<div>The companion volume to the provocative Alien Sex anthology, Off Limits pushes boundaries with twenty stimulating tales of otherworldly encounters This second volume of the Alien Sex anthology series brings together authors Neil Gaiman, Robert Silverberg, Samuel R. Delany, Joyce Carol Oates, Elizabeth Hand, and many others to explore the mysteries of sex, alien and human alike. From an alien spy who falls in love with one of the earthlings he&rsquo;s monitoring, to a woman whose souvenir dream-catcher calls to her bedroom more than she bargained for, to a genetically engineered sex object aboard a space station, these thought-provoking tales of alien sex open up new worlds for fantastical exploration. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Ellen Datlow, including rare photos from the editor&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

Off Limits

<div>Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards: A futuristic masterpiece, &ldquo;perhaps the most important war novel written since Vietnam&rdquo; (Junot D&iacute;az). In this novel, a landmark of science fiction that began as an MFA thesis for the Iowa Writers&rsquo; Workshop and went on to become an award-winning classic&mdash;inspiring a play, a graphic novel, and most recently an in-development film&mdash;man has taken to the stars, and soldiers fighting the wars of the future return to Earth forever alienated from their home. Conscripted into service for the United Nations Exploratory Force, a highly trained unit built for revenge, physics student William Mandella fights for his planet light years away against the alien force known as the Taurans. &ldquo;Mandella&rsquo;s attempt to survive and remain human in the face of an absurd, almost endless war is harrowing, hilarious, heartbreaking, and true,&rdquo; says Pulitzer Prize&ndash;winning novelist Junot D&iacute;az&mdash;and because of the relative passage of time when one travels at incredibly high speed, the Earth Mandella returns to after his two-year experience has progressed decades and is foreign to him in disturbing ways. Based in part on the author&rsquo;s experiences in Vietnam, The Forever War is regarded as one of the greatest military science fiction novels ever written, capturing the alienation that servicemen and women experience even now upon returning home from battle. It shines a light not only on the culture of the 1970s in which it was written, but also on our potential future. &ldquo;To say that The Forever War is the best science fiction war novel ever written is to damn it with faint praise. It is . . . as fine and woundingly genuine a war story as any I&rsquo;ve read&rdquo; (William Gibson). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection.</div>

The Forever War

<div>By the author of The Forever War: Caught between the USSR and the United States, a professor fights to create a better world Nicholas Foley survived the horrific siege of Leningrad. Since World War II ended, he has risen through the ranks of American academia to his current post as a respected university professor with a loving wife. His one secret: He works for the KGB. Foley acts as a sleeper agent for the Russians, pointing out potential talent for recruitment. This precarious position takes a turn for the deadly when Foley creates an invention that will change the world: a device that makes people obey orders, no matter what. The fate of the world is balanced on a razor&rsquo;s edge. As both superpowers pursue Foley, doing whatever they can to get their hands on his miraculous superweapon, he realizes he must choose a side. Nebula and Hugo Award winner Joe Haldeman is one of America&rsquo;s finest creators of science fiction, and Tool of the Trade is a masterful adventure. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Tool of the Trade

<div>In this near-future novel by the author of The Forever War, an idealistic student visiting Earth from an orbiting colony is ensnared in a political conspiracy. By the close of the twenty-first century, almost half a million souls have already abandoned Earth to live in satellites orbiting the strife-ridden planet. Each of these forty-one Worlds is an independent entity boasting its own government and culture, yet each remains bound to the troubled home World by economic pressure. A brilliant student of political science born and raised in New New York, the largest of the orbiting Worlds, young Marianne O&rsquo;Hara has never been to the surface but now has a golden opportunity to continue her studies far below her floating home of steel. Life on Earth, however, is very different from anything she has ever experienced. With power in the hands of a privileged few and unrest running rampant, the allure of radical politics might be too much for an idealistic and inexperienced young World dweller to resist. But even the best of intentions can have disastrous consequences, and Marianne soon finds herself unwittingly drawn into a wide-ranging conspiracy that could result in the total destruction of everything on Earth . . . and above. The first book in the acclaimed science fiction trilogy by Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Joe Haldeman, Worlds offers a powerful vision of a possible future. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Worlds

