The planet closest to our Sun, Mercury is a rocky, barren, heat-scorched world. But there are those who hope to find wealth in its desolation. Saito Yamagata thinks Mercury’s position makes it
Grant Archer only wanted to study astrophysics. But the forces of the "New Morality," the coalition of censorious do-gooders who run 21st-century America, have other plans for him. To his distress, G
Ben Bova continues his hard SF Star Quest series which began with Death Wave and Apes and Angels. Best New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books for December—io9Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Read T
Six-time Hugo winner Ben Bova brings us a gripping political thriller on the cutting-edge of science and technology inPower Surge.The science advisor to a newly-elected freshman senator, Jake has craf
In the 1980s, an alien starship visited Earth. While investigating what appeared to be a sarcophagus bearing the preserved body of its builder, astronaut Keith Stoner was trapped and cryogenically fr
Astronaut Keith Stoner, member of a joint U.S.-Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system, was trapped alone aboard the alien spacecraft. But he didn’t die, he la
Eighteen years ago, astronaut Keith Stoner had been the American member of a joint U.S.Soviet mission to capture an alien ship that had entered the solar system. It was the greatest adventure i
Running a galactic ore carrier with his family in the wake of the Asteroid Wars, Victor Zacharias flies their ship into the middle of a military attack and bravely saves his family, only to find himse
