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When a storm reveals a mysterious cave behind a waterfall, the young mystic’s apprentice and her wolf investigate. Inside, she discovers a secret place containing a pile of human bones and the young girl makes what could be a fatal mistake. In this Legends of the First Empire prequel, we witness the events that helped shape the woman who would one day become Suri the Mystic, the first Rhune Artist, and a hero to a generation

First contact with a mysterious race of aliens reveals an unusual request; a family's pet dog comes to grips with the newly bestowed gift of human-like intelligence; a poet, in danger and alone on a distant world, makes unlikely allies; hundreds of years in the future, a famous hermit lives in the sea above the now-underwater Harvard University; former friends navigate unsteady peace between human refugees and the technologically superior race that saved them; in a future where human life can be infinitely extended through cybertronic rebirth, one woman declines immortality.

The seventh novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City Nearly two decades after ending his groundbreaking Tales of the City saga of San Francisco life, Armistead Maupin...

"Mensch, erhebe dich nicht über die Tiere! Sie sind sündlos, du aber mit deiner Erhabenheit befleckst die Erde" In Anbetracht dessen, was gerade heute, im Herbst des Jahres 2023 auf der Welt geschieht, kann man Dostojewski doch nur zustimmen. Allein mit Liebe kann man dem von Menschen gemachtem Chaos, dem Hass, der Dummheit begegnen. Wenn Tiere sich zum Beispiel ihren Lebensmenschen ausgesucht haben, geben sie sich ihm völlig hin. Sie können aber auch genauso in der Tierwelt Freundschaft und Liebe bis zur Selbstaufgabe leben.

The urge to explore and discover is a natural and universal one, and the edge of the unknown is expanded with each passing year as scientific advancements inch us closer and closer to the outer reaches of our solar system and the galaxies beyond them. Generations of writers have explored these new frontiers and the endless possibilities they present in great detail. The Final Frontier delivers stories from across this literary spectrum, a reminder that the universe is far large and brimming with possibilities than we could ever imagine, as hard as we may try.

Orson Scott Card, Kevin J. Anderson, and Larry Niven have seen the future. Now you can, too. A constellation of the brightest lights in the science fiction and fantasy firmament have judged these authors to be the best, the brightest, the truest emerging stars in the field.