<div>By the author of The Forever War: In the breathtaking sequel to Worlds, a survivor of the terrible conflict that destroyed the Earth and most of its satellite Worlds must work to save the human race from extinction The war that destroyed everything lasted a single day. After an initial nuclear strike, the Earth&rsquo;s population was further devastated by an insidious bioweapon targeting anyone above the age of puberty. Now most of what&rsquo;s left of human civilization gathers on New New York, one of the few orbiting Worlds that remain. Monitoring the Earth below from the floating habitat, Marianne O&rsquo;Hara searches for signs of life&mdash;and, in particular, for Jeff Hawking, her former lover, who survived the viral nightmare thanks to a biological anomaly that rendered him immune. But Jeff is not the sole surviving adult in this landscape of death, ruin, and feral children, and those who fled to safety underground are being seduced by a terrible new religion preaching blood and vengeance. The last war, it seems, is not over&mdash;and the last hope for preventing the final holocaust may be Marianne O&rsquo;Hara. The second enthralling volume in Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Joe Haldeman&rsquo;s acclaimed Worlds trilogy, Worlds Apart is a thought-provoking tale of human frailty and lethal folly, and of the courage essential for the survival of the race. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Worlds Apart

<div>By the author of The Forever War: In the decades following the ultimate conflict, the last remnants of humanity face extinction on a doomed voyage to a new home in the stars, in the momentous conclusion to Joe Haldeman&rsquo;s acclaimed Worlds saga The Earth is no more, an uninhabitable shell following the one-day war that obliterated the population. In the decades that followed, the surviving Worlds orbiting the dead planet have become the last refuge of humankind. With the discovery of a possibly habitable planet in a distant star system, ten thousand brave colonists are preparing to depart from New New York aboard the interstellar vessel Newhome. Among them is Marianne O&rsquo;Hara, who will ultimately control the fate of what remains of the human race. The momentous voyage is plagued from the start by ignorance and sabotage, and by the dark tenets of a nihilistic religion dedicated to ultimate destruction. But despite the many trials and tragedies, the spacefarers&mdash;and particularly Marianne and her loved ones&mdash;will be forced to endure. There is no turning back once the journey begins . . . for soon there will be nowhere left to return to. With Worlds Enough and Time, Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author Joe Haldeman completes his magnificent story of humankind&rsquo;s destruction and rebirth, capping off his acclaimed trilogy with a truly transcendent tale of destiny, courage, selflessness, dedication, and the resilience of humankind. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Worlds Enough and Time

<div>A remarkable alien technology could have devastating consequences for humanity in this novel by the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of The Forever War. In the far future, the accidental scientific breakthrough known as the Levant-Meyer Translation changes everything. Suddenly people can leap instantaneously across the universe, albeit temporarily, enabling teams of Tamers to explore far-flung worlds and prepare them for possible human habitation. But one expedition doesn&rsquo;t make it back alive. Jacque Lefavre achieves his lifelong dream of becoming a Tamer when he joins the Agency for Extraterrestrial Development. On his first exploratory mission to a planet known as Groombridge, Lefavre and his team encounter something truly extraordinary: a small, nonsentient creature that, when joined with another of its kind, creates a telepathic &ldquo;bridge.&rdquo; But exploiting this psychic link could bring unanticipated perils, for it is about to bring Lefavre and his team into dangerously close contact with the L&rsquo;vrai, an ancient, advanced, and hostile race of star travelers&mdash;an encounter that could prove to be the first step in humankind&rsquo;s salvation . . . or its doom. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Mindbridge

