by Alma Alexander
$2.99 (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.
Book View Café’s 5th Anniversary Celebration
Edited by Pati Nagle and Deborah J. Ross
$5.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-337-9
Book View Café celebrates its fifth anniversary with an anthology of our favorite stories. From the fantasy and science fiction of our roots to steampunk, romance, historical and mainstream; from humor to life’s hardest challenges, across the spectrum from light to dark. Stories by Ursula K. Le Guin, Vonda N. McIntyre, David D. Levine, and many more.
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 Nancy Jane Moore
$2.99 (Novella) ISBN 978-1-61138-327-0
“All the world’s a post-apocalyptic stage.” A re-telling of “As You Like It” set in a balkanized Texas after climate change and bad economic policies have brought about social collapse.
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by Sara Stamey
$3.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-482-6
A Book View Café Original
A Journey to the Crossroads of Science and Myth
A CYGNUS Speculative Fiction Award Winner
The New Leprosy plague 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 David D. Levine
$0.99 (Short Story) ISBN 978-1-61138-225-9
Gary Shelton hasn’t been seen at the annual gravity hackers’ convention since the accident that destroyed his ship and killed his lover Janet. Now he’s back, facing ten years of unanswered questions from his friends — including Mira, the strong-willed artist who loved both Gary and Janet. When a piece of space junk collides with the orbiting convention hotel, they must all confront their past to ensure they have a future.
“At the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Uncle Teco’s Homebrew Gravitics Club” is also available as part of Space Magic, an award-winning collection of science fiction and fantasy stories by David D. Levine.
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$4.99 (SF novel for younger readers)
ISBN: 978-1-61138-082-8
Barbary is emigrating from Earth to Einstein, an orbital space station. But she has a secret — and no one she can trust.
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by Sherwood Smith
$0.95 (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?
Book 1 of the Nanotech Succession
by Linda Nagata
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-0-9831100-1-9
An award-winning novel of nanotechnology, adventure, and high-tech revolution.
Nanotechnology saturates the world. It makes possible glittering orbital cities. But strict laws regulate its use, and death follows for those caught in violation. The threat of death means little though, to a man already condemned to die. Nikko–post human, genetically engineered to survive in space, and desperate to escape his fate–steals a forbidden nanomachine. But the theft goes awry and the nanomachine escapes into the wild–igniting a desperate race to contain it before the definition of “human” changes for all time.
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Volumes 1-3
by Jeffrey A. Carver
$7.99 (Omnibus) ISBN 978-1-61138-196-2
A boxed set of three novels: Neptune Crossing, Strange Attractors, and The Infinite Sea. When John Bandicut encounters alien sentience on Triton, his life changes forever—from sacrificing everything to save Earth, to confronting a malicious entity at the edge of the galaxy, to fathoming the abyss of an alien ocean. A major hard-SF adventure from the Nebula-nominated author of Eternity’s End.
Individual novels originally published by Tor Books
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Book 1 of The Jani Kilian Chronicles
by Kristine Smith
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-558-8
Captain Jani Kilian’s life should have ended in front of a firing squad.
Instead, she evaded battlefield justice by dying in a transport crash. End of story, according to official Commonwealth Service records.
But doctors repaired her in secret, using the most advanced Service Medical technologies available, or so they assured her.
A Collection of Short Fiction
by Nancy Jane Moore
$4.99 (Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-258-7
“Break all rules, including these.”
So advises one of the stories in this reprint collection. These stories jump — conscientiously — from a homage to Alexandre Dumas to an action-packed adventure set in the near future. There’s also an epic fantasy or space opera — take your pick — told in aphorisms, a contemplation on death, and a tale of what happens when walls begin to divide a place. As Lyndon Perry wrote of the now-out-of print PS Publishing hardcover edition, “Moore’s style rises above a particular perspective and stands on its own as quality short fiction.”
The Jani Kilian Chronicles, Book 4
by Kristine Smith
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-611-0
Enemy sighted.
Enemy closing.
Contact imminent.
Human-idomeni relations. Never smooth. Worsening by the day.
And Other Tales
by Pati Nagle
$5.99 (Short Story Collection)
ISBN 978-1-61138-033-0
From the dark depths of the past to the bright hopes of the future, Pati Nagle’s stories range across the palette of human emotion.
Named for her Theodore Sturgeon Award Finalist story, Coyote Ugly includes fantasy, science fiction, historical fiction, romance, mystery, and a few surprises.
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Part Two of the “Out of Time” Sequence
The Chaos Chronicles: Book Six
by Jeffrey A. Carver
$6.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-800-8
A BVC Original
A galaxy in peril.
