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A fictional and complex portrait of bestselling author Patricia Highsmith caught up in the longing that would inspire her queer classic, The Price of Salt Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel, The Price of Salt, and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer have teamed up to tell this story through Highsmith's eyes-reimagining the events...

"The Laconian Empire has fallen, setting the thirteen hundred solar systems free from the rule of Winston Duarte. But the ancient enemy that killed the gate builders is awake, and the war against our universe has begun again. In the dead system of Adro, Elvi Okoye leads a desperate scientific mission to understand what the gate builders were and what destroyed them, even if it means compromising herself and the half-alien children who bear the weight...

It's just a trip to the furthest-flung mega-space-station for a basic malfunction. For a ship's doctor, a new breed of implanted organic system medico, it should have been an easy job. Instead, this doctor walks into a crisis. First, there's a dead colleague. Then, the infected core, and a flight engineer who knows something about her past. Oh, and then there's the fact she's unwittingly assisted a military coup, which threatens to spread the infection...

The story of The First Formic War continues in Earth Awakens.
Nearly 100 years before the events of Orson Scott Card's bestselling novel Ender's Game, humans were just beginning to step off Earth and out into the Solar System. A thin web of ships in both asteroid belts; a few stations; a corporate settlement on Luna. No one had seen any sign of other space-faring races; everyone expected that First Contact, if it came, would

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Eight-year-old Theodore Pharris lives an incredibly boring life until the day he accidentally shoots a spaceship out of the sky with his slingshot. Discovering a crackpot alien plot to blow up the universe, Theodore, his quirky adult friends, and his faithful dogs Balfour and Breck launch out on a mission to save . . . well, everyone. From the local planetarium to the local jail, from the veterinarian's office to the far-flung reaches of space, Theodore's...

Humanity has seized its destiny among the stars. But space remains vast and untamed, and nothing has prepared us to face the dangers rising from the deep shadows of the void.Fourteen years after The Displacement flung humanity into a universe teeming with alien life, a tenuous alliance has taken root among humans, Anadens, and numerous other species. The wounds of war and revolution have begun to heal, peace and prosperity are within reach, and the...

They call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which an economically destitute Earth has dispatched on a mission to re-establish contact with its far-flung, long-lost colonies in space. Alex Alexander, the ship's biologist, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that he encounters light-years from home. Dendra is a stable world, covered by a huge, unchanging forest-except...

A New York Times Editors' Choice Pick!A Most Anticipated Pick for USA Today | Bustle | Buzzfeed | Goodreads | Nerdist | io9 | WBUR | Polygon | The New Scientist"In this ambitious novel, dense with perspectives and social commentary, Onyebuchi dreams up disparate lives in a crumbling future America—with gentrifiers returning to Earth from space colonies and laborers trying to make a precarious living—while leaving room for moments of beauty and...

Hellfire is a set of 1/300th (6mm) scale rules for Science-Fiction tabletop warfare (yes, another set!). Where Hellfire aims to be different is in that it is intended not only to be a generic game, but allow you to play a variety of different types of SF games, whilst managing to capture some form of unique flavour that makes the game more than just WW2 with las-cannons. Hence I am aiming at producing battles in a universe which isn't overly militarised....

Spellbinding short stories that capture the imagination Do you like stories that sweep you along with the plot, breathlessly wondering how things will turn out? Then you will love The Ickles! Their stories include action, drama, sci-fi themes, comedy, fantasy and pure imagination. They also promote positive values of encouragement, hope and empowerment. The Ickles are members of a far-flung family of rugged individuals, all with their own incredible...