<div>In this powerful, provocative SF classic from the award-winning author of The Forever War, a young man of peace is transformed into an intergalactic killer. Once Otto McGavin was a kind and gentle soul; then he was recruited by the all-powerful Confederaci&oacute;n. An ultrasecretive, government-linked organization, the Confederaci&oacute;n&rsquo;s stated mission of protecting threatened life, both human and alien, throughout the galaxy greatly appeals to the Anglo-Buddhist McGavin as he eagerly prepares to embark on a career of diplomacy and selfless works. But Otto&rsquo;s new masters have other plans for the idealistic young recruit. Through a process of immersion therapy and hypnosis, and by encasing him in temporary bodies of plastiflesh, scientists can overlay Otto&rsquo;s true persona with other ones, transforming him completely&mdash;body, mind, and soul&mdash;into the ruthlessly effective prime operator the Confederaci&oacute;n wants him to be. But decades of interstellar subterfuge and violence, and years spent wearing the personae of spies and cold-blooded killers, must ultimately take their toll&mdash;and before he leaves behind the lives that have been cruelly thrust upon him, Otto McGavin will have to somehow come to terms with who he really is and the monstrous things he has done. One of the most powerful and thought-provoking stories from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of Worlds and The Forever War, Joe Haldeman&rsquo;s All My Sins Remembered is a stunning work of speculative fiction. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

All My Sins Remembered

<div>Short stories, including a Hugo Award winner, from the author of The Forever War. Joe Haldeman burst onto the science fiction scene with The Forever War, an unforgettable novel that marked the arrival of an exciting, original new voice. Smart, creative, and acutely socially aware, Haldeman is an author whose work has all of the greatest qualities associated with the genre. Infinite Dreams collects Haldeman&rsquo;s short stories from the early days of his career. There&rsquo;s the poignant &ldquo;26 Days, On Earth,&rdquo; which follows a boy from the moon as he writes a journal about his time on Earth and falls for a local girl. Then there&rsquo;s the humorous &ldquo;All The Universe in a Mason Jar,&rdquo; chronicling the experience aliens have with a moonshine-drunk farm boy. In the satirical &ldquo;A Time to Live,&rdquo; a frozen billionaire wakes up in the future, only to get returned to his own time in a different body. Also included is the Hugo Award&ndash;winning &ldquo;Tricentennial,&rdquo; about a trip to gather antimatter from a mysterious binary system. Haldeman&rsquo;s whip-smart tales prove to be as much a treat now as they were when they were written. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Infinite Dreams

<div>The author of The Forever War presents a collection of writings ranging from our past in Southeast Asia to our future among the stars. Nebula and Hugo Award&ndash;winning author Joe Haldeman burst onto the literary scene with the hugely popular novel The Forever War, but his career also took off on the strength of his short fiction. This brilliant collection brings together examples of his science fiction as well as his writing on Vietnam&mdash;and reveals the inexorable connections between the two. The works included in Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds are united by its title essay, in which Haldeman explains how his past informs his envisioned futures. One of these futures is a grouping of four stories from the Confederaci&oacute;n universe, which includes his novels All My Sins Remembered and There Is No Darkness. An anthropological expedition goes awry as a research team&rsquo;s subjects become murderous, and trade negotiations fall apart, comically lost in translation. The collection closes with one of Haldeman&rsquo;s most affective works about Vietnam&mdash;the moving narrative poem &ldquo;DX.&rdquo; Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds proves to be an anthology as versatile and multifaceted as the author who wrote it. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds

<div> &ldquo;So many tensions and so much emotion . . . A powerful novel&rdquo; of the Vietnam era by the award-winning author of The Forever War (Booklist). John &ldquo;Spider&rdquo; Spiedel is a college dropout who is drafted into the war as a combat engineer. Scared, he tries to keep his head down and stay safe, a plan that works until the Tet Offensive, when he is wounded and sent stateside&mdash;and receives a devastating diagnosis. And while he&rsquo;s been away fighting, his girlfriend, Beverly, has fallen in with the hippie movement in an attempt to rebel against the repressive values of American society and the injustice of the war that took her boyfriend overseas. Vietnam was the conflict that changed America&rsquo;s relationship with war forever, and this novel by Nebula and Hugo Award&ndash;winning author Joe Haldeman, inspired by his own experience in the military, is a look at this turbulent time in US history as seen through the eyes of the people most affected: the soldiers and their loved ones. 1968 is not just a story of two young people attempting to find themselves in a tumultuous world&mdash;it&rsquo;s the account of a country trying to find itself as well. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

