Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Can a person be transformed by the power of love - even if they come from another planet? Jack Teufel arrives in a flash of light in the middle of a bitter Midwest winter. He comes, he insists, from "the Skein," a intelligent network...

Planet M1369X, known to its inhabitants at End of the Line, was settled by a band of escaped convicts. Now, three generations later, this backwater ball of rock and its two moons are at the center of a potential conflict between the human Federation...

Award winning collection of speculative fiction by E. A. GundlachAuthor: E. a. GundlachISBN-10: 0692297189ISBN-13: 9780692297186Publisher: Vos-BriarLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/02/2015Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Torrenth is a stormy, watery world, home to five billion humans crammed onto a tiny island landmass. Having long ago defeated all natural causes of death, the citizens are functionally immortal - which only exacerbates the massive stresses of overpopulation. Pontius has worked for...

Few things test a robot's metal like a nine-to-five. Meet Arty, PA 3025. Life isn't easy for an artificial, particularly for one in a lower income bracket. He's got bills to pay, bullies to avoid, a cat to feed, and a nasty case of...

Third Flatiron Anthologies presents Astronomical Odds A fresh selection of short SF/Fantasy/Horror/Humor stories with a mathematical twist. Contributors include Ken Altabef, Michelle Ann King, Edoardo Albert, John A. McColley, Jennifer R. Povey, James Aquilone, Martin Clark, Iain Ishbel, Garry McNulty, Nick Slosser, Benjamin T....

Hell is different for everyone For Aron Atherton, hell is a small tropical island with white sand beaches surrounded by the clear blue waters of the Indian Ocean. Trapped there after a massive solar storm killed his family and nearly wiped out the human...

Los Angeles, the not-so-distant future. Sunnier, smoggier, with toxic traffic. Roger Escobar signs up for a dating service conveniently located in downtown. They promise him the "dream date." Literally. Every Friday for the past few months he falls asleep at 10PM and has a...

Emmett Eisenberg, the master of atomic structures, and his old colleagues have reformed the Consortium of Trust - a secretive group of entrepreneurs and super-humans who strive to improve the lot of humanity. At its fifth yearly meeting, the group's head of security James...

The Rodeo of Doom is a wild romp through the year of our lord 2384, where Henry Fields is a down on his luck adjunct professor in the Architecture Department at Andreas Tangen University in Los Angeles; but he has one thing going for...

Rogue Spartan is a near-future dystopian science fiction thriller. It is a tale about seeking freedom in a world of oppression. Set in the near-future, Ben, an introverted and talented programmer, is thrust into a world he never knew existed when by chance he...

To walk forth through the horrors of Earth's demise is quite an experience, but to walk backwards through it is an entirely different journey in and of itself. As the United Federation goes to war with Greater China, a global collapse begins. The clock...

As a professor of physics at Catskill Community College, Emmett Eisenberg has a fairly pleasant life. His girlfriend, Dr. Maria Montclaire of the Psychology department, is quite the catch! His job pays well, and his reputation in his field is top-notch. He even has...

Sue and the other clones have settled into their lives after being released from the military base in California and relocating to new homes. They make new friends, stand out in their new jobs, and even start new families. DHS Director Ted Stevens continues...

Wilbur is a normal teenager living in a town outside of the Chicago Barrier. He is a student, has an internship at a human research facility, and loves his girlfriend, Babe. He also loves the taste of human meat, especially with a side of...

The year is 2209, and the hour has grown late for the human race.Famine and disease have drastically compounded the misery of a warming planet. With many billions scrambling after the Earth's depleted resources, a multinational agency known as The Authority has instituted a...

A gel-like substance mysteriously appears across the country. No one notices it at first. But then strange things begin to happen. DHS Director Ted Stevens is assigned to investigate. He enlists the help of scientists at a government laboratory to analyze the "goo". They...

Follow Jumah and Gimbobble as they attempt to locate the long-abandoned Dwarven city of Kalek'Tinal. Will an army of mechanical warriors keep them from their goal, or will the knowledge of the ancient Dwarves be restored to Kalijor once more? 100% of the author's...

In a world filled with many fanciful creatures, a young girl finds herself involved in an adventure beyond her wildest dreams. When her mother is kidnapped, she turns to her uncle for help. It is only then that she discovers the horrible truth: her...

In the year 2028, university professor John Cupar and his small research team have created Brenda and Steve, two human looking robots capable of both emotion and reasoning. Brenda lives with the professor's family and Steve lives with the professor's chief assistant. When the...

Undercover investigator Lydia Ellen Parsons hasn't been home to Shoreditch Plains in years-thirteen years, to be exact. But a mysterious and threatening note arrives along with the invitation to her sister's wedding, telling her that now might be the time to go home. Along...

A sleepy Colorado town harbors a deadly secret; ancient covens of vampires, battled by an unlikely hero-- a pizza delivery driver. Jack Holladay finds himself violently dragged into the world of the supernatural. He soon learns that things do go bump in the night,...

Vampire are about living forever, dying suddenly, discovering latent powers with age, and hiding truth through secrets marked by symbols only a chosen few have the means to contemplate without bias. A vampire's whole world is about understanding what mortals can not fathom, refuse...

The Seventh Wielder shows an alternate approach to vampires, magic and technology. An engineer finds himself amidst a political battle for the magical underworld of Los Angeles. With only his knowledge of science and social graces to see him through.Author: Ken DecoteauISBN-10: 0578001780ISBN-13: 9780578001784Publisher:...

In the undocumented bowels of America's greatest icons, a 400-year-old secret is waking up. The search for the Professor's hidden artifacts leads our group of friends deeper into an underworld created both to protect... and to destroy its founder. In a move to pressure...

