Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel, "Who Sows the Wind," features Earth in the distant future. World War III has arrived This is an epic story of America under siege-the dark days when...

"Another solid entry in an entertaining series." -Booklist "Good pacing, a light touch, and a genuine feel for the period."-Kirkus Reviews Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper (and cousin) the scholarly Sostratos, are back in their third adventure. This time around...

Born With the Dead (the novella) was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was originally published in 1974, winning the Nebula and Locus awards. *** The author now revisits the classic story with Australian author Damien Broderick. Broderick uses Robert Silverberg's...

Joe has reunited with his son, who has accompanied Joe to Husaquahr. But their joy at being united is cut short by news that the Dark Baron has escaped once again and is gathering a force in the North to capture and enslave them...

Husaquahr has been saved by the brave actions of Joe and Marge. The Dark Baron has been defeated and exiled to Earth where all his magical powers have been stripped. *** But Ruddygore has badly underestimated his deadly enemy. The Dark Baron proves as...

While the initial battle for Husaquahr has been won, dark forces are gathering to the south. *** One of the Council of Thirteen has to be the Dark Baron and the Baron is plotting with the Demon Prince to shatter the fragile peace and...

Something strange happens to Joe and Marge on the way to El Paso. They run into Throckmorton P. Ruddygore, a strange wizard who informs them that they are going to die in nineteen minutes and eighteen seconds. **** But they also have a choice....

Rogue Queen is a ground-breaking novel by L. Sprague de Camp that was one of the first science fiction books to deal with sexual themes, paving the way for more daring works by future authors. *** Part of the Viagens Interplanetarias series, the story...

Here is an extraordinary mix of fantasy and science fiction from one of the masters of science fiction, Larry Niven. *** The stories in this collection include some collaborations with authors such as Jerry Pournelle (Spirals) and Steven Barnes (The Locusts), as well as...

Main Story by Kevin J. Anderson. Sequel Novelette by Steven Savile. The Stellar Guild Series. *** Jorie Taylor has lived her whole life on the generation ship Beacon. Fleeing an Earth tearing itself apart from its exhaustive demand for resources, the Beacon is finally...

**INCLUDES THE NEBULA & HUGO WINNING NOVELETTE** "Sheffield, a physicist, proves to be one of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the SF scene in recent years."-Publishers Weekly ** A collection of some of the finest short stories penned by a master...

This is Final Book (Book Four) of the Epic Tetralogy, The Four Lords of the Diamond. **** Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents to any of...

This is Book Three of the Epic Tetralogy, The Four Lords of the Diamond. **** Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents to any of the four...

This is Book Two of the Epic Tetralogy, The Four Lords of the Diamond. **** Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents to any of the four...

This is Book One of the Epic Tetralogy, The Four Lords of the Diamond. **** Aliens are spying on Earth from one of the four worlds that make up the Warden Diamond. But it is impossible to send agents to any of the four...

The mysterious alien artifact called the Halo came quietly and mysteriously and then sowed the earth with seeds that threatened to destroy humanity by destroying their souls. **** But the aliens had underestimated the human spirit and a band of Moon-based scientists survive to...

In 1965 (1920) is a amicable and breezy work, with only a slight macabre edge in its comedy, recapitulating and updating the technological innovations of The Electric Life. The history of the twentieth century sketched out in Robida's earlier books is modified in order...

Forty-three years before Jules Verne, and ninety-three years before Edgar Rice Burroughs, Jacques Collin de Plancy, remembered today for his Encyclopedia of Demons and Demonology, penned Voyage to the Center of the Earth (1821), which is both an adventure story and a utopian fantasy...

Set in the 1920s, though written in the 1890s, Jules Lermina's The Battle of Strasbourg is credited by historians of futuristic fiction with launching the literary genre known as "yellow peril" fiction. It is also one of the first "immersive fantasies" to be completely...

War-anticipation stories began to published just before World War I, reflecting the mood of the times. During the war itself, the archetypal thriller was likely to be a covert spy story featuring new, game-changing technologies and embryonic superweapons. Once the subgenre was established, it...

Louis Boussenard's two most memorable novels were The Secrets of Monsieur Synthesis (1888) and its sequel, Ten Thousand Years in a Block of Ice (1889). In the former, we are introduced to the title character, the eponymous "Monsieur Synthesis," a mad scientist who seeks...

In 1775, industrial chemist Louis-Guillaume de La Follie wrote The Unpretentious Philosopher, in which an inhabitant of Mercury who employs a spaceship powered by electricity to undertake a voyage of exploration to Earth, becomes stranded on our planet when his ship crashes. This forces...

The Dominion of the World (1900) represents a transition from classic Vernian anticipation to the pulp serials of the 1920s and 1930s. It is also the only science fiction work that sought to dramatize the "Transatlantic Peril", positing a fundamental difference of culture and...

The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen,...

'The experience of reading this collection is like being waterboarded by an angel. Shocking, heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, this is some of the best writing I've ever seen. If you like Aimee Bender or Etgar Keret, you will love Witchcraft in the Harem.' -World...

