Star Wars: Jedi Twilight, by Michael Reaves (Del Rey, 2008)

On the city-planet of Coruscant, capital of the new Galactic Empire, no one is resting easy. The Clone Wars are still fresh in everyone’s minds, with the fall of the Jedi and the ascension of Palpatine to the Emperor’s throne … Continue reading

Star Trek: The Next Generation – Greater Than The Sum, by Christopher L. Bennett (Pocket Books, 2008)

Time and again, Starfleet has encountered, fought, even defeated the Borg, but always at a great cost. The most recent Borg incursion cost numerous lives, and saw the USS Einstein assimilated and transformed into a new kind of vessel for … Continue reading

Star Trek Destiny #1: Gods of Night, by David Mack (Pocket Books, 2008)

“This is a clash of civilizations… and it will end when one of us falls.” —Captain Jean-Luc Picard The Federation is in danger once again, as the Borg have renewed their attacks with a new, vicious enthusiasm, aiming for annihilation … Continue reading

Omega Sol, by Scott Mackay (Roc, 2008)

In the not-so-near future, mankind has finally established a presence on the Moon, a scientific research station called Gettysburg. It’s there, as a team of scientists perform a complicated experiment, that history is made, when a strange silver sphere of … Continue reading

The Lost Fleet #3: Courageous, by Jack Campbell (Ace, 2008)

Captain John “Black Jack” Geary is in for the fight of his life. He awoke from a century-long slumber in a survival pod to find himself rescued by a fleet that reveres him for his military record and heroic actions, … Continue reading

Grimspace, by Ann Aguirre (Ace, 2008)

Until recently, Sirantha Jax was a superstar. Possessing a rare gene which allows a select few to jump ships through “grimspace,” and thus vastly shorten interstellar travel time, she had it made, having made more jumps and discovered more planets … Continue reading

Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse, by Victor Gischler (Touchstone, 2008)

So what happened was the world went to Hell, through a combination of war, terrorism, and natural disasters… Nine years later, Mortimer Tate emerges from his well-stocked cave deep in the woods, ready to rejoin the world he left behind, … Continue reading

Emissaries from the Dead, by Adam-Troy Castro (Eos, 2008)

Somewhere in deep interstellar space, the enigmatic faction of machine intelligences known as the AISource have constructed a monumentally huge habitat designated One One One, which they’ve filled with a bizarre, near-uninhabitable ecosystem and a collection of engineered species. Of … Continue reading