Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. Robur-the-Conqueror is a science fiction novel published in 1886. It...

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. "What one man can imagine, another will someday be able...

Tobias Smollett was an 18th century Scottish author. He was educated at the University of Glasgow with the intent of following a career in medicine. He traveled to London to become a playwright and when that failed he became a naval surgeon sailing on...

Top award in the (SF category) New York 'Best Read on the Beach' Festival contest.. A collection of seventeen speculative SF and Macabre Tales by English writer Tony Thorne MBE, set on, in and even under that magical Spanish Canary Island. The contents include:...

Author: Duane Heppner, Rebazar Tarzs, Paul TwitchellISBN-10: 1436390567ISBN-13: 9781436390569Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/13/2009Pages: 248Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: C. A. DavidsonISBN-10: 1436359589ISBN-13: 9781436359580Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2008Pages: 148Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

This story is about Muffin Cup, a little girl with wisdom and how she plans to make a profit, by making her dolls and the support that she had received from the Little family also from her Grandmother. The family all stuck together by...

Author: Daniel Jr. OntengcoISBN-10: 1436327016ISBN-13: 9781436327015Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2008Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.67d

A somewhat fantastical and bizarre story of desperation as one confused man is pushed, out of nowhere, to a land full of monsters and perils, and he only having his wits to survive.Author: Cesar Cernex Garcia SalinasISBN-10: 1435711394ISBN-13: 9781435711396Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/2008Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Granary--the breadbasket of the United Worlds--becomes enmeshed in civil war when its Commander, Theron Standish, attempts to impose his will over the independent granges. Only Theron's elderly grandmother and predecessor, Seleva Karmann, can stop the Commander from destroying his own worldAuthor: Ardath MayharISBN-10: 1434457303ISBN-13:...

William Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950)-who wrote as Olaf Stapledon-was a British philosopher and author of science fiction. In 2014, he was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.This collection three of his classic fantasy stories: "The Flames," "Death into Life," and "Old...

In the world of the future, Titus Shiddehara has a unique heritage. Twenty years earlier, he'd been "killed" in a car crash and buried by his fianc馥, having been forbidden by his vampire "father" to reveal his true heritage to his human lover. But...

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" (flip one book over to read the second title)--here is the ninth Wildside Double: DA VINCI RISING, by Jack Dann Imagine what would happen if Leonardo da Vinci--the Albert Einstein of the Renaissance--was actually able to...

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" (flip one book over to read the second title)--here is the sixth Wildside Double. ALIEN STARSWARM, by Robert Sheckley Salvatore commands the battleship Endymion. He's seen his share of battles and fought them bravely, too. So...

"Black Man's Burden" is a short novel by Mack Reynolds. It was originally seriealized in ANALOG magazine in the December 1961 and January 1962 issues.Author: Mack ReynoldsISBN-10: 1434406733ISBN-13: 9781434406736Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/17/2010Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Author: Benjamin LightfootISBN-10: 1493123149ISBN-13: 9781493123148Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/14/2014Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d

Author: William HayashiISBN-10: 149310005XISBN-13: 9781493100057Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2013Pages: 624Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.38d

When James Wood arrived at summer camp, the only unusual thing about him was he'd changed schools three times in the past four years. But when he and four other teenagers are dropped off at camp by a man that seems to know more...

In this second book in the Perception Series (the first being Perception Is Reality) Agent Tiki Gibbs meets several members of the Perception Is Reality Project. Through those meetings he finds out just how potent lies can be. But nothing can prepare him for...

Leopold Einstein-former janitor, accidental pan-dimensional being and occasional corpse-is brought back to life on a doomed spaceship where four parallel realities exist. Merrily mangling the mysteries of the cosmos, Leopold embarks on a mission across bizarre parallel worlds to "reassemble" Pen, the woman he...

Shug Logan is the best of America's secret black ops soldiers. He suddenly finds himself abducted by aliens of the Morphron race and forced into a deadly game no human has ever survived. Through a strange twist of events he cleverly coerces them to...

Every person has stories in their hearts, wanting to be expressed, seen through eyes and letting others know what life is. Maybe through those stories the person reading will be released from their bonds and are free inside to let their own stories come...

"I am not from this world," says the tiny being to the Vincent Henry family gathered around her. "We Aquatus have been visiting your planet for 10,000 of your Earth years and for the last 7,500 years our orbital monitoring satellites have been observing...

SECRET SAUCER BASE EXPEDITIONS Lester Griffin quits his day job to travel to the Nevada desert with a group of saucer watchers who are determined to expose the alleged government cover up of extraterrestrials. But Lester is unprepared for the experience. Seeing an otherworldly...

Set around the middle of the twenty-first century, the book is about a journey to Mars that has gone wrong. NASA personnel, faced with massive budgetary cutbacks, are taxed to the limits of their ingenuity to construct the appropriate technology for the rescue mission....

There has been no rest for the small group of survivors. Communications have been made to retrieve vital intel on research to stop a potential threat to mankind. Figuring it will help them discover who has been watching them, the group decides to head...

In the near future, the debt-laden U.S. owns a technology that renders it "the world's best-defended Third World country." The only real outer-space planning is in Common Europe, so young American "space cadet" Jerry Reed goes to work in Paris. He falls in love...

