Fiction - Science Fiction - General

What is the next trend -- the next "killer app"? This question is very much on the mind of Ursula Van Urden, a burned-out art student who, after her supermodel sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt, has found work as a trendspotter for Tomorrow,...

James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the Free State of Galveston," who are prospering through illicit pleasures in the midst of the Great Depression. Raised on an isolated...

The future of relationships in a complicated world. As the good ship 'McCarthy' wends its way from the UK to China across troubled waters, Susan and Howard - two employees in a shipping and logistics company - establish an extraordinary friendship in cyberspace. Entrusted...

Flat Tops of East L.A.By: Esteven Antonio MaresFlat Tops of East L.A. tells of the adventures of a cholito named Tiny. Taking on the historical heart of ancient Mexican culture with total regard and respect, Estevan Antonio Mares captures in his work the meaningful...

Citizens of Planet Earth, Welcome to the New World. When an anonymous terrorist group announces they have crashed the world's financial institutions, ending life as we know it, Hope Taylor races home to be with her family - but never makes it there. Waking...

When evil begins, it grows.Angelic Wars: End of the Beginning is a musical novel where the book's characters sing when the reader activates QR codes in the book.The epic war for Heaven continues. End of the Beginning is the second, full musical novel of...

What if the screens you look at every day we're looking right back at you, monitoring your every move, measuring your performance, and assigning you a social score that dictates the quality of your life?Toffy is a rising star, a successful engineer at J...

After escaping from their captors in a giant air balloon, five prisoners of the Civil War find themselves stranded on a deserted island. Despite their different backgrounds, they decide to band together and combine their talents to live on the island, which they named...

Héroes a ratos. Siempre forajidosCarl Ramsey ha hecho lo impensable: ha rechazado un trabajo. Cuando el trato es despreciable incluso para forajidos como la tripulación del Mobius, ha de haber algo desagradable detrás. Carl y sus amigos deciden dar caza a su potencial empleador...

In this second installment in Garner's Atlantis series: Earth, we actually have just seen, and witnessed the Lost Continent incredulously having risen again! While growing accustomed to life again, in the grandest sense, the Earth team of Explorers and Atlanteans are intermingling, and are...

Remarkable at the time of their original publication in the 1990s for their representation of contemporary anxieties and desires over emerging technology--particularly networked digital communications, surveillance and archiving systems--the science fiction novels and short stories of Michael Marshall Smith remain so today in their...

The Iron Heel (1907) is a novel by American writer Jack London. A groundbreaking work of dystopian science fiction, The Iron Heel was inspired by London's socialist views and belief in an eventual global upheaval. Although his predictions proved wrong for the United States...

To the victor go the spoils. And in this war, the spoils are the fate of the world. Robert Franklin will stop at nothing to avenge the wrongs done to him by the US and Russia. Nate Stout and Broken Arrow Mercenary Force will...

The Osiris Language is a 54,000-word work of surrealist speculative fiction that draws on philosophy, psychology, and fantasy, as well as an autobiographical experience with teenage drug culture in the 1990s. Readers familiar with Descartes' Meditations, Plato's allegory of the cave, or Lacan's theory...

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...

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...

Do you wonder anytime about people being crashed into unexpectedly by drunk and drugged drivers? Stop! Stop wondering and read about it! After a brief deep coma and longer semi-coma--supernatural weeks actuality embraced a half physically paralyzed twenty-six year-old wife and mother; along with...

John Green is not happy.The world as he knows it is about to be destroyed. He knew it was going to happen, maybe not when, but as a regular traveller in time, 'when' was always a bit of an issue.He knew he'd be able...

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...