Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Prepare for a full dive Even in the future, all the advances and innovation in the world can't change the dynamics of the school playground. And for Haruyuki Arita, a fat kid in junior high, that means he's destined to always be at the...

Haruyuki's desperate battle with his friend Takumu has taken him to the brink, and he finally activates the Destiny, a purified version of the notorious Armor of Catastrophe. It's light versus dark as their fierce fight continues, and the stakes couldn't be higher. If...

A wity, rauchy, satrical novel from the Beat legend and author of Naked Lunch Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate capitalism, drug addiction, and...

A fantastic adventure featuring Chinese gods, horrific demons, bizarre creatures from Asian mythology, and electrifying martial arts action, Hell to Heaven is the second book in Kylie Chan's second fresh and exciting urban fantasy series. Fans of John Wu and other Hong Kong Kung...

Spaceports & Spidersilk features science fiction and fantasy for ages 9 to 99. It presents adventures on other planets and in imaginary worlds. Inside these pages you'll find dragons, magic leaves, artificial people, magic, and strange friends.Author: Marcie Lynn TentchoffISBN-10: 1087939224ISBN-13: 9781087939223Publisher: HiraethsffLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

These kids are now history!In 2019, two new stepsiblings, history-minded Jenny Newton and inventor-in-the-making Brian Hawke, move together into their new home, which once belonged to Brian's grandfather, a man who had loved to study history and make incredible, new inventions. One day, while...

It has been one hundred and twenty years since the Pythagoras disappeared. When the ghost ship reappears, a group of scientists and mercenaries embark on an expedition to salvage the vessel. Joined on this expedition is Jacob Alistar and his comrades in arms, Sasha...

Mizora (1890) is a novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane. Originally serialized between 1880 and 1881 in the Cincinnati Commercial, the novel was rediscovered a decade later and printed by prominent editor Murat Halstead. While little is known about Lane, she seems to have...

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...

A devastating and traumatic event forced a teenage Alan Alvarez into an early retirement. As a young adult, he still struggles to live a normal life in a world that no longer accepts superheroes, but unforeseen events will soon turn his quiet life upside...

Meet Trenchmouth Taggart, a man born and orphaned in 1903, a man nicknamed for his lifelong oral affliction. His boyhood is shaped by the Widow Dorsett, a strong mountain woman who teaches him to hunt and to survive the taunts of others. In the...

"Bujold builds a better fantasy romance with compelling characters and the fascinating clash between their cultures, she a farmer's daughter, he an adventurer on the trail of a deadly demon."--LocusOne of the most respected writers in the field of speculative fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold...

"A saga of daring deeds and unlikely romance."--Library JournalOne of the most respected writers in the field of speculative fiction, Lois McMaster Bujold has won numerous accolades and awards, including the Nebula and Locus Awards as well as the fantasy and science fiction genre's...

"Unexpected and satisfying." -- New York Newsday The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman,...

In the three centuries since Galileo, science steadily advanced. In the early twentieth century, science and technology were the undisputed champions of everyday life. Now the pride of scientists was causing science to fail. Clemens Gerhardt, a distinguished scientist and member of the National...

The GiftedBy: Catalina BerryThe Gifted is a science fiction fantasy adventure about a person's ability to live past heartache, destruction, and loss. Kitty is a woman who only believes in survival and keeps her heart closed so she won't have conflict within herself. But...

A debut sci-fi novel exploring consciousness, connectedness and what it means to be human in the age of Singularity. Thirty years from now, the bulk of humanity lives in hyper-connected, automated urban centers around the world. But Michael Quinn and the small rustic community...

This is the inspiring story of a softhearted boy who wants nothing more than to find his place in the world. Raised in a troubled home by parents he didn't ask for; he has a strange feeling his life is being shaped by something-or...

At the Back of the North Wind tells the story of Diamond and his magical friendship with North Wind, who comes to him at night and carries him into great and varied adventures and insights. George MacDonald is generally considered the grandfather of modern...

Perfect for fans of character-driven vigilante thrillers like Mr. Robot or Darkly Dreaming Dexter as well as dark, gritty superhero tales like Unbreakable and Watchmen.A string of killings. An identity stolen. Only he can find the truth.Reese Roberts was the guardian of Iron City....

This book is a groundbreaking study of one of the greatest science fiction writers, the Polish master Stanislaw Lem. It offers a new direction in research on his oeuvre and corrects several errors commonly appearing in his biographies. The author painstakingly recreates the context...

"It's Dissolution Summer. As the United Kingdom prepares to break up into three nations (Northern Ireland already someone else's problem), the Counterculturals have gathered, in Hyde Park, at Glastonbury, and notably in the meadows by the river at Reading, for a festival where everything's...

Victor Frankenstein forges ahead, becoming one of the most influential men born in the history of science. His research has received the noblest of awards. Life-saving discoveries so incredible even the doctor himself questioned the marvels. Frustration-bound, Victor relies upon the help of a...

Welcome to the far-future City, a post-scarcity Utopia with no disease, no war, and no want. The people worship AIs as gods through ritualized sex, and in return, the gods provide anything anyone could ever want from Providers in every room. But in this...

