Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Based on a true story, The Martian Child is a heartfelt novel about a single gay father adopting a son--the basis for the major motion picture starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Joan Cusack.When David Gerrold decided he wanted to adopt a son, he...

With the critically acclaimed novels The Gate To Women's Country, Raising The Stones, and the Hugo-nominated Grass, Sheri Tepper has established herself as one of the major science fiction writers of out Time. In Beauty, she broadens her territory even further, with a novel...

Shep Knacker has long saved for "the Afterlife," an idyllic retreat in the Third World where his nest egg can last forever. Exasperated that his wife, Glynis, has concocted endless excuses why it's never the right time to go, Shep finally announces he's leaving...

Type I enacts a hyperreality, in which the effects of climate change are damaging our world, and technological advances are held up as the key innovative tools for alleviating ecological collapse. Merging poetics, visuals, fiction and essaying to create a vivid, multi-layered novel, Type...

With a new introduction by Professor Richard Bradford this edition takes a fresh look at one of the great works of the twentieth century. Orwell's classic dystopian fiction warns us of our future, and deals with issues that speak to multiple dangers faced by...

How artificial intelligence and robotics are transforming the future of love and desire: a philosophical thriller and essays. A chance encounter between two women and a road trip into the future: It's Christmas Eve, and Scarlett, banker-turned-technologist, is leaving a secret underground lab to...

A Storm that will wreck a world threatens Dematr. Only Mari, one of the Mechanics who control all technology through their Guild, has a chance to stop it. She and Mage Alain have survived numerous attempts to kill them and have gained many more...

The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul.Mare Barrow's blood is red the color of common...

A novel of myth and literacy about a long-ago land on the brink of civilization. Vol 3In his four-volume series Return to Nev鑽ÿon, Hugo and Nebula award-winner Samuel R. Delany appropriated the conceits of sword-and-sorcery fantasy to explore his characteristic themes of language, power,...

Frequently republished with the same ISBN, but with slightly differing bibliographic data.Author: Anne McCaffreyISBN-10: 0812428986ISBN-13: 9780812428988Publisher: Perfection LearningLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1986Pages: 330Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.20w x 1.10dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 6.9Point Value: 19Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 11712 / Dragonquest

From Simon & Schuster, 50 Short Science Fiction Tales is edited by Isaac Asimove and Groff Conklin to compiled the best short science fiction tales. 50 Short Science Fiction Tales includes stories of 300 to 3,000 words from such authors as Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein,...

Contains three essays--"One Human Minute," "The Upside-Down Revolution," and "The World as Cataclysm"--from science fiction master Stanislaw Lem.Author: Stanislaw LemISBN-10: 015668795XISBN-13: 9780156687959Publisher: Harper VoyagerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/24/1986Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 7.92h x 5.02w x 0.32d

Planet of the Apes started life in 1963 as a quirky work by Pierre Boulle, the French literary novelist famous for The Bridge over the River Kwai. His concept of a world where humans are ruled over by apes proceeded to become one of...

Our journey began 14.2 million years ago when the Annunaki visited Earth and altered the DNA of early hominids. Their intervention increased their ability to think and communicate and led to the human race becoming the dominant species on the planet. Fast forward to...

Damian Nettoyer is the Empire's go-to gun. He kills whoever they want him to kill. In exchange, he and his rag-tag gang of crooks get to live, and Damian's psychokinetic partner and lover, Aris, isn't issued a one-way ticket to an Empire-sanctioned lobotomy.Then Damian's...

The Atrocity Exhibition is an experimental novel of linkedstories or "condensed novels" by British writer J.G. Ballard. Genre isexperimental, science-fiction, dystopian, speculative fiction. It is J.G. Ballard's most complex, disturbing work, with fabulous photos by Ana Barrado and artwork by Phoebe Gloeckner.Author: J. G....