1968

<div>A tour of duty through the worst that the world has to offer Before his time as a professor of writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before penning multiple Nebula and Hugo Award&ndash;winning novels and stories, Joe Haldeman was a soldier in Vietnam, an experience that changed him and colored much of what he has written. War Year is Haldeman&rsquo;s first novel and his first attempt to describe what he saw in Vietnam and give insight into what happened for the benefit of those who weren&rsquo;t there. The minimalist War Year follows the life of John Farmer, a combat engineer, over the course of a year in Vietnam. John undergoes training, and then, along with his fellow soldiers, does whatever it takes to survive in unforgiving conditions. Powerful and affecting, War Year reaches its highest peaks as it describes with enduring truth the sights and experiences of what it was like to be in the humid jungles of Vietnam in 1968. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Joe Haldeman including rare images from the author&rsquo;s personal collection. </div>

War Year

<div>The acclaimed author of The Forever War imagines a future in which most of humanity has abandoned Earth, living in man-made habitats orbiting a troubled world. In Worlds, Worlds Apart, and Worlds Enough and Time, the acclaimed Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of The Forever War imagines a near future rife with exhilarating and terrifying possibilities, when hundreds of thousands of human beings have abandoned the Earth&rsquo;s surface to live in man-made habitats orbiting the troubled planet. Haldeman&rsquo;s science fiction saga follows Marianne O&rsquo;Hara, a young inhabitant of the World known as New New York, from her arrival on Earth as a student who becomes seduced by radical politics, through her coming of age amid the Worlds&rsquo; war and the habitats&rsquo; devastation, and ultimately to Marianne&rsquo;s emergence as a leader&mdash;and possibly the last hope of the human race as it heads toward the stars. Stephen King said of the first book in Haldeman&rsquo;s trilogy, &ldquo;There are scenes in Worlds I will remember forever.&rdquo; These gripping novels will enthrall anyone interested in the future&mdash;that of our planet and of the human race. </div>

The Worlds Trilogy

<div>&ldquo;A well-written and worthy sequel to one of SF&rsquo;s enduring classics&rdquo;&mdash;the Nebula Award winner The Forever War&mdash;now with a bonus story, &ldquo;A Separate War&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). On virtually every list of the greatest military science fiction adventures ever written, Joe Haldeman&rsquo;s Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning classic, The Forever War, is ranked at the very top. In Forever Free, the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and author of the acclaimed Worlds series returns to that same volatile universe where human space marines once engaged the alien Taurans in never-ending battle. While loyal soldier William Mandella was fighting for the survival of the human race in a distant galaxy, thousands of years were passing on his home planet, Earth. Then, with the end of the hostilities came the shocking realization that humanity had evolved into something he did not recognize. Offered the choice of retaining his individuality or becoming part of the genetically modified shared Human hive-mind, Mandella chose exile, joining other veterans of the Forever War seeking a new life on a wasteland world they called Middle Finger. Making a home for themselves in this half-frozen hell, Mandella and his life partner, Marygay, have survived into middle age, raising a son and a daughter in the process. Now, the dark truth about the colonists&rsquo; ultimate role in the continuation of the Human group mind will force Mandella and Marygay to take desperate action as they hijack an interstellar vessel and set off on a frantic escape across space and time. But what awaits them upon their return is a mystery far beyond all human&mdash;or Human&mdash;comprehension . . . In Forever Free, Joe Haldeman&rsquo;s stunning vision of humankind&rsquo;s far future reaches its enthralling conclusion in a masterwork of speculation from the mind and heart of one of the undisputed champions of hard science fiction. And in the bonus story included in this volume, &ldquo;A Separate War,&rdquo; Marygay, reassigned and separated from her lover, Mandella, continues fighting in military engagements across the stars&mdash;all the while planning how she and Mandella can reunite despite the time and space between them.</div>

