The World of Kinsmen
Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet.
In a distant, future world Kinsmen—small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families—control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits are other Kinsmen. The struggle for power is a bloody, full-contact sport: in business, on the battlefield...and sometimes in the bedroom....

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age--a world terraformed and prepared for human life. But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied....

Pilot Graff has been keeping a big secret from his closest friends, the captain and crew of a pirate-hunting starship. He expected to die before they ever discovered what he really is. But he's not dead, and now he has to explain. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Alexander Devin's life is about to change. Pulled from the edge of death, he wakes to find his mind has been preserved in a new body, a mechanical body that will never know pain, illness, or old age. But it is much more than that. Zander's mind has been downloaded into the Spector, an experimental, self-aware, long-distance star ship. For now, he is little more than an observer on board, a ghost in the machine. One day, if he can prove himself,...

From USA Today Bestseller Robert D. Armstrong comes the action-packed Sci-fi tale, The Badlands Bounty.The thrill of the hunt...Sniffing out the galaxy's most hardened criminals was Harcan's calling card. The Wolfman was a legend, a genetically engineered bounty hunter that had seen it all - slavers, smugglers, and murderers.But the Badlands Bounty would prove to be a different beast entirely. He would need to enlist the help of some of the most dangerous...

It is the twenty-second century. Chris Vinter awakes aboard a UN starship on its way to Delta Pavonis, carrying two thousand colonists to a new planet, fleeing from an Earth on the brink of nuclear war. They are barely a quarter of the way into their journey and now, as the senior UN Security Officer, he has been awoken from cryogenic sleep to deal with an emergency that threatens everybody on board. All is not as it seems to be, however; within days...

Exploring the alien rock pools on Kombya, a gorgeous, ocean-dominated planet, the little robot Tweezers patiently uncovers new snippets of data. The researchers encourage him. Tweezers performs with meticulous enthusiasm.So what makes him wonder about other lives?A science fiction adventure story with a heart, from the author of "Little Voices"

Beware god-like aliens bearing gifts Stasis and inorganic self-repair, new spacefaring technologies for humankind, yet more gifts from its closest extra-terrestrial ally, the Iaens. There are, it seems, no limits to humanity's outward journey. Then Lana Reed, Mission Commander of the interstellar colony seeder, Drake, awakes from her own stasis to discover that all but three of the vessel's other tanks are dark, their occupants suffocated,...

Body length of two meters, hard armor green, teeth like serrated, head like a praying mantis, open mouth yellow water dripping, this ugly and smelly scythe mantis host, but waving covered with bristles chelipeds to Li Yan sent a friendly message, Li Yan calmly pierced its skull, from the jaws into, skull cover out, the so-called "open window" - - "Sorry, I'm not your kind, I'm an impostor. - "Sorry, I'm not your kind, I'm an impostor." There are even...

The galaxy beyond the Backworlds is rife with trouble. The desperate search to save a friend ends in the discovery of an unstoppable enemy.This boxed set contains books 4, 5, and 6 in the Backworld series: Beyond the Edge, Worlds on Edge, and Precipice. Beyond the EdgeSome truths are better left unfound.For two years, Lepsi has been missing. A haunted spaceship has a message from him. Maybe Lepsi isn't dead. Craze and Captain Talos travel to uncharted...