Penguin Books Australia

What is it to be human? What is consciousness? What makes a soul?

2075. Change brought fear and fear brought destruction. The island-state of the Republic had risen up from the destroyed world: isolated, ordered and repressive. Its citizens are alive, but not free. What remains of the outside world is kept at bay. Planes are gunned down; refugees shot on sight. Until a man named Adam Forde rescues...

It's 2027, suburban Malaga, Western Australia.  Ex-cop Aloysius 'Spider' Webb is working as a time-machine repairman - and people are crazy about time travel.  Spider is getting on okay (if you put to one side his failed marriage and dead-end career) until he discovers the mutilated body of a woman in a second-hand time machine.  What starts out as just another repair job on a faulty...

The Hal Spacejock series is gradually building a dedicated...

Featuring the incompetent Hal and the longsuffering Clunk...

A perennial loser, Hal borrowed heavily to fund his intergalactic cargo business.

The definitive history of Star Wars no fan should be without.

Celebrate four amazing decades of everything Star Wars; decade by decade, year-by-year, month-by-month. Everything is covered, from the influences and creation of all six Star Wars movies, to the toys, books and video games that have shaped the Star Wars dynasty. The month-by-month format is brought to life by images from the movies, TV...

'THE PACE IS FAST, THE ENERGY IS HIGH, AND THE WORLD IS FASCINATING.' – SC FI WEEKLY

A Thousand Words for Stranger , the first novel in The Trade Pact Universe trilogy, introduced the Clan, refugees from the world of Cersi who built an empire few people even knew existed.

It's rate that I'm not working on a novel.   Short stories often happen between novels.   Consequently my output is fairly small.   But I love the tale-telling concept, the notion 'that I can spin a yarn, rather than construct something architectural and precise.' 

So writes triple Hugo Award-winning author C.J. Cherryh in the introduction to this book, the first comprehensive...

AT THE EDGE OF HUMAN SPACE-

It is nearly two hundred years since the collapse of the Confederacy, the last government to claim sovereignty over all of humanity's far-flung interstellar colonies.  The void has been filled by many different powers, ranging from the Eridani Caliphate to the Roman Catholic Church. 

Brand new in the action-packed Apotheosis epic

Adam, an AI creation of an alien race, prepares to launch a conquest that has been centuries in the making, and if he succeeds he will rule over all humankind-over all sentient life-forms-as a God.

When an alien ship crashes into the space station and diplomatic post Labyrinthe VII, the precarious balance between Harmony's High Preistess Sissy and Confederated Star System Agent Jake begins to dissolve. Suddenly they are caught in a web of deceit and intrigue as undercover agents for both the humans and the aliens vie for control not only of the space station, but of a new and unclaimed planet...

MICHAEL A. STACKPOLE * DONAL j. BINGLE
WILLIAM C. DIETZ * JODY LYNN NYE
BRADLEY P. BEAULIEU * DEAN LEGGETT
STEPHEN D. SULLIVAN * MATTHEW P. MAYO
C. A. VERSTRAETE * PAUL GENESSE
MARY LOUISE EKLUND * MARC TASSIN
SKIP & PENNY WILLIAMS * ROBERT E. VARDEMAN

When you are a kid did you long to put on your cowboy boots, belt on your guns, saddle up, and ride off to find adventures? Did you sit glued to the TV watching The Lone ranger, Maverick, Bonanza, The Wild Wild West, The Adventures of Brisco Country Jr. and Firefly , to name just a few of the many series that have been popular over the last sixty years? And were you caught up in movies like Outlands...

'An ideas-swarm, coated with a hipster glaze . . . to explore the everyday weirdness of the twenty-first century world' 
Herald

New York Times bestselling author Lynn Viehl has enthralled readers with her novels of the immortal Darkyn. 
Now she continues the story of the secret progeny of the Darkyn: the Kyndred, ordinary people unaware they've been altered by vampire DNA but destined to become the next generation of heroes.

The astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world-and did.  Tremendous in scope breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged is unlike any other book you have ever read.  It is a mystery story, not about the murder of a man's body, but about the murder-and rebirth-of man's spirit.