Fiction - Science Fiction - General

The object arrived without warning, tearing a spiral path of devastation across the rural landscape. After the explotion, searchers sifted through the immense pile of debris ... to discover a fantastically instrumented capsule, and a strangely human pilot, stone dead. Bowden Karvel's theory, that...

The Maltese Falcon has always been a cinematic personal favorite as has the literary tradition of the hard-boiled detective genre. While researching for an attempted sequel to a classic horror novel, the idea of mixing the two styles as homage became irresistible. Lloyd Brick...

MR. JOHN VYNER, ship-owner, pushed his chair back from his writing-table and gazed with kindly condescension at the chief clerk as he stood before it with a handful of papers. "We shall be able to relieve you of some of your work soon, Hartley,"...

Plain Jane is the story of a forty something wife and mother who has kept a secret from her family for almost seven years. Jane has forever considered herself to be plain. Her BFF Gaby is the exact opposite. Following a night of countless...

It is 2065, and a year has passed since the people of Earth formally established relations with several extraterrestrial races. Appearances suggest that a new age of peace, economic prosperity, and enlightenment has begun. One group of aliens in particular, the Greys, are an...

Excerpt: ...the ideas which filled my mind. Galileo and Columbus,Author: Anthony TrollopeISBN-10: 1480294411ISBN-13: 9781480294417Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2012Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

How would you react to the sudden realization of where death might actually lead? At fifty-nine, George Harvey, a retired teacher, makes just this discovery-and his life changes in ways he could never have imagined. George finds himself propelled on a headlong journey to...

Taking on the cherished principle that community colleges should be open to all students with a high school education, Scherer and Anson argue that open access policies and lenient federal financial aid laws harm students and present the case for raising the minimum requirements...

Continue the adventure with "Their Island Home: The Later Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson," a thrilling tale of survival and ingenuity by Jules Verne. This classic work of adventure literature revisits the resourceful Swiss family as they continue to build their lives on...

Embark on a thrilling adventure with Jules Verne's classic, "Around the World in 80 Days." This timeless tale of circumnavigation captures the spirit of the Victorian era, blending travel and adventure in a captivating voyage. Follow Phileas Fogg as he races against time, traversing...

Venture into the eerie unknown with William Hope Hodgson's "The House on the Borderland," a chilling masterpiece that blends science fiction, horror, and gothic sensibilities. This haunting tale invites you to explore the terrifying mysteries lurking within a desolate house. Hodgson masterfully crafts a...

The Traveler's Guide to the Multiverse is an illustrated novella giving backstory to all of the art featured in "The Voyage," a gallery show and multimedia event showcasing the art of Micah Pearson. The book features all 25 pieces of art from the show,...

The Dean of Science Fiction, Murray Leinster, offers you boundless adventure on a barbaric world lost in the deeps of space, crowded with giant menacing life-forms. Think you've seen about everything now that THE THING has reached the screen? Wait'll you read about "The...

Welcome to Video Noir, the next-generation, video-sharing Web site where dreams (and nightmares) come to life with hyper-realism. Just released to the world, Video Noir lets you experience video like nothing you've ever seen before and nothing you could ever imagine. It quite literally...

Author: Douglas ThompsonISBN-10: 3945795850ISBN-13: 9783945795859Publisher: Zagava BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2020Pages: 342Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.11lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d

"They were here before us. The truth is no longer hidden - just erased."When journalist Evan Richards receives a package containing a cryptic audio tape and a single redacted file, he's drawn into the unraveling legacy of Dr. Samuel Price - a physicist who...

The fear of artificial intelligence grips the world as technology grows as people wonder if humankind will lose control of a program that gains intelligence. Is it possible for the technology to become so independent it decides the human race is not worthy of...

Embark on a linguistic journey beyond the stars with "Learn French with Science Fiction," a unique A1 reader designed for beginners eager to enhance their French skills through the captivating realm of science fiction. This innovative book merges language learning with the intrigue of...

G. O. Clark takes on the future in this riveting collection of poetic observations about life, the Universe, and everything else. He takes you up mountains and down valleys, and always makes you wonder about what's happening and what will happen (if we aren't...

Author: Michael SharpeISBN-10: 1967685002ISBN-13: 9781967685004Publisher: Alluvion GamesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2025Pages: 312Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.26lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Karin, aged 14, is a geeky, clumsy girl with delusions of joining the cheerleading squad. Kala, aged 12, is a catgirl from the planet Arkaynia. Kala is a Vanguard. Vanguards belong to a mystical order called the Vanguards of the Universe, whose stated goal...

Imagine a world where everyone is so obsessed with success that they throw away traditions that bring us together, and neglect any creative or playful yearnings from within. Even all the world's toys are tossed in favor of screens for entertainment. Efficiency and looking...

Two hundred years after the apocalyptic event known as The Flare, the United States has since separated into three warring nations: the Proud Commonwealth of America (PCA), Neo Confederacy of America (NCA), and United Federation of America (UFA). In this socialist society, born from...

When Death comes, say hello. Welcome Death in. Set Death a place. Your body is not you, it is what holds you. You are star stuff, you are carbon and calcium and creation. You are water, wiles, and wishing. Say hello and blow a...

For lovers of Stephen Graham Jones, Jeff VanderMeer, and Nick Cutter, Willow Rose is a compulsively readable, literary ode to the terror of the unknown that comes for all of us in the depths of night.A knock on the cabin door on indigenous land...