A young adult, Joshua, is the fan of many animes and shows involving heroes like Super Sentai. After a comic convention, he's given the chance of a lifetime to become the hero he's always wanted to be. Mechanized warriors begin to invade the planet...

Revised edition July 26th 2016. L'atel stared at the power readout in front of him, main and reserve levels both showed zero. "This is not possible, this isn't supposed to happen," he spoke out loud, well aware that the others couldn't hear him. He...

Set 3 years after the events of "Bound to Play". Chakats Midsnow, Blacktail, and their family have made the move to Chakona the self proclaimed home world for the chakat species. With intentions of opening their own business they will end up facing several...

THE WAR ON WITCHES explains the connected lives of, Matt, and P.F.C. R.R.P. These tales fill in for readers of the LAST GAME SERIES some of the behind the scenes individuals and history of Sightmen City. The uniqueness of these tales are without doubt...

The inspiration for this story comes from Mark Twain's short and imaginative tale, The War Prayer, written in 1905, and also the 1951 black and white film The Day the Earth Stood Still, which was based on the novel Farewell to the Master written...

Before the Twentieth Century, the future used to be a faraway notion, not anymore The present is increasingly elusive, it fast escapes us through change occurring at every moment, every day, in all areas. Today's reality far surpasses yesterday's dreams and fantasy, but an...

Redemption through the Cosmos... Teddy Cordova had survived the Vietnam War. With the wounds of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder embedded deep within, life falling apart, he is pushed over the edge when he meets a young soldier just returned from Afghanistan. Alcohol fueled desperation drives...

Martians, Go Home, originally published in 1955, is a comic science fiction novel that tells the story of Luke Devereaux, a science fiction writer who witnesses an alien invasion of little green men. These Martians haven't come to Earth to harm anyone--just to annoy...

Set in 1968, The Cosmic Purple is a mind-churning thriller that mixes suspense, humor, and existentialism and guarantees to leave you guessing until the last second. On the planet Ute, a psychedelic metropolis ruled by a tyrannical government, a suicidal outlaw who dubs himself...

Their discovery on the third floor of Hickory Hill is almost too much to bear.Since the Beautiful Houses computer software worked so well for the Old Dears' family tree project, Abby's college roommate Kate hopes the computer program will help her find out more...

The Smoky God; or, A Voyage to the Inner WorldAuthor: Willis George EmersonISBN-10: 1481185993ISBN-13: 9781481185998Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2012Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.11d

A powerful, ancient mummy is unearthed by adventurers. Soon the mummy is poised to take over the modern world. The mummy's powers over the global population prove more powerful than anything governments and leaders could have expected. The mummy asserts control over economies and...

What began as a simple encounter--a first date spent hiking--turns into a life-changing event for Steve. Once he found a crystal and understood the powers within it, he was able to develop a life outside of the one he had. No longer did he...

Determined reader beware, for these luxurious characters and their confounding antics are not for the faint of heart or morally upright. This is the incredible "true" story of a lovelorn white shark, the devil, an impossibly perfect woman, and a billionaire President of the...

It has been ten years since American archaeologist, Andreas, reunited with his wife, Eurydice, and began happily living among the mysterious people of an unknown land hidden under the ice of Antarctica. Now everything is about to change as Eurydice, high priestess and effective...

Harpie Colcek is a newspaper reporter assigned to write an article about a mysterious blip that appears on NORAD's radar screen every Christmas Eve at 11:55 p.m. As he heads to interview a four-star general at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Harpie...

In the year AD 4544, a confluence of events shatters a spacecraft in the outer reaches of the solar system, hurling its lone commander, Samantha Hunter, through time and space deep into the past.Meanwhile, in the near future, award-winning New York Times science editor...

As creatures from different worlds, Tesla and Lynx should never have met. The A-ones and Underdwellers don't mix in the Dome, but Tesla is no ordinary A-one. She isn't afraid to question everything. Her entire life, she had been taught that the Underdwellers lacked...

"The House on the Borderland (1908)-perhaps the greatest of all Mr. Hodgson's works-tells of a lonely and evilly regarded house in Ireland which forms a focus for hideous otherworld forces and sustains a siege by blasphemous hybrid anomalies from a hidden abyss below. The...

Trapped in an economic rat-race, Kevin Blake had little going for him but an over-active imagination-an attribute which brought him to the notice of Paul Trevainen. Trevainen made Kevin an offer he couldn't resist: find a billionaire's daughter, bring her back to Earth, and...

"WHO ARE THE WARBIRDS?Misfits mostly. Men who sought in the rush and tide of battle, an outlet for violent emotion. Society condemned them, yet admired their necessity. Cultures shunned them - yet gladly used their services. Wars there were, and wars there would be,...

On screen, the city lay shimmeringly beautiful in the morning sun. For a suspenseful moment we contemplated the confidently proud splendor, the towers and spires reared high, the orderly veins of traffic radiating to the city's horizons, the comic clusters of scurrying transportation microbes,...

CRIME TRAVEL features time-travel mysteries by a terrific lineup of authors. Included are: James Blakey Melissa H. Blaine Michael Bracken Anna Castle Brendan DuBois David Dean John M. Floyd Barb Goffman Heidi Hunter Eleanor Cawood Jones Adam Meyer Barbara Monajem Korina Moss Art Taylor...