Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Shortly before his death at a tragically young age, author Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was subsequently published as three separate novels: You Can't Go Home Again, The Hills Beyond, and The Web and the Rock.The Web and the...

"Beverly Jenkins has reached superstardom."--Detroit Free Press Beverly Jenkins enthralls romance readers once again with Midnight--a heart-soaring African American historical romance novel set during America's turbulent Revolutionary War. A story of passion and dangerous intrigue, Midnight unites a beautiful undercover spy--the notorious "Lady Midnight"...

"Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face" was the best advice Summer Zwolenick ever received from her father, though she didn't recognize it at the time. Three years after the accident that ended her career as a ballerina, she is back...

With sensitivity and grace, New York Times bestselling author Kimberla Lawson Roby addresses a very real and serious issue in an inspiring tale of one family's mission to shed light into the darkest corner of their lives.On the outside, twelve-year-old Jillian Maxwell is the...

Rue Shaw has everything--a much loved child, a solid marriage, and a job she loves. Saying Grace takes place in Rue's mid-life, when her daughter is leaving home, her parents are failing, her husband is restless and the school she has built is being...

Felix Gomez returned from the war in Iraq a changed man--once a soldier, now forever a vampire. So the undead underworld put his skills to work as a private detective, specializing in the sordid, the sexy, and the supernatural.After surviving aliens, nymphomaniacs, and x-rated...

For the sake of an imperiled kingdom, the line between "traitor"and "savior" must blur . . . and vanish.Though barely a teenager, Wyl Thirsk must now assume the role he has been destined for since birth: commander of the Morgravian army -- an awesome...

Loners. Introverts. Hermits. Labels attached to those willfully isolated individuals who prefer their own company to the companionship of others. Not all such lone wolf personalities are birthed, however; some are gradually created-molded over time, perhaps even forced into a solitary existence by circumstances...

Having wiped out every major city on the planet, the Kyra are herding survivors into safe zones where they have promised to re-establish order and provide the basic necessities. Fences are erected to keep out the failed hybrids, known as "Dregs". Meanwhile, the successful...

A collection of short horror stories: My Christmas Story The Boy Degenerate Devour Retaliation XXX app The EmbalmerAuthor: Rayne HavokISBN-10: 0998470120ISBN-13: 9780998470122Publisher: Rayne HavokLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/10/2022Pages: 358Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.80d

Jason Savage is a young, nonconformist college professor in the small town of Kingman in Upstate New York, and he has made an amazing discovery. The revelation of a global universal computer could change life for every person on earth. Never before has there...

Millennia ago, we lost Earth. Forgotten to time, and remembered only through tales of the three Masters. Leading a new breed into the future. Their followers and kin learn well from their history, enveloping themselves into their Masters' words and the lives they once...

The Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson's short novel, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) is a classic of Victorian gothic fiction. The story of an upstanding, educated gentleman who seeks to access his own dark sides and gets caught in...

Here is a whimsical account of a robin family that nested in her backyard. As you read this to your child, grandchild or neighbor, you will laugh at the antics of our fine feathered friends; be amazed at the vigor of the bird kingdom,...

The Orthians (more commonly called the "Grays") are a highly intelligent alien species. They work hard to ensure their designs, ships, and crews are always fit for interstellar travel. Only two days ago, the High Council of Sentients directed Commander Onhu Elau, the Grays'...

The first English-language publication of one of the greatest Polish science fiction novels of all time 'We have given you life ... so that you could discover a fraction of the great secret.' Is BER-66 a human or a robot? His controllers, known as...

Falken Calder dreams of becoming immortal.But as a mere scullery boy in service of the fabled Ardent Lunar Sect, his chances of rising through the ranks are slim. There is only one way he can take up the title of cultivator - to awaken...

Three full length novels in one omnibus volumeBook One: Serpent's Keep 'I bequeath to my nephew, Jacob Quigley, all that I own, all that I dream, and all that I am, in the hope that my life's quest will become his quest.' -- Last...

The mapping of the human genome yields the cure for the most dread disease of all, death...but that doesn't mean you can't be killed. Naturally, there is nothing more fleeting than a secret and soon information that could be used to duplicate the formula...

Everyone's afraid of something, but some are afraid of everything. Panoramica opens with the death of our terrified protagonist, who soon realizes the end of his life is only the beginning of his death. Eternity's secrets are revealed one by one as he races...

Experiment ThraeBy: David A. MellIn a human suspension unit awaits a man with knowledge of the past. He possesses abilities in all sciences, long been lost and soon will be reanimated and born to a second life. His voice and ideas have been silent...

"Buckle up--this is another crazy ride!" The Scrapyard Ship sci-fi "cliff-hanger" adventures continue with HAB 12, the second book in the series: Captain Jason Reynolds faces new challenges, not only on Earth but from the far side of the universe as well. The only...

Constituting the largest reference work on Doctor Who ever written, the six-volume About Time strives to become the ultimate reference guide to the world's longest-running science fiction program. Written by Lawrence Miles (Faction Paradox) and long-time sci-fi commentator Tat Wood, About Time focuses on...

A debut that Neil Gaiman calls "Glorious. . . . So sharp, so focused and so human." The Girl in the Road describes a future that is culturally lush and emotionally wrenching.Monica Byrne bursts on to the literary scene with an extraordinary vision of...