Forever Free

<div>A dystopian future Earth is thrown into turmoil by the imminent arrival of extraterrestrials in this alien-contact novel by the author of The Forever War. With The Coming, multiple Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning science fiction Grand Master Joe Haldeman ingeniously combines a troubling dark vision of a dystopian near-future with an alien first-encounter tale as thrilling and thought-provoking as Carl Sagan&rsquo;s Contact and Steven Spielberg&rsquo;s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Despite technological advancements designed to alleviate the stress of everyday life, Earth at the midpoint of the twenty-first century is plagued by environmental crisis and manmade catastrophe. Tensions among the nations of Europe bring the threat of World War III closer by the hour as their lands are also ravaged by devastating climatic upheaval, the result of centuries of unchecked ozone depletion and global warming. Meanwhile, in an America whose population has been sedated by DNA-specific drugs and virtual porn, homosexuality and free sexual expression have been outlawed by a repressive federal government led by an inept media-star president. But everything changes on October 1, 2054, when Professor Aurora Bell, an astrophysicist at the University of Florida, picks up a message from deep space: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re coming . . .&rdquo; Ingeniously told from the viewpoints of a diverse cast of characters ranging from scientists, artists, and ordinary citizens to criminals, con men, and politicians, The Coming is a shockingly prescient work of speculative fiction from the multiple award-winning author of The Forever War and the acclaimed Worlds series, taking the alien invasion story to places it has never gone before. </div>

The Coming

<div>During the Alaskan gold rush, a woman pursues a destiny that will change the world in this alternate-history novel from a sci-fi legend. In the tradition of Robert Heinlein (Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land), multiple Hugo and Nebula Award winner Joe Haldeman set a new standard for military science fiction and hard sci-fi with The Forever War and his phenomenal Worlds series. Now the Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master dabbles brilliantly in alternate-history fiction with the world-altering adventures of a remarkable woman during the gold rush in late nineteenth-century Alaska. Sent from her Georgia home to Philadelphia to escape the carnage of the Civil War, Rosa Coleman studied astronomy and mathematics, ultimately settling into a new life as the wife of a wealthy man and mother of young Daniel. But when she discovers an unforgiveable secret about her reprobate husband, Rosa takes the boy and flees to the West on a desperate escape that takes them from Dodge City to San Francisco one step ahead of the Pinkertons hired to bring them back home. On the run in a strange and exhilarating new world, Rosa and Daniel find a haven where they might never be found: the wilds of Alaska among the dreamers drawn to its magnificent wilderness by the promise of gold. It is here that her spiritual guide first appears to Rosa in the form of a raven&mdash;an incarnation of the trickster god of Native American and Eskimo lore&mdash;suggesting that her destiny lies not in sparkling riches but in something far greater. This mystical harbinger has come from a distant, alien place, and will set her on an astonishing course . . . A magnificent blending of historical and speculative fiction, Joe Haldeman&rsquo;s Guardian is a breathtaking departure for the author whom Peter Straub calls &ldquo;one of our most aware, comprehensive, and necessary writers&rdquo; and David Brin praises as &ldquo;one of the best prophetic writers of our times.&rdquo; </div>

