From the two-time Hugo Award-winning author of the Coyote trilogy. June 1, 2288-Europe's first starship, the EASS Galileo, launches on its maiden voyage to investigate an unidentified object, code-named Spindrift, which is traveling outside our solar system. An object that may be alien in origin...
I'd like to love Coyote Rising more; Allen Steele has created a very original tale of interstellar colonization. Unfortunately, I found the plot and the characters lacking the substance required to truly distinguish a novel, no matter how original its premise.The first book in the series, Coyote...
When two 24th century chrononauts from the timeship Oberon travel back to May 6th, 1937, to investigate the destruction of the Hindenburg over Lakehurst, New Jersey, the disaster is somehow averted and the airship lands safely. Now, lost in a parallel universe, their mistake will be felt by every...
On the dark side of the moon, six missile silos stand in silence. Today, they will be taken over by corporate interests. Tomorrow, they will be activated.
In the year 2013, investigative reporter Gerry Rosen is tracking the biggest story of his career--a corrupt corporation is poised to unleash a sinister artificial lifeform on the earthquake-ravaged city of St. Louis. When people around Gerry start to die, he becomes a fugitive in his own city, an...
Overall this isn’t a bad story and reading it as someone living 20+ years after it was written it is easy to see parts of the book that are almost prescient. It shows how the public consciousness concerned about government surveillance is not limited to recent events and has been a concern for ...
On Mars, a research team encounters an ancient puzzle that only a guitarist can solve In 2029, an American research team ventures to Mars to investigate an astounding find: a labyrinth older than humanity itself, whose maze of rooms conceals the deepest secrets of the red planet. In the final ch...
Explosive science fiction-forged in Steele. The moondogs are responsible for maintaining Skycorp's most important off-world projects-and now they're going on strike.
A new science fiction epic from the national bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author. Expelled from the Union Astronautica space fleet and facing charges of grand theft, Jules Truffant agrees to sign up as shuttle pilot aboard the freighter Pride of Cucamonga in exchange for amnesty. After b...
Or at least you may think you do, if you were alive at the time and remember hearing the news. But you weren’t there on Juniper Ridge, so you don’t. Here’s what I saw: For the next six days, the sat tracked Na as it fell toward Earth, its microwave beam continuously pressing the rock while toasti...
They are, however, real people—AMS.) “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.” —Robert A. Heinlein Sam and Regina are a young couple living in a middle-class section of Worcester. Sam’s the supervisor of a machine shop; Regina ...
HD 76700 didn’t move from its position in the sky; instead, the biopod’s transparent ceiling gradually polarized over the course of a few hours until it was completely opaque, leaving the cylindrical world in darkness. No stars, no moon: only a jet-black expanse. By then, the Montero’s crew had s...
He wore the scarlet doublet and purple cape of a Renaissance philosopher, and his horns protruded from within the sleek black mass of his hair. When he smiled, a pair of fangs were revealed at the corners of his mouth. No doubt he had trouble in mind. “‘Now tell me,’” Danzig said, “‘what saith Lu...
SteeleFirst published in Asimov's, October 1995NOTICE: This work is copyrighted. It is licensed only for use by the original purchaser. Making copies of this work or distributing it to any unauthorized person by any means, including without limit email, floppy disk, file transfer, paper print out...
It was my first novel to take place entirely on Earth. It was the first novel of mine to be told entirely from a first-person point of view. It was my first book-length effort at combining the science fiction and mystery-thriller genres. And it was my first novel to have a hardcover first edition...
Franc stared at Murphy in disbelief. “That’s when the lab was built. We didn’t actually …” Murphy paused. He held his head a little to the right as if listening to something none of the others seated around the bonfire could hear. “I’m … I’m told that there’s other things you should know first,” ...