Sharon Lee: 109 books

BOOK 2 in The First Liaden Universe ® Collection. Fifteen short tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans.Thirty-three shorter tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first...

BOOK 4 in the multivolume Liaden Universe® short fiction collection. Tales of the Liaden Universe® brought together for the first time. Space opera and romance on a grand scale in a galaxy full of interstellar trading clans. For more than thirty years, the Liaden Universe® novels by Sharon...

"In the matter of allies only two things are important. First, can he shoot? Second, will he aim at your enemy?" Allies, Adventures in the Liaden Universe® #12 celebrates Cantra's often repeated quote with two prime examples. First, Fighting Chance is a short story featuring...

Commander Vepal is a Hero. He is also the Yxtrang ambassador to the greater universe. These two facts do not make Vepal's life easy. But they do make it interesting. It was Commander Vepal who discovered the continuing orders from Headquarters, far back in old and moldy archives, which...

RRRAWRRR!!!  ZZZZZZTTTTT!!!  ZZZZAAAAPPPPP!!! The robots of the 50s and 60s science fiction movies and novels captured our hearts and our imaginations.  Their clunky, bulbous bodies with their clear domed heads, whirling antennae, and randomly flashing lights staggered ponderously...

Archers Beach is a more-than-slightly battered resort town on the coast of Maine, but there's something a little bit special about it. Magic works there, sort-of, and the trenvay--the beings that guard the land and the people--work their own kind of enchantment. Includes two short stories, "The...

What might we run into as we expand beyond Earth and into the stars?  As we explore our own solar system and beyond, it seems inevitable that we’ll run into aliens … and what they’ve left behind.  Alien artifacts:  what might they reveal about us as we try to unlock their secrets? ...

Intelligent Design When a spaceship's inquisitive cabin boy finds a surplus crate of spare parts at a warehouse, all he knows is that he wants it very much. His older cousin's willing to see him buy it, but not quite so understanding when it comes time to connect the dots. The Space at Tinsori...

Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominated editor Warren Lapine celebrates twenty years in genre publishing with his latest effort, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. This anthology contains fourteen nicely varied stories by some of the top names in genre publishing and several new up-and-comers. Included...

In Speculative Journeys, Irene Radford extends her short story collections into science fiction and contemporary fantasy with fourteen tales both old and new. Why is time-travel reserved for wealthy tourists and forbidden to historians? Can a spaceship captain keep secrets from her...

For those who wish to see how a short story goes from outline to short story, this echapbook presents the outline for, and the completed short Liaden story, "The Space at Tinsori Light," with an explanatory foreword by Sharon Lee.

When space pilots dance, they move... . . .readers asked the questions: What happens when Korval moves to Surebleak? What happens when Pat Rin and Val Con get together? What happens when Aunt Kareen tries to bring the Code to the frontier? Answers to some of these perplexing questions...

Pirates, politics, police, and plots! Meet William Drew Faro the 4th -- a human from Khareton's TriGrace Academy -- and Trikura Dai -- a rock-chewing, space-faring Chenri who is definitely not of this world! Now imagine a star-spanning civilization where information is bought, sold,...

Sometimes you don’t have much of a choice when it comes to who you do business with. Sometimes you discover that the evil you know is a necessary evil. Hal Clement award-winning authors Sharon Lee and Steve Miller bring more of what Liaden Universe® readers have asked for with "The...