Robert Reed Books In Order

Beneath the Gated Sky

This sequel to ‘Beyond the Veil of Stars’ will intrigue and entertain all the way to its riveting end. Porsche and Cornell fall in love as they infiltrate an alien world for the sake of humanity. Having survived their harrowing ordeal, they return to Earth, only to discover a conspiracy so profound that it casts doubt on those they’ve trusted with their very lives.

Marrow

The Ship has traveled the universe for longer than any of thenear immortal crew can recall, its true purpose and origins unknown. It is larger than many planets, housing thousands of alien races and just as many secrets. Now one of those secrets has been discovered: at the center of the Ship is…
a planet. Marrow. But when a team of the Ship’s best and brightest are sent down to investigate, will they return with the origins of the Ship or will they bring doom to everyone on board?Robert Reed, whose fantastic stories have been filling all the major SF magazines for the past several years, spins a captivating tale of adventure and wonder on an incredible scale in this novel based on his acclaimed novella. AUTHORBIO: ROBERT REED is the author of the New York Times notable book BEYOND THE VEIL OF STARS and more than a half dozen other SF novels. The first Grand Prize Winner of the Writers of the Future contest, he’s written a number of stories that have been finalists for Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Well of Stars

In The Well of Stars, Hugo award nominated author Robert Reed has written a stunning sequel to his acclaimed novel Marrow. The Great Ship, so vast that it contains within its depths a planet that lay undiscovered for generations, has cruised through the universe for untold billions of years. After a disastrous exploration of the planet, Marrow, the Ship’s captains face an increasingly restive population aboard their mammoth vessel.

And now, compounding the captains’ troubles, the Ship is heading on an irreversible course straight for the Ink Well, a dark, opaque nebula. Washen and Pamir, the captains who saved Marrow from utter destruction, send Mere, whose uncanny ability to adapt to and understand other cultures makes her the only one for the job, to investigate the nebula before they plunge blindly in. While Mere is away, Pamir discovers in the Ink Well the presence of a god like entity with powers so potentially destructive that it might destroy the ship and its millions.

Faced with an entity that might prevent the Ship from ever leaving the Ink Well, the Ship’s only hope now rests in the ingenuity of the vast crew…
and with Mere, who has not contacted them since she left the Ship

With the excitement of epic science fiction adventure set against a universe full of wonders, the odyssey of the Ship and its captains will capture the hearts of science fiction readers.

An Exaltation of Larks

Jesse is the kind of callow, sly college man who has it all. he’s editor of the student newspaper, enormously popular with the female students, breezing through with terrific grade. But he’s oblivious to the fragile balance of life, until something unutterly strange strips way the surface clam of his existence and exposes a universe that proves uncontrollable and endlessly mutable. For Jesse has become the focus of conspiracy of creatures from beyond the end of time to re create our universe anew. Blinded by sex and greed, Jesse can’t see the terrible flaw in their vast plan…
until a wonderful woman names Sully comes into his life and turns everything right side up. The result is a wild, erotic joyride, a no holds barred tour de force, and, finally a novel of sublime grace and beauty, a testament to the transcendent power of love.

Sister Alice

‘An epic tale of visionary futures and scientific speculation.’ Library JournalMillions of years from now, humanity will be on the brink of self destruction. The world’s great leaders have created an elite group who, by their superior wisdom and abilities, keep the peace, maintain progress, and otherwise safeguard humanity’s future. Genetically enhanced, they are the carriers of Earth’s greatest talents, a force unlike any in the history of mankind. For ten million years, the Families dominated the galaxy. But then Alice, a brilliant scientist of the Chamberlain family, took part in an attempt to create a new galaxy. Her experiment unleashed vast forces that the family could not control, causing a catastrophe that killed untold billions of people on many worlds. Before she was punished for her role in the debacle, Alice visited Ord, a younger Chamberlain. Only he, of all the people in the galaxy, knows what Alice tells him. Her words launch him upon a quest that will take him across the vast reaches of space. He must discover his own true nature, and somehow restore the family honor. Sister Alice is his epic story.

The Dragons of Springplace

In the title story of this first rate science fiction collection, a renegade misfit conquers the dragons and renews the threat of nuclear chaos aboard Springplace, a man made repository for old reactor cores, dirty plutonium, and dismantled bombs. Another story is a sprawling intergalactic epic that takes place aboard a starship. Salvaged and commandeered by humans, the massive generation starship becomes the setting for a titanic struggle between two alien entities who engage in a monumental battle for survival. The tale Chrysalis explores not just an alien milieu but the nature of man himself when another ancient starship lands and investigates an icy unknown planet inhabited by humans millions of years earlier.

The Cuckoo’s Boys

A decade’s worth of prolific short stories are showcased in this compilation of Robert Reed’s best work. Among the dozen thought provoking tales is the never before published ‘Abducted Souls,’ about a college student who becomes increasingly unsure of himself and his self worth when the alien abduction he experienced as a child is questioned. Also included is the Asimov’s Science Fiction Reader’s Choice Award winning ‘Savior,’ about a military commander who is held accountable for tortuous acts that may have saved the human race. The hot topic of cloning is discussed in futuristic terms in the title tale, ‘The Cuckoo’s Boys,’ which tells of a lonely genius who clones himself, not once, but millions of times, and of a teacher who tests and challenges three of these clones. Two ageless aliens become friends with Ash, an immortal human, as he strives to help them recover lost memories in ‘Night of Time,’ a selection taken from the popular Marrow book. The collection closes with an afterword by the author, in which he details the genesis of each story.

Guest of Honor

In a medically advanced future offering humans near immortality, human clones are created from collections of people grand and sophisticated averages of a group. Unwilling to risk the possibility of accidental death in deep space exploration, groups of ‘compilation’ humans are sent out into the galaxy on world hopping adventures. Upon their return to Earth, the compilations are ceremonially sacrificed to redistribute the brain back to the group, allowing the sedentary humans to escape the boredom of existence in the remembered excitement, danger, and beauty of the galaxy. When a compilation has second thoughts the night before her sacrifice, she gains an unlikely accomplice as she attempts to escape her grim destiny.