Fiction - Science Fiction - General

"A fairly good time capsule of sf starting to become a genre of its own, and "Amazing Stories" in particular., for the pulp fiction fan, this will be an interesting and fun read And all of 1926's covers are reprinted on this anthology's back...

"None Other Gods" from Robert Hugh Benson. English Anglican priest who in 1903 was received into the Roman Catholic Church (1871-1914).Author: The Perfect Library, Robert Hugh BensonISBN-10: 1519594291ISBN-13: 9781519594297Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/29/2015Pages: 252Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.53d

After London, can be seen as an early example of "post-apocalyptic fiction": after some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life.Author: Richard JefferiesISBN-10: 1519352611ISBN-13: 9781519352613Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

"Baronas imagines a world steeped in great spiritual power in this debut novel. Jude Ryder is an aspiring filmmaker turned drug dealer - as well as a deep James Dean aficionado - who finds himself in 1970s India searching for a larger spiritual truth....

The world is delighted when a space craft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, they think for the first time. But the delight turns to shock when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document...

Carson of Venus is the third book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It was serialized in Argosy in 1938 and published in book form a year later. The novel, which was written close...

Before the beginning of time, there has always been a never-ending battle between the Darkness and Light. On the star of Sonos, the existence of the advanced beings called the Omans is threatened by the Darkness. In order for the Light to protect its...

All Torrin Ivanov wanted was to get Jak Stowell back, that was supposed to be the hard part. In a cruel twist, Jak is hers again, but her girlfriend is literally losing her mind. The only help can be found on the last planet...

Left behind by their sisters, they've become the hunted. In this gripping sequel to Daughters of a Coral Dawn, Katherine V. Forrest tells the story of an Earth beyond nightmare, ruled by dictator Theo Zedera--known simply as Zed--whose weaponry is invincible. With ruthless determination...

For Torrin Ivanov, life is a bargaining table. Every planet is a new business opportunity. Legality is optional and supplying one side in a local civil war always adds up to profit. Jak Stowell is at war within a war. A woman hidden in...

A Philip J. Riley's NightMare Series volume. Commentary and "About the Author" Henry Slesar by Randall D. Larson - edited by Philip J. Riley The clouds of yellow dust rolled and swirled and whistled in agonized motion, and their sound obscured the needle-thin cries...

Author: Vladimir ObruchevISBN-10: 1589635612ISBN-13: 9781589635616Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2001Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 7.90h x 5.06w x 0.87d

Author: Ivan YefremovISBN-10: 1589635280ISBN-13: 9781589635289Publisher: Fredonia Books (NL)Language: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2001Pages: 340Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.00h x 6.54w x 0.85d

Keraban is determined not to pay the tax required to cross the Bosphorus by boat, so he journeys by land around the Black Sea. There is a fundamental mistake in dividing Verne's works into science fiction vs. non-science fiction -- in Verne's work there...

At the Intersections of Dundalk Avenue: A Collection of Short Stories and Minute Plays is an entertaining book about fictional characters who are similar to people we meet everyday. The short stories and the minute plays combine fictional drama, humor, philosophy, and sci-fi. The...

Author: Lin CarterISBN-10: 1587153408ISBN-13: 9781587153402Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.26h x 5.08w x 0.53d

Author: Nelson BondISBN-10: 1587151545ISBN-13: 9781587151545Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/1950Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.12h x 6.18w x 0.59d

Jules Verne's classic tale of the first trip from the Earth to the Moon.Author: Jules VerneISBN-10: 1557423709ISBN-13: 9781557423702Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2005Pages: 158Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.Author: Edward Elmer SmithISBN-10: 1547031328ISBN-13: 9781547031320Publisher: Createspace Independent...

Herland is a utopian novel written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society of just women which leads to peace, freedom, and happiness. Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American sociologist and writer who helped influence many future generations of feminists. Gilman...

When The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become...

The aliens have landed... and Earth will never be the same. A third of the world is occupied, groaning under the weight of alien oppression, while the remainder is in chaos or preparing desperately for the final battle. As the aliens unveil their long-term...

Someone is kidnapping the animals of beastmasters' teams. On planet after planet, telepathically gifted people are being attacked-some of them murdered-by a conspiracy to take their precious animals. Laris, an orphan who trains exotic alien creatures for an interstellar circus, knows that somehow her...

Barnabas, Quentin and the Magic Potion (January 1971) This story marks a sudden shift in the characterization of Quentin Collins, who up to this point in the range had been portrayed as an enemy of Barnabas. Barnabas predicts trouble for Collinwood when Nicholas Freeze,...

The Demon of Barnabas Collins (April 1969) The arrival of a movie company at Collinwood gives Barnabas a chance to escape Angelique's awful curse--the curse which has made him one of the living dead. Barnabas meets and falls in love with beautiful film star,...

The charm and magic of what everyone dreams about in Ireland is captured in this latest book by Gary Hope. This, the sequel to The Girl From Tir-na-nOg, completes the story and adventure of an American who is living the Irish dream he never...

John Crowley's all-new essay "Totalitopia" is a wry how-to guide for building utopias out of the leftovers of modern science fiction. "This Is Our Town," written especially for this volume, is a warm, witty, and wonderfully moving story about angels, cousins, and natural disasters...

