A space salvager and her partner make the discovery of a lifetime that just might change the universe in this wild, big-ideas space opera from multi award-winning author Elizabeth Bear.

Halmey Dz and her partner Connla Kurucz are salvage operators, living just on the inside of the law… usually. Theirs is the perilous and marginal existence—with barely enough chance of striking it fantastically big—just once—to keep them coming back for more. They pilot their tiny ship into the scars left by unsuccessful White Transitions, searching for the relics of lost human and alien vessels. But when they make a shocking discovery about an alien species that has been long thought dead, it may be the thing that could tip the perilous peace mankind has found into full-out war.

Energetic and electrifying, Ancestral Night is a dazzling new space opera, sure to delight fans of Alastair Reynolds, Iain M. Banks, and Peter F. Hamilton.

The Federation has endured for hundreds of years, but as corruption and decadence wear away the core of human unity, rogue admirals rise in rebellion. As the Federation struggles for survival, two officers, an old Admiral and a newly-minted Lieutenant, may be all that stands between the Federation and destruction.

“I really don’t know why I’m surprised anymore to find that the quality of every story is so good!”A dozen science fiction writers, including New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors, offer remarkable tales in this third collection of space opera stories presented under the Beyond the Stars banner.These twelve stories showcase strange new worlds, alien life forms, and deep space battles.Come with us to where the legends are born… at galaxy’s edge.

Как и с предыдущими книгами, Мартин периодически зачитывал отдельные главы из будущей книги на различных фестивалях. Некоторые главы имеются лишь в пересказах, другие — полностью отредактированы и даже опубликованы на сайте писателя или как дополнение к электронным изданиям книг. В марте 2014 года Мартин в своем блоге отметил, что, видимо, достиг разумного предела по числу спойлерных глав и больше их выпускать не будет. Для сравнения: до выхода «Танца с драконами» было опубликовано или зачитано 13 спойлерных глав (из 73 глав, вошедших в книгу).

I live in a tin can out on the edge of sector eight. Not much is supposed to happen here. Ships are supposed to fly by at twenty times the speed of light. My beacon is supposed to keep them safe.Things don’t always go like they’re supposed to.

Hostile salvage confirmed.

Rhett Calibos is a bounty scrapper, his life as an indentured soldier a welcome alternative to imprisonment on a penal colony. A man haunted by his past, Rhett throws himself into the work, his only sanctuary.

Sokol Targe is the leader of a mech warrior squad, stationed aboard an ancient and deadly warship, and conducts violent raids on behalf of a Red List commune. Cast away from corporate society, they have embraced the ravager way of life.

As these troubled men endure furious combat across the ragged edges of civilization, neither of them realize they’ve become entangled in the deeper mysteries of necrospace. It’s a hard universe, and nobody gets away clean.

The latest installment in the adventures of Miles Vorkosigan. Miles and Cousin Ivan travel to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of nobility doing their diplomatic duty. But when the Empress of Cetaganda dies naturally, and her lifelong attendant dies unnaturally, Miles and Ivan finds themselves in the thick of it.

WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age – a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare. Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?[Contain tables.]

Ну хорошо, выжить не удалось — по крайней мере, в общепринятом смысле. Это пассив. В активе — примирение с отцом и возвращение в Хёнкон. Можно снова возвратиться к учебе, благо и научных руководителей теперь завались, и верный друг рядом. Да еще и изобретательные паладары не устают делать жизнь интереснее, выдумывая разные забавные штучки типа виртуального махания руками и прыгания с облака на облако. Способности прогрессируют, связь с другом только усиливается, впереди необъятное поле для экспериментов……вот только безмятежностью вокруг и не пахнет. Кольчоны все чаще накрывают паллийские города, люди восстают из мертвых, электрические штормы вырываются на свободу, и энергоплазма из жуткой экзотики становится неприятной повседневностью. А еще, грозит Палле гибель или нет, люди остаются людьми. Ненависть, застарелые обиды и фанатизм воплощаются в мстителях — благородных, самоотверженных, но всё-таки террористах. Прошлое настигает десятилетия спустя, месть уничтожает всё, в том числе своих носителей, и даже в посмертии им не суждено обрести покой. И даже в тихом защищенном Хёнконе не удается спрятаться от жестокой реальности окружающего мира.

Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling series featuring Kylara Vatta, the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence.

After nearly a decade away, Nebula Award–winning author Elizabeth Moon makes a triumphant return to science fiction with a thrilling new series featuring the daring hero of her acclaimed Vatta’s War sequence.

Summoned to the home planet of her family’s business empire, space-fleet commander Kylara Vatta is told to expect a hero’s welcome. But instead, she is thrown into danger unlike any other she has faced and finds herself isolated, unable to communicate with the outside world, commanding a motley group of unfamiliar troops, and struggling day by day to survive in a deadly environment with sabotaged gear. Only her undeniable talent for command can give her ragtag band a fighting chance.

Yet even as Ky leads her team from one crisis to another, her family and friends refuse to give up hope, endeavoring to mount a rescue from halfway around the planet—a task that is complicated as Ky and her supporters find secrets others will kill to protect: a conspiracy infecting both government and military that threatens not only her own group’s survival but her entire home planet.