Molecular biologist Kay Lang, a specialist in retroviruses, teams up with virus hunter Christopher Dicken and anthropologist Mitch Rafelson in an attempt to trace the ancient source of a flu-like disease that is killing expectant mothers and their offspring and threatening the future of the human race.

In the decade since women began giving birth to a new human species, Homo sapiens novus, the world has been in turmoil as these "new" humans battle for survival against those who feel threatened by this leap in evolution.

"William Griffin, the son of a legendary FBI lawman, struggles through training; Fouad Al-Husam, who expects suspicion for his heritage and Muslim faith, finds himself instead sent on super-secret missions to the Middle East. Playing a minor supporting role is their Quantico classmate, Jane Rowland. When a quiet man with mismatched eyes starts telling certain fanatics that he can make gene-keyed anthrax to destroy their hereditary enemies, Griffin...

Perhaps it wasn't from our time; perhaps it wasn't even from our universe, but the arrival of the three-hundred-kilometer-long stone was the answer to humanity's desperate plea to end the threat of nuclear war. Inside the deep recesses of the stone lies Thistledown-the remnants of a human society versed in English, Russian, and Chinese. The artifacts of this familiar people foretell a great Death caused by the ravages of war, but the government and...

"AN EPIC INTERSTELLAR TALE OF WAR FROM A MASTER OF SCIENCE FICTION. They came in peace, bearing gifts. The Gurus were a highly advanced species who brought amazingly useful and sophisticated technology to the human race. There was, of course, a catch. They warned of a far more malevolent life form, beings who have hounded the Gurus across the cosmos. The media have taken to calling them the Antagonists -- or Antags -- and they have already established...

The ship of the Law hunts Planet killers while 84 teenage volunteers and robot moms live invented society aboard the ship.

Casseia Majumdar was the daughter of one of the family syndicates that had colonized Mars and whose life was changed by the student protest of 2171. Charles, a young physicist was forced to leave his native planet to get the training he needed, and in those days the political distance between the Earth and Mars was growing wider.

A vanished moon of Jupiter, a 500-foot -high cinder cone in Death Valley never before seen, and an enormous granite mountain in Australia also never seen before all point the way to an alien invasion of planet Earth.

A new edition of two old works, The Infinity Concerto and The Serpent Mage, first published in the 1980s. One is on a boy's journey in a fantasy world whose inhabitants had their souls stolen by the Serpent. The other is set in Los Angeles and concerns efforts to have a concerto performed. The works are vehicles for ideas on the origins of mankind, religion and music.

Three years after the events of "The Phantom Menace," Anakin Skywalker and Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi encounter a mysterious world and are swept up in a swirl of deadly intrigue and betrayal.