Science Fiction
Science Fiction can so quickly devolve into detailed accounts of fanciful technologies, devoid of the human (or nonhuman!) element of believable characters, people with whom we can relate. Just as the past is populated with people who laughed, loved, cried, and passed from the stage, so too will the future be, and our science fiction selections reflect that wealth of human (and non-human) experience.
The Seventh Wind
Grant Carrington
Fred Harmon is running out of money, gigs, and options, when an out-of-this world offer had him jamming with musicians from all across the stars. What he never expected, though, was getting tangled up in an interstellar drug smuggling gang — and a chance to save the Galaxy!
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A World Beneath the Stars, Expanded Edition
G. David Nordley
Before We Left Home…
Join noted hard science fiction author G. David Nordley on a World Beneath the Stars in this newly-expanded collection of his stories previously published in Analog and other science fiction magazines.
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Down in the Barraque
Grant Carrington
Life in the barraque is mostly about chasing tuft and scrabbling for survival, but when a key technology built for a starship goes missing, it’s up to Kip Martin and his bandmates Flyte Error and Red Green to keep the upheaval from destroying everything they love.
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Annapolis to Andromeda
Grant Carrington
A collection of stories of the far-flung future, with including the Nebula finalist, “His Hour Upon the Stage.”
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Time’s Fool and Other Stories
Grant Carrington
A musician of unusual skill navigates the complexities of love, loss, inspiration, and temptation, against the backdrop of a future of social and political upheaval.
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To Climb a Flat Mountain
G. David Nordley
Stranded on a world whose properties defy explanation, Jacques Song must not only survive, but find a way to complete his mission — with a saboteur’s treachery undermining his every step.
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The Black Hole Project
C. Sanford Lowe & G. David Nordley
As an ambitious scientist works to conduct an extraordinary experiment, his team must battle not only the laws of physics, but an opposition that will stop at nothing to prevent the project from reaching its culmination.
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Prelude to Stars
G. David Nordley
Spanning the decades of humankind’s first tentative steps beyond Earth, these stories explore everything from the future of sport to mutiny in interplanetary space.
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After the Vikings
G. David Nordley
The saga of Mars after the Viking missions is told in a series of tales spanning the first landing through the first alien contact and beyond.
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Among the Stars
G. David Nordley
This collection of short stories from the era in which humanity has spread out beyond the cradle of the Solar System, inhabiting the far-flung reaches of interstellar space.
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