The story begun in The Reefs of Time continues. The time-tides caused by Karellia’s defenses have brought the malicious Mindaru AI out of the deep past into the present, threatening Bandicut and Li-Jared, who have arrived at the backwater planet–Li-Jared’s homeworld–to find it on the brink of interplanetary war. Somehow they must forge a peace between Karellia and its neighboring world if the Mindaru threat is to be broken.
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by Laura Anne Gilman
$2.99 (Story Collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-650-9
A BVC Original
Alien landscapes. Run-down pool halls. Modern kitchens. Ghost-ridden memorials. There are shadows everywhere, housing the dark things that make us human.
Love. Hate. Fear. Hope.
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Book 2 of the Nanotech Succession
by Linda Nagata
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-0-9831100-2-6
In a war of belief, faith is a virus, and it’s spreading fast.
Remnants of an alien nanotechnology infest the surface of the planet, Deception Well, giving rise to deadly plagues that make the Well uninhabitable—or so most believe. Jupiter Apolinario saw it differently. He believed the planet was host to an ancient, alien mechanism of transformation meant to embrace all life forms
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Book Two of the Starstream
by Jeffrey A. Carver
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-423-9
Starstream!
A great interstellar migration has begun, down the grand, ethereal highway known as the starstream—from the remnant of the Betelgeuse supernova to the center of the Milky Way. Who could have predicted the wonders of the starstream, or the perils it would unleash—including the Throgs, shadowy beings of n-space that seem to understand only death and destruction?
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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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A Novel of the Star Rigger Universe
by Jeffrey A. Carver
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-547-2
A realm at war.
The star dragons struggle under the oppression of a terrible power—one that’s intent upon twisting space-time itself into a web of subjugation and death. According to prophecy, One will come from outside to challenge the darkness. Star pilot Jael may be that One. But if the prophecy is true, the price of victory over the darkness will be Jael’s own life.
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Dragon Virus
by Laura Anne Gilman
$2.99 (story collection) ISBN 978-1-61138-178-8
“Laura Anne Gilman makes you care. You care about her characters and their choices; you care about what’s happening to their world.”
—Walter Jon Williams
It began soon after the Millennium. Reports of newborns with strange malformations, too weak to live…caused by a single genetic mutation. Or, as the press quickly dubbed it, the Dragon Virus. Scientists predicted that it was an evolutionary dead end; that the mutation would burn itself out quickly; that it was nothing to be worried about.
They were wrong.
A Novel of the Star Rigger Universe
by Jeffrey A. Carver
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-533-5
Dragons in space?
A preposterous legend. But when star pilot Jael defies an abusive ship’s master and rigs “the mountain route” through the hyperdimensional Flux, the dragons indeed appear—and challenge her to duel. If she escapes, she would be wise never to return. But the currents of the Flux are fickle, and when fate steers her this way again, she finds Highwing the dragon under sentence of death for the kindness he showed her. Only Jael can intervene—and so she must, for the sake of one who risked his life to save hers.
A Star Rigger Omnibus
by Jeffrey A. Carver
$6.99 (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. Map included.
Individual novels originally published by Tor Books
A Novel of the Silent Empire
by Steven Harper
$2.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-112-2
It is through first contact with an alien species that humanity learns of the Dream. It is a plane of mental existence where people are able to communicate by their thoughts alone–over distances of thousands of light-years. To ensure that future generations will have this ability, human genetic engineering produces newborns capable of finding and navigating the Dream.
They become known as the Silent.
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by Vonda N. McIntyre
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-084-2
Nebula, Hugo, Locus, and Pacific Northwest Booksellers award-winning science fiction novel.
The healer Snake travels through a post-apocalyptic world with her genetically engineered serpents, the cobra Mist and the rattlesnake Sand, and with the alien dreamsnake Grass, whose venom eases pain and the fear of death.
A Novel of Hard Science Fiction
by John Cramer
$4.99 (Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-298-3
In 2004 in a possible universe, the DOE’s Superconducting Supercollider has been constructed in Waxahachie, Texas and is beginning operation, making unintended trans-dimensional signals that are being received in other universes and are attracting the attention of powerful and intelligent aliens, benevolent and hostile. This is a novel about cutting-edge physics, alien contact, wormholes, time travel, the politics of large-scale physics, and the race to change history and prevent the destruction of humanity.
Confederated Star Systems #2
by C.F. Bentley
$4.99 (Novel) 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.
A Novel of the Star Rigger Universe
by Jeffrey A. Carver
$5.99 (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?
by Vonda N. McIntyre
$4.99
(Novel) ISBN 978-1-61138-048-4
“Rewarding as well as entertaining, with a memorable protagonist coming of age amid the ashes of old Earth. Vonda N. McIntyre writes skillfully, compassionately, tracing an exciting trail through darkness and danger.”
— Roger Zelazny
