Fiction - Science Fiction - General

"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....

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...

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...

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...

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:...

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...