Take a doomed princess, a dispossessed prince and a wicked king, a vengeful magician and a melancholy witch; now add fairies, ogres, changelings, scheming barons, wanderers who are not what they seem, robbers, orphans, and a race of hardbitten warriors at war with all...

The Future of the Super Power Chosen Ones Sent by Benjamin Franklin to Save the Earth by Jeremy Mosby Planet Eye Coin is on the verge of falling apart due to the uprising initiated by its corrupt officials against the leader, Benjamin Franklin. But...

"The Time Machine", one of the most loved science fiction novels of all time, is H. G. Wells 1895 novel which crafts a vivid and haunting picture of an earth some 800,000 years into the future. The first novel about time travel, "The Time...

An attempt to uncover the Alien Conspiracy Truth. This could very well be the Holy Grail of all information dealing with the extraterrestrial/Alien subject. Embrace yourselves.Author: Mkratia AitarkmISBN-10: 1387075551ISBN-13: 9781387075553Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/10/2017Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.31d

As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the brilliant and eccentric zoologist Persikov discovers an amazing ray that drastically increases the size and reproductive rate of living organisms. At the same time, a mysterious...

This deluxe gilded hardback edition brings together the most celebrated fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. Said to be inspired by his own nightmares, Lovecraft's writing astounds and terrifies in equal measure. His writings marry gothic horror with cosmic fantasy, from his early macabre stories to...

This new edition brings a fresh perspective on Stevenson's dark, celebrated evocation of duality: polite society undermined by the weakness deep within itself. Three of Stevenson's other dark tales reveal him to be a shrewd and skillful storyteller - 'The Body Snatcher', 'The Pavilion...

BENEATH the shadow of St. Sulpice the ancient mansion of the d'Esparvieu family rears its austere three stories between a moss-grown fore-court and a garden hemmed in, as the years have elapsed, by ever loftier and more intrusive buildings, wherein, nevertheless, two tall chestnut...

As Menolly uncovers intrigue, Piemur discovers the rhythm of adventure in the third book in the Harper Hall trilogy, set within science fiction legend Anne McCaffrey's beloved and bestselling Dragonriders of Pern series. As Menolly navigates her way as the first journeywoman Harper in...

Often referred to as a "father of science fiction", H. G. Wells was one of the first authors to write a type of speculative fiction which referenced the advancements in science of his time. Characteristic of Wells's work is their warning against the unintended...

An award-winning debut story collection by Karin Tidbeck, author of Amatka and heir to Borges, Le Guin, and Lovecraft. A child is born in a tin can. A switchboard operator finds himself in hell. Three corpulent women float somewhere beyond time. Welcome to the...

Blending science fiction and fantasy, the first book of the Coldfire Trilogy tells a dark tale of an alien world where nightmares are made manifest. Over a millennium ago, Erna, a seismically active yet beautiful world was settled by colonists from far-distant Earth. But...

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL The Guardian's Pick for Best Science Fiction Book of the Year A timely and uncanny portrait of a world in the wake of fake news, diminished privacy, and a total shutdown of the Internet BEFORE: In...

A young officer at Scotland Yard is assigned to investigate a puzzling and eerie case of missing-and apparently resurrected-bodies. To unravel the mystery, Lt. Gregory consults scientific, philosophical, and theological experts, who supply him with a host of theories and clues.Author: Stanislaw LemISBN-10: 0156451581ISBN-13:...

Three stories to capture your imagination.One a journey to a post-apocalyptic world where humans have become pets and, more ominously, a potential source of breeding stock for an alien race.The second, a story of an unwelcome visitor. Is it the delusions of mind or...

The Machine Stops is a science maserpiece by E.M. Forster. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual...

Jeremy Shipp brings you THE ATROCITIES, a haunting gothic fantasy of a young ghost's education When Isabella died, her parents were determined to ensure her education wouldn't suffer. But Isabella's parents had not informed her new governess of Isabella's... condition, and when Ms Valdez...

