http://www.Fictionwise.com Fictionwise.com: Best-Selling Titles From Wildside Press http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook78367.htm Hailed as a "landmark science fiction series" the Sten Series has thrilled millions of readers all over the world. Set three thousand years in the future, the eight Sten novels tell the tale of a tough, street-wise orphan who escapes his fate as factory planet "delinq" to become the strong right-hand of the most powerful man in the Universe--a man hailed by his billons of subjects as "The Eternal Emperor." This edition contains a brand-new "Forward" introduction to the series as well as a selection of recipes from the Emperor's cookbook. Classic SF adventure! http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook84552.htm The Eternal Emperor was dead, and the five members of the Privy Council ruled in his place. But they quickly discovered that their power would collapse around them if they didn't locate the Emperor's secret source of Anti-Matter Two, the economic keystone of the Empire. And so they sent a team of crack commandos to capture Sten, one of their late ruler's few surviving confidantes. But Sten, as usual, had his own agenda. For he knew something about the Eternal Emperor that would shake the Empire to its foundations. And to play his part, all Sten had to do was kill the five most powerful beings in the universe. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook79940.htm Hailed as a "landmark science fiction series," the Sten Series has thrilled millions of readers all over the world. Set three thousand years in the future, the eight Sten novels tell the tale of a tough, street-wise orphan who escapes his fate as factory planet "delinq" to become the strong right-hand of the most powerful man in the Universe--a man hailed by his billons of subjects as "The Eternal Emperor." When the Emperor needs to pacify the Wolf Worlds, the planets of an insignificant cluster that have raised space piracy to a low art, he turns to Mantis Team and its small band of militant problem--solvers. Sten's destiny is in his own hands. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook81426.htm Having fought his way from slave labour on a factory world to commander of the Eternal Emperor's bodyguard, the most dangerous weapons Sten has encountered in Prime World are the lies of Court politicians. When a bomb goes off however, he discovers the danger and corruption behind Court intrigue. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook83621.htm Product Description Sten had fully expected to die in a blaze of glory, taking his Emperor's greatest foe with him. Instead he was a slave laborer in a POW camp deep in the heart of enemy territory. But sitting out the action had never been Sten's style. And now that the war was building to a climax, the Eternal Emperor needed him more than ever. Not even the toughest prison in the known universe could keep Sten from his mission. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook81427.htm Sten's luck seems to have deserted him. He had barely scraped through Imperial flight school when he was assigned a tacdivision in the Fringe Worlds. The enemy couldn't have picked a better time or place to launch their long-planned attack against the Empire. But Sten won't give up without a fight. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook83836.htm Clifford Donald Simak (1904-1988) won three Hugo awards and one Nebula award, and was named the third Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SWFA) in 1977. EMPIRE was his third-published science fiction novel. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook84131.htm Collected in this volume are three of Fritz Leiber's works: the short novel "The Creature from Cleveland Depths" (originally published in "Galaxy" magazine in 1962); the humorous "Bread Overhead" (originally published in "Galaxy" magazine in 1958); and the short novel "No Great Magic" (originally published in "Galaxy" magazine in 1963). "No Great Magic" is part of Leiber's Change War series. http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook84081.htm Planet of Peril is a science-fiction adventure on a world of semi-barbaric nations, ferocious beasts, gigantic reptiles, and maidens in distress! http://www.Fictionwise.com/ebooks/ebook83189.htm The 2008 Edition of The Year's Best Science Fiction contains: INTRODUCTION, Rich Horton (Editor) DARK INTEGERS, Greg Egan * A PLAIN TALE FROM OUR HILLS, Bruce Ster AN EYE FOR AN EYE, Charles Coleman * Finlay ALWAYS, Karen Joy Fowler AN OCEAN IS A SNOWFLAKE, FOUR BILLION MILES AWAY, John Barnes * VIRUS CHANGES SKIN, Ekaterina Sedia WIKIWORLD, Paul Di Filippo * ARTIFICE AND INTELLIGENCE, Tim Pratt * JESUS CHRIST, REANIMATOR, Ken MacLeod * NIGHT CALLS, Robert Reed * EVERYONE BLEEDS THROUGH, Jack Skillingstead * ART OF WAR, Nancy Kress * THREE DAYS OF RAIN, Holly Phillips * BRAIN RAID, Alexander Jablokov * FOR SOLO CELLO, OP. 12, Mary Robinette Kowal * PERFECT VIOLET, Will McIntosh VECTORING, Geoffrey Landis * THE SKYSAILOR'S TALE, Michael Swanwick