Lester del Rey (June 2, 1915 – May 10, 1993) was an American science fiction author and editor. He was the author of many books in the juvenile Winston Science Fiction series, and the editor at Del Rey Books, the fantasy and science fiction imprint of Ballantine Books, along with his fourth wife Judy-Lynn del Rey.

The Native Soil is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Alan Edward Nourse is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Alan Edward Nourse then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.

After escaping to planet Lehon from the Empire, Deacon 90 revealed to the Kaird family that he was once a Jedi! The Burned Cloak crew encountered Jedi survivors of Order 66 in the Rakata ruins. Encouraged by the Jedi Colony's embrace of him and the Kaird family, he reclaimed his name and identity. But the arrival of a Black Sun agent and his proposition may offer DeaconLightspeed is an online science fiction and fantasy magazine. In its pages, you will find science fiction: from near-future, sociological soft SF, to far-future, star-spanning hard SF—and fantasy: from epic fantasy, sword-and-sorcery, and contemporary urban tales, to magical realism, science-fantasy, and folktales.In our August 2012 issue, we have original fantasy by Kat Howard (“Breaking the Frame”) and Linda Nagata (“A Moment Before It Struck”), along with fantasy reprints by Wil McCarthy (“The Necromancer in Love”) and Delia Sherman (“Cotillion”).Plus, we’ll have original science fiction by 2012 Nebula Award-winner Ken Liu (“The Bookmaking Habits of Select Species”) and a collaboration between Caroline M. Yoachim and Tina Connolly (“Flash Bang Remember”), and SF reprints by io9’s Charlie Jane Anders (“Love Might Be Too Strong a Word”) and award-winning author Michael Swanwick (“Slow Life”).For our ebook readers, our ebook-exclusive novella is “A Separate War” by Joe Haldeman, and we have an excerpt of Kitty Steals the Show, the new Kitty Norville novel by bestselling author Carrie Vaughn.All that, plus our usual assortment of author and artist spotlights, and feature interviews with bestselling authors Kim Stanley Robinson and Seanan McGuire (a/k/a Mira Grant).

This is the story of Riley, an American Bulldog. Follow along as she tries to keep her pack safe from a zombie apocalypse. Traveling with her are Ben-Ben the high strung Yorkie, her favorite two-legger Jessie, Jessie's baby brother Zachary and Riley's arch-enemy Patches the cat. They are a rag-tag group of survivors who when pushed to the limit realize that they are all each other has.Book 1This is the story of Riley, an American Bulldog. Follow along as she tries to keep her pack safe from a zombie apocalypse. Traveling with her are Ben-Ben the high strung Yorkie, her favorite two-legger Jessie, Jessie's baby brother Zachary and Riley's arch-enemy Patches the cat. They are a rag-tag group of survivors who when pushed to the limit realize that they are all each other has.Book 1 of 4

The archivist Un'Yhe has honored the strangers throughout his long lifetime. The strangers have smiled at every relic of the broods' homeworld Un'Yhe has brought before them. Un'Yhe's care continues to expand the museum built upon the strangers' crashed ark, until one day the strangers unfold the homeworld's bright sky to reveal a sparkling treasure more glorious than even Un'Yhe's museum houses.The strangers have spent eons floating through the chasms separating the stars. After so many millenniums, the strangers reach their loftiest goal and arrive upon an alien world filled with intelligence, life and splendor. But the strangers have evolved since the day so long ago when their ancestors first stepped into the stars. Only, the strangers' eyes remain transfixed upon the stars. The strangers still pine, despite all the alien treasure that surrounds them, for a return to those dark chasms that expand between the night's twinkling starlight.

A tycoon, an heiress and a reporter hunt the most exotic creatures found in the cosmos. But a stranger from the stars has arrived first on the safari, and that alien will stop at nothing to collect every human's face as a trophy.The obliterators execute the Law of Extermination, cleansing alien planets of native life and reshaping extra-terrestrial landscapes to prepare the new worlds found in the stars for human settlement. Yet a creature of shadow and fear prevents the obliterators from completing their duty on the planet of Tybalt, a world that promises humankind a New Eden, if only the obliterators can exterminate that glowing jungle in which the monster hides. Teddy Jackson accepts the obliterators’ challenge to claim that monster as a trophy. But an intelligence unlike any Mr. Jackson has ever tracked threatens to turn the table on that great hunter who has mounted so many alien heads upon his walls.