An award winning author in his own right, Adam Roberts makes no concessions when appraising the work of others. His reviews are honest, forthright, and never timid. Following the success of Sibilant Fricative (Steel Quill Books, 2014), Adam now takes on the daunting task...

Well's science fiction of time travel, and his protagonist's adventures in the future. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, providing an excellent introduction for younger readers. Also includes theme discussions and study questions.Author: H. G. WellsISBN-10: 1906814333ISBN-13: 9781906814335Publisher: Classics...

Fall of Terra Nova is the fifth book in the epic science fiction series that chronicles humanity's first interstellar confederation, torn apart by religious strife and extremism. In this latest book of the Star Crusades Uprising series, the action shifts to Terra Nova, the...

Siege of Titan is the first book in the epic new science fiction series that chronicles humanity's first interstellar confederation that is torn apart by religious strife and extremism. In the first book of the Star Crusades series, the bloody struggle is told through...

The Earth is no longer fit for humans, the Planet Dweller is no longer one entity, and humankind are now dinosaurs. Which is what would be expected after the meddling of two superbeings who never quite got the hang of mortality, although secretly aspiring...

Human civilisation has been moved to Titan. It is now in a synchronous orbit on the opposite side of the Sun with the Earth, where all the animals have been left to their own devices. Titan has no oceans, so when the atmosphere starts...

Bark is the humorously wild tale, set in Texas, of an addled little, ADHD-affected dachshund named Tonto, who just happens to be the only thing standing between the earth and an accidental alien invasion. The book also contains the autobiography of the real-life little...

Max and Susan, both brilliant scientists, are approached by alien Topeks to help stop an impending nuclear war and the annilhilation of mankind. The Topeks are an ancient culture that hsve observed and helped humans for centuries and now offer to help prevent us...

The elegant Great River Resort along the tranquil banks of the Great Wicomico River has a closely guarded secret. The beautiful resort sits atop a highly classified government facility known only to the President of the United States, a few high level government and...

Author: Charles WilliamsISBN-10: 1849028893ISBN-13: 9781849028899Publisher: Benediction BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/11/2009Pages: 168Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d

In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of activity can be seen at all. But when the mysterious Dr Ox is tasked with providing lighting for the town, strange things begin...

The mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be the victim of...

In a distant future, new nations and beliefs have arisen from the ashes of the past. A Kingdom that revolves around the worship of Elvis holds a dark secret. Hadrian, a Coloradan Intelligence Officer, and his beautiful two-headed bodyguard, Mirtha and Meera, go on...

Junk Day London in ruins, millions killed-is this the end for mankind, or a second chance? An unspecified catastrophe has befallen the Earth and civilization lies in ruins. In what remains of London, bands of survivors pick over the detritus of a vanished world,...

OTHER EARTHS ".....One of the novas of the SF cosmos." The New Encyclopaedia of Science Fiction Almost a thousand years from now a new empire, governed by the immortals Joaquin Smith and his beautiful, but evil, sister Black Margot, has arisen on Earth after...

Strange Genius is a collection of stories about people whose minds are beyond the ordinary. Included is the hard to find novel The New Adam, a surprising tale of homo superior born among us, the first of a new human race, an evolutionary leap...

This is a book of strange tales about strange people and sometimes stranger places. It includes Weinbaum's novel The Dark Other, in which Nicholas Devine and his girlfriend Pat are deeply in love, but before they can fulfil their dreams they must exorcise a...

George and Mitchell are both asked for favors--and each finds himself with a painfully difficult choice to make George's friend, Kaz, arrives at the apartment with a staggering request: she and her partner Gail want to have a child, and they'd like George to...

Isolated and deep in the mountains, the Keep is a disturbing place. Why would the New Order want it, and for what? But you didn't ask questions the way things were. You kept your head down and did as you were told. Just do...

Greyfriar's Cemetery in Edinburgh has a centuries-old reputation for being haunted. Its gruesome history includes witchcraft, body-snatching, desecration, corpse dumping, and live burial. In 1998, something new and inexplicable began occurring in the graveyard. Visitors encountered "cold spots," strange smells, and banging noises. They...

They say democracy dies in darkness ...Earth has fallen. The Empire is no more. Old certainties are collapsing everywhere. Chaos is spreading across the stars, with war following in its wake ...Tarsus, a world too close to Earth for comfort, is far from immune.Clarence...

MAAM is the first volume in a sci-fi fantasy series, which involves multiple amazing aspects to various government cover-ups and conspiracies. The main character, TANA, meaning trispecies allocated nanobotics allegiance, is part of a government experiment. She was created in a science lab, along...

I need to get through this day. Everyone keeps telling me that I need to live for my daughters, but all I want to do is crawl back in bed, pull the covers over my head and stop breathing - then I could open...

When describing the events that occurred between King David and the Princess Dianna, it seems incredible that a woman could have such power without sorcery. Yet, some believed that Dianna knew nothing of the magic arts. The power that she held over the kings...

An age-old wizard narrates this coming-of-age tale that is set on earth during a previously transpired epoch of time. Follow along with Cristofo, a sharp-minded and exceptionally skilled young prodigy who can do little to suppress his excitement when he hears of an impending...