An Ambush of Shadows is the fifth book in the classic series of postapocalyptic novels about the people of Pelbar. Despite the tentative peace established in the eleven hundred years since the destruction of the United States, the Tantal tribe remains ready for battle....

More than one thousand years in the future, the conservative borders of Pelbar society continue to crumble as the people of Pelbar conduct trade, form friendships, and intermarry with members of the tribes now settled peacefully around the citadel of Northwall. Not all agree...

Eleven hundred years after the apocalyptic destruction of the United States of America, peace between the remaining warring tribes has finally been achieved. Despite this peace, the Pelbar stronghold Threerivers retains its secretive and reclusive ways, keeping its distance from the other remaining tribes...

Twenty years after the great battle at Northwall, the disparate warring tribes are moving toward a peaceful unity for the first time since before the Time of the Fire. With the comfort of peace, the running bands of nomadic Shumai Axemen are settling down...

Taken from an ancient text found abandoned in a cave, The Last Man ends in 2100, "the last year of the world." A devastating worldwide plague has annihilated all of humanity except for one man, who chronicles the world's demise. This novel of apocalyptic...

"If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth, and I, who alone chanced to find myself in the furthest stern, as the sole survivor of her crew . . . What then, my God, shall I do?"...

In our rapidly changing world of social media, everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into affinity groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic...

A fascinating examination of the fragile balance between consciousness, man and insect from one of the best-loved science fiction creators of all time. In an overpopulated world seeking living room in the jungles, the International Ecological Organization was systematically exterminating the voracious insects which...

"Delany has a grasp of the evolutionary nature of mythology, a subtle comic touch, and a lyric sense of the outsider making his unorthodox way in the world--or worlds--that give his work a dimension unusual..."Author: Samuel R. Delany, Stephen R. DelaneyISBN-10: 0743486617ISBN-13: 9780743486613Publisher: iBooksLanguage:...

This omnibus edition brings back into print three classic volumes of stories by Larry Niven and other acclaimed authors, all working within Niven's acclaimed "Magic" universe: THE MAGIC GOES AWAY; THE MAGIC MAY RETURN; and MORE MAGIC. This fantasy realm is the basis for...

Author: Piers AnthonyISBN-10: 0738806935ISBN-13: 9780738806938Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2000Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.57h x 5.57w x 0.81d

/Elizabeth Moon Two realms face an unstable change of rule: in Tsaia, a long Regency is nearly over, and in Lyonya, a dying king has no legitimate heir. The sword which could declare the rightful heir of Lyonya is lost, and Paksenarrion--now a paladin--swears...

If you have ever wondered if there was more to Red Dwarf than just a television series, then prepare to have your nipple nuts spun, because Total Immersion: The Comprehensive Unauthorized Red Dwarf Encyclopedia has got you covered The quintessential reference guides to the...

Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname "the...

In the shifting sands of the desert, near an unnamed metropolis, there is an institute where various fellows come to undertake projects of great significance. But when our sort-of hero, Percy Frobisher, arrives, surrounded by the simulated environment of the glass-enclosed dome of the...

"A genuine quest for the myths of the unconscious. [A work of] true power." -- Andrew Sinclair. An inmate sentenced to life at San Quentin escapes the horrors of his incarceration through astral travel in this boldly imaginative work by a master storyteller. Darrell...

"A Modern Utopia is one of H.G. Wells' explorations of social problems set in the form of a novel, but it is more a complex investigation of what might be than a mere fictional story. The unnamed narrator and a traveling companion find themselves...

Plato has preserved for us the history of Atlantis. If our views are correct, it is one of the most valuable records which have come down to us from antiquity. Plato lived 400 years before the birth of Christ. His ancestor, Solon, was the...

Roan Quigley is a down-and-out private eye in Los Angeles, eking out his meager existence by following cheating spouses and taking on the odd case. And there is no case odder than this... On a lazy day, with clients few and far between, a...

This is the complete WICK Omnibus Edition, and includes the completely re-edited and expanded text of Michael Bunker's four WICK series books. "...beautiful and haunting..." "...Tolstoyan, and beautiful..." "...positively anarchic..." "Michael Bunker goes way beyond writing a popular thriller: he clearly has a literary...

An ancient predator has been reborn in the caves beneath Crater Lake...and it's hungry. Ex-cop Henry Shore has been Chief Park Ranger at Crater Lake National Park for eight years and he likes his park and his life the way it's been. Safe. Tranquil....

The worlds of Robert F. Young are unlike any others, and they are all stamped with the hallmark of excellence that is distinctively his own. Some of these worlds are strange and alien, distant in time and space; some are as familiar as your...

Through a mishap in Professor Bulfinch's laboratory, Danny accidentally creates an anti-gravity paint. The natural use, of course, is for a spaceship -- the paint can replace rockets to get the ship into space. Unfortunately, the spaceship is launched prematurely after Danny and Joe...

Author: Jules VerneISBN-10: 1438537093ISBN-13: 9781438537092Publisher: Book JungleLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/04/2010Pages: 420Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.86d

This remarkable novel, the basis for the world's greatest science-fiction movie, has long been a rare but ardently sought-after collector's item. It is an unforgettable vision of the 21st century and the awe-inspiring city of the future. Metropolis has been compared to such classics...

This remarkable novel, the basis for the world's greatest science-fiction movie, has long been a rare but ardently sought-after collector's item. It is an unforgettable vision of the 21st century and the awe-inspiring city of the future. Metropolis has been compared to such classics...