Dune Messiah continues the story of Paul Atreides, better known -- and feared -- as the man christened Muad'Dib. As Emperor of the known universe, he possesses more power than a single man was ever meant to wield. Worshipped as a religious icon by the fanatical Fremen, Paul faces the enmity of the political houses he displaced when he assumed the throne -- and a conspiracy conducted within his own sphere of influence. And even as House Atreides begins...

Scientist Dan Sylveste forges a dangerous alliance with the cyborg crew of the starship "Nostalgia for Infinity," in an attempt to learn the truth about how and why the Amarantin civilization was annihilated nine hundred thousand years earlier, not realizing that someone or something does not want the secret to be revealed.

"With the scope of Dune and the commercial action of Independence Day, this near-future trilogy is the first chance for English-speaking readers to experience this multple-award-winning phenemonenon from China's most beloved science fiction author. Set against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution, a secret military project sends signals into space to establish contact with aliens. An alien civilization on the brink of destruction captures the...

In a futuristic military adventure a recruit goes through the roughest boot camp in the universe and into battle with the Terran Mobile Infantry in what historians would come to call the First Interstellar War

The third novel in the Rama series from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey (The New Yorker).
 
Continuing from the end of Rama II, three astronauts—Nicole, Richard, and Michael—remain trapped in a labyrinthine alien spaceship bound for deep space. Creating the best semblance of a life they can, Nicole bears five children and they spend...

A romantic and heroic tale set in the Death Gate universe. Xar, Lord of the Nexus, has traveled to the fiery world of Abarrach to raise an army to conquer the four worlds. He discovers that whoever enters the Seventh Gate can either create worlds or destroy them.

"The fourth novel in Isaac Asimov's classic science-fiction masterpiece, the Foundation series. At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations has come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation have proved victorious, and now they return to Hari Seldon's long-established plan to build a new Empire on the ruins of the old. But rumors persist that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all--and that its still-defiant survivors...

In the late twenty-sixth century, alien killing machines, designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it, are fast approaching Earth, and the only hope for humanity is the recovery of a secret cache of doomsday weapons.

The body of Frank Poole, murdered by mad computer HAL a thousand years earlier, is found and revived to a world of peace and plenty, but in his attempts to understand the entity composed of his former deputy Dave Bowman and a copy of the now-sane HAL, Frank learns that Earth is slated for destruction.

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, attempts to reunite two planets cut off from each other by centuries of distrust.