A highly successful engineer and inventor in Unification Era Terra, Dr. Angela Becker has just won a contract at the age of 27. Under the code name Project Icarus, she will be testing her prototypes. But even with her intellect and foresight, things are not always what they seem. No one, including the gifted Dr. Becker, is immune. Her reactions to the unforeseeable events that lay ahead will determine not only who she is but also what the future will...

The year is 2233, and humanity has finally found a viable new home. Named for a second chance in the discoverer's native tongue, the opportunity could not have come at a better time. Earth has too many people, too much conflict and not enough resources for either. However, the Colony I, Earth's new Ark, disappears after the last wormhole jump to Segunda. Power hungry politicians, predatory nations, and those who have nothing to lose-all have an angle...

Youth is a science fiction novelette by Isaac Asimov. It first appeared in the May 1952 issue of Space Science Fiction and was reprinted in the 1955 collection The Martian Way and Other Stories. Youth is one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters. Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate of an important industrialist. The industrialist's son, Red, has found two strange animals, and he enlists Slim in a plan to...

War across the systems. A lifelong quest to find intelligent life. And-on a harsh, desolate planet-a sentient species, struggling to build a civilization. Stealing the Sun, a space-based Science Fiction series from frequent Analog contributor and bestselling Amazon Science Fiction author Ron Collins --- STARGAMES Intergalactic War Is Chaos Deidra Francis: Director of the Universe Three rebels. Allie Feder: Brilliant wormhole physicist Zina Nichols:...

When Gyre Price lied her way into this expedition, she thought she'd be mapping mineral deposits, and that her biggest problems would be cave collapses and gear malfunctions. She also thought that the fat paycheck-enough to get her off-planet and on the trail of her mother-meant she'd get a skilled surface team, monitoring her suit and environment, keeping her safe. Keeping her sane. Instead, she got Em. Em sees nothing wrong with controlling Gyre's...

Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova chronicles the saga of humankind's expansion beyond the solar system in The Precipice. Once, Dan Randolph was one of the richest men on Earth. Now the planet is spiraling into environmental disaster, with floods and earthquakes destroying the lives of millions. Randolph knows the energy and natural resources of space can save Earth's economy, but the price may be the loss of the only thing he has left--the company...

Excerpt from " A Mixture of Genius: "Perhaps the most startling case of all," Ambly went on, "concerns the two seventeen-year-olds who caused something of a sensation in Florida when they used the Branski-Baker method of genetic exchange to breed a quite fabulous species of winged alligator. Several of these so called 'alli-bats' escaped into the everglades, but it is doubted that they will be able to reproduce themselves. At least there is some doubt."...

Riley is a young pilot who is on a mission to return secret information to the Flagship, Orion. She is attacked by two enemy fighters whose ships are bigger and more powerful. it will take all her skill and knowledge to defeat them. Her manuver is dangerous and has never been successful. It will test her ability and her Faith. She is a believer. She believes in the Lord and his sacred word. Few people believe, and have abandoned the old Religion....

Six classic short stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by William W. Stuart. Featured here: "A Husband For My Wife", "Inside John Barth", "The Real Hard Sell", "The Little Man Who Wasn't Quite", "Star-Crossed Lover", and "Don't Think About It".

A madman can be prevented from throwing on bomb on Earth-but what if he's in space? Introduction by John Betancourt.