When the Cetagandan empress dies, Miles Vorksigan and his cousin Ivan are sent to Cetaganda for her funeral as diplomatic representatives of Barrayar. Upon arrival, the two men are inexplicably att...

Winner of the 1967 Hugo award, this novel marked Heinlein’s partial return to his best form. He draws many historical parallels with the War of Independence and clearly shows his own libertarian political views. In what is considered one of his most hair-raising, thought-provoking, and...

Back home in Boston, U.S.A., he was a blueblood named Waldo Smith-Jones, but when he found himself in a desperate effort to survive on a lost island of primitive men and beasts, he won not only a n...

Tom, a historian, and his girlfriend Sharon, a theoretical physicist, become interested in the story of a small German town that disappeared in the fourteenth century and was never resettled. What they discover is that the village was the site of an interstellar space ship crash 600 years ago.