Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Path to Justice exposes the harsh realities and sacrifices necessary to build a case against a ruthless drug cartel, the Baja Norte Familia. Insights andstrategies for conducting a complex international investigation and for trying a drug distribution, money laundering, and murder conspiracy case in...

It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates...

Here is a story of innocence, admiration, compassion, and true friendship. Aliens from a distant solar system have taken an unprecedented journey to our world, Earth on a mission of discovery and unacquainted challenges. Two alien beings specifically chosen for this mission each possess...

Imagine the future. Not the flossy-glossy one that feels like riding a Tesla driven by a coked out Ayn Rand. No. Imagine instead... a future somewhere between a white cishet libertarian's wet dream with sexbots and a nightmare Greta Thunberg had during a nap...

"Rare Storytelling...demands to be read at one sitting." - Chicago Sun-Times "Nobody does it better than Niven and Pournelle." -Tom Clancy "Exciting, swift and suspenseful." - Theodore Sturgeon In a dystopian future, where pollution and violenAuthor: Larry Niven, Jerry PournelleISBN-10: 1649730519ISBN-13: 9781649730510Publisher: Phoenix PickLanguage:...

After an esteemed mechatronics professor is mysteriously murdered in his own laboratory, the Istanbul police sets out to find out who -- or what -- could have inflicted such gruesome damage on a human being. But Azar, the professor's daughter, seeks answers of her...

Club Ded is an exhilarating psychedelic-noir, the second novel from Nikhil Singh, author of Taty Went West, which was shortlisted for Best African Novel at the inaugural Nommo Awards.Club Ded is shortlisted for Best Novel and Best Artwork at the BSFA Awards. Shortlisted for...

Club Ded is an exhilarating psychedelic-noir, the second novel from Nikhil Singh, author of Taty Went West, which was shortlisted for Best African Novel at the inaugural Nommo Awards.Club Ded is shortlisted for Best Novel and Best Artwork at the BSFA Awards. Shortlisted for...

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...

An invisible force is beating citizens in Eneres. No one knows why. Chief Wen of Harmony Services blames the Lumenians. President Bartle directs his advisor, Raekon, to hire the legacy Earth rescue five to investigate. Nolan takes the lead to solve the case. With...

Although fifteen-year-old Grummpess Mummpiss has been living with facial disfigurements all his life, he has no idea that he is about to transform into a monster capable of much more than he ever imagined. When the dots on the keloids on his face begin...

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay was first published in 1920. It combines fantasy, philosophy, and science fiction in an exploration of the nature of good and evil and their relationship with existence.Author: David LindsayISBN-10: 1782012532ISBN-13: 9781782012535Publisher: EvertypeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/2020Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.03lbsSize:...

Really, how can human beings ever hope for transcendence while still attached to physical bodies, unsightly paraphernalia hindered by illnesses, old age, economic requirements and the rest. How much better if the best of us, you and me, were transposed into everlasting equipment able...

Charlie and Dmitry are as different as can be. But when they meet in the mental hospital, it is their differences that make them fall in love. What role does the mysterious Eternal Boxer play in their fateful connection? LOVE PEOPLE is a brilliant...

This initiative by Bards and Sages Publishing seeks to highlight the best stories being produced both by independent authors and our fellow small press publishers. We hope to bring readers an annual celebration of the amazing work being produced in the indie publishing community....

A transformative science fiction and horror novella about acceptance, reflection, and revenge. Jeff Pritchet isn't much different from other teenage boys, with one exception. His monstrous, spider-like appearance and loner persona make him a target for bullying, when all he wants is a friend...

The Prelude: the book itself introduces a series of books that will take the reader into a voyage of strange ideas and concepts. Opening the reader's imagination along a path set throughout this story. This journey begins with Simon, one of many complex characters...

Lilly read the largest pre-Columbian empire on Earth was destroyed by the Spaniards' smallpox, horses, and guns. As the Spaniards took over the Incas' mines they increased the silver and its dust making them the first massive toxic-air polluters on Earth. Lilly decided to...

An in-depth history of science, primarily covering the 1930s, from Superman to Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker. The book examines science fiction literature, art, cinema, and comics, and the impact of culture, philosophy, science, technology, and futures studies on the development of science fiction. Further,...

A young, married couple with no skills and trouble making ends meet on overcrowded Earth takes up an offer to travel to Mars and work there, Luis Bellandia in the mines, and Jo Anne as a cleaning woman and kitchen helper. Two months out...

Yori Kashimoto, child of the generational Starship Galatea, is banished from the only known community of rational beings in the cosmos. No one knows what happened to the home planet Ulro, but technology has saved a remnant of humanity that now faces the question...

Take an amazing ride with nine amazing authors as they add a funky twist to the Dieselpunk genre. The Dieselfunk! anthology fills a void common in most speculative fiction genres, providing a much needed voice from an African/African Diaspora perspective. Dieselpunk just got funky!...

A Note to the Reader, "Are you aware of the consequences that will most certainly occur should your unraveling come up with the 'truth'? What will change in your life when you discover that what you learned, even as a youth, was a lie?...

Set in 2126, The Mummy!: A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century explores a society led by advanced technology but driven by ego, greed and self-preservation. It's a vivid clash of genres featuring an old tale with a new twist. In the distant future, society...

Not so long ago, the world made sense to Leo Harr. That was until a recurring nightmare began consuming his life. Seeking answers, he finds himself trapped in a war that defies his understanding of reality. Tasked with an impossibility, he begins to question...

Secure. Contain. Protect.The SCP Foundation strives to contain, study, understand, and if necessary, neutralize the world's anomalies, be they creatures, people, objects, places, or concepts.Inside is a collection of three SCP stories dealing with different types of feelings, from feelings of toxicity and love,...

