Fiction - Science Fiction - General

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...

New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Enoch kicks off a new Regency romance series, in which adventure and heart-stopping romance go hand in hand, in The Care and Taming of a Rogue. Rugged adventurer Bennett Wolfe, once presumed dead, has returned to London. He...

Zack Knowles, a psychologist, and Daniel Wexler, an art teacher at a college in Virginia, have been together for twenty-one years. In the fall of 2002, a few months before the Iraq War, a new artist in residence, Abbas Rohani, arrives with his Russian...

"Something's Alive In There!"She was just a little girl, with a tiny horn in the center of her forehead, funny-looking feet, beautiful silver hair, and several curious powers: the ability to purify air and water, make plants grow, and heal scars and broken bones....

Nora Michaelson and her eleven-year-old son, Jason. are going through a difficult adjustment to life after the accidental death of Jason's father. at a time when the family's small business was failing. The loss of Jack Michaelson has left his wife and son nearly...

"Sara Douglass has the breadth of vision necessary to create sweeping epics and the storyteller's gift that makes readers love her." --Locus Sara Douglas fans have been eagerly awaiting the third book of her epic DarkGlass Mountain fantasy trilogy...and now the dramatic conclusion is...

What luck that lemmings would rather follow than think. Life in Lemmingtown was wonderful. It was an ancient colony of lemmings that was thriving and where everyone lived and worked together in complete harmony. Everything changes when Bigly, a self-absorbed idler, becomes an overnight...

The authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls left us clues that humans have been genetically manipulated by technologically advanced beings for millennia. Once in a great while some force of nature causes a drop in the population giving these nearly immortal scientists an opportunity...

"A mysterious radiance slowly developed in the dark alley, growing in intensity, gradually taking the form of an alluring full-bodied woman with ghostly braided locks, startling everyone, including Worthy Deen. The specter was as translucent and elusive as a wisp of fog, sparkling with...

Over 400 years have passed since Dragon Wolf resurrected and went through his trials on Earth. After falling in love and reproducing with a human, Dragon Wolf's descendants on Earth now carry the Gene of the Gods. Years before Rayne's birth, his mother, Omarosa,...

About the Book "A Report to an Academy" ("Ein Bericht f r eine Akademie") is a short story by Franz Kafka, written and published in 1917. In the story, an ape named Red Peter, who has learned to behave like a human, presents to...

Eighteen-year-old Kricket Hollowell was looking for her place in the world when she discovered that the universe was bigger--and more dangerous--than she had ever dreamed. Now, whisked across space to the planet Ethar, Kricket learns that her genetic ability to see the future makes...

#3 in the groundbreaking, award-winning Elfhome series. Pittsburgh, PA has been magically transported to a world of elves and magic in order to stave off a monstrous invasion of Earth. Now Tinker must root out and destroy an evil plot. Elfhome. A world of...

A follow up to the 1951 film 'The THING from another world'. How the creature was able to prepare its race to develop on earth. Then how they reached the mainland of Europe and the carnage that followed.Author: Dan F. BreretonISBN-10: 1449951295ISBN-13: 9781449951290Publisher: Createspace...

What if someone died but wasn't dead? What if it happened in three days? What if science and religion collided? He did. It did. They did.Author: Kevin W. HughesISBN-10: 1412085241ISBN-13: 9781412085243Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2006Pages: 116Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.28d

Gabe Singleton and Andrew Stoddard were once Naval Academy roommates. Today, Gabe is a country doctor and his friend Andrew has gone from war hero to governor to President of the United States. One day, while the United States is embroiled in a bitter...

A Spider Sat Beside Her is a science fiction "what if" story set in a world drowned after a catastrophic melting of the ice caps.Lowry Walker takes a graduate position on the new International Space Station, circling far above a world flooded by oceans...