Larry Niven

Edward M. Lerner

A cross-over conclusion to the Ringworld and Fleet of Worlds series finds the Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds targeted by rival war fleets after the disappearance of the Ringworld, prompting exiled Puppeteer Hindmost to draw on his knowledge of Ringworld technology to reclaim his power. 25,000 first printing.

Return from the Ringworld

Fate of Worlds

When a chain reaction of supernovae explosions at the core of the galaxy unleashes a deadly wave of radiation that will sterilize the entire galaxy, the Citizens--accompanied by Kirsten Quinn-Kovacs, a descendant of human survivors rescued by the Citizens from a dying starship--flee into the unknown, in a novel set in the Known Space universe. 50,000 first printing.

Fleet of Worlds

Fleeing the supernova chain reaction at the galactic core, the cowardly Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds have---just barely---survived. They’ve stumbled from one crisis to the next: The rebellion of their human slaves. The relentless questing of the species of Known Space. The spectacular rise of the starfish-like Gw’oth. The onslaught of the genocidal Pak. Catastrophe looms again as past crises return---and converge. Who can possibly save the Fleet of Worlds from its greatest peril yet? Louis Wu? Trapped in the Wunderland civil war, all he wants is to go home---but the only possible escape will plunge him into unknowable danger. Ol’t’ro? The Gw’oth ensemble mind fled across the stars to establish a colony world free from tyranny. But some problems cannot be left behind, and other problems---like the Fleet of Worlds itself---are racing straight at them. Achilles? Despite past disgrace, the charismatic Puppeteer politician knows he is destined for greatness. He will do anything to seize power---and to take his revenge on everyone who ever stood in his way. Nessus? The insane Puppeteer scout is out of ideas, out of resources, with only desperation left to guide him. Their hopes and fears, dreams and ambitions are about to collide. And the winner takes . . . worlds.

Betrayer of Worlds

Worlds closer to the galatic core than Known Space are --or were-- home to intelligent speciers. Some learned of the core explosion in time to flee. Destroyer of Worlds opens in 2670, ten years after Juggler of Worlds closes; with refugee species fleeing in an armada of ramscoops in the direction of the Fleet of Worlds. The onrushing aliens are recognized as a threat; they have left in their trail a host of desolated worlds: some raided for supplies, some attacked to eliminate competition, and some for pure xenophobia. Only the Puppeteers might have the resources to confront this threat--but the Puppeteers are philosophical cowards... they don't confront anyone. They need sepoys to investigate the situation and take action for them. The source of the sepoys? Their newly independent former slave world, New Terra.

Destroyer of Worlds

In a tale set two centuries before the discovery of the Ringworld, covert agent Sigmund Ausfaller protects humanity by exposing dangerous plots with his paranoid skills but meets his match in Puppeteers representative Nessus, who schemes with the help of the planet's adversaries and traitors. 50,000 first printing.

Juggler of Worlds

Darrell Schweitzer

John Gregory Betancourt

Richard A. Lupoff

James H. Schmitz

Damien Broderick

Reginald Bretnor

William F. Nolan

C.J. Henderson

Clifford F. Simak

Time travel is one of the staples of science fiction, right up there with aliens, space opera, and robots. Most science fiction authors have written at least one time travel story. This collection samples some of the best. TIME OUT, by Edward M. Lerner THESE STONES WILL REMEMBER, by Reginald Bretnor PROJECT MASTODON, by Clifford D. Simak 12:01 P.M., by Richard A. Lupoff TIME CONSIDERED AS A SERIES OF THERMITE BURNS IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER, by Damien Broderick TIME AND TIME AGAIN, by H. Beam Piper TRY, TRY AGAIN, by John Gregory Betancourt THE ETERNAL WALL, by Raymond Z. Gallun THE MAN FROM TIME, by Frank Belknap Long OF TIME AND TEXAS, by William F. Nolan THE EDGE OF THE KNIFE, by H. Beam Piper THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (10), by Grendel Briarton TIME BUM, by C.M. Kornbluth NEBOGIPFEL AT THE END OF TIME, by Richard A. Lupoff UNBORN TOMORROW, by Mack Reynolds LOST IN THE FUTURE, by John Victor Peterson THE WINDS OF TIME, by James H. Schmitz ARMAGEDDON -- 2419 A.D., by Philip Francis Nowlan THE MAN WHO SAW THE FUTURE, by Edmond Hamilton A TRAVELER IN TIME, by August Derleth THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (71), by Grendel Briarton FLIGHT FROM TOMORROW, by H. Beam Piper IN THE CRACKS OF TIME, by David Grace SWEEP ME TO MY REVENGE!, by Darrell Schweitzer THE SOLID MEN, by C.J. Henderson THROUGH TIME AND SPACE WITH FERDINAND FEGHOOT (Epsilon), by Grendel Briarton And don't forget to search this ebook store for "Wildside Megapack" to see many more entries in this series, covering westerns, mysteries, science fiction, pulp fiction, and much, much more!

