Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Henri Austry, born in 1871, was a Parisian attorney, a writer and the editor of La Nouvelle Revue from 1913 until his unrecorded death during the Nazi occupation of France. Virtually forgotten today, he was the author of several remarkable, humorous and imaginative works...

Henri Austry, born in 1871, was a Parisian attorney, a writer and the editor of La Nouvelle Revue from 1913 until his unrecorded death during the Nazi occupation of France. Virtually forgotten today, he was the author of several remarkable, humorous and imaginative works...

In The Biocole (1927), Professor Tornada conquers death itself and becomes the creator and virtual god of a utopian enclave called Biocolia. In The Case of Baroness Sasoitsu (1939), the eccentric scientist solves a baffling murder case by using his psychovisor which translates thoughts...

In The Phosphorescent Waltzer(1923), the indomitable Professor Tornada creates an android and in Memoirs Of An Immortal(1924), he tackles the concept of suspended animation. André Couvreur (1865-1944) was a medical doctor who penned several medical treatises, and was also the author of eight romans...

There was a chaotic tumult of ideas in his head, a cerebral activity a hundred times more intense than that of the most exalting drunkenness. He clasped his forehead with his hand, thinking that he was going mad. Gabriel Mirande inherits a serum from...

Published in 1908, the same year as Gustave Le Rouge's The Vampires of Mars, this pioneering planetary romance is the third French Martian epic after Doctor Omega (1906) and Jean de La Hire's The Nyctalope on Mars (1911), written three years before Burroughs began...

Dr. Caresco returns in Caresco, Superman (1904), in which the brilliant but mad scientist rules the body-shaped island of Eucrasia whose inhabitants have been transformed--"improved"--by a variety of advanced surgical techniques. The natives are addicted to sensual pleasures, subservient to the will of Caresco,...

The Necessary Evil (1899) features Dr. Armand Caresco, a conscienceless surgeon carrying out medical experiments. Caresco sees himself as an intellectual superman whose discoveries might enable humankind to take a leap forward. This daring book dared to broach such shocking topics as the methodology...

On 25 June 1906, the readers of the daily newspaper LE MATIN discovered this terrifying headline: "SOMEONE IS STEALING CHILDREN IN PARIS! EVERY DAY! On the Grands Boulevards and quiet residential streets! Children have disappeared Boulevard Montmartre, Rue Caumartin, Rue Royale, Rue Racine, Avenue...

The World in 2000 Years (1878) is a work of science fiction based on economics. In the future it describes, the primary objective of economic policy is the prevention of the accumulation of money into the hands of relatively few individuals. While making money...

Aurore Lescure, the first woman astronaut, who starred in The Xenobiotic Invasion, returns in this ground-breaking novel about the first successful interplanetary flight to the planetoid Eros. There, the intrepid explorers discover that evolution on Eros has taken a different turn than on Earth,...

Aurore Lescure, the first woman astronaut to have gone into space, returns to Earth with deadly alien spores which feed on electricity and threatens to utterly destroy our civilization. Theo Varlet's 1930 novel shows the influence of J.-H. Rosny Aîné's classic disaster story The...

The Wing, A Romance of the New Age (1911) is the story of the alerion, a flying machine capable of neutralizing gravity by harnessing Earth's telluric currents, powered by atomic disintegration and controlled by radio signals; but even more, it is the story of...

In Albert Bleunard's Ever Smaller (1893), the first modern novel on the theme of the "Shrinking Man," a group of scientists are shrunken down, first to insect-size, to explore an ordinary garden, which becomes as perilous to them as an alien world; then, to...

In Department of Temporal Adjustment, a fresh, funny, wisecracking novel by Veronica R. Tabares, chick lit makes a pact with science fiction and seals it with a kiss. In the spirit of being a doting wife and good mother, Vanessa spends her time directing...

The Story of Tarzan and Jane has delighted fans for a century. Their romantic/adventure stories are as much fun to read now as they were when they were first written. Edgar Rice Burroughs was born in 1875 in Chicago, Illinois. Although Burroughs wrote in...

When ten-year-old Aaron moved from the big city to the middle of Amish country, he felt transported to a different and simpler time and place. But after finding a faded and long forgotten diary page of a boy gone missing over one hundred years...

If a visitor from another planet began writing a human letters about life on earth, what would he say? How many letters would he write? What topics would he address? This book is a provocative answer to these questions. In a style that is...

"The Time Machine" is considered by many to be one of the finest works of English fiction. This highly entertaining novella has had an enormous influence on English fiction in general and science fiction in particular. Even the term 'The Time Machine' (coined by...

Futureways is a faux science fiction novel that dares to reinvent the future. The story of an art exhibition in the distant future, the book posits an otherworldly community of alien shape-shifters, robotic administrators and demon-conjuring Magi who inhabit spaceports, otherworldly archeological sites, gated...

The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1904. Wells called it "a fantasia on the change of scale in human affairs. . . . I had hit upon...

Author: H. Oscar BovoliniISBN-10: 1493129147ISBN-13: 9781493129140Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/20/2013Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

SGR 0245+05, a dangerous magnetar within close galactic proximity, shows signs of erupting just as the Earth is in a magnetic reversal and losing its magnetic shield. Professor James Templeton, a brilliant but maligned astrophysicist who alone predicted the eruption of "+05", is summoned...

Alien visitation and abduction is an obsession for many people. Many writers feed this obsession with stories about aliens who are malevolent beings whose sole objective is to annihilate and dominate the human race. If aliens do indeed visit our world, I envision them...

The possibility of other worlds, but the certainty of angels The second installment in The Continuum Dealer series kicks off with a greater intensity in Ethan's romantic relationships: Anna is pregnant and Ethan is fighting a gladiator-style match to undo Lee's slave status. The...