Guardian

<div>A young man must fight&mdash;literally&mdash;for the opportunity to escape his backwater home planet and journey to the stars. A towering young giant growing up on a high-gravity world of perilous plants and savage creatures, Carl Bok is thrilled when he&rsquo;s offered a one-year scholarship to Starschool. As a new student aboard the space-traveling institution, Carl will get the opportunity to visit and learn from sixteen colonized worlds. Best of all, he&rsquo;ll finally escape the dangerous and grueling life of his home planet. A poor &ldquo;country boy&rdquo; cast among rich children of privilege, Carl perseveres as he and his classmates prepare to rocket from world to world. While he&rsquo;s still on Earth, however, an unexpected and desperate need for funds forces him to become a professional fighter, a job that well suits his massive size and experience. Carl hopes to earn the money he needs to continue with Starschool by battling a slew of human and bestial adversaries for the entertainment of others. But there are forces behind the scenes with an alien agenda that Carl can neither see nor comprehend&mdash;as he and a cadre of young companions undertake an educational odyssey that carries them from Earth to the astonishing artificial planet Construct to a war-torn world called Hell. A Science Fiction Grand Master, the acclaimed author of The Forever War, and the winner of numerous awards including the Hugo and Nebula, Joe Haldeman collaborated with his brother, biologist and science fiction writer Jack C. Haldeman II, to create this gripping tale of a young man&rsquo;s self-discovery and remarkable intergalactic adventures. </div>

There Is No Darkness

<div>The Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money&mdash;and for some, both are running out . . . The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health to your aging, ailing body&mdash;as long as you can pay the enormous fee. The scientific advancement has altered the twenty-first-century world even more than space travel. Dallas Barr is one of the oldest men on Earth, and now he needs to repeat the procedure. But while scrambling desperately for his next essential million, he meets Maria, a woman from a previous life&mdash;and makes two chilling discoveries: Not all Stileman &ldquo;immortals&rdquo; were created the same. And their days may be more numbered than they think . . . From the author of The Hemingway Hoax and Camouflage, and the recipient of multiple science fiction honors including the Hugo, John W. Campbell, and Robert A. Heinlein Awards, Buying Time is &ldquo;a mystery/SF hybrid that exhibits the author at his most inventive. . . . The action is fast and furious&rdquo; (Publishers Weekly). </div>

Buying Time

<div>&ldquo;An excellent collection&rdquo; of vampire stories, from authors such as Harlan Ellison, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Tanith Lee, and Fritz Leiber (Publishers Weekly). Renowned editor Ellen Datlow has gathered seventeen variations on vampirism ranging from classically Gothic to postmodern satire, from horrific to erotic. These stories reflect the evolution of vampire literature from Bram Stoker to Anne Rice and beyond, resulting in a deeper exploration of their inner lives. Expanding the concept of vampirism to include the draining of a person&rsquo;s will or life force, Datlow&rsquo;s collection transcends the traditional &ldquo;black capes and teeth marks on the neck&rdquo; to reinvent an eternally fascinating subgenre of horror. In Harlan Ellison&rsquo;s &ldquo;Try a Dull Knife,&rdquo; an empath stumbles bleeding into a nightclub, on the run from emotional vampires. A Broadway actress steals the emotions of her fellow performers in &ldquo;. . . To Feel Another&rsquo;s Woe&rdquo; by Chet Williamson. And in &ldquo;The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be,&rdquo; Gahan Wilson offers his own surreal twist on Lewis Carroll&rsquo;s &ldquo;The Walrus and the Carpenter,&rdquo; as two strangers on a beach lure intoxicated picnickers to a different kind of picnic . . . Blood Is Not Enough includes contributions by Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Garry Kilworth, Harlan Ellison, Scott Baker, Leonid Andreyev, Harvey Jacobs, S. N. Dyer, Edward Bryant, Fritz Leiber, Tanith Lee, Susan Casper, Steve Rasnic Tem, Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann, Chet Williamson, Joe Haldeman, and Pat Cadigan. </div>

