<div>Anra is a solitary. She was born without the power to mindspeak, and unlike her fellows, she cannot communicate in unspoken thoughts. In the past, she would have been killed at birth, but the arrival of the Wanderer, the comet controlled by the cybernetic intelligence known as the Homesmind, has changed everything. The people of the comet, the skydwellers, now supply solitaries with implants that allow artificial mindspeaking. The solitaries are sequestered in a single village that is willing to care for such children. Anra and her new brethren were thought to be the possible bridge between the people of Earth and the skydwellers, but the gap may be too great, since the people of Earth consider solitaries an abomination and the skydwellers as soulless. The solitaries are, instead, outcasts in two worlds, part of each but fully accepted in neither. Another comet enters the system, refusing to communicate with Homesmind and speaking to the people of Earth with the voices of their own dead, seducing them into a submission of their individual wills and trying to lure them to oblivion. Anra and her fellow solitaries have the power to resist their call, but can they unite in time to save everyone else?</div>

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Homesmind

<div>From a Nebula award-winning author, society turns to violence after a strange celestial body appears in the sky in this dystopian sci-fi thriller. When what appears to be a star turns its powerful and deadly glare toward earth, the entire planet becomes a living nightmare. Rape, murder and suicide become the norm, and fear grips at the heart of humankind. One doctor goes against the tide, defying the medical code by providing insulin to a diabetic. But a protocol that was once a routine part of his practice turns Dr. Simon Negron into a criminal. With a young prostitute as his only ally, he goes on the run through a world that grows madder with every waking hour. . . . Published in the UK under the title The White Death. </div>

The Sudden Star

<div>A new generation steps up in the colonization and terraforming of Venus in the Nebula Award&ndash;winning author&rsquo;s &ldquo;masterful SF trilogy&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). The Venus Project calls upon the strongest and most courageous to create a prosperous world in the dismal wilderness of Venus. Those who demonstrate the skill and the passion to embark on this adventure must transform the barren planet in the midst of political and cultural unrest. When Risa and Benzi, children of Iris, one of the first people to partake in this project, find themselves in opposing forces on the battlefield, it is their love and perseverance that will determine the destiny of the new land.</div>

Venus of Shadows

<div>Alone in the desert, Daiya is faced with a dilemma that will determine her fate. If she can successfully resolve it, she will join the Net of her village, but if she fails, her life will be spent with the feared Merged Ones. Confused and torn between worlds near and far, Daiya harbors a secret of her people and must find a way to move beyond her discoveries to a safe place where she can survive.</div>

Watchstar

<div>The Nebula Award&ndash;winning author&rsquo;s &ldquo;masterful SF trilogy&rdquo; of human colonists terraforming the second planet from the sun comes to a stunning conclusion (Publishers Weekly). Often compared to Kim Stanley Robinson&rsquo;s acclaimed Mars trilogy, the three novels in the Venus saga&mdash;Venus of Dreams, Venus of Shadows, and Child of Venus&mdash;further establish the Nebula and Locus Award&ndash;winning author of The Shore of Women as &ldquo;one of the genre&rsquo;s best writers&rdquo; (The Washington Post). The Venus Project&mdash;making the planet&rsquo;s atmosphere habitable for humans&mdash;spans centuries and determines the fate of multiple generations. The great task has already survived the ravages of civil war and continues unabated, overseen by two distinct rival factions: the &ldquo;Cytherian&rdquo; human colonists in enclosed settlements on the planet&rsquo;s surface and the &ldquo;Habbers,&rdquo; cybernetically enhanced human dwellers living in a mobile asteroid orbiting above the planet. Mahala Liangharad is a true child of Venus, conceived from the genetic material of rebels who died long before her birth. Chained to the Project her forebears began centuries earlier, she is restless and dissatisfied with the prospect of spending her entire existence inside a sealed dome. But her life is changed forever when the Habbers receive alien radio signals from six hundred light years away. With all work on Venus abruptly halted, Mahala now faces the most momentous decision of her young life. She can remain behind on the unfinished planet, or leave everything she&rsquo;s ever known and loved to pursue her destiny&mdash;and humankind&rsquo;s&mdash;to the far reaches of the universe . . . </div>

