Fiction - Science Fiction - General

First published in 1933, "The Shape of Things to Come" is science fiction novel written by H. G. Wells. Within it, world events between 1933 and 2106 are speculated with a single superstate representing the solution to all humanity's problems. A classic example of...

"So, Stella. What would you like for Christmas?""I would like for all of you to die," Stella said in her sweetest and most prim and proper voice, "starting with ... her." Although Stella's Revenge is about a child - it is in no form...

What happens when something becomes someone?In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth's power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The survival of our world may well depend on energy sources collected from an abandoned undersea settlement beneath the icy surface of Enceladus. Earth-raised...

It is the year 2020, and the world has become a place run by a socialist/corporatist government. The preceding ten years brought about large changes in America, and the world as laws were passed that enabled the government to take total control of people's...

No print information available this time.Author: Joe GonzalezISBN-10: 166982022XISBN-13: 9781669820222Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2022Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.96d

A fictional short story about how a major oil company must adapt to the so-called existential threat of climate change. The young environmental engineer protagonist seeks to verify the scientific justification driving this threat and discovers instead only a trail of bad science, misinformation,...

Michael Townsend just wants to study the mammalian genome but incidentally becomes a pawn in an alien game of strategy. During his research, Michael gets sick. After blood work, a rheumatologist confirms that Michael's genetic code is missing molecules. It's as if something spliced...

Native American tribes had many stories of the bear. Many believed in the shapeshifters, where tribesmen could become animals. One of these stories is of a Cherokee girl named Nita. Her tribe faced the bear every full moon. When the bear came, many would...

Incorporating hundreds of characters and cultural entities, spanning innumerable locations and billions of years, Aannex is a future-hacker's maze-map meant to have already been mass-burned; a fakebook full of retroneuroviruses disguised as ecstasy for the condemned; a post-Joycean neo-slipstream sci-fi cult dream encyclopedia composed...

Chimera Chronicles: Undead Arms RaceBy: M.T. MurrayChimera Chronicles: Undead Arms Race is a wild mix of genres that wouldn't normally go together-sci-fi, fantasy, horror, and comedy.The author's favorite storytelling style is the epic, and this book is an attempt at a modernized version. The...

The Invisible Man helped establish H. G. Wells's reputation as the father of science fiction.Griffin, a scientist devoted to research into optics, devises a way to make himself invisible but is unable to reverse his condition. Griffin arrives in the small English village of...

Memory games are a great way to provide your children with different mental skills and have fun with them during the summer holidays and leisure time. Here is a set of memory-boosting games for children.Author: Artsate EditionISBN-10: 8422469138ISBN-13: 9798422469130Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/24/2022Pages: 82Format:...

Can Justice Save the Earth from Extinction? Maxine Justice is an ambulance-chasing lawyer desperate for relevance and cash when aliens hire her to represent them before the United Nations. An off-planet consortium wants to heal humanity of every natural disease in exchange for 30%...

Cover art by Jon Langford of The Mekons An eldritch Western noirAuthor has 2 books out in 2021 building up to this novel in 2022 Author: Robert Freeman WexlerISBN-10: 1618732013ISBN-13: 9781618732019Publisher: Small Beer PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2022Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dReview...

Author: Harry TurtledoveISBN-10: 8200116980ISBN-13: 9798200116980Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2009Format: CDWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 5.60h x 6.10w x 1.90d

Ecofeminist Science Fiction: International Perspectives on Gender, Ecology, and Literature provides guidance in navigating some of the most pressing dangers we face today. Science fiction helps us face problems that threaten the very existence of humankind by giving us the emotional distance to see...

The Trials of Uwe is a coming-of-age story about a wizard who has been trained since birth to take his role. Even with all his preparation, he finds himself lacking. Unlike other coming-of-age stories, this tale teaches us that no matter how well prepared...

When Earth loses contact with a ship near Saturn, Fenroe and her crew are sent to search for survivors. But deep into their journey, cut off from support, their mission unravels.And so it was.The travelers went into the darkness.And dreamt with the stars.__Breathless is...

Ikka doesn't know it yet, but she has spent her entire life in The Race.Ikka's days are consumed with speeding across the endless desert, competing against the other racers in her colossal eight-wheeled X-Runner. She is focused on the competition, but unsettled in her...

In 1818, Mary Shelley crafted one of history's greatest literary achievements. A beacon before her time, she laid the foundation for many of the conversations we're having today - from advancing science beyond human limits to our desire for societal acceptance. Some even say...

"An extremely interesting novelist, and a genuinely original one." - J. B. Priestley "One of the most interesting and one of the most important novelists now writing in England." - Hugh Walpole "At his best, he writes as well as any living man." -...

Janis Ian and 30 top science fiction writers team up to create an astonishing book of original short fiction. STARS is a huge anthology in both volume and talent. Each story, available only here, is based on a Janis Ian song that meant something...

The waters are rising--everywhere--and most of England is inundated by the surge, leaving isolated pockets of mankind to fight for survival--and for civilizationAuthor: S. Fowler WrightISBN-10: 143440272XISBN-13: 9781434402721Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/09/2009Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.72d

King Bwene of the Baradi faces a stark dilemma. A plague is devastating his people, and the only possibility of salvation is relocating his kingdom from the lowlands to a place where the disease doesn't flourish. But when he attacks the ape-men of the...

The basis for the film starring Academy Award nominee Will Smith, I Am Legend is a classic of horror and suspense.In I Am Legend, a terrible plague has decimated the world, and those who were unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into bloodthirsty creatures...

A young Cherokee man looks into how a travel agency has stayed in business without a significant customer base. He finds out that not all Cherokee legends were just legends, and that some of the legendary peoples weren't of this world.Author: Grey Eagle ThorntonISBN-10:...

