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Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This collection showcases the career-launching short fiction of Timothy Zahn, acclaimed author of Blackcollar, the Quadrail series, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Star Wars: Heir to the Empire The pieces included in Pawn's Gambit range from the adventure science fiction Timothy Zahn is famous for to post-apocalyptic tales and humorous fantasy. In "The Price of Survival," an alien ship arrives in our solar system without hostile intentions-but...
2) Soulminder
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this new book by the author of Blackcollar and the #1 New York Times-bestselling Heir to the Empire, Timothy Zahn imagines a technology that could alter our perception of life and death forever For Dr. Adrian Sommers, a split second of driving while distracted leads to tragedy-and obsession. His family destroyed, he devotes his entire being to developing Soulminder, a technology that might have saved his son as he wavered on the edge of death....
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The second book in the Blackcollar series finds an elite fighting force at the forefront of an epic alien war once again Denver, Earth. The twenty-fifth century. After a devastating alien invasion, the Terra Democratic Empire is occupied by the Ryqril race. The once-heroic resistance warriors known as the blackcollars now serve as strong-arm security for Denver's criminal elements. When Allen Caine completes his year-long blackcollar training on the...
4) Blackcollar
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The blackcollars-an elite, genetically enhanced fighting force-may be humanity's only hope Decades after a successful invasion of Earth and the Terran Democratic Empire by the Ryqril-hostile, leathery-skinned aliens-resistance fighter Allen Caine is training for an undercover mission. He will assume the identity of an aide to the senate-part of the government that colludes with the invaders. But when the mission begins earlier than planned, Caine...
5) Odd Girl Out
Author
Series
Quadrail volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ex-government agent Frank Compton must keep an extraordinary little girl safe from the malevolent group intelligence seeking to enslave the universe in the explosive third installment of Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn's Quadrail series Frank Compton is glad he's finally back on his home planet of Earth--galaxy-hopping aboard the Quadrail on his continuing mission to prevent the Modhri group mind from ruling the universe is exhausting business--but...
Author
Series
Quadrail volume 3
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Action science fiction, mystery, and espionage combine in books 4 and 5 of the Quadrail series from this Hugo Award-winning author. The alien Chahwyn created the Spiders to keep their intragalactic transportation system, the Quadrail, safe and running smoothly. And ex-government agent Frank Compton is there to protect its integrity. So far, Compton and his beautiful half-human, half-Chahwyn partner, Bayta, have had their hands full keeping the Quadrail...
7) Angelmass
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Fast-paced action ... first-rate sf space adventure" ( Library Journal ) from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn . Deep in space lies the black hole known as Angelmass, so called because it emits enigmatic particles with the unusual ability to render humans calm, reasonable, and incapable of lying -- which would normally be seen as a good thing. But not by everyone. For while Empyrean human colonies on the edge of the...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Hitchcock meets Serling in this deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a young couple and alien races from a #1 New York Times -bestselling author. After engaging in bloody warfare against each other, two alien races-the Greens and the Grays-take refuge on Earth, both believing their home and their enemy destroyed. For seventy-five years, they have been passing as humans, living peacefully-until each side discovers the other has survived. Now, in order...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A secret agent aboard an intra-galactic "railroad" must derail a sinister scheme to enslave the universe in this nonstop science fiction thriller from Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn The universe is a dangerous place, a fact violently brought home to Frank Compton for perhaps the thousandth time when a stranger delivering a message dies right in front of him. An operative for Western Alliance Intelligence until his whistle-blowing activities...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Ex-government agent Frank Compton must halt a murderous plague that threatens to turn the galaxy-spanning Quadrail into a ghost train in the fourth installment of Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn's acclaimed Quadrail series The Chahwyn created the Spiders to keep their intra-galactic transportation system, the Quadrail, safe and running smoothly, and contracted ex-security agent Frank Compton to protect its integrity. So far, Compton and his...
11) The Icarus hunt
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
When Jordan McKell and his partner Ixil are hired by a mysterious gentleman to fly a ship and its cargo to Earth, they find themselves involved in a dangerous interstellar smuggling ring.
12) The Third Lynx
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Former agent Frank Compton races across the galaxy to prevent an evil group mind from acquiring powerful alien artifacts in the action-packed second installment of the Quadrail series from Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn Frank Compton saved the universe once--and for that he must die. Having temporarily stalled the Modhri, a sinister alien group intelligence, in its evil schemes for universal domination, the former Western Alliance Intelligence...
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Frank Compton must join forces with his most feared enemies to defeat an ancient civilizations-devouring malevolence in the final installment of Hugo Award-winning author Timothy Zahn's Quadrail series A dozen sentient species occupy the galaxy, and the Quadrail connects them all. Arriving at Proteus Station under a cloud of suspicion, ex-government agent Frank Compton finds he must answer for the death of six members of the Filly elite, a crime...
14) Dragon and Slave
Author
Series
Dragonback volume 3
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Two outcasts are bound together by more than loyalty in the third Dragonback adventure from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn . Fugitive Jack Morgan and dragonlike alien Draycos have become literally inseparable. After Jack rescued him from a crash, the K'da warrior, who must have a host to survive, took residence on his back as a biomorphic tattoo, in return protecting the boy from harm. While Jack tries to clear his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Lord Stewart Cavanagh hires Adam Quinn, a former member of the Copperheads, a team of fighter pilots whose minds are melded with their machines, to find and rescue his son, Commander Pheylan Cavanagh, after receiving privileged information that Pheylan has been captured in an alien attack.
16) Manta's Gift
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping first-contact adventure for fans of James Cameron's Avatar from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of the Star Wars: Thrawn series. At twenty-two, hotshot Matthew Raimey has his whole life ahead of him, but a tragic accident quickly changes everything. He's left feeling hopeless-until he receives a proposition to be part of a new project for SkyLight International: Project Changeling. It's not the easiest transition, but eventually...
17) Dragon and Thief
Author
Series
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The first novel in the Dragonback series is "a romp of a space thriller" ( Booklist ) from the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn. Jack Morgan is dealing with more trouble than any young man deserves. Raised to be a professional thief and con artist by his late uncle Virgil, he's survived on his uncle's spaceship with the help of an AI program. But when he's accused of a crime he actually didn't commit, Jack is forced to flee...
Author
Series
Dragonback volume 2
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The adventure and danger levels crackle" ( Booklist ) in the second book of the Dragonback saga by the #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Star Wars: Thrawn. Even though he's been on the run from the law for a while, young Jack Morgan never wanted a bodyguard. But that's what he got when a desperate alien named Draycos bonded with him for survival. When all is well, Draycos looks like nothing more than a tattoo on Jack's back. But when Jack's...
Author
Series
Dragonback volume 4
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The final three novels in the Dragonback sci-fi saga from the #1 New York Times -bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author of Star Wars: Thrawn -- "Enthralling" ( Science Fiction Chronicle ). Young fugitive Jack Morgan and alien K'da warrior Draycos are inseparable -- quite literally. They've been together since a desperate Draycos was forced to bond with Jack as his host in order to survive. Now they're traveling the stars trying to clear Jack of...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
All aboard the Quadrail for three tales of nonstop action from the #1 New York Times -bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author of Star Wars: Thrawn. It is the Quadrail--a miracle of design that connects all twelve of the galaxy's inhabited empires, allowing diverse alien species and cultures to exchange ideas, inspire imaginations, build bridges of understanding ... and orchestrate the subjugation of all living things. Night Train to Rigel : Frank...
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