When the young son of Elizabeth Lindstrom, the autocratic president of Starflight, falls to his death, Vance Garamond, a flickerwing commander, is the obvious target for Elizabeth’s grief and anger. She is not a forgiving employer and Garamond...
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Life under the thumb of the Spark Lords — the League's Earthly representatives — is dull but comfortable for Philemon Abu Dhubhai and the other teachers at a third-rate private school for second-rate rich kids. But all that changes when a...
A slower-than-light starship that was launched in the beginning of 21st century to Tau Ceti, after more than a thousand years of flight is nearing its destination. But technical progress did not stand still back on Earth through all those...
Like much of Niven's work, the story is heavily influenced by the setting: a gas torus, a ring of air around a neutron star. The gas giant Goldblatt's World (abbreviated "Gold") orbits this star just outside its Roche sphere. Thus, Gold's gravity...
Won Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1984
Won Nebula Award for Best Novel in...
Two species lived in peaceful coexistence on the planet Demoth until a deadly plague wiped out millions of the winged Ooloms while leaving humans untouched, helpless to do more than ease the suffering of their alien friends and neighbors. Faye...
The protagonist of this Explorer Corps adventure is Ugly Screaming Stink-Girl. The name is supposed to bring her luck, but since she is quickly contaminated by a red fungus known as the Balrog, one has to wonder. Then she, Admiral Festina Ramos,...
Исследовательская группа терпит крушение на неизвестной планете. Планета очень темная, на ней много болот, в которых растут плотоядные...
Дяде Хулу пришла идея, съездить на каникулы в дворец Джаббы Хатта. Конечно, это не каникулы, а командировка. Хул хочет изучить...
Во время решающих сражений с йуужань-вонгами на помощь героям, к их удивлению, приходит знакомая фигура. Боба Фетт и его мандалорцы...