"Vampire Blues" - In J.R. Rain's exclusive ebook short story, Samantha Moon discovers that even a routine case can offer a few surprises-and that not all men are created equal. "Nightmare" - One parasitic vampire is about to meet his own worst nightmare. "Soul...

Mere minutes after arriving at their Nantucket family beach home, 9-year-old Scotty Sullivan was out the back door, scrambling toward the shore, with Larry, the family dog-fast on his heels. Now late in the afternoon in mid-spring, the typical summer beach crowd visitors were...

WELCOME TO SPOOKSVILLE What if you knew what a friend, or a lover, or a client was thinking? Would it empower you or drive you crazy? For Dillon Bradford, hearing people's thoughts has proved monumentally profitable. Dillon is a cool hunter and has leveraged...

No home library is complete without the classics! H. G. Wells is a keepsake collection of the author's greatest work to be read and treasured. He was the first to popularize the concept of time travel. He disturbed--and fascinated--us with a frightening doctor's island....

From the distant future and the forgotten past...From the far reaches of space and the house next door...From award-winning author Aaron Christopher Drown, a collection of fourteen curious tales that wend and weave across worlds familiar and unthinkable-a captivating journey through wishes and nightmares,...

The thirteenth issue and second horror special from sci-fi pulp slingers PLANET SCUMM. An anthology of the strange and scary, featuring short fiction by A. Katherine Black, Lindsay King-Miller, Andrew Kozma, Chelsea Muzar, Hailey Piper, Henry Sanders-Wright, and Eli Wilkinson with original illustrations by...

Ivan Yefremov (1907-1972) was a well-known Soviet scientist, a professor of paleontology and a talented writer of science fiction. "No writer did as much as Yefremov for science," wrote one reader, "and no scientist did as much as Yefremov for literature." Andromeda is a...

From the Emmy Award-winning writer of Avenue 5, Veep and The Thick of It comes a funny, violent and thought-provoking horror story like nothing you've seen before. Ricky Smart is a nobody, a Miami Beach paparazzo who scrapes a living snapping celebs. One day...

Her name is Stella. She loves sunshine and fresh bagels, and absolutely hates space travel. She's a rookie cop, making her way in a 25th Century world complicated by Universal Legal Care and automation taxes. Cornered by a villainous conspiracy, she is trapped aboard...

Spanning 237 years, The Tento Saga is a four part future-fiction epic that outlines a tumultuous and brutal path. Civil wars, a mass exodus from Earth and political turmoil, these trying times threaten to break the human spirit. Visit THETENTOSAGA.COM for a more detailed...

"We all know what Rainbow is," began Lamondois. "Rainbow is a planet colonized by science and designed for physical experiments." "The Far Rainbow was written at one breath, it is full of dynamics and genuine dramatism." - Literary Gazette "Science-fiction stories by the Strugatsky...

Super PenguinBy: Rob WitzelIn a world without humans, animals have evolved; they drive cars, have jobs, and even become super heroes! One of those animals is Paul, a seemingly average penguin working an average job as an Eagle City sports reporter. However, when Paul...

In nineteen-fourteen, it was enemy aliens. In nineteen-thirty, it was Wobblies. In nineteen-fifty-seven, it was fellow-travelers. And, in nineteen seventy-one, Kenneth J. Malone rolled wearily out of bed wondering what the hell it was going to be now. One thing, he told himself, was...

On the Night of the Strange Bird, many people at Sidderton (and some nearer) saw a Glare on the Sidderford moor. But no one in Sidderford saw it, for most of Sidderford was abed.Author: H. G. WellsISBN-10: 1512169978ISBN-13: 9781512169973Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

In this 14th volume in the New Tom Swift Invention Series, Tom hope to improve on a small parlor trick he had come up with months earlier, when the U.S. Navy asks him to find a way to turn stealth ships into truly invisible...

It has been a couple years since Tom Swift solved the mystery and overcame the aftermath of a loss of helium in the undersea mines he once discovered. Since then not much of anything has happened that might be considered newsworthy in Helium City....

Author: Neil Lynn WiseISBN-10: 1469170590ISBN-13: 9781469170596Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/20/2012Pages: 562Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.80lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d

Author: Konrad McKaneISBN-10: 1462876307ISBN-13: 9781462876303Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2011Pages: 108Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

After a bizarre accident in a high-tech lab, Clay Taylor finds himself capable of impossible things. With fascinating, believable underlying science, the story careens through one nail-biting scene after another. The chief villain's demise alone is worth the trip.Author: Dirck BrendlingerISBN-10: 140339671XISBN-13: 9781403396716Publisher: 1st...

Everyone feels, at one time or another, like they just don't belong-sometimes they're right. Adam Childers is a seventeen year-old closeted gay high school student in middle America with an eccentric girlfriend and no one in whom he can confide. When JaraAuthor: Jeremiah L....

A modern amalgam of the classic newsstand of the golden age of pulp and popular fiction, Big Pulp publishes exciting, challenging and thought-provoking fiction and poetry by the best emerging and established genre writers from around the world. This collection begins with the steampunk...

The endless war is being fought on one of the 11 planets in their unusual solar system and the ten million remaining people of Unis know they were slowly being exterminated. No one knows if one of the other planets can provide a safe...

Based on a true story.A journey through a young man's eyes as he descends into madness. When he meets a girl with similar tragedies, Jack falls into the depths of a bizarre dream as she is taken from him. After continuous damage to his...

Alone-it is wonderful how little a man can do alone! To rob a little, to hurt a little, and there is the end.The Original 1897 Classic A curious man, wearing a long coat, a wide-brimmed hat, and whose face is entirely swathed in bandages...