Foxacre Press: 13 books

The name of the game is B'tok. It's how the alien Snakes learn military strategy. B'tok is to chess as chess is to rock-paper-scissors. You do not want to tick off Snakes -- especially when aggrieved Snakes may be the least of your worries. This thrilling adventures moves the story of the InterstellarNet...

Nightside City will die in the coming dawn -- so why is someone trying to buy up the town? A blend of hard science fiction and hard-boiled film noir detective story. "For years, when people asked me what was my favorite of all the novels I’d written... I would name Nightside City."—from the afterword by Lawrence Watt-Evans.

When the First Call from the Stars Comes, Do We Even Dare to Answer? Life changes for everyone in general--and for physicist Dean Matthews in particular--when astronomers detect a radio signal from a nearby star. First Contact forces humanity to face hard questions, and do it fast. Every answer...

Long out of print, this novel by one of the major voices in contemporary science fiction and fantasy will enthrall you, charm you, and make you care deeply about two of the most engaging characters you're ever likely to meet between the two covers of a book. 'Smile a lot, yes, and then weep...

Bredon didn’t mean to interfere with the Powers -- but then they interfered with him! When the beings of myth and legend start fighting among themselves, mere mortals had best beware.Bredon the Hunter found himself caught up in the affairs of the Powers -- at just the moment one of them went mad! With a new afterword by the Author. Previously published as Denner's Wreck.

If You Can Trust No One -- Then Trust a Nobody. A new Carlisle Hsing adventure. Carlisle counted herself lucky to escape Nightside City before dawn came and destroyed everything there. Unfortunately, just by escaping to the planet of Prometheus, she has attracted the attention of a certain business magnate. Someone is trying to kill him -- and he needs someone expendable to investigate...

When John Mercy-of-Christ’s soldiers ran up against weapons like none they had ever seen before, John’s campaign to defeat the enemies of The True Word and Flesh came to a sudden halt. The doctrinal wars between sects had to be put to one side. But if the starships of Earth were to battle the swords of Godsworld, John was ready for that war. After all, God was his side. Or was He?

Book Three of the InterstellarNet Saga. Contact with other intelligent races in nearby star systems seemed to have answered the age-old question at the center of the Fermi Paradox: Where is everybody? But when Joshua Matthews lands a new job that will give him access to vast new troves of data on...

The next chapter in Edward M. Lerner’s InterstellarNet saga is a startling adventure of Second Contact, up-front and in-person. Humanity is about to discover that meeting aliens face to face is very different—and a lot more dangerous—than sending and receiving messages. Good fences,...

An anthropologist stumbles across a stunning secret that will put the very definition of humanity suddenly in doubt. Are the bones buried there the remains of humans, or apes -- or something else? The answer will turn her life, and the world, upsidedown. 'Anyone who likes good hard science in their fiction will have to go a long way to find a better-done book.' --Locus

One pleasant day in the not-too-distant future, in a public garden north of New York City, Lester Ordway is enjoying the seasonal blossoms, butterflies, and buzzing bees. He notices a strange flying insect unlike any he's ever seen before. It stings him between the eyes, and he is overwhelmed...

Where did this story come from? Who wrote it? How did it come to its odd underground prominence? How much do we know about its origins? How do you pronounce the hero's name, Grignr? In this special Scholar's Ebook Edition of The Eye of Argon we learn all there is to know, and then some. In...

The Last Thing They Expected Was First ContactIt's long ago been settled that humanity is all alone in the universe. All the centuries of searches for extra-terrestrial intelligence have turned up exactly nothing at all. And when humanity's first and only colony in another star system...