When Karimon is claimed by human colonists, the planet's intelligent reptile inhabitants fight back by forging an alliance with the invaders' enemies

Purgatory: A Chronicle of a Distant World

Literature & Fiction

Mike Resnick

United States

Tor Books

Once Faligor was an ideal world, a showplace planet with a model government, productive farms and factories, and a thriving tourist industry. Within the short span of twenty years it became the most notorious charnel house in the galaxy. The first Man to make a treaty with the native inhabitants of Faligor was Susan Beddoes. When she arrived, the golden-furred Disanko, three hundred and first Sitate of the Enkoti, ruled his tribe from a great city. Disanko saw an opportunity to gain greater wealth and power over neighboring tribes. Susan Beddoes saw an opportunity for the Department of Cartography to show the Human Galaxy the right way to open a new world. But the natives of Faligor are more sophisticated than Beddoes thought. They take to interstellar culture as if they'd been born to it. Within five years Faligor is one of the richest, most technologically advanced planets in the sector. The new Sitate, Disanko's son Tantram (known as "Emperor Bobby" by the humans on the planet), is ready to establish a planetary democracy and apply for membership in the Republic. Then it all starts to collapse. Susan Beddoes watches in horror as the new planetary government proves itself corrupt and opportunistic. But there is worse to come: after a few years, the President is overthrown in a military coup by a brutal general named Gama Labu. As off-planet interests flee Labu's astonishingly violent efforts to consolidate power for himself and his tribe, Susan Beddoes stands her ground, the last representative of the Republic, and witness to Faligor's bloody descent into a barbarism far worse than she had found there only twenty years before.

Inferno: A Chronicle of a Distant World

On the planet Grotamana, called Medina by humans, Xavier William Lennox met with disaster. Lennox, a travel writer and adventurer, has become fascinated by the secretive golden-skinned natives of Medina, called Fireflies by the Human Republic. But on his first visit he was caught by the Fireflies' high priest while attempting to spy on a sacred ritual in a village forbidden to all foreigners. He was tortured and nearly killed before being left as a warning to other curious Men. Now Lennox is determined to find out what it is that the aliens want so much to hide. He will return to Medina, and this time he will attempt to discover their secrets from inside their culture, instead of outside. Lennox employs the latest medical breakthroughs to alter his body to resemble a Firefly. He immerses himself in the dialect of a city of Medina distant from the sacred village. He studies what is known of the Fireflies' culture and history, though that knowledge is dangerously limited. And then he arranges to be dropped back on Medina, in the wasteland between cities, to make his slow way toward the sacred village. If he survives the journey, he thinks he will have learned enough to safely pass the gates of the temple precincts.

A Miracle of Rare Design: A Tragedy of Transcendence

A collection of stories inspired by Bram Stoker's "Dracula" includes contributions by Janet Asimov, John Gregory Betancourt, Heather Graham, Mike Resnick, Tim Sullivan, and Anne Rice

The Ultimate Dracula

ANNE RICE

Philip José Farmer

Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Edward D. Hoch

John Gregory Betancourt

Ed. Gorman

Kevin J.Anderson

dan-simmons

Dell

Humanity joins forces with its centuries-old enemy, the Khalians, to combat a common foe--the Syndicate of Families--that stands poised to seize control of the known universe, in an anthology that features stories by Christopher Stasheff, Poul Anderson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and Mike Resnick, among others. Reissue.

Crisis (The Fleet, Book 6)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

STEVE PERRY

Poul Anderson

Science Fiction

Exploring various alternatives to the information age, a collection of thought-provoking short stories speculates about a future without cyberspace or high-tech machines in works by Stephen Baxter, David Brin, Michael Swanwick, and other leading authors. Reprint.

Live Without a Net

S.M. Stirling

DAVID BRIN

CHARLES STROSS

Rudy Rucker

Paul Di Filippo

Michael Swanwick

stephen-baxter

Short Stories & Anthologies

Roc+

In an anthology of tales inspired by Wells's The War of the Worlds, notable science fiction authors--such as Connie Willis, Mike Resnick, Robert Silverberg, and Gregory Benford--imagine the Martian invasion seen through the eyes of his contemporaries in other locations throughout the world.

War of the Worlds: Global Dispatches

Connie Willis

Barbara. Hambly

ROBERT SILVERBERG

George Alec Effinger

Dave Wolverton

Howard Waldrop

Janet, Berliner

Spectra

One of the major voices in science fiction, Mike Resnick presents the first volume in a bold new trilogy.Jefferson Nighthawk--known and feared by many as the Widowmaker, the consummate bounty hunter--has been frozen for a century in order to defeat a deadly disease. Only now the cost of his care has risen, so the Widowmaker is called out of retirement for one special commission, and a very large chunk of cash. A notorious assassin has been wrecking havoc on the Frontier; who better but the Widowmaker to defeat him?

The Widowmaker

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Jefferson Nighthawk, once the galaxy's most feared killer, is cloned again and given a new mission. This time he is not only armed with the Widowmaker's killing skills, but also with his lifetime of knowledge. Nighthawk's new mission involves the rescue of a corrupt politician's daughter, and the assassination of the rebel leader who holds her captive. But the daughter puts a wrinkle in the plan when she offers her father's fortune if Nighthawk kills her father instead. While the odds are overwhelming, the price may be right.

The Widowmaker Reborn (Widowmaker Trilogy , No 2)

He was the most feared bounty hunter in the galaxy, the consummate killing machine, a man known only as the Widowmaker. Now, after a century of being cryogenically frozen, Jefferson Nighthawk has a new lease on life--and new enemies who want him dead.... Jefferson Nighthawk has been awakened from his frozen sleep, his deadly disease cured. But although he still has the experience and instincts of the legendary Widowmaker, Nighthawk is now biologically in his sixties. His reflexes slowed by age, looking only to live out his days in peace, he decides on a quiet retirement on a Frontier world. Easier said than done. For while Nighthawk lay in cryogenic sleep, his two clones were killing in his name, leaving a trail of vengeful enemies in their wake. Nighthawk has one advantage: no one knows who he is just yet. But once word gets out that he's back, every assassin on the Frontier will be out to make a rep by gunning him down. Suddenly the Widowmaker has only two choices: pick up his weapons...or face death again--and this time for keeps.

The Widowmaker Unleashed (Widowmaker Series)

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