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Child of Venus

<div>Great science fiction looks outward toward the intricacy of the universe in order to look inward at the complexity of the human condition. In Thumbprints, Nebula and Locus Award&ndash;winning author Pamela Sargent brings together short stories from across her career, each filled with rich characterization and eclectic, fascinating plots. From Mongolia to Venus, from the distant past to the near future, these works of short fiction explore what it means to be human. Ranging from lyrically mystical to bitterly realistic to laughably satirical, Thumbprints is a shining catalog of all that Sargent has contributed to the genre. This ebook features an introduction by James Morrow and an afterword by Sargent herself.</div>

Thumbprints

<div>This debut sci-fi novel by the Nebula and Locus Award&ndash;winning author of The Shore of Women follows five human clones in an unforgiving world. Shock and outrage greet Paul Swenson&rsquo;s announcement of the success of his latest and most controversial scientific endeavor. Having taken advantage of a brief lull in legislative restrictions, the renowned astrophysicist and a team of bioscientists have created five human clones&mdash;four males and one female&mdash;from Swenson&rsquo;s own genetic material. From the moment Michael, Edward, Albert, James, and Kira Swenson are revealed to the world, they are viewed with hostility and suspicion. Growing up under the heavy yoke of specialness, the five exceptional human &ldquo;experiments&rdquo; have no one but each other to turn to for emotional support. Then tragedy strikes and everything falls apart . . . Now Kira and her brothers must follow their destinies down separate, divergent paths. Heading out into a world that never welcomed them, each clone is intent on pursuing knowledge, career, family&mdash;all the desired elements of a so-called normal life. But they cannot escape their shared past, because the true purpose behind Paul Swenson&rsquo;s remarkable achievement remains shrouded in shadow. And his children are prepared to travel to the ends of the Earth and beyond for an answer to the question that has always haunted them: Why were we made?</div>

Cloned Lives

<div>The Hugo Award&ndash;winning author&rsquo;s &ldquo;most memorable short stories . . . a tribute from those who best knew his work&mdash;his friends, fellow writers, and editors&rdquo; (SFRevu). George Alec Effinger was a true master of satirical Science Fiction. Before his death in 2002, he gained the highest esteem amongst his peers for his pitch-perfect stylistic mimicry and his great insight into the human condition. Despite a life filled with chronic illness and pain, Effinger was a prolific novelist and short story writer, earning multiple Nebula and Hugo Award nominations. LIVE! FROM PLANET EARTH represents a very special look at the many works of this unique genius. These 22 short pieces have been specifically selected and introduced by his fellow writers and editors, from Michael Bishop to Jack Dann, Mike Resnick to Neil Gaiman. Each writes about his or her memories of Effinger and his legacy. Included are &ldquo;The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything&rdquo; in which Earth is visited by benevolent aliens who happen to have annoying opinions about everything. &ldquo;Everything but Honor&rdquo; goes along as a black physicist time-travels to 1860 to murder a Civil War general. Also included here are Effinger&rsquo;s O.Niemand stories, which perfectly mimic the styles of Steinbeck, Hemingway and Twain. The results are a tour de force sure to please existing fans and make new fans of anyone who reads them. </div>

Live! From Planet Earth

<div>A dystopian tale of a power struggle between the sexes in the post-nuclear future, perfect for readers of Margaret Atwood and Ursula K. Le Guin. After a nuclear holocaust, women rule the world. Using advanced technology, they&rsquo;ve expelled men from their vast walled cities to roam the countryside in primitive bands, bringing them back only for the purpose of loveless reproduction under the guise of powerful goddesses. When one young woman, Birana, questions her society&rsquo;s deception, she finds herself exiled among the very men she has been taught to scorn. She crosses paths with a hunter, Arvil, and the two grow close as they evade the ever-threatening female forces and the savage wilderness men. Their love just might mend their fractured world&mdash;if they manage to survive. Hailed as &ldquo;one of the genre&rsquo;s best writers&rdquo; by the Washington Post Book World, Pamela Sargent is the author of numerous novels, including Earthseed and Venus of Dreams. The winner of the Nebula and Locus awards, she has also coauthored several Star Trek novels with George Zebrowski. </div>

