patricia Rice writing as Jamie Quaid
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-419-2
Tina Clancy is looking forward to a nice, quiet Christmas, but life has other plans for the newly-minted lawyer. As a Daughter of Saturn, Tina expects a healthy dose of crazy in the Zone, Baltimore’s roughest docklands. Sparkling holiday lights that spontaneously combust — check. Garden gnomes swimming in sauna-like snow melt — check. But when a blue blob crawls out of the red-hot sewer — that’s a bridge too far.
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by Steven Popkes
$6.99 (Novel)
ISBN 978-1-61138-901-2
A BVC Original
If God were a pill, would you take it?
by Brenda W. Clough
$1.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-100-9
The alien invasion of Earth has begun. But the beachhead doesn’t look like Iwo Jima. It’s Laurel, blonde, blue-eyed and pregnant — but with what?
Parasitism is an insidious thing!
Confederated Star Systems #1
by C.F. Bentley
(Novel)
ISBN 978-1-61138-536-6
$4.99
A spiritual journey, with a literary twist, in a space opera landscape.
Harmony, a new utopia for space-faring humans. Or is it a thinly disguised tyranny locked into a rigid caste system, slavery by another name?
Either way, xenophobic Harmony holds the secret to Badger Metal, a unique ceramic metal alloy that protects people from the radiation and hard vacuum of space.
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The Chronicles of Nuala Book 2
by Cat Kimbriel
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-031-6
He had spent a hundred years seeking the woman called Silver; he still didn’t know if he was going to kill her.
On Nuala — planet of deadly radiation levels, humans who heal by touch, and the rarest metal in the known galaxy — is a meeting of two con artists ripe for mischief…and maybe murder.
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by Brenda W. Clough
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-348-5
What would it be like, to get absolute power?
Would you wear a cape and fight crime? Rule the planet? Or perhaps you would be like Rob Lewis, and watch your world collapse around you. Does absolute power corrupt absolutely? Rob is going to find out.
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by Steven Popkes
$4.99
ISBN 978-1-61138-949-4
A BVC Original
Plagues broke the world.
In a violent new America infested with disease and mutated creatures, Michael, an eleven-year old orphan, and Jackie, a sophisticated, intelligent, articulate elephant, set out on a journey of discovery and survival through the post-apocalyptic ruins.
A Movie for the Mind’s Eye
by Ursula K. Le Guin
$4.99 (Screenplay) ISBN 978-1-61138-120-7
A little background: The character of King Ashthera, with his dog, and his gambling streak, is derived from King Yudhisthira in the Mahabharata, the wonderful and interminable epic of India. When, towards the end of the story, Yudhisthira gets to Heaven, he is outraged to find some of his enemies are there, and some of his friends are not; and he decides not to enter Heaven at all unless they let his dog in with him. I stole all that.
The theme of figuring out what one’ s duty is and how to follow it is from the Mahabharata too. The rest is my invention. Yudhisthira’s dog’s name is Dharma, but Ashthera’s dog is just Dog.
by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff
(Novel)
ISBN 978-0-9828440-8-3
$4.99
Laldasa is Sanskrit for “beloved slave” — a fitting title for a story of class boundaries, racial prejudices and the one power capable of overcoming them. It’s the story of one small woman battling a political machinery over which she has no control and one supposedly powerful man who realizes that he is as much a pawn of the machinery as the casteless woman he befriends.
by Steven Popkes
$1.99 (Novella)
ISBN 978-1-61138-918-0
A BVC Original
They successfully evaded the Invaders and the monsters of their own mind to find some kind of peace.
That’s over. The Dragon is coming.
Edge to Center: Book 2
by Brenda W. Clough
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-769-8
A BVC Original
Colonel Ben Ming can defend his nation Jalanesia and his wife, the President, from all the usual foes. But not from time traveler Jack Wragsland.
What good is time travel anyway? For Col. Ben Ming, head of Jalanesia’s armed forces and husband of President Calla Ang, it’s nothing but a headache.
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Confederated Star Systems #3
by Irene Radford, writing as C.F. Bentley
$4.99
ISBN 978-1-61138-572-4
A BVC Original
Continuing the spiritual journey with a literary twist in a space opera landscape.
William Gladstone once pointed out that a culture reveals itself in how it cares for its dead. Mourner vividly explores how three very different cultures treat their dead when the body of Laud Gregor, Harmony’s High Priest, goes missing between First Contact Café Space Station and the Harmony homeworld.
by Ursula K. Le Guin
$3.99 (Novelette) ISBN 978-1-61138-342-3
A vision of hope sinking and hope rising, in an America paralyzed by corporate control of government while sea levels rise catastrophically due to human-caused climate change.
by Jennifer Stevenson
$2.99 (Collection)
ISBN 978-1-61138-937-1
Seven corny short stories with happy endings
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Exordium – Book 1
by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge
$3.95
(Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-059-0
Smith and Trowbridge describe the flavor of their five-book space opera Exordium as a cross between Star Wars and Dangerous Liaisons with a touch of the Three Stooges. With its fast-moving blend of humor and horror, of high-tech skiffy and the deep places of the human heart, The Phoenix in Flight launches the reader into a complex, multi-layered universe as Brandon nyr-Arkad, dissolute youngest son of the ruler of the Thousand Suns, abandons the life of Service planned for him and flees into the lawless Rift.
Only slowly does he discover that the world he rejected now lies in smoking ruins as the ritual vengeance of Jerrode Eusabian against Brandon’s father, twenty years in preparation, culminates in an explosion of interstellar violence. With both his brothers dead and his father the Panarch imprisoned, Brandon becomes the Panarchy’s last hope.
The series has been corrected and revised for this edition.
The Exordium Series:
The Phoenix in Flight
Ruler of Naught
A Prison Unsought
The Rifter’s Covenant
The Thrones of Kronos
REVIEWS:
“…jam-packed with nifty SF technologies, great space battles, fascinating alien races… and a hefty dose of humor to leaven out the characters’ angst… an exuberant, sweeping space opera complete with great action and characters…”
—Courtney Schafer, author of Whitefire Crossing