26 Modern and Classic Science Fiction Stories

The Time Travel MEGAPACK ®

Two masterworks of science fiction at one low price, from award-winning author Larry Niven! Ringworld's Children The Ringworld is a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band three million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of whom are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe. Explorer Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war and a powerful new weapon threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now, the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children. All must play a dangerous game in order to save Ringworld's population and the stability of Ringworld itself. Fleet of Worlds It is two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld. Humanity has been faithfully serving the Citizens for years, and Kirsten Quinn-Kovacks is among the best and the brightest of the humans. She gratefully serves the race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship, gave them a home world, and nurtures them still. When a chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core unleashes a wave of lethal radiation that will sterilize the galaxy, the Citizens flee, taking their planets, the Fleet of Worlds, with them. Someone must scout ahead, and Kirsten and her crew eagerly volunteer. Under the guiding eye of Nessus, their Citizen mentor, they explore for any possible dangers in the Fleet's path--and uncover long-hidden truths that will shake the foundations of worlds.

Ringworld's Children and Fleet of Worlds

We are not alone, and it’s our own damn fault ... Something demonic is stalking the brightest men and women in the computer industry. It attacks without warning or mercy, leaving its prey insane, comatose--or dead. Something far nastier than any virus, worm, or Trojan horse program is being evolved in laboratory confinement by well-intentioned but misguided researchers. When their artificial life-form escapes onto the Internet, no conventional defense against malicious software can begin to compete. As disasters multiply, computer scientist Doug Carey knows that unconventional measures may be civilization’s last hope. And that any artificial life-form learns very fast …. At the publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management software (DRM) applied.

Fools' Experiments

The name of the game is B'tok. It's how the alien Snakes learn military strategy. B'tok is to chess as chess is to rock-paper-scissors. You do not want to tick off Snakes -- especially when aggrieved Snakes may be the least of your worries. This thrilling adventures moves the story of the InterstellarNet forward as only Edward M. Lerner could do it. This special Hugo Nominee edition of Championship B'tok includes both the version nominated for the 2015 Hugo for Best Novelette, and the version that was incorporated into Edward M. Lerner's latest science fiction novel, InterstellarNet: Enigma, just published by FoxAcre Press. And remember: it's not how you play the game -- it's how you win.

Championship B'tok

Will McIntosh

Karen Osborne

Laura Resnick

Oleg Divov

Issue 3 of Future Science Fiction Digest features over 60,000 words of fiction. A selection of moon-based stories commemorates the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, followed by a sampling of AI stories (featuring both humans owning robotic dogs and robots owning live dogs!), with a little bit of time travel to round things out. Fiction from authors in the United States, China, Russia, Bulgaria, and Sri Lanka.

Future Science Fiction Digest Issue 3

Eine Reihe explodierender Sonnen droht die Galaxis zu vernichten. Als das Volk der Puppenspieler sich in Sicherheit bringen will, versperrt ihnen unversehens eine feindliche Spezies den Weg. Ein Krieg ist unvermeidlich, doch sind die Puppenspieler im Grunde ein Volk von Feiglingen. In ihrer Not suchen Sie sich Hilfe - ausgerechnet bei dem paranoiden Menschen Sigmund Ausfaller .. Der dritte Roman im "Fleet of Worlds"-Zyklus innerhalb des Known Space - Larry Nivens episches Ringwelt-Universum! eBooks von beBEYOND - fremde Welten und fantastische Reisen.

Ein Roman aus dem Ringwelt-Universum

Der Krieg der Puppenspieler

Surviving an explosion while using a technologically engineered protective suit, Brent Cleary catches the attention of the military and alarms his best friend, Kim O'Donnell, with increasingly disturbing post-accident personality changes. By the author of Probe.