Blood Is Not Enough

<div>A whirlwind of fantasy action and adventure descends on Thieves&rsquo; World&reg;&mdash;as related by C. J. Cherryh, Diana L. Paxson, Andrew J. Offutt, and others. Welcome back to Sanctuary, &ldquo;the city where anything could happen, where characters created by some of the best fantasy writers of the generation crossed paths and shared adventures&rdquo; (Black Gate). The Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; series continues with a story line created by Robert Lynn Asprin, C. J. Cherryh, Diana L. Paxson, Lynn Abbey, Janet Morris, and Andrew J. Offutt. In Storm Season, immortal warrior Tempus Thales and his nemesis, the crime lord Jubal, go head to head in fast-paced exploits that bring the simmering tension between them to a boil. &ldquo;Much of Storm Season pertains to the conflict between Asprin&rsquo;s gladiator/crime lord Jubal and Morris&rsquo; Tempus, and the other stories work to move this plotline along, while telling their own tales. Offutt, as usual, steals the show with a Shadowspawn story . . .&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy-Faction</div>

Storm Season

<div>Missing Game of Thrones? Dare to &ldquo;be pulled into political intrigues, watch new gods replace old, and witness fortunes rise and fall and rise again&rdquo; (Book Riot). A classic series for a new generation of fantasy adventure fans, Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; paved the way for the shared-world anthology tradition with epic worldbuilding, unforgettable characters, and nonstop action thanks to the legendary authors who contribute to it. The series&rsquo;s groundbreaking debut features stories by John Brunner, Lynn Abbey, Poul Anderson, Andrew J. Offutt, Robert Lynn Asprin, Joe Haldeman, Christine DeWees, and Marion Zimmer Bradley, who populate the lawless city of Sanctuary with orphans and wizards, fortune tellers and emperors, merchants and madams, spies, assassins, and, of course, thieves. &ldquo;Sanctuary was the city where anything could happen, where characters created by some of the best fantasy writers of the generation crossed paths and shared adventures.&rdquo; &mdash;Black Gate &ldquo;A bold and daring experiment in fantasy storytelling . . . We are introduced to the cast of characters, including beggars and crime lords, wizards and soldiers, minstrels and thieves, as this new chapter in the life of Sanctuary begins, life under the governorship of Prince Kadakithis.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy-Faction </div>

Thieves' World®

<div> War looms over Sanctuary in the fifth Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; anthology compiled by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Phule&rsquo;s Company series. The invasion by the Beysibs, an amphibious humanoid race, brings unusual prosperity to the city of Sanctuary. But underneath the glittering fa&ccedil;ade lies a ticking time bomb, for the nefarious residents of Sanctuary don&rsquo;t take kindly to an invasion&mdash;well-meaning or otherwise . . . Join Janet Morris, C. J. Cherryh, Robert Lynn Asprin, Lynn Abbey, David Drake, and Diana L. Paxson as their stories unravel the fates of Sanctuary&rsquo;s favorite liars, thieves, assassins, and warriors. &ldquo;Abbey . . . understands Sanctuary and its characters. She also knows how to write a short story with a strong main character, a riveting plot that contains twists and turns, and a satisfying resolution. Best story in the book . . . Lalo is the most interesting of all of the characters in Thieves&rsquo; World and his stories are always interesting. Paxson . . . spins an interesting and well written yarn that closes the book nicely.&rdquo; &mdash;brianbookreviews.blogspot.com </div>

The Face of Chaos

<div>Sixth in the magical, action-packed shared-world series: &ldquo;Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; has grown into a real presence in the fantasy genre&rdquo; (Fantasy-Faction). Under the rule of a humanoid race, the city of Sanctuary finds itself divided. Rebels and assassins stalk the shadows, bringing chaos to the streets&mdash;which is nothing new to the lawless locals. But even they will have to put aside their differences to unite against their common enemy. An accomplishment easier said than done in a city where everyone is out for themselves . . . Stories by Chris and Janet Morris, Robin W. Bailey, Diana L. Paxson, Diane Duane, C. J. Cherryh, Andrew J. Offutt, Lynn Abbey, and Robert Lynn Asprin add to the legend and lore of this &ldquo;surprisingly rich and deep world&rdquo; (Book Riot). &ldquo;In the sixth book of the collection, the friction between the residents of Sanctuary and the invading Beysib heats up and makes for some exciting reading . . . Offutt&rsquo;s character Shadowspawn gets some good coverage, and a few fresh new characters also get some play . . .&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy-Faction &ldquo;&lsquo;The Hand That Feeds You&rsquo; [by Diane Duane] is one of the best stories in the entire collection to date.&rdquo; &mdash;brianbookreviews.blogspot.com </div>

