Science Fiction Books

Prepare to launch at warp speed into the heart of the greatest science fiction universe ever created - the original Star Trek television series. This is the Star Trek Roleplaying Game, a game of swashbuckling adventures, parallel histories, and saving the universe every week. You and your friends can take on those mythic roles aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise at the height of its five-year mission, or you can explore strange new worlds with characters of your own creation. This full-color book includes: a history and timeline of the Federation, with a map of Federation space and its neighbors in 2269, with loation guides to Starfleet ships. 6 starbases, 17 planets, 11 alien races, 10 creations, and Klingon and Romulan supporting cast. The complete Icon System rules, including over 50 skills and over 80 custom traits, 7 species Templates, and 8 Starfleet Overlays to build your character - and 7 ready-to-play, but fully-customizable, archetypes. Dozens of weapons and items of Star Trek technology, with 18 fully-statted ships (and a complete diagram of a Constitution-class starship and its bridge), plus complete rules for ship-to-ship combat. Scientific and dramatic guides for designing planets, new life, and new civilizations, along with a random planet generator. Tons of great ideas and advice for narrating your own Star Trek RPG episodes, including episode seeds, a complete starting adventure with ready-to-play characters, and a new frontier sector of Federation space. NOTE: This is a Scratch and Dent version and accordingly MAY NOT have a dust jacket.

"The Klingon Empire is dying...and I think it deserves to die." With those words, Lieutenant Ezri Dax propelled Lieutenant Commander Worf to the most fateful decision of his life - to vanquish Klingon leader Gowron in honorable combat and install in his place a low-born, one-eyed soldier of the empire who might lead their people back to the path of honor. Under the weighty mantle of chancellor, General Martok led the forces of the empire to victory in the final Allied assault against the Dominion. Now, with Worf at his side as the newly appointed Federation ambassador to Qo'noS, Martok at last is coming home, bringing with him the hope of a bright new future for his people. But the new chancellor's triumphant return to the Klingon homeworld is met by treachery and upheaval. As the demons of the general's past rise up, so too does a usurper to the Imperial Throne, one who knows exactly how to crush Martok and all who stand with him - and who won't be satisfied until they are ashes under the foundation of a new Klingon Empire.

For years, the intrepid crew of the NSEA Protector valiantly entertained millions of television viewers with their voyages through space. Now the crew is on another adventure - bravely touring the sci-fi convention circuit and making guest appearances at two-bit computer stores. But their dull existence gets a quantum rocket boost when a group of aliens- believing the television episodes to be true historical documents - enlist the crew's help to save them from an evil alien empire. Now these washed-up TV actors find themselves deep in space, playing their roles as if their lives - and the lives of an entire alien race - depend on it! 135 pages.

"Never Give Up...Never Surrender!" With those words the classic TV series Galaxy Quest came to an end, much to the dismay of loyal "Questarians" everywhere. Twenty years later, the intrepid "crew" of the NSEA Protector has been relegated to costumed appearances at sci-fi conventions and electronics store openings for legions of die-hard fans. After two decades, they're as sick of their characters as they are of one another - that is, until a group of aliens offers them the opportunity to play their roles in a way the actors never could have imagined. Having no concept of fiction - let alone science fiction - the aliens whisk "Commander Peter Quincy Taggart" and his crew into space to save them from obliteration. With no script, no director, and no clue about real space travel, the actors have to turn in the performances of their lives to become the heroes the aliens believe them to be.

Greg Klerkx argues that ever since the last human left the moon in 1972, the Space Age has been stuck in the wrong orbit - and NASA, the organization that once fueled the world's space-faring hopes, has been largely responsible for keeping it there. With the loss of the space shuttle Columbia, there has never been a more critical time for anyone interested in the future of space exploration to ask two questions: Whatever happened to the Space Age? And how do we get it back?

Tenacious researcher Gian Quasar reveals the stunning results of his 12-year investigation into phenomena that continue to baffle the world. Based on official reports from the National Transportation Safety Board and other investigative agencies as well as interviews with scientists, theorists, and survivors of inexplicable occurrences, Into the Bermuda Triangle documents confirmed disappearances in detail, presents a chronological sequence of Triangle disappearances over the past 25 years, features testimony from eyewitnesses and survivors, and explores possible explanations.