A battle of wits between Vulcan-born Starfleet Officer Spock and the mischevious omnipotent entity Q.Author: Alien Voices, Cecilia FannonISBN-10: 0743509463ISBN-13: 9780743509466Publisher: Simon & Schuster AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2001Pages: 2Format: CDWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 5.26h x 5.66w x 1.32d

Contained within this anthology are dark stories and works of art that explore the shadow side of reality. They are disturbed works that journey hopelessly through the downtrodden fringes of society, across the deepest reaches of space, and into the darkest, most troubled corners...

In this daring collection of speculative fiction, Stephanie Andrea Allen attends to the lives of Black women, mostly lesbian or queer, all keenly aware of the forces seeking to consume them.A Black lesbian working the gig economy runs into a trio of motorized scooters...

Somnium is a Latin word for Dream. This novel was written by Johannes Kepler in 1608, in a time when a trip to the ethereal regions of the moon would be possible only with the assistance of supernatural forces. Historians consider this lunar exploration...

A tabletop miniatures game of intense starship combat between fleets of powerful cruisers, sleek destroyers, and agile fighters. A Billion Suns is a wargame of interstellar combat that puts you in command of fleets of powerful starships, from squadrons of agile, but fragile, fighters,...

New York, late summer, 2000. A party in a spacious Manhattan apartment, hosted by a wealthy young activist. Dozens of idealistic twenty-somethings have impassioned conversations over takeout dumplings and champagne. The evening shines with the heady optimism of a progressive new millennium. A young...

Author: Charis MichaelsISBN-10: 0062412957ISBN-13: 9780062412959Publisher: Avon BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2016Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 6.70h x 4.30w x 1.00d

Author Kylie Chan has a boldly, brazenly unique take on urban fantasy--she combines it with Kung Fu. In Earth to Hell, Chan launches the characters from her Dark Heavens trilogy (White Tiger, Red Phoenix, Blue Dragon) on a new adventure that will take them...

It's tough to play it cool on a sultry summer night . . . The perfect daughter. The perfect prom queen. The perfect wife. Jenny Tolliver's been the good girl all her life, and it's gotten her nowhere. Now that her marriage has been...

Sol Futura EstBy: Jeffrey NotoOcta's experience of the world is limited to the gladiatorial arena where he's spent his entire life as an indentured servant. When not training or fighting in the arena, he studies the journals of past warriors and political figures passed...

Andrea Hairston's alternate history adventure, Redwood and Wildfire, is the winner of the Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award. At the turn of the 20th century, minstrel shows transform into vaudeville, which slides into moving pictures. Hunkering together in dark theatres, diverse...

There hasn't been a winter like this in years. The streets of Poznań, Poland become covered with snow. The river Warta freezes over.Terrorists attack a city, but it barely registers in the lives of thirtyish pub-goers. Weronika is in love with her best friend...

Rules were made to be broken.From terraformed outposts to magical realms, journey to worlds where deadly plants, rampant biodiversity, or failed terraforming have created irresistible opportunities for those brave enough to seize them.New worlds, found family, mystical secrets, and deadly science weave together in...

Set in Bruce Piasecki's actual neighborhood outside of this historic revolutionary town Saratoga Springs, New York, this Fable begins with the discovery that one of his family's neighbors are conspiratorialist, people of profound passion and misinformation. During a lovely dinner despite three years of...

Will they end up killing one another? That's what concerns the authorities as much as the scientific and technical hurdles of sending folk to Mars. So they address the human issues, as they would in an army, by appointing a chaplain.The Church of Scotland...

The people of Anatan have lost their home and their means to create a new one, but the one person who could solve this problem doesn't remember who or what she is. With more than one civilization hanging in the balance, an Anatani criminal...

Of One Blood (1902-1903) is a novel by Pauline E. Hopkins. Recognized as one of the earliest works of science fiction by an African American writer, Of One Blood was originally published in The Colored American Magazine, America's first monthly periodical covering African American...