Fiction - Science Fiction - General

The CaretakersBy: Jeannie GraceA devastating plane crash brings three teens together to form a deep, enduring friendship. The teens share a medical condition and a secret that will accompany them across time and space. Given the help of a very strange man and a...

This re-publication of Lev Grossman's debut novel, Warp, shows the roots of his Magicians hero Quentin Coldwater in a book that is for anyone (and everyone) who has ever felt adrift in their own life. Twenty-something Hollis Kessler languishes in a hopelessly magician-less world...

'Twelve inmates, one chamber. It's time to face justice, live!'Saturday night - primetime. The nation settles down to watch a special edition of Justice Live - the most popular, and sadistic, reality show ever made. Twelve of the country's most notorious criminals are paraded...

What would you do if you met your guardian angel, only to discover he hated your guts? Alex is only sure of two things: his life is going down the toilet, and the intimidating stranger who reluctantly saved him from a beating is clearly...

ALGOL APOCALYPSE. DAWN OF THE DEMON STAR. An unprecedented cosmic event - the Algol Parallax - wreaks havoc throughout the galaxy and spells disaster for planet Earth. Civilisation collapses. On the eve of annihilation Dr Thomas Lewis, director of Wyvern Abbey asylum, confronts the...

A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond political utopianism and technological optimism, contemporary Chinese writers conjure glittering visions and subversive experiments--ranging from space opera to...

A young Sel researcher is given the challenge to lead the analysis on a newly discovered race: Humans. They are getting closer to developing FTL technology and need to be understood before they take their first steps into the stars.A senior Sel security technician...

She's not waiting for a hero to come save her; instead, she becomes her own heroine. Hazel's world comes crashing in front of her in an instant during a family trip to Mont-Tremblant. What she doesn't know is that she is from the stars,...

Many life forms, including those from Earth, are being abducted and taken to a foreign planet called Syvopia. The planet is run and controlled by the Family of Royalty. Life forms are abducted strictly for the purpose of battling it out in the Intergalactic...

Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science fiction work of the twentieth century. It inspired authors such as H. P. Lovecraft and Stephen King. The Purple Cloud tells the grandly...

Struggling actor Peter Abbott is about to land the biggest role of his life. His audition for Calliope Associates--a clandestine private investigation firm made up of men and women with highly developed psychic abilities--requires only proof of Peter's psychic skills, no dramatic monologue. Business...

Meet three women who aren't about to run and hide just because the world says they should be on the shelf and out of circulation.KatHer life seems perfect until she loses her high-powered advertising job and catches her live-in lover in a compromising position--with...

Author of The Association of Small Bombs, longlisted for the National Book AwardRakesh Ahuja, a Government Minister in New Delhi, is beset by problems: thirteen children and another on the way; a wife who mourns the loss of her favorite TV star; and a...

Jack and Jilly Doone are twelve-year-old twins bound by blood and forbidden secrets. Running wild through endless August afternoons, they explore the tributaries of Chesapeake Bay, spinning fantasies and sneaking cigarettes. But when a near-drowning awakens a strange power in Jack, the line between...

For ten long years, Oscar Campbell has done everything from picking up his boss's drycleaning to FedExing her tropical fish. His job as personal assistant to a legendary -- and temperamental -- publisher in New York City has given him more headaches than leg-ups....

If you're looking for Polly Clark, she'll be the girl wearing Doc Martens and a Bad Brains T-shirt at the punk show. She'll be (almost) losing her virginity to a high school dropout, accompanied by the Beastie Boys' "No Sleep Till Brooklyn." She'll be...

Maura Moynihan's first novel, Covergirl, blends reality and fiction in a brilliant and exciting roman à clef that draws richly from the author's own adventures as a Warhol Girl and from her many years of working with Tibetan refugees in Asia. Meet Veronica Ferris,...

Not yet a woman yet more than a little girl, Rae Dodson is caught up in her family's drama. Her hip older sister, Kimmie, whom her mother favors, has moved from New Orleans to join them in Detroit, a city that moves as if...

Fifteen-year-old Alice dreams of her first kiss, has sleepovers, auditions for Our Town, and tries to pass high school biology. It's 1975, and at first look, her life would seem to be normal and unexceptional. But in the world that Leslie Pietrzyk paints, every...

After a series of stressful personal transitions, Grace Jefferson finds herself in a new house in a new city and in a new career for which she feels dangerously unsuited: a stay-at-home mom. An educated and accomplished modern woman, a child of the Civil...

The war is over, but the fight continues.A desperate class struggle rages on between Covedale and Riverlea-sister cities far from the front lines and the newly-established global government, World United-that threatens to tear them apart from the inside. Organized crime has infiltrated key positions...

In the darkest depths of the void, the first-born rose--children of the dust. Rising from nothing, they created the mighty city of Clockwork, and the great gears that bestowed the passage of time. When their lust for power and control turns what was once...

A multilayered dark comedy BRC is the final quirky chapter in the Ezekiel series. With the US in a constitutional crisis and on the precipice of a second civil war Zeke and his wife relocate to San Pedro Belize. A group of local drunks,...