What if someone - or something - stole one of your days? Just one, and you didn't know why, or what they had done with your life in that time? Young Philip Galvez and his friend Marcus Holmes found out for themselves when they decided to discover why there was a giant stuffed moose in a house down the road.The Fortress of Camelot shone like a beacon within the land of Ulin. For over three generations Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table fought for Freedom, Truth, Honour, and Justice. But no more, Camelot is but a memory, it, Arthur and his Knights brought to their knees by the betrayer. Though the warlord Morlek is dead, his son Nala-Kahn now sits upon the throne of Mielach. Allied with Lancelot the two tyrants scour the land for young magic wielders to increase their own magical power. Alundi surviving Knight of the Round Table and wielder of the legendary sword Excalibur also searches for young magic wielders, in the hope that one would be powerful enough to defeat the two tyrants. Little Annabel lives in the peaceful isolated southern village of Mountain Rise where she uses her magic to heal others. Alundi along with his son Assard must brave the wilderness, the Empire and every ally of Nala-Kahn to find her. With Alundi, Assard, her mother and the aid of the Elves Little Annabel must leave her peaceful village and travel through the Empire to get to the Emerald Skull. Where she can be taught to control and harness the great amount of magic within her.

An experiment on micro-organisms conducted in space goes wrong. The cells begin to infect the crew with deadly results. Emma Watson struggles to contain the deadly microbe while her husband and NASA try to retrieve her from space, before it's too late.

Especially with an all-new package. The combined magic and technology between the parallel worlds of Phaze and Proton is not enough to save the planets from a conquering invasion. Only Mach and Bane--robot and wizard, linked between worlds--have any chance of stopping this threat.

This book has great zombie action and has been a constant fixture on many of the eBook best seller charts. Everything seems to go wrong when zombies invade the small town of Sigel. Join Max Talbot as he goes on a breakneck paced journey to save his uncle Jebediah. This book has been described as oozing Redneck and a Dukes of Hazzard like twist to the zombieThis book has great zombie action and has been a constant fixture on many of the eBook best seller charts. Everything seems to go wrong when zombies invade the small town of Sigel. Join Max Talbot as he goes on a breakneck paced journey to save his uncle Jebediah. This book has been described as oozing Redneck and a Dukes of Hazzard like twist to the zombie apocalypse, so break out your favorite flannel shirt and come along for the ride.This story was written as fan fiction and later posted on Mark Tufo's website. The zombies in this story are modeled after the ones from his stories.After reading this short story please look for my latest book series. The first is called, "Parasite; The True Story of the Zombie Apocalypse." It's not only a zombie apocalypse novel but it explains the science involved in the dead coming to life. As one reviewer stated, "Such good story telling. Zombielicious. I am remembering biology class as they explain why people are turning into zombies and clues to stop the infection. Adventure, politicians, lawyers and scientist * oh my *... Very good book."

By the time Phil Chase is elected president, the world’s climate is far on its way to irreversible change. Food scarcity, housing shortages, diminishing medical care, and vanishing species are just some of the consequences. The erratic winter the Washington, D.C., area is experiencing is another grim reminder of a global weather pattern gone haywire: bone-chilling cold one day, balmy weather the next. But the president-elect remains optimistic and doesn’t intend to give up without a fight. A maverick in every sense of the word, Chase starts organizing the most ambitious plan to save the world from disaster since FDR–and assembling a team of top scientists and advisers to implement it. For Charlie Quibler, this means reentering the political fray full-time and giving up full-time care of his young son, Joe. For Frank Vanderwal, hampered by a brain injury, it means trying to protect the woman he loves from a vengeful ex and a rogue “black ops” agency not even the president can control–a task for which neither Frank’s work at the National Science Foundation nor his study of Tibetan Buddhism can prepare him. In a world where time is running out as quickly as its natural resources, where surveillance is almost total and freedom nearly nonexistent, the forecast for the Chase administration looks darker each passing day. For as the last–and most terrible–of natural disasters looms on the horizon, it will take a miracle to stop the clock . . . the kind of miracle that only dedicated men and women can bring about. From the Hardcover edition.

F.L. Wallace was a popular 20th century author whose best known works were sci-fi and mysteries. Many of them were published in pulp fiction magazines in the middle of the 1900s.

Randall Garrett was a popular 20th century science fiction and fantasy writer whose works continue to be widely read today. This is one of his most famous works.

The first installment in the tale of ancient “Gods” that come to earth in search of precious resources, but instead find ghosts from their own past. Most surprisingly these ghosts take the form of two human girls, Kira and her younger sister Kaya. Discovering that the sisters possess rare abilities, the alien deities decide to take the girls to their home planet Tython to learn more about them.The first installment in the tale of ancient “Gods” that come to earth in search of precious resources, but instead find ghosts from their own past. Most surprisingly these ghosts take the form of two human girls, Kira and her younger sister Kaya. Discovering that the sisters possess rare abilities, the alien deities decide to take the girls to their home planet Tython to learn more about them. Little do they know that the discovery of humans will shake the very foundations of their galactic kingdom…