Douglas Adams There is a long tradition of Great Detectives and Dirk Gently does not belong to it. But his search for a missing cat uncovers a ghost, a time-traveller,...

Douglas Adams When a passenger check-in desk at London's Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. But which god, wonders...

Dave Duncan They were refugees from death, rescued from the distant past and futures unforeseen. From every land the Oracle had gathered them and governed them in Mera, whose high...

Piers Anthony The trio of scientists had been ordered to survey the planet's flora, fauna and mineral resources, and from the very beginning of their mission everything they observed led...

David Brin Physicist Dennis Nuel was the first human to probe the strange realms called anomaly worlds--alternate universes where the laws of science were unpredictably changed. But the world Dennis...

Piers Anthony Throughout history, man has been searching for better ways to gather information about his universe. But although they may have longed for it, not even the most brilliant...

Piers Anthony Three scientists came to the mysterious planet Nacre to discover, to explore, to record. Utterly defenseless, they trekked through the grotesque jungle of multiform mushrooms and dense spore-clouds,...

Piers Anthony For a bored, young princess of Xanth, there's nothing more exciting than a Quest. Especially when all you do is sit around Castle Roogna. But when Ivy uses...

Tad Williams   Otherland. In many ways it is humankind's most stunning achievement: a private, multidimensional universe built over two generations by the greatest minds of the twenty-first century. But...

Lois McMaster Bujold A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, secretary-tutor...

Piers Anthony Proton and Phaze, parallel worlds of science and magic, are ripe with the seeds of revolution. Mach, a brave and sensitive robot from Proton, and his alternate self,...

Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman After the overwhelming defeat of their tribes, Khardan and Zohra find themselves prisoners of an evil god's disciples--and in danger of losing their honor, their...