Edward M. Lerner

For decades, the spacefaring species of known space have battled over the largest artifact - and grandest prize - in the galaxy: the all-but-limitless resources and technology of the Ringworld. Now, without warning, the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets....

Will our first contact with aliens be the dawn of a new tomorrow - or the last act in human history? The moon has suddenly acquired its own satellite....

Life changes for everyone in general - and for physicist Dean Matthews in particular - when astronomers detect a radio signal from a nearby star....

Garner Nanotechnology is developing nanotech-enhanced protective suits and autonomous first-aid nanobots....

Bob Hanson, the chief scientist of a major aerospace corporation, has made an incredible discovery....

Good fences, said the poet, make good neighbors... and interstellar distances made very good fences. Or so we thought.....