After finding out he is the son of the famous intergalactic explorer Sam Gunn, Sam Gunn Jr. sets off to fulfill his father's left-behind legacy. Junior takes a journey through the stars, falling in love with beautiful women and leaving his mark everywhere he ventures. Soon, however, this trip through the universe takes a turn when Junior lands on Saturn, leaving him to learn about a recent scientific discovery that will change everything, possibly...

Jamie Waterman discovered the cliff dwelling on Mars, and the fact that an intelligent race lived on the red planet sixty-five million years ago, only to be driven into extinction by the crash of a giant meteor. Now the exploration of Mars is itself under threat of extinction, as the ultraconservative New Morality movement gains control of the U.S. government and cuts off all funding for the Mars program. Meanwhile, Carter Carleton, an anthropologist...

When an ultra-rich space tourist visits the orbiting International Space Station, NASA expects a $100 million win-win: his visit will bring in much needed funding and publicity. But the tourist venture turns into a scheme of terror. Together with an extremist cosmonaut, the tourist slaughters all the astronauts on board the million-pound ISS—and prepares to crash it into New York City at 17,500 miles an hour, causing more devastation than a hundred...

A novel on the technological advances and corporate intrigues--including murder--of Masterson Aerospace. The company operates a moon base and is one of the beneficiaries of the privatization of space by the U.S. government.

"Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life, his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When he learns that Angela has an inoperable brain tumor and is given less than six months to live, Abramson wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor. However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing...

With Earth on the verge of total environmental disaster, Dan Randolph and two female astronauts embark on a mission to the asteroid belt in a last ditch quest to salvage the future of all life on the planet.

When proof surfaces that humans may not be alone, a mission to build a telescope on the side of the moon claims lives and reveals a secret that will forever change humanity. Just 30 light years away, a planet similar to Earth--one that could possibly contain life--is the focus of those building a telescope to get a better look. What nobody realizes is just how dangerous building the Farside laboratory will be. The Moon may hold its own secrets.

"Fourteen startling visions of yesterday, today, and tomorrow from the six-time winner of the Hugo Award Frontiers can be found in all directions. Frontiers of time and space, as well as frontiers of courage, devotion, love, hate, and the outer limits ofthe human spirit. This outstanding collection of stories by one of science fiction's premier talents spans the length and breadth of history and the universe, while exploring thought-provoking new...

Returning home from a long, brutal campaign against the Armenian army, the Hittite soldier Lukka finds the once magnificent Hatti empire in chaos, its capital city Hattusa engulfed in fire and terrorized by marauding gangs. His wife and young sons have been taken by slave traders.

The Trikon is a shared industrial space laboratory that was built in orbit, designed as the only risk-free environment for genetic experiments too controversial or dangerous to be performed on Earth.