Sci-Fi Meets CSI. When humanity's only moon colony suffers its first murder, it's up to the forensic experts of Luna City Special Investigations to solve the case. When the body of a man without a space suit is discovered on the airless surface of the moon, Luna City investigator and newcomer No...
The Dream was a telepathic place of existence where a psychic race known as the Silent could twist the laws of reality. But a madman's lust for power has torn the Dream asunder. Now, only a handful of the Silent can enter it. Kendi Weaver is one of them. And it is up to him to protect it as polit...
You can only shop for them.—Yeoman Daniel Vik Kendi Weaver woke with a small start and wondered where he was. The walls and ceiling were white plaster and they smelled of fresh paint. There were no high beams above him, and his pillow wasn’t filled with— Memory returned in a rush. Mother Ara. B...
Thad peered up at the high building walls through the slits on his mask. The spiderweb of cables was thickest here, giving the street something of an indoor feel. A structure across the street had been cannibalized, its materials used to buttress the Academy. The roof had been crenellated, and an...
The blond woman shifted an impressive wad of gum from one cheek to the other. She wore a blue jumpsuit with matching cap and carried a toolbox. A holographic ID badge floating near her lapel proclaimed her an employee of Compulink, Inc. "Look, mister--how many times you want this explained?" sh...
He laid the book on a small table set with Oriental tea things next to the door and picked up a cup. The brass nightingale fluttered down to perch on his shoulder. “I was reading when you arrived, but now I think it’s time for tea. It’s a nice night to sit outside.” Gavin ...
Instantly the eerie, nail-biting noise ended, and Alice breathed a sigh of relief. Gavin popped the protectors off his ears and hung them around his neck. “They’ll stay in that stupor for a few minutes longer,” he said. “We need to hurry.” The lift was crowded with the ten children, Gavin, Alice,...
Danr fed it another stick and scooted his toes a little closer to the heat. Shadows capered across the huge trees around him, twisting around the smell of smoke. Darkness normally held no terrors for Danr, but he was more than an hour away from the village in the foothills of the Iron Mountains—S...
Everything felt odd. It felt odd to ride astride. It felt odd to wear trousers. It felt odd to think of herself as Baroness Michaels. It felt odd to think she had left her fiancé. One thing that didn’t feel odd was having Gavin beside her. That felt perfectly right. She was theoretically about to...
Kalessa said. Sharlee lay unconscious beneath the tree. Hector’s grotesque corpse bubbled next to her. With no one to command them, the golems stood scattered about the grassy courtyard, motionless as the clay statues they were. Danr closed his eyes...
He hadn’t slept well ever since he had received the news about Dr. Kri and Dr. Say wanting to experiment with his daughter’s eggs. So far he’d managed to stall them for two days, but now they were likely to become more insistent, and he didn’t know what to do next.The sweet smell of frying honey ...
Talfi admitted. Ranadar set down the arrow—bronze-tipped—and picked up another. They were sitting in the walled courtyard beside Mrs. Farley’s boardinghouse, where she kept a small garden and even a struggling rose arbor. Several quivers’ worth of arrows lay spilled across...