Wings of Omen

<div>The third Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; anthology&mdash;with stories by fantasy&rsquo;s favorite authors&mdash;curated by the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Myth series. Times are hard, and the citizens of Sanctuary are not their greedy, immoral, grifting selves. But desperate times call for desperate measures, which means the bad guys are about to up their game. No one is safe from Sanctuary&rsquo;s evil charms&mdash;not the fish in the waters, not the prince&rsquo;s own Hell Hound guards, not even Satan himself. &ldquo;Shadows also includes another story by Offutt that reinforces my opinion that he is incapable of writing a bad story for this series. A number of the tales are Tempus stories, with several of our other recurring characters also making appearances. By virtue of Tempus&rsquo; unique relationship with the god Vashanka, these stories also bring us back toward the storyline of the competing deities, and help us to look forward to new developments in the fourth book. All in all, Shadows is the strongest book amongst the first three publications.&rdquo; &mdash;Fantasy-Faction</div>

Shadows of Sanctuary

<div>Belly up to Thieves&rsquo; World&reg;&rsquo;s favorite bar for tales told by such fantasy stars as Philip Jos&eacute; Farmer, David Drake, Janet Morris, and others. In the second shared-world anthology of the Thieves&rsquo; World&reg; series, we see &ldquo;the gods themselves taking a hand in the fight for the hearts, minds and souls of the citizens of Sanctuary&rdquo; (Fantasy-Faction). Via contributions from Philip Jos&eacute; Farmer, David Drake, Lynn Abbey, A.E. van Vogt, Janet Morris, Andrew J. Offutt, and Robert Lynn Asprin, you&rsquo;ll revisit the nefarious characters of Sanctuary, including One-Thumb, the proprietor of the Vulgar Unicorn; Regli, a nobleman; Illyra, the seer; Hanes, the thief; the crime lord, Jubal; and introducing Tempus Thales, the immortal mercenary. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s the best kind of sequel, the kind which was not meticulously planned from the start, unlike the deliberate megafranchises being created today, which may be plotted out for a decade in advance of the launch. . . . An important book in the series . . . Many elements which will be exploited to huge degree and cast a huge shadow over later pages are introduced here for the first time. . . . In some ways, it provides an anticipatory, even direct, model for the grimdark of the nineties which would follow.&rdquo; &mdash;World of Antra </div>

Tales from the Vulgar Unicorn

<div>The ultimate collection of classic science fiction stories and poems from the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning author of the Forever War Series. An omnibus edition of his collections None So Blind and Dealing in Futures, this volume features the best of Joe Haldeman&rsquo;s short speculative fiction, including such gems as the Hugo and Nebula Award&ndash;winning &ldquo;The Hemingway Hoax,&rdquo; in which a forged Hemingway manuscript takes the reader on a journey through time and multiple universes; the Hugo and Locus Award&ndash;winning &ldquo;None So Blind;&rdquo; the World Fantasy and Nebula Award&ndash;winning &ldquo;Graves;&rdquo; and the Rhysling Award&ndash;winning poem &ldquo;Saul&rsquo;s Death.&rdquo; From stories steeped in the horrors of the Vietnam War to tales of cyborg transformations and space explorations, Haldeman flexes his narrative powers to deliver works that will live on for generations to come. &ldquo;If there was a Fort Knox for science fiction writers who really matter, we&rsquo;d have to lock Haldeman up there.&rdquo; &mdash;Stephen King &ldquo;One of the most prophetic writers of our times.&rdquo; &mdash;David Brin</div>

Joe Haldeman

Books By Joe Haldeman (26 Books)