Thirteen  Science Fiction Tales from a Master Storyteller From fighting giant bugs to defeating an interstellar empire without firing a shot; from scientific idiot savants toying with the universe to how the robots will really win the robot apocalypse, these thirteen flavorful tales are guaranteed to entertain, amuse, awe, and maybe even enlighten. Includes the first appearance in print of the Icerigger novellete "Chilling" and a new novelette, "Valentin Sharffen and the Code of Doom."

The Flavors of Other Worlds

Pip and Flinx: Book Ten.
Never have the cares of the universe lain so heavily on Flinx's shoulders, nor the forces against him seemed so invincible. Pursued by a newly revealed sect of doomsday fanatics and hunted by factions inside and outside the Commonwealth, he is expected to single-handedly avert a looming galactic crisis (or bear responsibility for the consequences.) Flinx can be forgiven for feeling a slight touch of melancholy. 
According to his ship's Al, there's only one solution for what ails Flinx - a vacation. But with increasing number of enemies chasing him with ever greater enthusiasm, Flinx must find a getaway shrouded in obscurity. It seems that Jast, a planet smack in the middle of nowhere, is prefect, but trouble can find Flinx anywhere. What he doesn't know is that his vacation paradise is a danger zone of the highest magnitude. And by the time he learns the truth, it may be too late.

Sliding Scales

Luke Skywalker a disparu. En son absence, le sinistre Premier Ordre est né des cendres de l'Empire et cherche à éliminer Luke Skywalker, le dernier Jedi. Avec le soutien de la République, la générale Leia Organa mène la Résistance et tente désespérément de retrouver son frère, Luke, afin d'obtenir son aide pour ramener la paix et la justice dans la galaxie. Leia a envoyé secrètement son pilote le plus audacieux en mission secrète sur Jakku, où un vieil allié détient un indice permettant de localiser Luke...

Star Wars Episode VII - Le Réveil de la Force (Star Wars)

When his wallet is lifted from a one-night stand with an exotic young woman, who may be either the girl of his dreams or just a common third-world grifter and thief, this world-weary traveller decides to go against his own better judgement and that of the local authorities and pursue this alluring thief up-country into the darkest jungles of Papua New Guinea.
Here is a land where headhunters still roam, and where the natural obstacles of poisonous insects and reptiles, savage and deadly beasts, and the mortally demanding jungle itself are the least of his worries. The forces of good and evil and law and anarchy play by entire different rules in this shadowed world.
Driven by delusions of romance and the need to restore his honour, Bohannon moves in hot pursuit farther and farther up-country, into a heart of darkness almost untouched by modern civilization. And once he attains his immediate goal, he is drawn into the darkness of his own soul, as a hunt for gold proves that greed, more than love or lust, is the primal instinct. For men or women, black or white, civilized or savage, in the darkness of the jungle all shadows are primal.

Primal Shadows

En 1977, Voyager II était lancé dans l'espace, invitant toute forme de vie de l'univers à visiter notre planète. Tenez-vous prêts. Ils arrivent.Au coeur du Missouri, sa navette s'écrase, abattue par l'US Air Force, et sur cette terre étrangère, l'Explorateur venu des Etoiles ne peut survivre que s'il s'introduit dans une forme humaine. Au plus vite. Au hasard. Il sera Scott Hayden.Cruel hasard car l'homme dont il est devenu le double vient de mourir. Et quand Jenny, sa toute jeune veuve, fait face à l'apparition, sa terreur est sans nom.Mais voilà que cet être — le visage, la voix de son mari — la supplie : en fuyant avec lui, elle le sauvera!A travers tout le continent américain s'engage une course éperdue, tandis qu'entre la fragile Terrienne et le mystérieux Stellaire naît une complicité qui deviendra tendresse, amour peut-être...

