logo</h1> <article> <h1>The Year's Best Science Fiction: Eighteenth Annual Collection</h1> <p>RPGnet Gaming Index — 2008-08-03</p> A quarter of a million words of stories from 2000. </article> <article> <h1>Cold Wars</h1> <p>RPGnet Gaming Index — 2008-07-31</p> A <i>Star Trek: New Frontier</I> novel. Missing for two hundred millennia, the legendary Iconians have returned, bringing with them the secret of interdimensional teleportation across vast interstellar distances. Awakened once more, their ancient Gateways are rewriting the map of the galaxy, and nowhere more than in the New Frontier.... A century ago, the imperial Thallonians separated two feuding alien races, depositing each of them on a new world safely distant from that of their ancestral enemies. Now, however, the Gateways have made it possible for the long dormant blood feud to begin anew. Captain Mackenzie Calhoun of the U.S.S. Excalibur and his partner, Captain Elizabeth Shelby of the U.S.S. Trident, find themselves fighting a losing battle to keep the horrific violence from escalating, even as they gradually realize the catastrophic danger posed by the Gateways themselves! </article> <article> <h1>No Man's Land</h1> <p>RPGnet Gaming Index — 2008-07-31</p> A <i>Star Trek: Voyager</i> novel. Throughout the galaxy, an ancient network of interstellar portals has been reactivated, instantly linking distant planets and civilizations. Back home in the Alpha Quadrant, Starfleet can devote all its considerable resources to coping with the Gateways crisis, but in the Delta Quadrant, there is only the Starship USS Voyager ... Just as Voyager enters an unusually hazardous region of space, the ship and its crew are confronted with a flood of lost and disoriented starships from all over the galaxy. Accidentally transported incredible distances by the unpredictable Gateways, the diverse alien castaways regard each other and Voyager with hostility and suspicion. Captain Kathryn Janeway suddenly finds herself struggling to hold together an extremely fractious fleet of dislocated alien vessels even as the newly awakened Gateways hold open the prospect of finally bringing her own ship home! </article> <article> <h1>Doors into Chaos</h1> <p>RPGnet Gaming Index — 2008-07-31</p> A <i>Star Trek: TNG</i> novel. More than 200,000 years ago, the ancient Iconians created a network of interdimensional Gateways providing instantaneous transportation across unimaginable distances. Once known as the "Demons of Air and Darkness," the Iconians mysteriously vanished many millennia ago, never to return or so it was believed. Summoned to an emergency briefing at Starfleet Headquarters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is stunned to discover that the legendary Iconians have returned at last, and are offering to sell the secrets of their advanced technology to the Federation. To prove their sincerity, they have reactivated their long-abandoned Gateways, but the results have been strife and chaos throughout the entire Alpha Quadrant. Now Picard and his crew must contend with feuding Klingons and Romulans as the captain seeks to discover the sinister truth behind the Iconians' unexpected rebirth! </article> <article> <h1>Chainmail</h1> <p>RPGnet Gaming Index — 2008-07-31</p> A <I>Star Trek: Challenger</i> book, sequel to the <i>Star Trek: New Earth</I> series. Dangerous remnants of an extinct interstellar civilization, the Gateways connect the Alpha Quadrant with the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Hidden away in various corners of the universe, the ancient portals could be the future of space travel, but they may also provide a open doorway for an invasion from beyond! Twenty years ago, in the space near Belle Terre, a caravan of alien vessels disappeared into a gigantic Gateway. Now the descendants of those aliens have returned, armed with incredible new weapons and abilities. Captain Nick Keller of the U.S.S. Challenger, already struggling to maintain peace in the troubled sector, must now cope with a fleet of hostile aliens driven by their own fanatical agenda! </article> <article> <h1>One Small Step</h1> <p>RPGnet Gaming Index — 2008-07-31</p> A <i>Star Trek: TOS</i> novel. Scattered throughout the galaxy are Gateways capable of transporting matter and energy across unfathomable distances. Left behind by a long-vanished civilization, these mysterious portals offer a means of exploration or conquest many times faster than warp travel. The technology responsible for the Gateways has been lost for at least ten millennium, but that doesn't mean it can't be found again... Having defeated the hostile computer program guarding an abandoned Kalandan outpost, Kirk and his crew are exploring the artificial planetoid in hopes of discovering the secret of an ancient apparatus that has hurled the Starship Enterprise over nearly a thousand light years. Unfortunately, the reactivated Gateway has attracted the attention and avarice of various alien explorers, including a mysterious race who claim to be none other than the enigmatic Kalandans themselves! </article> <article> <h1>Endangered Species</h1> <p>RPGnet Gaming Index — 2008-07-30</p> Gene Wolfe's first major short story collection, containing more than two dozen short stories. </article> </main></body></html>