Author: Joe GreenISBN-10: 1410797228ISBN-13: 9781410797223Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/02/2003Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.24h x 6.42w x 0.87d

Discover what lies beyond the Quantum Door. The mysterious woods behind Brady and Felix's house have been deserted for years. But things change when a fence goes up and the brothers notice strange things happening at night. From the moment they dare cross the...

The novel purports to be a report provided to the head of revitalized Russia named Peter Chuikov. Chuikov is on the verge of ordering an invasion of the United States that has appeared to toss out its politicians. The tale begins of how America...

What happens when a town's local resident spots a UFO? Silverville sees nothing but dollar signs. First an amusement park and museum and then a celestial motif for the whole town. Con artists and embezzlers, tourists and kooks all get caught up in the...

A first person narrative set in a Fantasy world buttressed by Science Fiction. Cipher codes contrast with Magic spells and chants, where characters may well be anyone from a shallow AI, Non-Governmental Organization, Sovereign agent or Central Government of America bureaucrat. The Novel's complex...

Fear and Loathing in Post Apocalyptic America. The future, after the genetic experiments of the great Doctor Patricia R. Durham, leaves all women on the planet with snakes instead of hair, and the unique and terrifying ability to blind, and even kill, a man...

A cultured gentleman, a disaster on a space station, and a crisis of conscience. A Beyal Universe story.Author: Catherine MintzISBN-10: 0983958963ISBN-13: 9780983958963Publisher: Copper PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/16/2020Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

A past shrouded in mystery Violet Sinclair remembers nothing of her life before the day she awoke several years earlier, drenched in blood that wasn't hers. But since she met Tony Solomon, she's been certain of one thing - sometime in her hidden past,...

An impressive collection of fiction written by authors in Columbus, Ohio, Origins presents short stories by Amy Dalrymple, Matthew Hance, Chad Jones, Ben Orlando, Brad Pauquette and Kim Younkin. Origins includes an eclectic collection of wit, drama and intrigue, with genres ranging from adventure...

Ponderable stories about next-generation Predator drones scouting the Mexican border for illegals, a scientist whose only means of escaping certain death in the Antarctic carries him into the future, robots fooled by Groucho glasses, interstellar astronauts who draw blood over dessert snacks while the...

In the first book of an epic series, Prince Alexander of Valsoria sets out from home to take on the evil organization known as Organization Shadow Crystal who threaten to destroy and take over his kingdom with the use of strange new weapons. If...

What would it be like if some people could actually "hear"-even imperfectly-what was in other people's minds? What would that do to personal relationships, or business transactions, or political activity? This is the story of some of those people, how they felt and how...

Following World War II, one man set out to create the perfect medieval fantasy that could bridge the cultures of the East and West; however, in this tale, that book has become a reality in which characters struggle to overcome the mysterious mythology that...

Following World War II, one man set out to create the perfect fictional paradise; however, in this tale, that book has become a reality in which characters struggle to overcome the mysterious mythology that their owner devised. - Pawns to the story itself, Wing...

This story chonicals the lives of several extraordinary people who voyage to the nearest extra-solar planets to find a new home. The world is pristine and beautiful with abundant life that exists at a slightly higher level of intelligence. They also find another very...

The Hanson Trilogy - Book Two: The Hanson Conundrum The Hanson Conundrum is the sequel to The Hanson Legacy. Best described as a science-fiction/techno-thriller, inspiration for the trilogy of novels came from Dr. Messbarger's life-long fascination with exobiology, the study of extraterrestrial life, and...

With time running out, Atira has been entrusted with saving an alien world...a world lost in its own cruelty and unyielding brutality. But when she finds herself falling prey to its oppressive atmosphere, the entire mission becomes threatened. Having lost the instincts that usually...

NINJA to date have become the most misunderstood, mysterious secretive people to the masses! They have been labeled everything from Lethal Assassins to Evil Black Magic practicing Sorcerers. The truth is they weren't very much different than the common people in society except they...

Edward "Chase" Morgan, NASA's accident investigator at Lunar Alpha Base, plans an uneventful retirement-until the crash of the Stellarfare Phoenix kills the United States Secretary of Energy and turns Chase's last case into a fight to avert war. Evidence of deliberate sabotage and Chinese...

Tucker O'Doyle decides to steal away from his castle and return home, because he is worried about a good friend; and he wants to see his family again. His family may have not been perfect, but he still loves them and misses them. He...

His friends are captured, and the President demands an audience... Mark Carpen has a shifter, a special watch that allows him to travel through time. He uses it to intervene in the past, rescuing the innocent from unforeseen violence and stopping tragic accidents before...

The power to save the world, but not his own children... Mark Carpen has a shifter, a special watch that allows him to travel through time. He uses it to intervene in the past, rescuing the innocent from unforeseen violence and stopping tragic accidents...

In Book Two, four years after Alysa reunites two antagonistic tribes, another threat comes to the mountains. Who are the Parents, really? And what do they want? Alysa and the TrailFolk face a menace far more dangerous than the M'raudas!Author: Tina Field HoweISBN-10: 097685855XISBN-13:...

In Book Two, four years after Alysa reunites two antagonistic tribes, another threat comes to the mountains. Who are the Parents, really? And what do they want? Alysa and the TrailFolk face a menace more dangerous than even the M'raudas!Author: Tina Field HoweISBN-10: 0976858541ISBN-13:...

The Field Folk thought they and the savage Trailmen were the only people to inhabit their war-torn world. They were wrong. Folk girl Alysa risks all to unveil long-hidden truths, heal ancient hatreds, and save her people from peril.Author: Tina Field HoweISBN-10: 0976858517ISBN-13: 9780976858515Publisher:...