Orb Books imprint: 70 books
by Robert Silverberg
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity is spread across the galaxy on worlds that began as colonies, but now feel like home, each with its own long history of a thousand years or more, and each with its own unique culture. One of the strangest is on Borthan, where the founding...
by Robert Silverberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Who knoweth the spirit of men that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth? –Ecclesiastes 3:21
Okay, they did resemble elephants, it can't be denied. That led many people to underestimate the Nildoror and their obviously more fearsome commensals, the Sulidoror.
But...
by Charles de Lint
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasy novels under the pen name "Samuel M. Key." Now, beginning with Angel of Darkness and From a Whisper to a Scream and concluding with I'll Be Watching You, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint's own name.
Rachael...
by Steven Brust
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2009
In which our heroes are reunited a mere five centuries later… just in time for an uprising that threatens to destroy the Imperial Orb itself!
This is the story of the conspiracy against the Empire that begins in the mean streets of the Underside and flourishes in the courtly politics of the...
by Charles de Lint
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In the early 1990s, Charles de Lint wrote and published three dark fantasies under the name "Samuel M. Key." Now, beginning with Angel of Darkness, Orb presents them for the first time under de Lint's own name.
When ex-cop Jack Keller finds the mutilated body of a runaway girl in...
by Charles de Lint
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2003
Originally published under the pen name "Samuel M. Key"
"Years after the death of a notorious child murderer, children have begun to die again...and a crime photographer begins to suspect he has the one true clue that connects the horrific events."
In the early 1990s,...
Shadow & Claw
The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1994
The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the...
Tales of the Dying Earth
Including 'The Dying Earth,' 'The Eyes of the Overworld,' 'Cugel's Saga,' and 'Rhialto the Marvellous'
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his 1964 novel, The Dying Earth, and its sequels--a fascinating, baroque tale set on a far-future Earth,...
Sword & Citadel
The Second Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 1994
The Book of the New Sun is unanimously acclaimed as Gene Wolfe's most remarkable work, hailed as "a masterpiece of science fantasy comparable in importance to the major works of Tolkien and Lewis" by Publishers Weekly, and "one of the most ambitious works of speculative fiction in the...
The Complete Book of the New Sun
The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
This discounted ebundle includes: The Shadow of the Torturer, The Claw of the Conciliator, The Sword of the Lictor, The Citadel of the Autarch, The Urth of the New Sun
“Magic stuff...a masterpiece...the best science fiction I've read in years!” —Ursula K. Le Guin
The Book of the...
The Urth of the New Sun
The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1997
The long awaited sequel to Gene Wolfe's four-volume classic, The Book of the New Sun. We return to the world of Severian, now the Autarch of Urth, as he leaves the planet on one of the huge spaceships of the alien Hierodules to travel across time and space to face his greatest test, to become the...
by Steven Brust
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Khaavren of the House of Tiassa is a son of landless nobility, possessor of a good sword and "tolerably well-acquainted with its use." Along with three loyal friends, he enthusiastically seeks out danger and excitement. But in a realm renowned for repartee and betrayals, where power is as...
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1994
Olivia Atta Clemens, immortal vampire, Roman noblewoman, beloved of the Count Saint-Germain-has come to Paris seeking only peace. But the year is 1637, and there is no peace to be found in the Court of Louis XIII, where Cardinal Richelieu maneuvers to control the throne.
Caught up in the intrigue...
Endangered Species
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2004
Wolfe, whose tetralogy The Book of the New Sun was the most acclaimed science fiction work of the 1980s, offered his second collection of short fiction in 1990 to universal acclaim. This is a hefty volume of over 30 unforgettable stories in a variety of genres-- SF, fantasy, horror, mainstream-many...