A new collection of sci-fi stories from Anthony Fucilla - the author of 'Androids and the Gods' and 'Beyond Earth's Horizon'.THE GOLDEN MOONS OF JUPITERULTIMATE ROBOTLIFE FORCEFROM UNDER THE EYE OF A MACHINEGALACTIC VOYAGES Author: Anthony FucillaISBN-10: 1845497996ISBN-13: 9781845497996Publisher: SwirlLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2022Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Erin of Elliath returns in this conclusion to the epic saga begun in the first three books in the Sundered series. Erin, formerly Lady Sara and now the legendary Lady of Mercy to the slaves of the Dark Empire, has just helped Renar, the...

Although liking her job on the Philadelphia Police Force, she had started becoming restless, wanting more. After completing her Master's in Criminal Justice she yearned for detective status, but nothing was available in Philly. So she searched and came up with Tucson, AZ which...

KEEP HOPE ALIVE with humor and insight There are 7 souls chosen to be born on Earth through the normal process of any other Human Birth. Their mission is to experience Earthly life, first hand, and then to return to the other side of...

When the young psychiatrist, Dr. Aaron Dispenmore, during his evening walk with his daughter, Laurie, helped a stranger girl on the street to find a bus stop, he couldn't have known that this ordinary event would turn his life upside down, and lead him...

No print information available this time.Author: Joe GonzalezISBN-10: 1669820238ISBN-13: 9781669820239Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/21/2022Pages: 432Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

Operation: Outer Space is a science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was first published in 1954 by Fantasy Press in an edition of 2,042 copies. The novel concerns the first interstellar flight, financed by making it into a television show. Galaxy...

"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...

The History and Future of Wicca is a major new work of speculative fiction, which masterfully blends fantasy and science fiction elements until it becomes what it is, a masterfully written alternate history. This allows for much thinly veiled satire of our own histories,...

Dr. Dana Avalon is from Gotham, the last modern metropolis on Earth in the year 2112, built by Prometheists in the late 21st century above the shattered skyscrapers of Manhattan rising out of the Atlantic Ocean.As the leader of Prometheism, and the reincarnation of...

In the far future, an indestructible and massive canal over 2,000 miles long spans the mid-continent of Earth. Nothing can mar it, move it, or affect it in any fashion. Scientists from three different civilizations, separated in time by hundreds of thousands of years,...

The stubborn, spoiled, favored granddaughter of the Devi goddess Astoreth, Moreva Tehi has failed to perform her sacred duty and now she must be punished for her transgression. Temporarily banished from Temple life, she is dispatched to Mjor-a backwater village in the Syren Perritory-to...

Stewart's beautifully lucid, poetic prose makes for a narrative of commanding power and enchantment that echoes the best of Le Guin and Tolkien. -- BooklistAn astonishing, wise, beautiful work, full of the terror and wonder and love and power of life and legend intertwined....

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The ensorceled gems that once held all humans in sway now power a hundred small kingdoms, but the monarchy of Mountfalcon is suddenly in dire peril. For the Queen has unwittingly lost the realm-sustaining, jeweled Chaos Machine -- a castastrophe that could tear the...

A bighearted dystopian novel about the corrosive effects of fear and the redemptive power of love. With soaring literary prose and the tense pacing of a thriller, the first-time novelist Peyton Marshall imagines a grim and startling future. At the end of the twenty-first...

Sitting in the world's highest mountain valley, Lord Opaji lives by the same words that molded his great city: If progress is your goal, you will die pursuing it. Chigou's founder declares his city to be society's greatest accomplishment; a competitive theater for ambitions,...

When Toni, Joseph and Charlie arrive at their new boarding school, they are glad to leave their families - and respective problems - behind. Isolated as boarders, they meet a handsome senior with a personality like iced snake's blood, teachers with a penchant for...

The world has reached an unprecedented level of technological advancement. The recent discovery of a forgotten island housing vast quantities of technological knowledge, and the war which soon followed, has set the stage for an era of peace. However, whenever there is peace, there...

Claire's older brother, Daniel, has disappeared. He leaves work one Friday afternoon, shortly before Christmas, and vanishes into thin air. Married, successful, rich, there seems no reason why he would abandon his life. Has he been killed? Has he been kidnapped? Or has he...

WIKIPEDIA says: 'H.P. Lovecraft's reputation has grown tremendously over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most important horror writers of the 20th century, exerting an influence that is widespread, though often indirect.' H.P. Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled...

Edmonton, 1995.Six strangers at a coffee shop are caught in an earthquake, but soon learn that no one else in the city seems to have felt it. Over the next few days, they experience strange, inexplicable, and unsettling events.The six soon realize they'll need...

Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. Rumors begin to spread of a dangerous species of hyperintelligent octopus that may have developed its own language and...

This is a children's fantasy book about a lost baby dragon that is taken care of by tiny fairies who help him find his way back home. He makes new friends and learns that even though dragons and fairies are so very different, they...

Daerkside CityBy: J.C. HutchinsonThe collision of an asteroid hitting the planet has borne a new existence for humankind. Separated into factions and living in fortresses that are mere shadows of the great cities they used to be, corruption and destruction has left Earth a...

Born high in the Pyrenees Mountains on the border between France and Spain, Juana Navarro is the child of a WWII French resistance hero and a nurse from the Basque country who is also a noted sociologist. "A kid from the provinces who made...

This Science Fiction adventure is about a young African- American woman trying alone to survive and escape a tropical island. The villain is a crazy scientist attempting to control and shape human evolution via genetic-engineering.Author: Craig BalcombISBN-10: 1952182808ISBN-13: 9781952182808Publisher: Craig Balcomb PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2022Pages:...