Richard B. Riddick has been in hiding for five years, evading bounty hunters and mercenaries sent to capture him. After killing a crew led by Toombs and stealing his ship he heads to New Mecca in the Helion System, after Toombs reveals his bounty...
The Colonies and the Republic West of the Alleghanies, 1763–1798 by Justin Winsor is a scholarly historical study that explores the expansion of American territories beyond the Allegheny Mountains during the late 18th century. The book focuses on...
Alan Grant, Scotland Yard Inspector (who appears in five other novels by the same author) is confined to bed in hospital with a broken leg. Bored and restless, he becomes intrigued by a portrait of King Richard III brought to him by a friend. He...
Presenting “The Dead,” a story by Michael Swanwick, reprinted from science fiction anthology Starlight for Tor.com’s Monster Mash. “The Dead” presents a future world where zombies take center stage not as a threat, but as a...
In the heat of a sweltering Oslo summer, a young woman is found murdered in her flat - with one of her fingers cut off and a tiny red star-shaped diamond placed under her eyelid. An off-the-rails alcoholic barely holding on to his job, Detective...