Twelve-year-old Obi-Wan Kenobi desperately wants to be a Jedi Knight. After years at the Jedi Temple, he knows the power of the lightsaber and the Force. But he cannot control his own anger and fear. Because of this, the Jedi Master Qui-Gon Jinn will not
When Angelo Osic aids a stranger one day, he calls down disaster. For the woman called Tamara is also a woman on the run, the only human with the knowledge that will save Earth from the artificial intelligences plotting to overthrow it. A spellbinding nov
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In this one-of-a-kind science fiction anthology, H. G. Wells's classic tale of Martian invasion serves as a takeoff point for a rare flight of the imagination. Here some of today's leading SF authors, including Connie Willis, George Alec Effinger, Robert
In the dusty heat of twin-sunned Tatooine lives the wealthiest gangster in a hundred worlds, master of a vast crime empire and keeper of a vicious, flesh-eating monster for entertainment (and disposal of his enemies). Bloated and sinister, Jabba the Hutt
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