Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Named a BEST BOOK OF 2021 by the New York Times, NPR, the New York Public Library, Audible, Tor.com, Book Riot, Library Journal, and Kirkus!Longlisted for the 2022 PEN Open Book AwardRiveting...[A] tender, ferocious book.--New York TimesBeautifully fantastical.--NPRMasterful.--Chicago TribuneOne October morning, Laina gets the...

Él conoce las tres leyes, pero de hecho estas pueden tomarse más bien como normas orientativas.Un lote de contrabando por valor de dos millones y medio de terras no le servirá de nada a Carl Ramsey a no ser que encuentre comprador. Con cifras...

Edmonton, 1995.Six strangers at a coffee shop are caught in an earthquake, but soon learn that no one else in the city seems to have felt it. Over the next few days, they experience strange, inexplicable, and unsettling events.The six soon realize they'll need...

On the island of Ponape in the South Pacific, the cold light of a full moon washes over the crumbling ruins of an ancient, vanished civilization. Unleashed from the depths is the Dweller, a glittering, enigmatic force of monstrous terror and radiant beauty that...

Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip José Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting...

A classic work of science fiction, this novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom. The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's wedding ring....

Time travel, a millennium-spanning romance, and rousing action in modern African jungles and the untamed prehistoric wilderness ignite this classic adventure tale from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Nu, a warrior from the Stone Age, is buried alive in an earthquake while stalking...

"Oh, I wish I were anywhere but here, anywhere out of this redtape-ridden world of ours! I wish I were in the planet Mars!" Whisked away to the legendary red planet, the intrepid Lieutenant Gullivar Jones is caught up in the adventure of a...

Betrayed by his wife, Stephen Stone spirits his son, Henry, away to a remote tropical island and trains him to be an ideal physical specimen and a perfect gentleman. After years of isolation, Henry Stone is now a young man, standing a full six...

First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the...

Nicodemus is a young, gifted wizard with a problem. Magic in his world requires the caster to create spells by writing out the text . . . but he has always been dyslexic, and thus has trouble casting even the simplest of spells. And...

Terrorism. Acts of Oppression. The threat of nuclear war.What if one madman aboard a vessel could end these fears forever? Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the "unsinkable" naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from...

Caught in the crossfire of an interstellar war, our Earth was bombed to flinders--and then repaired. The mysterious alien Benefactors who healed the planet also offered "uplift" to our dolphins and gorillas. The dolphins turned them down. The gorillas said yes. As a result,...

If you want an omnibus of short fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master, then you want The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. If you're looking for a representative sample of Clarke's short stories, or for some...

Author: Piers AnthonyISBN-10: 0738806927ISBN-13: 9780738806921Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2000Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.80w x 1.08d

Written at a time when much of the world remained hidden and mysterious - when remote islands, unexplored jungles, and the depths of the ocean still held new and unenvisioned possibilities - these tales combine the everyday with the otherworldly in a way that...

It's 2057 and Zachary Nixon Johnson is the last freelance private investigator on planet Earth. Lucky for him, he's mind-melded with HARV, the most advanced cognitive processor on Earth-so Zach generally does pretty well when it comes to cracking cases. And when a certain...

For too long, readers throughout the Federation have been exposed to The Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'nos, that classic work of Klingon(TM) literature, only through inadequate and misleading English translations. Now at last, thanks to the tireless efforts of the...

Australia 2040. No child lives in poverty and every child is safe. But at what cost?19-year-old Monica never wanted a baby but the laws require her to give birth twice before she can move on with her life.Now that her first son, Oscar, has...

Sten's boss - The Eternal Emperor - is back and he's ready to reveal his most precious secrets No, not the secret of AM2, you silly clots. There are more important things than the Galaxy's ultimate energy source. We're talking food, folks. A cookbook...

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...

Redemption sweeps through the centuries of history and from California to Berlin, Rome, Turkey, and the Carpathian Mountains of Romania in tracing the journey of evil back to its source to tell the entwined stories of the notorious Vlad the Impaler and the reluctant...

Adam Roberts turns his attention to answering the Fermi Paradox with a taut and claustrophobic tale that echoes John Carpenter's The Thing. Two men while away the days in an Antarctic research station. Tensions between them build as they argue over a love-letter one...

In the contested and unexplored territories at the edge of the Empire, a boat is making its laborious way up stream. Riding along the banks are the mercenaries hired to protect it - from raiders, bandits and, most of all, the stretchers, elf-like natives...

Based upon the cult television series, 'The Tribe'. Forced to flee the city in their homeland - along with abandoning their dream of building a better world from the ashes of the old - the Mall Rats embark upon a perilous journey of discovery...

Duncan MacLeod, member of an age-old race of immortal beings, is in Paris helping a friend organize a museum exhibit of ancient cultures destroyed by the Romans. While unwrapping a priceless scroll of the Torah, Duncan remembers Avram Mordecai, a young Immortal who was...

