With visionary epics like The Stone Canal, The Cassini Division, and Cosmonaut Keep, award-winning Scottish author Ken MacLeod has led a revolution in contemporary science fiction, blending cutting-edge science and razor-sharp political insights with pure, over-the-top interstellar adventure. Now MacLeod takes this heady mix to a new level with a stunning new SF masterwork-Newton's Wake. In the aftermath of the Hard Rapture-a cataclysmic war sparked...

From The Earth Volume 1: A Novella Collection Space was not only the final frontier it was the final abode of freedom. Over the next century the extended Jackson family will learn that the only way to think freely, to breathe freely, to dream freely is to stay mobile. In these related stories they are drawn by their pursuit of freedom, despite dangers, hardships and even death, into the far reaches of the Solar System. From The Earth Collection: Book...

To The Stars: A Novella Collection With the help of new technology, humanity has attained the stars. And while that technology may be extending humanity's reach, it cannot change the human condition. That condition is always balanced perilously between progress and set back, as these five stories of the future show. To The Stars: A Future Chron Collection is a short story collection in the Future Chron Universe. The Future Chron Universe consists...

Hundreds of years in our future, humanity is expanding out into the galaxy in gigantic colony ships. Slower than light speed, the ships are filled with long-lived people who are, nevertheless, in suspended animation for all or much of the voyage. One ship has reached a promising world and begun a colony, but not everyone has yet been awakened. Matthew Fleury is shocked to learn that he has been revived from suspended animation to replace a colleague...

The Lattice Of Space: A Novel Even with Robot Planet in ruins and the deaths of hundreds of their robotic compatriots the four robots Dag, Sigmund, Walker and Hanson were working hard to save humanity from possible extinction. All they have to do is restart the Big Bang to prevent the quickly decaying lattice of spacetime from destroying all. If they can. The Lattice of Space is set in the future (2600s) and is the third and final novel in the Future...

"Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources. Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible toll on the island. So the wild robot sets out across the ocean, determined to stop the poison tide. During her journey, Roz encounters amazing geological formations and incredible creatures, and...

Madison Mars and her cat, Buzz, want to be astronauts and go to the moon. They try taking a bus and riding bikes to the moon. They even make a wish on a four-leaf clover. Will Madison and Buzz find a way to get to the moon? Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.

For her birthday, Madison Mars gets a book about astronauts. She and her cat, Buzz, read the book and learn about all the things that astronauts must do to get to the moon. Madison and Buzz start training in hopes that one day they will make it to the moon. Just like real astronauts. Downloadable Teacher's Notes available.

"From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atreides. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal of the Bene Gesserit. She has already betrayed her ancient order, but now she must decide if her loyalty to the Sisterhood is more important than the...

Brewster Billings is perhaps a little too wrapped up with his computer. He has given it a pet name, Lingo. He has programmed it with the ability to talk to its owner. In fact, Lingo has begun to respond to Brewster's programming skill surprisingly well. Lingo soon makes the jump from polite conversation to elaborate requests for specific television shows to be left on throughout the day. Eventually, Billings begins to suspect that his computerized...