L. Ron Hubbard

Contain three stories by L. Ron Hubbard, including the title story in which Captain Gordon flies a team of American anthropologists to Pakistan, but the expedition turns into a very dangerous treasure hunt.

"Presents two western stories by L. Ron Hubbard, including "Cattle King for a Day," in which Chinook Shannon heads West to claim his inheritance and searches for the man who killed his grandfather; and "Come and Get It," in which a man travels to Wyoming to find his father's murderer."--

24 Award-Winning Authors and Illustrators

Accompanied by Orson Scott Card, Brandon Sanderson, Jody Lynn Nye, Jerry Pournelle, Ciruelo and Echo Chernik and Edited by David Farland

Your search for something new and different in sci-fi and fantasy ends here.

Presenting this year's collection of fresh voices, fabulous worlds, and fantastic new characters.

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A SAGA OF COSMIC DIMENSIONS. To the Stars is set in an uncertain, strife-torn future when the first starships of man are traveling across the galaxy but not without extracting a terrible price from their crews. The novel's thought-provoking opening line, "Space is deep, Man is small and Time is his relentless enemy," powerfully captures the challenges facing the brave men and women of these vessels, people who must give up their former lives...

A charming rogue cut from the same cloth as Robert Mitchum, American engineer Dan Courtney is learning fast that it takes more than a little charm to lay the groundwork for a railroad. Particularly when the plan is to build it across some of the roughest and most dangerous territory on earth. Courtney's been hired to survey the land that would link up the Uganda Railway to the Anglo-Egyptian railroad. Running through desert, jungle and mountains,...

Fortune hunter Billy Newman is not a man of great strength or physical courage. Like a young Johnny Depp, he gets by on his wit, wiles and good looks. And he's had quite a good run-striking gold in the Philippines and buying his very own island in the South Seas. . . .But there's trouble in paradise, and Billy's in the thick of it. The island's crops are failing. The island's people are dying. And the island's owner-Billy-is taking the heat....

It's 1806. A young republic just three decades old-the United States of America-is about to make a great push westward, across the Mississippi, into a wild, beautiful, and dangerous land. A territory of towering mountains and violent waters, of icy glaciers and searing deserts. The great northwest. It is a time and a place where fortunes will be made, destinies will be revealed, and legends will rise. Buckskin Brigades is the epic saga of one such...

What on Earth are the Voltarians up to now? Fast cars... and fast women. Start your engines! Voltarian Royal Officer Jettero Heller is putting the pedal to the metal — and the action is about to shift into high gear. People of Earth take note: there is nothing more seductive, more tantalizing or more terrifying than An Alien Affair. The granddaddy of all series. — Los Angeles Times

A breakaway New York Times and perennial international bestseller, Battlefield Earth has been voted among the top three of the best one hundred English language novels of the twentieth century by the Random House Modern Library Readers Poll, and has won worldwide critical acclaims. A towering masterwork of science fiction adventure and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time, L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth opens with breathtaking...

Final Blackout is a dystopic science fiction novel by American writer L. Ron Hubbard. The novel is set in the future and follows a man known as "the Lieutenant" as he restores order to England after a world war. A lieutenant (known in the book only as "The Lieutenant") becomes dictator of England after a world war. The Lieutenant leads a ragtag army fighting for survival in a Europe ravaged by 30 years of atomic, biological and conventional warfare....