Starman

The Humanx Commonwealth: Book Five.
He was smart. He was good. He was backed by the Commonwealth's best equipment. So what could possibly go wrong?
'In the midst of life...' thought Evan Orgel.
A whole lot of life. Alien life-form upon alien life-form, crawling, floating, wriggling, darting and oozing. The entire unexplored surface of the planet Prism was unimaginably alive.
'...we are in death.'
His death. His Mobile Hostile World suit - the very latest, state-of-the-art, off-world protection gear - had just failed. Attacked in just about the only way its proud makers hadn't thought of.
So there he lay, a hermit crab trapped in his own armour, while the myriad alien life-forms of prism crawled, floated, wriggled, darted and oozed about him, getting ready to open him up like a tin of upmarket cat food.
Evan Orgell was full of misery.

Sentenced to Prism

Si vous avez envie de chevaucher une monture céleste qui plonge gentiment et vous récupère en cas de maladresse aérienne, de sauter du crâne d'un immense et pacifique dinosaure dans une piscine naturelle digne des plus fabuleux paysages, de rencontrer une bande de pirates comme on n'en fait plus depuis trop longtemps, de voir votre visage se dessiner tout entier dans la pupille jaune et étincelante d'un terrible tyrannosaure, d'affronter un ouragan ou de « vivre » bien d'autres extraordinaires expériences, n'hésitez surtout pas !

Dinotopia - le royaume perdu

From the award-winning series comes an anthology of hopeful stories centering on: "What is a life well-lived? What would you do to have a meaningful life?"Recommended by Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Locus, and Foreword ReviewsTravel with twenty-three speculative fiction authors through the seasons of life to capture the memories, identities, and moments of stepping through the portal of change, as they cope with their own journeys of growing older. From the moment of birth, through each threshold of our lives, to the moment we take our last breath, we age. Some of us leap into a hopeful future, some cling to the knowns of our former selves, some wander obliviously through the minefields and poppies of change. Something is lost, something is gained in each season. Things forgotten, things remembered. A child redefines identity and belonging in post-Soviet Hungary. A girl blossoming to adult awareness exchanges life for death in rural Canada. A college student chooses between the magic of ancient spirits and the magic of daily happiness in modern Japan. In futuristic India, a mother finds joy in the balance between family and career. Under the Andalusian sun, a mathematician consults his older self in affairs of love. In alternate Tanzania, a husband and wife discover wisdom in memory loss. A robot eases an old man's grief, and a grandmother opens her heart when she listens to her child.  And many more hopeful stories. ORIGINAL STORIES BY Maurice Broaddus, Vanessa Cardui, C. J. Cheung, Joyce Chng, Eric Choi, S. B. Divya, Alan Dean Foster, Bev Geddes, Maria Haskins, Tyler Keevil, Rich Larson, Karin Lowachee, Brent Nichols, Heather Osborne, Y. M. Pang, Karina Sumner-Smith, Amanda Sun, Patrick Swenson, Bogi Takács, Hayden Trenholm, Liz Westbrook-Trenholm, Jane Yolen & Alvaro Zinos-AmaroINTRODUCTION BY Candas Jane DorseyEDITED BY Susan Forest and Lucas K. LawThe other anthologies in this series (Strangers Among Us, The Sum of Us, Where the Stars Rise, Shade Within Us) have been recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist (American Library Association), Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Locus, Foreword Reviews, and Quill & Quire. Reviews"Featuring a diverse range of protagonists and a wide variety of genre and voice, this anthology nevertheless forms a cohesive whole, united by deep thought, emotional truth, and a hopeful tone. Speculative fiction fans will find it well worth searching out."-Publishers Weekly"VERDICT: This collection is at turns haunting, yearning, and hopeful. An excellent volume of varied voices, both familiar and new."-Library Journal"Through soft and hard science fiction, magical realism, folklore, horror, high fantasy, and alternate history, the 20 stories and two poems tackle aging, loss, change, and adaptation. Like the authors and characters, the settings are diverse. Fans of speculative fiction are well served."-Kirkus Reviews"The dazzling speculative fiction anthology Seasons Between Us features a range of distinct and powerful voices. By stretching the boundaries of what is and what might be, the stories in Seasons Between Us are compelling in addressing choice, identity, and meaning."-Foreword Reviews (starred reviews)"A thought-provoking collection of short works. The subtitle clearly labels the contents while not fully preparing the reader for the depth of emotion and vulnerability found within." -Booklist (American Library Association)

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