Item category 1: Science Fiction Paperback

A story of aliens and an extra-terrestrial experiment. Kate awakes one morning in a strange room and she spends the rest of her life being monitored by forces beyond her control.

After a horrific accident strikes a space station, an engineering officer must use all available tools - a timer, utility kit, and his wits - to survive an attack from the deadliest creature known to man.

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn't a primary co...

Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San Francisco, where Laurence is an engineering genius and Patricia works with a small band of other...

Four months after the Pennine Fusiliers vanished from the Somme, they are still stranded on the alien world. Lieutenant Everson tries to discover the true intentions of their alien prisoner even as he must quell the unrest within his own ranks.

'I have sensed a disturbance in the Force.' Ominous words under any circumstances, but all the more so when uttered by Emperor Palpatine. On Batuu, at the edges of the Unknown Regions, a threat to the Empire is taking root - its existence little more than a glimmer, its consequences as yet unknow...

An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and one family caught deep in the middle - a story that asks what might happen if America were to turn its most devastating policies and deadly weapons upon itself.

Haimey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators. Theirs is a perilous and marginal existence. They have barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big, just enough however, to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White...

The Radch are conquerors to be feared - resist and they'll turn you into a 'corpse soldier' - one of an army of dead prisoners animated by a warship's AI mind. Whole planets are conquered by their own people. The colossal warship called the Justice of Toren has been destroyed - but one ship-posse...