Girl in Landscape is a daring exploration of the violent nature of sexual awakening, a meditation on language and perception, and an homage to the great American tradition of the Western. - "Jonathan Lethem's imagination [is]...marvelously fertile." --Newsday The heroine is young Pella Marsh,...

It's the year 2277. For fifty years, Earth has received mysterious data transmissions from random locations in deep space. The streams include advanced technology, allowing Humans to achieve faster-than-light travel virtually overnight. As we prepare to take our first, tentative steps into interstellar space,...

Captain Jason Reynolds is back! In the third installment of the Scrapyard Ship sci-fi adventure series, Space Vengeance, Jason, his family, and The Lilly's crew face the impending destruction of their internal nano-devices. What's worse, what remains of the Craing fleet, some 1500 warships,...

All of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories in two volumes, a trove of gnarl and wonder. Volume Two includes stories from 2005 through 2020. As well as Rucker's solo stories, this volume features collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Marc Laidlaw, Paul Di Filippo, John Shirley, Terry...

Sing the Light, Sing the Warmth, and Receive the Gift comprise the trilogy of The Singers of Nevya, completed in 1997. A follow-up novel, Singer in the Snow, was published in 2004. These novels, unlike my other works, are science fantasy, which is to...

Mixing straightforward science fiction ideas, such as the search for habitable planets, the terra-forming of Venus, and a time-traveling substitute teacher, along with fantasy concepts, such as saving the Earth from nuclear destruction through supernatural sacrifice, a teen werewolf agoning over attending prom on...

In this much-anticipated sequel to Roswell Rising- a Novel of Disclosure, humanity stands on the threshold of a new golden age. Free energy has been declassified and all people know without a doubt that we are not alone in the universe. However, the destructive...

Wells touches gently on time travel as a notion, but mostly The Time Machine is about the terminal future he sees for mankind: His nameless time traveler ventures to the world that will be 802,701 A.D., And there he finds mankind divided among the...

David Lindsay (1874-1945) was a successful British businessman who turned to writing after the first World War. Unfortunately, his most famous work, A Voyage to Arcturus, proved to be a commercial disaster at the time of its release, and he spent the rest of...

Terrifically popular science fiction novel by renowned writer H. G. Wells, about a scientist discovering how to achieve invisibility. But, in his case, being out of sight evidently does NOT mean out of mind. The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist...

Galactic Warriors "The Baltic Invasion" is the 3rd installment in this action packed science fiction series. In this release, our young warriors have done the unthinkable. After years of fighting and defending their home planet of Nebulan against the mighty Neptonian Empire, the Galactic...

Synopsis for "The Life We Live" "The life we Live, a succinctly written story, puts you on the scene with Gatty, Black, JR, and B-Jah, Comin live from the Virgin Islands, strap yourself in and take a vivid ride with four adolescent thugs as...

A classic novel of the romantic era, full of tortured love and bitter loss.Author: Marie-Henri Beyle StendhalISBN-10: 1473306221ISBN-13: 9781473306226Publisher: Moran PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2013Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.60d

Author: Rob TrottaISBN-10: 1465385525ISBN-13: 9781465385529Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2011Pages: 462Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.03d

In his bestselling novel, GENESIS, W. A. Harbinson told us about a nightmarish global conspiracy based on highly advanced UFO technology that is threatening to take over the world. Now, in PHOENIX, he takes us back in time, to the years after the Second...

Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission. A dragon is seen perching on the statue of Christ...

Second Edition: Simulation Theory explores the idea that we are all gamers inside of a massively multiplayer online role playing game on Earth. Do you question the nature of your own existence? Do you think there is more to reality than what we have...

Bring the Jubilee by Ward Moore is a 1953 novel of alternate history. The point of divergence occurs when the Confederate States of America wins the Battle of Gettysburg and subsequently declares victory in the "War of Southron Independence" on July 4, 1864 after...

Lin Carter's greatest creation, the barbarian swordsman Thongor of Lemuria, returns in his first new book in more than 40 years "Young Thongor" collects Carter's short stories about Thongor's earliest adventures. Drawing on Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian and Edgar Rice Burroughs' John...

"Marta Randall is a sensational, subtle, precise, and gorgeous writer." - Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club. 12 previously uncollected stories by writer and teacher Marta Randall, including Lapidary Nights, The Dark Boy, L zaro y Antonio, Big Dome, Sea...

Author: Gene BrewerISBN-10: 1425718906ISBN-13: 9781425718909Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2007Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

Often referred to as a "father of science fiction", H. G. Wells was one of the first authors to write a type of speculative fiction which referenced the advancements in science of his time. Characteristic of Wells' work is their cautionary tale nature which...

Pan, the Greek god of forests, shepherds and fertility, has long represented the pagan gods in general. With the advent of the Christian church communication with the pagan gods was very heavily suppressed by priests who have a vested interest in eliminating religious competition,...

FIRST EDITION "A half-mile above city streets mystery and murder stalk a scientific penthouse, and Macklin Donovan faces unknown and deadly science." So read the blurb in Fantastic Adventures pulp magazine for July 1939 when "The Scientists Revolt", a rewritten version of "Beware ",...