Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Jack Vance's early work contains the same elements of originality, wit and style which would become hallmarks of his oeuvre. This collection centers on productive years which began in the mid-50s, containing stories written between 1951 and 1973 including: Ullward's Retreat, a breezy look...

Here in one unforgettable volume are three of Jack Vance's best novellas-rich adventures of humanity in crisis, showcasing Vance's stylistic flair, creative ingenuity, wit, and storytelling skill: the Hugo-winning "The Dragon Masters," Hugo and Nebula-winning "The Last Castle", and that gem of science re-born,...

The classic tale by H.G. Wells. Also contains a bonus selection (excerpt) as well as an absolutely free download offer of the complete text of "The Invisible Man" by H.G. Wells. Visit www.PhoenixPick.com for more great science fiction by this and other great authors...

In 1949 and 1950 a science fiction serial by Raymond F. Jones appeared in Thrilling Wonder Stories. Within half a decade that serial would make history as the basis of the first science fiction movie about interstellar travel and interstellar war. The next Hollywood...

Wells was interested in the implications of evolutionary theory on the future of human beings at the biological, sociological, and cultural levels, and The Time Machine, short and readable, draws on many of the social and scientific debates of the time. The Broadview edition...

Generation A is set in the near future in a world where bees are extinct, until five unconnected people all around the world-- in the United States, Canada, France, New Zealand, and Sri Lanka--are all stung. Their shared experience unites them in ways they...

When Kayu Saitoh wakes up, she is in an unfamiliar place. Taken to a snowy mountainside, she was left there by her family and her village according to the tradition of sacrificing the lives of the elderly for the benefit of the young. Kayu...

Author: Charles James HallISBN-10: 1403392048ISBN-13: 9781403392046Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2003Pages: 392Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d

"In James D. Doss's latest complex and absorbing crime novel set on the Ute reservation in Southern Colorado, Charlie Moon's cleverness and his aunt Daisy Perika's intuition--not to mention the spellbinding story behind this unusual day--share the limelight with the vibrant details of Native...

Dana Stabenow's Midnight Come Again is a magnificent crime novel about life in America's last wilderness, the heart-wrenching grief that goes with love, and murder. Kate, a former investigator for the Anchorage D.A. and now a P.I. for hire, is missing after a winter...

A sorcerous swordsmith desperate to achieve true power. His stubbornly nonmagical sword. His princely runaway lover. His hungry new fire elemental. Put them all together, and what can possibly go wrong?Herewiss is the only man in centuries to possess the Power of the blue...

They have been with us all through history: The "Invisible College" of wisdom, and their adversaries. The history of the world is their story: a conspiracy as vast and all-encompassing as the riddle of time itself.In Naples, Italy, in 1764, a young aristocrat is...

My Lords, Ladies, and Gentlemen, Welcome to the clockwork frontier. You are cordially invited on a trip to reclaim those lost and forgotten steam driven futures. Join the Immersion Book of Steampunk for an expedition through a new age of glorious industry. Encounter suffragette...

Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "one of the most revelatory novels in recent memory . . . Cleverly conceived and executed brilliantly," The Children's Hospital is the story of a hospital preserved, afloat, after the Earth is flooded beneath seven miles of...

Could you survive?In the real world, twenty-one-year-old library sciences student Tina Anderson is invisible and under-appreciated, but in the VR-game Forever Fantasy Online she's Roxxy--the respected leader and main tank of a top-tier raiding guild. In the real world, her brother James Anderson is...

Author: Robert L. ForwardISBN-10: 0595167489ISBN-13: 9780595167487Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 268Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.66h x 6.26w x 0.67d

"Lively, thought-provoking . . . the plot is ingenious, packing a wallop of a surprise . . . Tepper knows how to write a well-made, on-moving story with strong characters. . . . She takes the mental risks that are the lifeblood of science...

On April Fool's Day in 1856, a shape-shifting grifter boards a Mississippi riverboat to expose the pretenses, hypocrisies, and self-delusions of his fellow passengers. The con artist assumes numerous identities -- a disabled beggar, a charity fundraiser, a successful businessman, an urbane gentleman --...

Defoe's account of the bubonic plague that swept London in 1665 remains as vivid as it is harrowing. Based on Defoe's own childhood memories and prodigious research, A Journal of the Plague Year walks the line between fiction, history, and reportage. In meticulous and...

Despite their youth, sorrow stalks Kano, Kido, and Seto. Their strange powers prevent them from fitting in at their orphanage, so finally, they escape. The trio is taken in by the Tateyama household, where the cheerful Ayano lives--but the peace is short-lived...Author: Jin (Shizen...

Takane Enomoto has a secret.Her life is pretty weird. She attends high school with only one other student in her class and has a teacher who takes "underachievement" to exciting new heights--and neither of the know the truth about her double life as a...

Level 7 is the diary of Officer X-127, who is assigned to stand guard at the "Push Buttons," a machine devised to activate the atomic destruction of the enemy, in the country's deepest bomb shelter. Four thousand feet underground, Level 7 has been built...

"Lorraine Heath's books are always magic."--Cathy Maxwell" Heath's] deftly skilled story-telling entrances and enthralls from the first page to last."--Karen Hawkins Historical romance readers just can't get enough of the Lost Lords of Pembrook. In her previous book, She Tempts the Duke, New York...