For lovers of Stephen Graham Jones, Jeff VanderMeer, and Nick Cutter, Willow Rose is a compulsively readable, literary ode to the terror of the unknown that comes for all of us in the depths of night.A knock on the cabin door on indigenous land...

Time-worn and battle-hard without, butter-soft and full of life within.A thousand birds voice wisdom, as we run against the wind.Neil had always felt his life was meant to be something more than it had become. He had his beautiful children, his home, and his...

When a mysterious tear in the fabric of space-time propels the state-of-the-art spacecraft The Ark into realms where the laws of physics-and morality-are rewritten, its diverse crew is forced to confront challenges that stretch the limits of human endurance and spirit. Led by the...

Unleash your imagination with ""Dawn of the Demi-Gods,"" a captivating science fiction novel by Z. Gallun that has finally returned to the literary landscape after decades of being out of print. This epic sci-fi adventure invites you to explore a universe where the boundaries...

Some families we choose, some battles we can't avoid, some lines we must cross together.A bomb at the airport.A mysterious disappearance.A family pushing boundaries.Three years after finding refuge in near-future Montreal, Laek and Janie prepare to expand their unconventional family. But when their friend...

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination.Author: Jv Editors,Charlotte...

Ko-e has been secretly building her own army outside of P.E.D for years. While at the same time, hiding from Amana, her sister. But the time has come where she can no longer hide. Adem McCloud is a young boy, who is about to...

Bifrost The psychiatrist Cam Bingen comes to arctic Bifrost to learn the new methods of actinotherapy using light. At the Photinic Clinic, he is assigned the hotel singer of folksongs Sunda Vipur as his first patient. She is madly pursued by a spoiled playboy...

LADY OF A THOUSAND SORROWS I can remember the blood and roses and the sounds of sirens... And how Jason three years before had said to me: "I am going to be killed. They are going to shoot me down in public some day.""No,"...

THE SPREADWalter is the New York publisher of a sex magazine called The Spread. He sells about 100,000 copies an issue. This glossy, pornographic weekly provides him a platform to work out his fantasies while fulfilling the dubious needs of his readers. The way...

This is a brand new edition of the prescient, near-future thriller. Written in a slashing, evocative style, End Time has received rave reviews in underground and small press circles. Is it just sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll in the year 2007? Hardly!War and...

An old man walks along deserted railway tracks, long since unused and overgrown; beside him a young, feral boy helps him along. It has been 60 years since the great Red Death wiped out mankind, and the handful of survivors from all walks of...

Reality(TM) 2048, by Derek Cressman, is a finalist in the Foreword Indies Book of the Year awards for science fiction, a First Horizon finalist for new novelists from the Eric Hoffer Book Awards, and an award finalist in both the science fiction and visionary...

Asahi has suddenly quit his job and has pursued his job in finishing off his VR project. When the artist of his game is found dead in her apartment, he is left with nothing but questions about what may have happened during the duel...

WatchDogs: Abnormal Beginnings Book 1By: Mike L. JuniorThe Apocalypse has come and gone. 99% of the world's population has died. The survivors regroup in Georgia but as the years become decades, the people become less united by tragedy and more divided by self-interests. Those...

While most people credit The Jungle for exposing the horrible, unsanitary practices of America's meat-packing industry at the turn of the 19th century, the story spends far more time on the slum conditions and employer abuses heaped upon the immigrants who worked in the...

There's a pig man at your window, and he's hungry. This is the world of Imago. Something has gone very wrong with this world. Changed freaks, victims of the Human Mutational Virus, roam California's streets. DisLex, the entertainment utility, monitors everyone's lives; yet few...

If emancipation is essential for a child's independence, why do we hold on to our heavenly parents, our gods, even when drawing our last breath? Nothing is left to faith in a world where Man can converse with the gods through prayer. And even...

"What you are about to read deals with the stars, the wide galactic future that lies at our fingertips today... both factual articles and fictional stories. In a world where robots are causing human unemployment, spaceflight is so commonplace the news media regard it...

This book tells the tale of a twelve-year-old girl doing her best in desperate circumstances, including abandonment by both a well-meaning but drug-using father and a promiscuous mother. She experiences a lot of stress, including forced residential treatment from which she escapes to travel...

"I hope, or I could not live." --- H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr. Moreau The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, who called it "an exercise in youthful blasphemy". The text of the novel is...

Author: Sam WilsonISBN-10: 1409199193ISBN-13: 9781409199199Publisher: OrionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2025Pages: 496Format: Paperback

A powerful wizard named Terek believes it is his destiny to rule the land. To fulfill that destiny he raises an army and subjugates a dragon to his will. He will let nothing stand in his way. Legendary heroes, who are neither alive, nor...

Delve into the chilling world of Fritz Leiber's "Conjure Wife," a classic tale where horror and science fiction intertwine with the unsettling realities of marriage. This meticulously prepared print edition resurrects a timeless story exploring the supernatural forces at play beneath the surface of...

"Oh, To the Days of Timely Yore....," "All they ever wanted were the dreams to live forever...., For the generous good story of four genius immortal friends, on the journeys of a lifetime...., As they travel across periods, the Renaissance, and the Industrial Period,...