Item category 1: Science Fiction Paperback

Christburg, 1236AD. Otto Behr, supplicant of the Teutonic Order of St. Mary's Hospital in Jerusalem, is more than just a medieval Knight. Otto is a German agent, a time-travelling operative tasked with fighting the Russians across three millennia of history. When his fellow Knight falls in battle...

Emperor's daughter Mercedes is the first woman ever admitted to the High Ground, the elite training academy of the Solar League's Star Command, and she must graduate if she is to have any hope of taking the throne. Her classmate Tracy has more modest goals - to rise to the rank of captain, and wi...

Mary Jekyll, alone and penniless following her parents' death, is curious about the secrets of her father's mysterious past. One clue in particular hints that Edward Hyde, her father's former friend and a murderer, may be nearby, and there is a reward for information leading to his capture - a re...

One Thursday lunchtime Earth is unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass. For Arthur Dent, who has only just had his house demolished that morning, this is already more than he can cope with. Sadly, however, the weekend has only just begun. And the Galaxy is a very, very la...

This epic tale is set on the desert planet Arrakis, the focus for a complex political and military struggle with galaxy-wide repercussions. When Duke Atreides and his family take up court there they fall into a trap set by his rival.

When a brilliant scientist gets a letter from herself about faster-than-light travel, she doesn't know what to believe. The equations work, but her paper is discredited - and soon the criticism is more than scientific. Exiled by the establishment, she gets an offer to build her starship from an u...

Beside a dying star lies a nameless ship hidden, abandoned and lost for a millennium. But there are terrible secrets there that would change the fate of humanity, and eventually someone will come looking. Linguist and smuggler Sean Wren is blackmailed into finding the secrets of that ancient ship...

On a distant Earth colony, an orphaned survivor of an alien invasion discovers that the greatest world-ending dangers aren't behind her. It's been eight years since an alien invasion drove a small surviving group of settlers to seek refuge in an underground shelter. Cut off from the rest of human...

Hwa Young was just ten years old when imperial forces destroyed her home. Now a citizen of the very empire that orphaned her, she dreams of getting back out among the stars and piloting a lancer-the fleet's deadliest, most advanced fighting craft. Then a rebel attack makes her dreams a reality.

Centuries in the future, the Galactic Authority reigns over millions of advanced civilizations throughout the cosmos. From deep within the Galactic Core, the Authority's principal Mind has won the allegiance of myriad nations, offering security, connection, and access to a network of interstellar...