A tale of missionary work in space featuring Emilio Sandoz, a Jesuit priest on the planet Rakhat. He becomes involved in a revolt by the enslaved Runa against the ruling kangaroo-like Jana'ata. A sequel to The Sparrow.

Meet Dr. Gideon Wolfe, expert criminologist of the new millenium. A professor at New York's John Jay University in the year 2023, he lives in an era that has seen plague, a global economic crash, and the 2018 assassination of President Emily Forrester. In this turbulent new world order, Wolfe's life and everything he knows are turned upside down when the widow of a murdered special-effects wizard enters his office.
The widow hands him a silver...

A special new introduction by the author highlights this reissue of a classic science fiction novel that changed the way people looked at the stars--and themselves.

In the "Parable of the Sower," an unattended environmental and economic crises leads to social chaos and Lauren Olamina, a minister's young daughter, loses her family and home and ventures out into the unprotected American landscape. In the "Parable of the Talents," an African-American woman, living in an increasingly violent society, must choose between her daughter, her community, and the religious group she has recently founded.

"The #1 New York Times bestselling author J. D. Robb spins an epic tale of loyalty, treachery, murder, and the long shadow of war... His passport read Giovanni Rossi. But decades ago, during the Urban Wars, he was part of a small, secret organization called The Twelve. Responding to an urgent summons from an old compatriot, he landed in New York and eased into the waiting car. And died within minutes... Lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the Rossi case frustrating....

No affairs, no criminal connections, no DNA and no clues. Eve Dallas may be the best cop in the city - but the Swisher case has her baffled. The only survivor is the daugther Nixie, who was in the kitchen when the murders happened.

"Out of print for more than two decades, John M. Ford's Growing Up Weightless is an award-winning classic of a "lost generation" of young people born on the human-colonized Moon. Matthias Ronay has grown up in the low gravity and great glass citadels of independent Luna--and in the considerable shadow of his father, a member of the council that governs Luna's increasingly complex society. But Matt feels weighed down on the world where he was born,...