Most people in this world seem to live "in character"; they have a beginning, a middle and an end, and the three are congruous one with another and true to the rules of their type. You can speak of them as being of this...

Before we were all connected, before we were The Hive, there was individualism, privacy, 'personal space' . . . so quaint, so unnecessary . . . so dangerous . . . TOMMY PIERRE ANTIKAGAMAC, a star quarterback, is the most followed player in the...

True History (2nd century C.E.) is a satirical novel by Lucian. Written in ancient Greek, True History is thought to be the first work of science fiction in all of Western literature. Intended as a criticism of the unbelievable scenarios populating ancient fiction, True...

After eleven hundred years of struggle, the warring tribes that survived the apocalyptic destruction of the United States have finally united, forming the peaceful Heart River Federation. But three eastern cities remain outside the federation. Led by Innanigani forces, these last rogue tribes seek...

"The female of the species vanished on the afternoon of the second Tuesday of February at four minutes and fifty-two seconds past four o'clock, Eastern Standard Time. The event occurred universally at the same instant, without regard to time belts, and was followed by...

"From nearly two hundred centres, and every week added to their number, roared the unquenchable crimson conflagrations of the atomic bombs. The flimsy fabric of the world's credit had vanished, industry was completed disorganised, and every city, every thickly populated area was starving or...

From the "wickedly talented" (Boston Globe) and "darkly funny" (New York Times Book Review) Ryan Boudinot, Blueprints of the Afterlife is a tour de force. It is the Afterlife. The end of the world is a distant, distorted memory called "the Age of F***ed...

I received William Burroughs's seminal (in more sense than one ) novel Naked Lunch as a form prize when I was fifteen. I read it with a distinct sense of horripilation, as if the vile secretions it described might ooze through the pages and...

Bestselling, award-winning futurist David Brin returns to globe-spanning, high concept SF with Existence. Gerald Livingston is an orbital garbage collector. For a hundred years, people have been abandoning things in space, and someone has to clean it up. But there's something spinning a little...

With a new introduction by author Robert Silverberg, and the first-ever map of Borthan, this classic sci-fi novel A Time of Changes, out of print since 1992, will delight fans of dystopian fiction In the far future, Earth is a worn-out backwater and humanity...

At the end of a bloody thousand-year war against an invincible enemy, an uneasy peace has finally been achieved between humans and the dreaded cyborg warriors of the Cylon Empire. But peace soon turns to bloodshed when the Cylons launch an unexpected attack against...

'Clarke is one of the greatest imaginative writers of hard science fiction' New Scientist 'Arthur Clarke is one of the true geniuses of our time' Ray Bradbury 'Arthur C. Clarke is the prophet of the space age' The Times 'A one-man literary Big Bang,...

Author: Piers AnthonyISBN-10: 0738806951ISBN-13: 9780738806952Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2000Pages: 392Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.13lbsSize: 8.54h x 5.44w x 0.95dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level: 5.7Point Value: 14Interest Level: Upper GradeQuiz #/Name: 10865 / Mercycle

Alfred Bester's first science fiction novel since The Stars My Destination was a major event-a fast-moving adventure story set in Earth's future. A band of immortal-as charming a bunch of eccentrics as you'll ever come across-recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya...

Sword & Sonnet contains twenty-three fantasy and science fiction stories featuring battle poets. Witch queen poets, bone poets, hacker poets, dinosaur-riding poets, spaceship-eating poets, wuxia poets, stormbringer poets, lightning-axe-wielding soldier poets. These poets won't rest until their words have transformed you.With stories from: Alex...

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Planet of the Apes, Hasslein Books announces an extensive chronology by author Rich Handley. Every film, episode, novel, comic book and more is covered, from 1968 to the present--including several unpublished works. Along with a painstakingly detailed timeline...

Great Scott, the space-time continuum can be tricky to navigate But fear not, time-travelers, for your troubles are over. The next time you hop into your DeLorean, bring along Back in Time: The Back to the Future Chronology to guide you through every galaxy-shattering...

What does it mean to be human when you're part of the machine? Synners are synthesizers - not machines, but people. They take images from the brains of performers, and turn them into a form which can be packaged, sold and consumed. This book...

In this chillingly plausible work of speculative fiction, Thomas M. Disch imagines an alternate 1970s in which America has declared war on the rest of the world and much of its own citizenry and is willing to use any weapon to assure victory. Louis...

Every minute of every hour of every day, there are American Bombers in the air, loaded with nuclear weapons, ready to fly into action at the mere spark of the right radio sign al.These are the planes of the Strategic Air Command. What happens...

A comprehensive episode-by-episode guide to the fifth climactic season of Babylon 5 As the action surrounding Babylon 5 reaches the boiling point, Babylon 5: The Wheel of Fire sums up the last stunning season of the history-making series that started it all, thus setting...

A comprehensive episode-by-episode guide to the fourth thrilling season of Babylon 5! Filled with stunning revelations and explosive plot twists and turns, Babylon 5: No Surrender, No Retreat sums up the spellbinding fourth season. Culminating in some of the most dramatic events in television...

Sophie Barnes does it again in this sizzling Regency-set romance where anything can happen at the Kingsborough BallLucien Marvaine never thought he was good enough for Katherine. As the younger son of an earl, he didn't have a title or prospects. Then fate steps...

A Gemmell Award-Winning SeriesMalian of Night and Kalan, her trusted ally, are returning to the Wall of Night--but already it may be too late. The Wall is dangerously weakened, the Nine Houses of the Derai fractured by rivalry and hate. And now, the Darkswarm...