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A Forest of Stars
Aspect, Jul 2003, 24.95 ISBN: 0446528714 Five years ago humans applied alien technology to convert a gas giant planet into a sun. However, when they destroyed the gas giant the humans unintentionally massacred the previously unknown residents, numerous Hydrogues. The unwittingly genocide has since led to a solar war never seen on this scale befoe aimed at the Terran Hanseatic League as the Hydrogues keep the pressure on their foe. The Hydrog...
Artifact
, Janet Berliner, F. Paul Wilson, and Matthew Costello Forge, May 2003, 24.95, 288 pp. ISBN: 076530063X Off the Venezuelan coast, local workers of Oilstar Drilling bore through an underwater ceiling leading to a cavern. They bring up four stones that seem not of this earth. CEO Frik Van Alman understands the ramifications of the finding once his lab concludes that the connecting of the stones along with a fifth one generates energy that will end...
Captain Nemo
A fictional account of Jules Verne as a youth, then a man, recounting to his thoughts, the actual events that spawned nearly all of his famous stories, and acts as a 'secret' biography to the life of Andre (Captain) Nemo. The book also trades back and forth in telling the history of Jules Verne's life as well, and the fate of the woman both he and Nemo loved....
Champions of the Force - Star Wars Jedi Academy Trilogy 3
Last book in the Jedi Academi series. Kyp is brought back from the dark side and the Jedi save Luke and defeat the Lord of Sith...

Anderson booklist

Dark Apprentice - Star Wars Jedi Academy Trilogy 2
The New Republic has taken devastating losses in the ongoing war with the scattered remnants of the Empire, the galaxy's future depends on three small children born with incredible powers. While the New Republic struggles to decide what to do with the deadly Sun Crusher a new weapon stolen from the Empire by Han Solo, the Imperial Admiral Daala uses her fleet of Star Destroyers to produce warfare on peaceful planets. And now she threatens the watery ho...
Fantastic Voyage: Microcosm
Kevin J. Anderson Onyx, May 2001, 6.99, 352 pp. ISBN: 0451409434 In present day Russia, Deputy Director Foreign Minister Vasili Garamov is in Azerbaijan trying to defuse a military crisis. The rebels have taken over Baku, slaughtering all non-Moslems in the city. The Russians want revenge attacking with the Army and Air Force. When a Russian jet fires upon an unknown bogey in the sky, an explosion occurs with an alien life form fleeing its ...
Hopscotch
Bantam, Feb 2002, 25.95, 336 pp. ISBN: 0553104748 The four orphan “swans” grew up together as pals at the Falling Leaves Monastery. Three of them (Garth, Teresa, and Eduard) have the ability to HOPSCOTCH into and take over other bodies. The other friend Daragon cannot move about, but can “see” the true identity of an individual. While Garth's ardor is painting, Teresa turns to spiritualism, and Daragon joins the Bureau of Tracing and...
Horizon Storms
Aspect, August 2004, 24.95, 469 pp. ISBN 0446528722 The Terran Hanseatic League led by Chairman Basil Wencelas used the Kliss Torch device to ignite a giant gas giant thus creating a small sun. The plan was to terraform the gas giant's moons into new colonies but unbeknownst to anyone, the planet was inhabited by an unknown alien species the hydrogues. The Hanseatic's action destroyed a populated world. The hydrogues unwilling to let this geno...
Jedi Search - Jedi Academy Trilogy 1
Han Solo goes on a diplomatic mission and is forced to work in the spice mines. He escapes only to be cought again by the Imperial troops that were hidden. He escapes with a help of a scientist and brings a very powerful weapon to the Republic. Luke at the same time is searching for new Jedi for his future academy....
Lightsabers - Young Jedi Knights 4
Luke Skywalkers Jedi academy is going to face the dark jedi knights. First the apprentices must make their own lighsabers. Tenel Ka crafts her handle out of a tooth, but she is in a hurry and doesn't concentrate on the making her blade of good quality. Consquently while she is dueling with Jacen Solo, Hans and Leia's son, her blade gives out and Jacen's blade cuts off her hand. Tenel Ka then heads home to her grandmother. Jacen, Jaina, and Lowie...

Kevin J. Anderson list of books

Star Wars: Darksaber
Someone's building ANOTHER death star (Do these things simply slide off the assembly line?) This time it's the Hutts, so the rebellion must shut down their new toy. Meanwhile, Luke and his Jedi weanlings has to fight off the combined battlefleet of the Empire. Best scene: when they simply "think" an entire fleet of star destroyers to go away....
Star Wars: The Jedi Academy Trilogy
Han gets kidnapped, meets an awesome kid (Kyp Durron), and Luke establishes a Jedi Acadamy on Yavin 4....
The Dragon Business
The book follows a group of men as they sell their services as dragon slayers throughout various kingdoms. The story starts off with the king, Cullin, inviting his son the prince Maurice out for a drink at a local tavern, the Scaby Wench run by a man named Reeger. Fearing that his son puts too much interest in Fairytales and is too naive of the world, Cullin begins to tell Maurice about "the dragon business" he and his two friends ran when Cullin was a y...
The Saga of Seven Suns - Hidden Empire 1
The Saga of Seven Suns: Hidden Empire, Book 1 Warner, Jul 2002, 23.95, 464 pp. ISBN: 0446528625 By the middle of the twenty-fifth century, humanity has proven its adaptability by accepting that we are not alone and in fact are the third sentient space travelers in our galaxy. The Ildirans have explored space for centuries finding the abandoned ruins of the Klikiss back in the mid twentieth century earth time. The Ildirans have shared science and...