The Shore of Women

<div>When a mysterious stranger appears in Sarah and Gerard&#39;s rural town, the two young lovers fighting a fervent battle to overcome America&#39;s depression and despair, are suddenly faced with a new realm of possibilities. But they find themselves questioning whether this handsome being was an angel sent to rescue them or a dark being bearing terrible dangers. </div>

The Alien Upstairs

<div>Young Lydee had always known this strange comet-world to be Home. She had always felt the presence and control of the omnipresent Homesmind, an intelligence force that guides the fate of her world and the people in it. Struggling with her future, Lydee discovers the destiny she is meant for--the fate she will fulfill within her community. And it frightens her.... She will act as a bridge between her comet Home and her species&#39; native Earth. She is disgusted by her primitive ancestors on that planet, but knows that she now has a mission in life to complete. But will the Earthlings welcome her? Or is this a journey through grave danger? Lydee hopes that she will live to fulfill her destiny.... </div>

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Eye of the Comet

<div>The first adventure in the Nebula Award&ndash;winning author&rsquo;s &ldquo;masterful SF trilogy&rdquo; about the attempted colonization and terraforming of the planet Venus (Publishers Weekly). Iris Angharads, a determined, independent woman, sets herself one massive goal: to make the poison-filled atmosphere of Venus hospitable to humans. She works day and night to realize her dream, with only one person sharing her passion, Liang Chen. It seems impossible to make Venus, with its intolerable air and waterless environment, into a paradise, but Iris succeeds. And in doing so, she also creates a powerful dynasty, beginning with her first born, Benzi Liangharad.</div>

Venus of Dreams

<div>A novel of the thirteenth-century Mongolian warrior, and the women who surrounded him, that offers &ldquo;a panoramic view of the charismatic leader&rdquo; (Library Journal). In 1167, in the harsh homeland of Mongol tribes, a child was born who was to change the course of human history. His father named him Temujin, but the world knows him as Genghis Khan. Set amid the barbaric splendor of the Mongol hordes, Ruler of the Sky tells the tale of the warrior who forged one of the greatest and most terrifying armies the world had ever seen, and conquered the world from Peking to Persia. Not only is this the story of Genghis Khan, it is also the story of those who were closest to him, especially the women who played such an important role in his life. From the windswept plains of Mongolia to the opulence of the Chinese court, Ruler of the Sky is unforgettable. </div>

Ruler of the Sky

<div>Native Americans win the battle for the post&ndash;Civil War American West in a fascinating alternate history fantasy from &ldquo;one of the genre&rsquo;s best writers&rdquo; (The Washington Post). Nebula and Locus Award&ndash;winning author Pamela Sargent &ldquo;loads her Springfield and heads into the post&ndash;Civil War era with a rousing tale of what might have happened had the Indians united against white encroachment. If Harry Turtledove has been driving the Alternate America stage, Pamela is now riding shotgun&rdquo; (Jack McDevitt). In a different nineteenth-century version of America, after the end of the White Man&rsquo;s Civil War, the victorious North sets its sights on westward expansion. But their army is greatly depleted after years of bloody conflict. And their Native American adversaries are ready . . . and waiting. As the visionary Lakota chief, Touch-the-Clouds, cements the necessary alliances with once rival tribes, two separate worlds brace for the inevitable confrontation to come. Lemuel Rowland, a US government official and full-blood Seneca Indian, has lived among the white man for most of his life. Now the approaching storm threatens to destroy everything he believes in. Torn between the culture he&rsquo;s embraced and his true heritage, Lemuel has been entrusted with a grave responsibility and knows he must prove his loyalty. But to which side? Populated by a large and colorful cast of unforgettable characters&mdash;including Sitting Bull, Chief Crazy Horse, Calamity Jane, and other real-life personages&mdash;Climb the Wind is a &ldquo;most enjoyable and entertaining new alternate history adventure which . . . brings a new dimension to the form&rdquo; (Gahan Wilson). </div>

