Henry Carter Hull

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...

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...

"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...

"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...

"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...

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.

"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...

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.

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...

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...