"Den of Thieves rollicks....This is a book I would be happy to have written." --Dave DuncanRemember this name: David Chandler. With Den of Thieves, the first book in his astounding fantasy series, The Ancient Blades Trilogy, Chandler immediately establishes himself as a major player...

"Two words on the cover--Fiona McIntosh--always let me know I'm in for a good read."Robin Hobb Fiona McIntosh is a new "Big Name" in Epic fantasy--and now she continues her remarkable Valisar Trilogy with Tyrant's Blood, a breathtaking tale of heritage, vengeance, and destiny...

"The Best of Everything is one of the best things you'll put on your shopping list this week." --Tennessee Tribune Readers who just can't get enough of the Reverend Curtis Black--the charming con man and insufferable womanizer who stars in Sin No More, The...

"Each story is uncommonly good. . . surprising, lively writing and believably human characters. . . . Banks has a terrific eye, mordant yet affectionate, for the bric-a-brac and the pathos of the American dream." -- Washington Post Book WorldIn this series of related...

On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she...

Raekon, Sovereign of Organic Earth, is informed of a problem within the barricaded region known as Thistlebriar-a place for those that choose to live violently. He and the World Assembly members are distraught on hearing an informer speak about the abuse and killings of...

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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...

Following Ports of Call, Myron Tany continues his picaresque wanderings as supercargo on the space freighter Glicca.Traveling world to world, Myron encounters unexpected delights and perils among the peculiar civilizations of the Gaean Reach, and among the pilgrims and mountebanks who take passage aboard...

Five thousand years in the future, life itself is in jeopardy!A rebellion of intelligent Cybernetic servants has left the Females of the galaxy virtually sterile, crippling the controlling political body - the Matriarchy. The race is on to find a solution, but will it...

In this new collection, Ben Bova has compiled fourteen of his favorite short stories. Each story includes an all-new introduction with compelling insight into the narrative.Exploring the boundaries of the genre, Bova not only writes of spaceships, aliens, and time travel in most of...

When a young woman is shipwrecked in the kingdom of the Blazing World, she befriends the natives, a highly intelligent and tolerant group of humanoid animals. With the help of the locals, the woman becomes the Empress of the island, and leads the Blazing...

A war is being fought in the higher dimensions of the Universe and the most important players are just waking up to their purpose. Cameron has been hearing the thoughts of everyone around him for as long as he can remember. A double edged...

Prepare for a full dive Despite their grueling battle and narrow victory over Oscillatory Universe, Nega Nebulus was unable to get any hard evidence of the connection between the White Legion and the Acceleration Research Society...or so they thought. Thanks to a key exchange...

Los Angeles is a teeming metropolis with a rotten core: Deep Maze, where the Thai-VI ghouls-the disease-spreading Spiders-roam. Here the all-powerful Ortegas rule over their empire of drugs, prostitution and black-market human organs "donated" by their helpless victims.All Aubry Knight, the former weightless boxing...

"The Fall of the House of Usher" is one of the best known short stories by famous American author, Edgar Allan Poe. Poe cemented the popularity of the short story genre in America with his grim and morbid tales and poems. In this are...

Glen Williamson delves deeply into Rudolf Steiner's mystery dramas, looking specifically at the main characters and the implications of their various spiritual destinies.Author: Glen WilliamsonISBN-10: 193868513XISBN-13: 9781938685132Publisher: Portal BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2016Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.70d

Harold Waterman isn't like other boys, but when a clutch of interfering angels decide he's going to be the Antichrist that's going a bit too far. Stricken with a terminal illness by the angel of pestilence, Harold summons a demon, and only then does...

Author: Charles WilliamsISBN-10: 1849028869ISBN-13: 9781849028868Publisher: Benediction BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/2009Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.42d

Author: Stewart WhiteISBN-10: 1849027668ISBN-13: 9781849027663Publisher: Benediction ClassicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/04/2010Pages: 264Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Nisi Shawl's steampunk-flavored alternate history of the "Belgian" Congo, Everfair, has taken the science fiction and fantasy world by storm. No surprise there. Their swift, sure, and savvy short stories had already established them as a cutting-edge Afrofuturist icon whose politically charged fiction is...

Frankenstein is a classic. Horror and mystery, wrapped up in the hubris of man taking on the role of God. Frankenstein also known as The Modern Prometheus, has something for everyone in that it's relatable and brings into play many emotion that are a...

First published in 1909, Forster's short science fiction work, "The Machine Stops," posits a technology-dependent humanity now living underground, its every need serviced by machines. But what happens if--or when--the machines stop? "The Machine Stops" was named one of the greatest science fiction novellas...

First published in 1888, "Looking Backward: 2000-1887" is the highly influential work of utopian science fiction by American journalist Edward Bellamy. In the years following the American Civil War a growth in inequality led to an increase in social and economic turmoil. The rise...

Throughout history, secret societies have played a crucial role in shaping events that have created our world. Only an inner circle of power elite know the full extent of the influence of the conspiracy.It is Paris, 1772, and Sigismundo Celine knows he is destined...

Roundworld, aka Earth, is under siege. Are three wizards and an orangutan Librarian enough to thwart the Elvish threat? When the wizards of Unseen University first created Roundworld, they were so concerned with discovering the rules of this new universe that they overlooked its...

A satire of epic proportions from the masters of comic fantasy Roger Zelazny and Robert Sheckley People feared, back in the Middle Ages, that the world would end with the millennium. They weren't wrong. It does this every millennium, only nobody notices--except for the...