Climb the Wind

<div>Alone on Earth, a young girl searches for a new beginning Nita is a child of the Institute. Ever since she can remember, she has roamed its sterile halls, living out her youth in the care of a fur-covered guardian from another world. The Institute&rsquo;s computers give her everything she could want&mdash;except another human to share her life with. Long ago there were people at the Institute, but something happened that wiped them out. As she matures, Nita slowly realizes that she may be the only human being left on Earth&mdash;and that the fate of humanity could well lie with her. Beyond a door marked Authorized Personnel Only is the &ldquo;cold room,&rdquo; a laboratory that may hold the key to Nita&rsquo;s past&mdash;and her future. This is where her guardian found her, and it is to this place that Nita must return if she is to learn the secret of the Institute and what has happened to the rest of her kind. </div>

Alien Child

<div>Thirteen stories of impossible futures and otherworldly adventure, from one of science fiction&rsquo;s most thoughtful authors In &ldquo;Hillary Orbits Venus,&rdquo; a young Hillary Rodham pursues her childhood dream of becoming an astronaut, while in the Nebula Award&ndash;winning &ldquo;Danny Goes to Mars,&rdquo; former US vice president Dan Quayle embarks on the first expedition to Mars. &ldquo;The Sleeping Serpent&rdquo; reveals what might have happened if the Mongols had conquered all of Europe and then crossed the Atlantic to the New World, &ldquo;Collectors&rdquo; follows an American expatriate in France during a most unusual alien invasion, and &ldquo;All Rights&rdquo; offers a humorous look at a writer and a literary agent forced to negotiate deals in the multiverse. Whether satirizing the ambitions of a politician, exploring an alternate history, or delving into the consequences of immortality, there is no finer author of short science fiction than Pamela Sargent. This collection displays both her narrative strengths and her versatility. </div>

The Mountain Cage

<div>On the steppes of Mongolia, an old woman wrestles with an unknown power The dream is always the same: Killers are riding against the Mongol camp, and Khokakhchin must run to rescue the horses before a wall of fire swallows them whole. She wakes, remembering when a trader offered her the Eye of Flame&mdash;a disk that could conjure fire&mdash;and shudders in fear of the power that lies within her. In the camp of a Mongol tribe, the home of the boy who will grow up to be Genghis Khan, Khokakhchin must confront that power, lest the whole world be consumed by fire. In the haunting title novella, Pamela Sargent evokes a lost world whose values are not so different from our own. This and the other stories included in this volume, set in the past and the present, show her to be a deft writer at the top of her form. </div>

Eye of Flame

<div>A &ldquo;brilliant&rdquo; vision of a future Earth populated by immortals&mdash;from the Nebula and Locus Award&ndash;winning author of The Shore of Women (The Seattle Times). When Josepha was a teenager, she tried to kill herself. But the pills she swallowed did not deliver the release she was seeking&mdash;and three hundred years later, she is still alive, thanks to the miraculous scientific breakthrough called &ldquo;the Transition.&rdquo; Like Josepha, the biologist Merripen can remember only too well what the world once was, before his groundbreaking work in genetic engineering rendered death obsolete. The &ldquo;perfect&rdquo; children he and Josepha bred together were unburdened by physical flaws and emotional defects. And now, centuries on, these undying offspring have an eternity to question the reasons for their very existence&mdash;and to seek answers in Death Cults and frightening new experiments in genetic manipulation. Vividly imagined, episodic in structure, The Golden Space is a profound and disturbing meditation on humanity&rsquo;s desire for immortality from &ldquo;one of the genre&rsquo;s best writers&rdquo; (The Washington Post). </div>

The Golden Space

<div>In an untamed garden, a woman discovers the price of freedom Aniya is a perfect creature. Using the power of the Net, she has banished all of her painful memories, allowing herself to live in a state of perfect contentment on a far-future Earth. In order to have companions, she creates two eidolons&mdash;living beings imprinted with all of Aniya&rsquo;s thoughts, feelings, and desires. Of the two creatures, Orielna is happy to live in her creator&rsquo;s shadow, but Josef is not. When the pain inside him becomes overwhelming, he commits a murder and flees into the tangle of the Garden, a place where death has not been conquered. To rescue him, Orielna follows him to the Garden and discovers that behind its walls lie impossible dangers&mdash;and unknown joys. In this bewitching collection, Pamela Sargent explores what becomes of humanity when all its pains are stripped away. </div>

