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Lerner's world-building and extrapolating are top notch." -SFScope However wildly people had imagined First Contact? They never imagined this. They weren't supposed to be there. They hadn't planned to be there. But neither had they planned for the near-catastrophic explosion that had all but destroyed their interstellar passenger vessel. There was somewhere on the far fringes of what the rustic locals-for all they knew alone in the unive...

Good fences, said the poet, make good neighbors... and interstellar distances made very good fences. Or so we thought.... Earth and its interstellar neighbors have been in radio contact for a century and a half. A vigorous commerce in intellectual property has accelerated technical progress for all the species involved. Ideas, riding on radio waves, routinely cross interstellar space-almost like neighbors chatting over the interstellar bac...

Winner of the 2015 Canopus Award¿¿¿¿ Humanity once feared that we might be alone in the universe. Now we know better. And we've learned there are worse things than being alone... Joshua Matthews has the opportunity to write the definitive history of InterstellarNet. In that history he plans to focus attention on the improbability that an interstellar community even exists. But somehow, returning home from the party thrown to celebrate his ...

When the first call from the stars comes, do we even dare to answer? Life changes for everyone in general-and for physicist Dean Matthews in particular-when astronomers detect a radio signal from a nearby star. First contact forces humanity to face hard questions, and do it fast. Every answer spawns new questions. Every solution sets in motion a new and more daunting crisis to challenge Dean, his family-and an expanding number of interstella...

One of the leading global writers of hard science fiction." -The Innovation Show "Lerner's world-building and extrapolating are top notch." -SFScope Dashiell Hammett meets Andy Weir The Company Man, lowly accountant for the filthy-richest business in the Belt, has modest aspirations. Air and water not endlessly recycled. Food that had not been freeze dried and rehydrated. A few quiet days at home. And, if he can just figure out how, rippi...

As though landing people safely on Mars weren't daunting enough ...The Space Race of the Sixties, at the height of the Cold War, had been nail-biting—until the Soviet Union forfeited. In the thirties—amid a second Cold War—China is not about to lose the race to Mars. Nor is the United States. Nor, quite the wildcard, is a secretive cabal drawn from among the world's multi-billionaires. All of them scrambling to launch deep-space missions on a ...

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Here's an author you definitely need to check out."-Asimov's Science Fiction On the Moon's far side, shielded from Earth's radio cacophony, Americans are building a radio-astronomy observatory. Russians sift the dust of a lunar "sea" for helium-3 to run future fusion reactors. Commercial robots, remotely operated from Earth, roam the Moon's near side in a hunt for mineral wealth. Why chase distant asteroids for precious metals? Onetime astero...

An author you definitely need to check out."-Asimov's"One of the leading global writers of hard science fiction."-The Innovation Show"Lerner's world-building and extrapolating are top notch."-SFScope "One of the best kept secrets in SF."-Tangent OnlineBest known for his SF novels - including the InterstellarNet series and (with Larry Niven) the epic Fleet of Worlds series - Edward M. Lerner is also a prolific author of short fiction. This coll...

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A must-have for every science-fiction writer. Edward M. Lerner has produced the best-ever guide to putting the science in science fiction, and he's done it with clarity, wit, and panache. A terrific book - I'm recommending it to all my colleagues, and to all those who hope someday to be professional SF writers."- Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Quantum Night"I am entertained and enlightened."-Larry Niven, author of Ringworld"A g...

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Men have walked on the Moon. Siri and Alexa manage-at least often enough to be helpful-to make sense of the things we say. Biologists have decoded DNA, and doctors have begun to tailor treatments to suit our individual genetic make-ups. In short: science and tech happen.But faster-than-light travel? Time travel? Telepathy? A six million dollar-as adjusted, of course, for inflation-man? Starfaring aliens? Super-intelligent computers? Those, sur...

A taut near-future thriller"-Publishers Weekly"Should appeal to fans of hard sf and technothrillers."-Library Journal"An amazingly tense and for-all-the-marbles thriller."-SF SiteA geopolitical miscalculation tainted the world's major oil fields with radioactivity and plunged the Middle East into chaos. Any oil that remains usable is more prized than ever. No one can build solar farms, wind farms, and electric cars quickly enough to cope. The ...

Paranoid covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller is Earth's secret weapon against all conspiracies, real and imaginary. But he may have met his match in Nessus, the shadowy representative of the Puppeteers, an elder alien race who wield vastly superior technologies.

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