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On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. There are those who worship it. There are those who fear it.

"All this happened, more of less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true...

With Earth embroiled in a vast interplanetary war with the "Bugs," a young recruit in the Federal Reserves relates his experiences training in boot camp and as a junior officer in the Ter

Rama II is on its way out of the solar system. Abroad it are three humans, two men and a woman, left behind when the expedition departed.

On its mysterious voyage through interstellar space, a massive, alien starship carries its passengers to the end of a generations-long odyssey.

The epic saga of an earthling, born and educated on Mars, who arrives on our planet with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man.

Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home.

Detective Alex Cross is pulled out of a family celebration and given the awful news that a beloved relative has been found brutally murdered.

When 70-something Indianapolis PI Dietrich Deets Shanahan receives a call from Jack Wenders, his former commanding officer in Korea, inviting him to Mexico to discuss a case, Shanahan accepts.

A Jewish girl's struggle to gain independence from her ultra-orthodox parents.

Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunter games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to p

The only relief from the sea of logos is within the well-guarded borders of the Burbclaves.

Theo Vilmos is a thirty-year-old lead singer in a not terribly successful rock band. Once, he had enormous, almost magical, charisma both onstage and off--but now, life has taken its toll on Theo.

Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love.

Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years.