In the undocumented bowels of America's greatest icons, a 400-year-old secret is waking up.The search for the Professor's hidden artifacts leads our group of friends deeper into an underworld created both to protect... and to destroy its founder. In a move to pressure the...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists returns with an intimate yet epic love story--and a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would...

Hawwah (Hah-Wah) Menewa (Men-Eh-Wah) knows what it means to experience life without limits. Her physical strength seems immeasurable. Virtually invulnerable to harm, she also possesses the ability to recover from any injury instantly. She can soar among the stars and travel across the cosmos...

Junior Reyes has always trusted systems-until reality itself begins to break. Across New York City, subtle anomalies ripple through the grid: patterns that do not belong, signals that do not follow any known law. What begins as a technical irregularity evolves into something far...

It begins with a simple assignment.A group of college students is asked to solve a problem. It's something to complete, submit, and forget, but as they work, they begin to notice a pattern they cannot explain. At first, it looks like coincidence. Then it...

Dr. Elijah Carter was never supposed to survive. A brilliant scientist at the center of Frostgate's most ambitious cryogenic research program, Elijah is betrayed by the very system he helped build. What should have killed him instead transforms him into something the city cannot...

Set in the future, Samantha (Sam) becomes Prime Minister of England and discovers something that will change the world. The future has women in power and men are subservient; women dominate education, health, the judiciary and politics. In a series of events, men begin...

To pull up a seat at the game of life, one must strive to learn the rules.A challenge comes to those in learning: Everyone's rules are different.Briyan's life is beautiful. A tower, where the Natural Philosophy of alchemy is studied; a palace, which houses...

"A speculative fiction masterwork" -BlueInk Review, starred reviewThe Planetary Tribunal is a novel of ideas-fierce in argument, unsparing in judgment, and sweeping in scope. It stands in the tradition of The Brothers Karamazov's moral confrontation, Atlas Shrugged's civilizational reach, The Deluge's ecological reckoning.In a...

"Chait Mait" is a completely fictional science-fantasy narrative that explores the collision between human civilization and a mysterious micro-species. The Chait Mait are small-statured beings possessing intelligence and physical abilities far superior to humans. Their bodies can blend into surrounding colors like a chameleon....

When I couldn't make my dreams into reality, I found other dreams. -The Cistern Chronicles, Chapter 15, Verse 20In 4th-century Rome, Cassandra leaves behind a common life to become a skeptical, pragmatic counselor to Emperor Constantine. Karen, a physician from a lowly background, fights...

Unlock the Hidden Secrets of Human CivilizationWhat if the greatest achievements of ancient civilizations were not created by humans alone? Gods From the Stars presents a bold, thought-provoking exploration into the possibility that advanced extraterrestrial beings influenced early human history.From the towering pyramids of...

STABILITY IS PEACE. PEACE IS FREEDOM. FREEDOM IS CORA.Senator Marcus Vale has built his career on trust - trust in the President's council, and trust in CORA, the all-encompassing AI system that monitors the nation and reports its every truth. His job is simple:...

Tasked with mapping the coastlines centuries after the Great Cataclysm, cartographer Jonathan Greenleaf is thrown into a series of strange encounters that leave him marooned with the greatest treasure left in the sea. Meanwhile, the ruthless pirate Javier Ortega will stop at nothing to...

He hears voices.The authorities don't think he's mentally unwell enough. So, he does a stunt that gets him sectioned.Inside, he sees beings others can't see.Right before discharge, he gets an operation on his chemical imbalance.After the operation, he has the highest IQ any human...

Adam Barclay, a scientist and veterinarian, is sure that he has found a way to make mankind and animals 15 times stronger and more intelligent. His dream to unite mankind and animals to live in harmony looks like it may come true because he's...

Jal, a new graduate of marine science, is taking a vacation cruise. The ship sinks in a sudden storm. She is saved and taken to the watery depths by two dolphins who bring her to an underwater city peopled mostly by survivors of plane...

TIME IS RUNNING OUT. In the final book of The Icarus Code, Mars is one giant step closer to life outside the domes, but the fate of both worlds lies in the hands of Tobias Shepherd, a disillusioned cult leader. He thinks Earth is...

Classic speculative fiction with a comedic approachConjuring worlds in which robots are kings and Earthlings exist on the fringes of the universe, Stanislaw Lem's anachronistic fairy tales and science fiction parables envision knights who fight for the favor of a mechanical princess, a computer...

Founder of A.A.H.TWhen Alden Goldstein set off on his journey through life, even with all that he perceived about the workings of people, he could not have known what kind of world his innovations would ultimately bring about.But he must have understood, given the...

Creature with the Atom Brain tells the story of a gangster who joins forces with a mad scientist to get even with the men who sent him to jail by using dead men revived with atom rays. The book is based on the classic...

They were here one moment and gone the next, swallowed by the unforgiving silence that follows a vanishing, leaving behind only the echo of footsteps that lead to nowhere, the half-empty coffee cups cooling on kitchen tables, the faint scent of perfume or cologne...

America is falling apart as the weaponized virus continues to rage unchecked through the country. The governments in most cities have disintegrated, and the zombie-like infected are just one threat among many as citizens have to deal with roving gangs, power outages, and food...

'Micromégas' is a pioneering sci-fi novella by Voltaire, portraying a tale of cosmic exploration and philosophical satire. The story follows Micromégas, a giant from a planet orbiting Sirius, and his journey across the universe, culminating in a visit to Earth. Alongside a companion from...

Mankind finds itself in a fight for its very survival when invaders from Mars land on Earth. Using their vastly superior technology the Martians make short order of all the great powers of Earth laying waste to everything in their path. The novel follows...