Small Miracles

"Here's an author you definitely need to check out."--Asimov's Science Fiction On the Moon's far side, shielded from Earth's radio cacophony, Americans are building a radio-astronomy observatory. Russians sift the dust of a lunar "sea" for helium-3 to run future fusion reactors. Commercial robots, remotely operated from Earth, roam the Moon's near side in a hunt for mineral wealth. Why chase distant asteroids for precious metals? Onetime asteroids must lie close beneath the much-bombarded lunar surface. Then a prospecting robot encounters a desiccated, spacesuited figure. An alien figure .... Americans from the lunar observatory investigate. Near the original find, underground, they discover an alien installation. Lunar Russians, realizing that the Americans are up to something clandestine, send their own small team. Each group distrusts the other ... even before the fatal "accidents" begin. By the time anyone suspects what ancient evil they have awakened, it may be too late-- For everyone on Earth, too.

Déjà Doomed

Kyle Gustafson had been doing work he loved, with the space program, anemic though it was, until disaster struck and a shuttle was lost on takeoff. There had to be a fall guy, and Kyle was picked-but a few months later, the American space program instantly became a quaint relic when aliens in a gigantic starship orbited the moon and made contact with Earth. They said that they represented a vast federation of intelligent races and they hoped that Earth would prove eligible to join the Federation. Kyle found himself back in good favor, picked to interface with the alien representatives sent to Earth. But there were a few false notes in the utopian front the aliens presented. Surveillance and other satellites were disappearing from orbit in a way that might have made the Americans suspect the Russians and the Russians suspect the Americans, except that each was aware of the other side's disappearances. And when the aliens began handing out small objects of alien art to world leaders as tokens of friendship, Kyle became suspicious. Technicians investigated and found that the items were actually listening devices. Worse, odd events were happening all over the world which seemed deliberately planned to provoke the U.S. and Russia into war, possibly even a nuclear holocaust. Were the aliens trying to get Earth to wipe itself out? And why? Kyle would find that he had an ally among the aliens, but one who was regarded as a freak by her own kind. Her influence was limited, but Kyle had to find a way out of the crisis before the world exploded in nuclear flames, or else the aliens grew impatient and decided to do the job themselves. . . .

Moonstruck

Two masterworks of science fiction at one low price, from award-winning authors Larry Niven and Edward M. Lerner! Ringworld's Children The Ringworld is a landmark engineering achievement, a flat band three million times the surface area of Earth, encircling a distant star. Home to trillions of inhabitants, not all of whom are human, and host to amazing technological wonders, the Ringworld is unique in all of the universe. Explorer Louis Wu, an Earth-born human who was part of the first expedition to Ringworld, becomes enmeshed in interplanetary and interspecies intrigue as war and a powerful new weapon threaten to tear the Ringworld apart forever. Now, the future of Ringworld lies in the actions of its children. All must play a dangerous game in order to save Ringworld's population and the stability of Ringworld itself. Fleet of Worlds It is two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld. Humanity has been faithfully serving the Citizens for years, and Kirsten Quinn-Kovacks is among the best and the brightest of the humans. She gratefully serves the race that rescued her ancestors from a dying starship, gave them a home world, and nurtures them still. When a chain reaction of supernovae at the galaxy's core unleashes a wave of lethal radiation that will sterilize the galaxy, the Citizens flee, taking their planets, the Fleet of Worlds, with them. Someone must scout ahead, and Kirsten and her crew eagerly volunteer. Under the guiding eye of Nessus, their Citizen mentor, they explore for any possible dangers in the Fleet's path--and uncover long-hidden truths that will shake the foundations of worlds. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

This discounted ebundle includes: Fleet of Worlds, Juggler of Worlds, Destroyer of Worlds, Betrayer of Worlds, Fate of Worlds “Great story telling is still alive in science fiction because of Larry Niven, and his finest work is the Ringworld series.” --Orson Scott Card Two hundred years before the discovery of the Ringworld, humans discover the history of their ancestors and revolt against the Puppeteers—a race they’ve held as saviors and been serving for generations. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Ringworld Series: Fleet of Worlds, Juggler of Worlds, Destroyer of Worlds, Betrayer of Worlds, Fate of Worlds

The Complete Fleet of Worlds

A cross-over conclusion to the Ringworld and Fleet of Worlds series finds the Puppeteers of the Fleet of Worlds targeted by rival war fleets after the disappearance of the Ringworld, prompting exiled Puppeteer Hindmost to draw on his knowledge of Ringworld technology to reclaim his power.

Edward M. Lerner

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