Since his debut in Terry Carr's legendary Ace Specials of the 1980s, Carter Scholz has occupied an enviable, if demanding, position on the cutting edge of modern speculative literature (vulgarly called SF). Proudly debuting in this volume, Gypsy is his first major work since...

THE ROURKE FAMILY. Were they larger than life survivors from another place in history with superior intellect and skills? Or just normal people who were determined to survive, who were led into the future by John Thomas Rourke, who always believed in planning ahead?...

In a future Earth, Patrick Harvey, newly promoted Class One Empath, dreams of the independence his position brings and the apartment he's saving for. His first solo assignment is treating John Doe 439, a man found outside the city, battered, traumatized, and apparently mute....

During the days of the Cro-Magnon, beings of pure light came to Earth to make an attempt at enlightening man. One member of this ancient race felt that the humanoids on Earth were entirely too ignorant and philosophically handicapped to ever truly grasp their...

Vex Valis--doctor. Vex Valis--rocker. Vex Valis--iconoclast. You would think Vex Valis has it all but what Vex has is a secret that rots away at her from her very core. Vex is infected with Gut Ghouls and will do anything to be rid of...

A cruise ship on the back of a sleeping kaiju. A transgender bartender trying to come terms with who she is. A rift in dimensions known as The Sway. A cruel captain. A storm of turmoil, insanity and magic is coming together and taking...

Here is us. We are here in the Orphanarium. Think: a city in a massive box, vacuum-sealed tight. No one is allowed outside. Here, people are born out of the air or made like computers and put together. Daff is me and Dil is...

In a world made out of meat, a socially-obsessive monophobic man finds himself to be the last human being on the face of the planet. Desperate for social interaction, he explores the landscape of flesh and blood, teeth and tongue, trying to befriend any...

Santa isn't the jolly old elf as portrayed in Children's stories. He's a bit more grotesque than that. His eyes are pimento-stuffed olives, his teeth are walnuts, and his body is made of sausages. One snowy Christmas Eve, while visiting the Fry family, Sausagey...

A weird-as-hell gangster story set in a world where people drive giant mechanical dinosaurs instead of cars. Her name is Psycho June Howard, aka Armadillo Fists, a woman who replaced both of her hands with living armadillos. She was once the most bloodthirsty fighter...

Urban fairy tales for the weird girl in all of us. Athena Villaverde is a brave new voice in the world of offbeat young adult fiction. Like a combination of Francesca Lia Block, Charles de Lint, Kathe Koja, Tim Burton, and Hayao Miyazaki, her...

The Vance Integral Edition made extensive use of the personal papers of Jack Vance, in particular his final manuscripts, as these contained Vance's last word regarding the work as he intended it.However, in the years since the VIE concluded in 2006, initial and intermediate...

POD 01 The World-Thinker and Other StoriesThis volume might have been titled "The Early Jack Vance", as it features stories from the first dozen years of Vance's career, when his major outlet was pulp magazines. In these stories, Vance already displays the lively imagination...

Ted Bunpole proposes, and Betty Haverhill says no. But Ted won't take "no" for an answer, and the situation gets tiresome. Betty books passage to Europe by freighter.The Garda departs San Francisco for Italy, via the Panama Canal. Passengers include the intellectual Alex Cato...

Local boy Joe Bain has been elected County Sheriff, after his success with the murders in Fox Valley. He's just settling into the job when someone kills the Pleasant Grove mail carrier with a hammer. One of the wealthy families along Madrone Way must...

The Connatic rules the three thousand inhabited planets of the Alastor Cluster from his palace Lusz on the world Numenes. Though his military force can bring considerable might to bear where necessary, the Connatic often wanders among his subjects incognito, intervening to right a...

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...

This classic tale of an alien invasion serves as a catalyst for a whole range of media adaptations in radio, film, and literature. Playing on the public's fears of unknown worlds, Wells brings to life an alien race from Mars bent on consuming the...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is one of Mark Twain's most ambitious and well-known novels, first published in 1889. Main character Hank Morgan is a 19th Century businessman who is transported back in time to King Arthur's court where he meets legendary...

At Fermilab near Chicago, researchers use the world's largest particle accelerator to unlock the secrets of the subatomic universe. While working late one night, Dr. Georg Dumenico-candidate for the Nobel Prize in physics-is bombarded with a lethal exposure of radiation. He will die horribly...

It is the largest oil spill in history: a supertanker crashes into the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Bay. Desperate to avert environmental damage (as well as the PR disaster), the multinational oil company releases an untested designer oil-eating microbe to break up...

In an act of heroism and self-sacrifice, Anderson Rawn's sister saved him from the destruction of their tiny mining colony, but her actions condemned the thirteen-year-old to ten years of crushing loneliness on the hyperspace journey to a new home. Using electronics and desperation,...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel is "The Spectre of Suicide Swamp," a terrific tale by E.K. Jarvis. Duke Harley was a Hollywood has-been and Kathie Dawn wasn't too far behind. Their time as Hollywood...