Behind the Eyes of Dreamers

<div>The Nebula Award&ndash;winning author&rsquo;s &ldquo;masterful SF trilogy&rdquo; is a multigenerational epic of human colonists terraforming the second planet from the sun (Publishers Weekly). Often compared to Kim Stanley Robinson&rsquo;s acclaimed Mars trilogy, the three novels gathered here comprise the complete Venus saga by the author of The Shore of Women, &ldquo;one of the genre&rsquo;s best writers&rdquo; (The Washington Post). The Venus Project&mdash;making the planet&rsquo;s atmosphere habitable for humans&mdash;spans centuries and determines the fates of multiple generations. Venus of Dreams: Iris Angharads, a determined, independent woman, sets herself one massive goal: to make the poison-filled atmosphere of Venus hospitable to humans. She works day and night to realize her dream, with only one person sharing her passion, Liang Chen. It seems impossible to make Venus, with its intolerable air and waterless environment, into a paradise, but Iris succeeds. And in doing so, she also creates a powerful dynasty, beginning with her first born, Benzi Liangharad. Venus of Shadows: The Venus Project calls upon the strongest and most courageous to create a prosperous world in the dismal wilderness of Venus. Those who demonstrate the skill and passion to embark on this adventure must transform the barren planet in the midst of political and cultural unrest. When Risa and Benzi, children of Iris, find themselves in opposing forces on the battlefield, it is their love and perseverance that will determine the destiny of the new world. Child of Venus: Mahala Liangharad, a true child of Venus, conceived from the genetic material of the rebels and brought to birth only after their deaths, is seen as a beacon of hope in a colony still ravaged by the aftereffects of civil war. But her world is being torn apart by a drive for independence from Earth by the Venus colonists and rumors of a secret plan developed by the &ldquo;Habbers,&rdquo; cybernetically enhanced human dwellers of a mobile asteroid. A mysterious call from deep space offers Mahala a chance to fulfill her own destiny, along with the terrifying possibility of losing touch with everything she has ever known and loved.</div>

The Venus Collection

<div>The adventures of three brave young heroines in a telepathic dystopia, from the Nebula Award&ndash;winning author and &ldquo;one of the genre&rsquo;s best writers&rdquo; (The Washington Post). In Pamela Sargent&rsquo;s fascinating vision of a far-future, post-technological agrarian society, Earthfolk communicate with each other telepathically, can heal themselves, and fly at will, all by using their mindpowers. But those born without psychic ability&mdash;solitaries&mdash;must be euthanized to preserve the harmony of the society. This is the way of the world&mdash;until the appearance of a mysterious comet in the sky. Watchstar: The time has come. Daiya has turned fourteen and must now survive a rite of passage in the desert in order to join the Net&mdash;the telepathic web of the villagers&rsquo; minds. During this ordeal, she encounters a young man who has come down in a shuttle from a comet with startling news: His people are descended from those who fled Earth thousands of years ago. He is also a solitary. Now everything Daiya has accepted at face value is about to be challenged . . . Eye of the Comet: Young Lydee has always known this strange but wonderful comet-world to be Home. Like all skydwellers, she is linked through an implant to an omnipresent cybernetic intelligence known as the Homesmind, which guides the fate of her world and the people in it. Now she has a special task to perform, for she may be the only one who can be a bridge between her comet Home and her species&rsquo; native Earth. Homesmind: Anra, niece of Daiya, is a solitary, born without the power to mindspeak. Once, she would have been killed at birth. But now the skydwellers of the Wanderer, the comet controlled by Homesmind, supply solitaries with implants that allow artificial mindspeaking. The people of Earth still consider solitaries an abomination and skydwellers soulless&mdash;making Anra and her brethren outcasts in two worlds. But when another comet enters the system, speaking directly to the Earthfolk, seducing them to oblivion, only Anra and her fellow solitaries have the power to resist the call and attempt to save their people.</div>

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