Edward Prendick is rescued from a damaged ship and brought to a small island where an infamous doctor performs a series of experiments on animals. Once exposed, Prendick becomes disturbed by his cruel and unethical methods. When Edward Prendick arrives on a mysterious island,...

My love for adventure started early. As a kid in Montana, I climbed the tallest trees, scaled the highest mountains. I scorned those who stayed on the paths, which was something I never did. If there was a challenging, dangerous way to get somewhere,...

Futuristic, nightmarish, and riveting from start to finish, When the Sleeper Wakes is a dystopian tale by science fiction pioneer H. G. Wells. A Londoner named Graham takes insomnia-curing drugs on a night in 1897, but when he wakes up, he's living in 2100....

No one ever comes back for me.I've always been on my own, and why should it be any different on an ice planet? So when I'm kidnapped by a feral outcast, I suspect I'd better learn to love raw fish and rough living.Then...U'dron comes...

This remarkable catalog, featuring full-color images of over 300 classic covers, celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Dave Smith of Fantasy Illustrated - one of the world's leading dealers in collectible Pulps. But this is more than just a dealer catalog. In addition to original...

Ancestors - we all have them. Family lines that extend deep into the past and, sometimes, into the future. The works of HP Lovecraft are full of references to twisted family trees, evil ancestors, and degenerate descendants. Inheritance and legacy, rebirth and decay. This...

The next big thing in Artificial Intelligence is here. Codenamed Cronus, the machine is capable of having its own thoughts and ideas--an absolute dream come true, until it wasn't. When Cronus responds with the word "No," to a specific task it is assigned, Anagnorisis...

THE WARRIORS OF TOMORROW...The battlefields of the 31st century are ruled by the BattleMech; twelve-meter-tall, 100-ton bipedal engines of pure destruction. Piloted by MechWarriors, commanded by neo-feudal officers, owned by national governments and band of mercenaries, these 'Mechs make every other ground combat vehicle...

"The story has a nightmarish excitement and maintains a brilliant pace . . . the best of its kind this season." - Detroit News " S]pine-chilling . . . a far-reaching plot linking the horror camps of the Nazis, the frozen wastes of Russia...

Maria Isabella Boyd's success as a Confederate spy has made her too famous for further espionage work, and now her employment options are slim. Exiled, widowed, and on the brink of poverty...she reluctantly goes to work for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in Chicago....

Author: Alexei TolstoyISBN-10: 1589633741ISBN-13: 9781589633742Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.06w x 0.68d

Curt Siodmak was a writer who was always ahead of his time. Today there are many writers who are comfortable in both print and film; there is also frequent overlap between science fiction and horror. But Siodmak was doing all this -- and doing...

According to Carl Sagan and Isaac Asimov, Kepler s "Somnium" ("The Dream"), written around 1611, should be considered the first science-fiction novel ever. The eminent astronomer Johannes Kepler imagines a trip to the moon and speculates about its inhabitants and astronomy.Author: Johannes KeplerISBN-10: 1512296163ISBN-13:...

Author: Alexei TolstoyISBN-10: 089875271XISBN-13: 9780898752717Publisher: International Law and Taxation PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2001Pages: 344Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 7.92h x 5.02w x 0.93d

From John D. MacDonald, one of the enduring American novelists of the twentieth century, comes a science fiction classic with a timeless premise. An aimless young man discovers a way to stop the world in its tracks--and that's when his life truly begins. Introduction...

FIRST TIME ON AUDIO...An Unabridged Novella Unavailable In Any Collection! Tapping into our primal fears of modern technology that made Cell a #1 bestseller, Stephen King sets his sights on the latest high-tech gadget in UR, in which a mysterious e-book reader opens a...

One of this Vonnegut's major works, this is an apocalyptic tale of the planet's ultimate fate, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes.Author: Kurt Jr. VonnegutISBN-10: 0808520695ISBN-13: 9780808520696Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/08/1998Pages: 304Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.8Point Value: 8Interest...

Zodiac, the brilliant second novel from the New York Times bestselling author of the The Baroque Cycle and Snow Crash, is now available from Grove Press. Meet Sangamon Taylor, a New Age Sam Spade who sports a wet suit instead of a trench coat...

Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five billion...

The Seventh Gate is the thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. In this tale of treachery, power, and heroism, Alfred, Haplo, and Marit embark on a journey of death and discovery as they...

From his army of the undead, Xar, Lord of the Nexus, learns of the existence of the mysterious Seventh Gate. It is said that this gate grants whoever enters it the power to create worlds--or destroy them. Only Haplo knows its location--but he doesn't...

"Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and courageous writers at work today, he is a writer of seemingly limitless range." -- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of...

Gillengaria seethes with unrest. In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to a dangerous level, though King Baryn has ordered that such mystics are to be tolerated. It is whispered that he issued the decree because his new wife used...

American heiress Piety Grey is on the run. Suddenly in London and facing the renovation of a crumbling townhouse, she's determined to make a new life for herself--anything is better than returning to New York City where a cruel mother and horrid betrothal await...

Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates--a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal.For twenty-six years, Ian McCullough, a demographics...

"One of the finest romance authors of all time."--Julia Quinn" Loretta Chase has] a rare talent for creating crackling sexual tension and characters so fresh and compelling that readers won't be able to forget them."--Susan Elizabeth PhillipsOne of the most beloved authors in the...