Fiction - Science Fiction - General

You are never alone and are always encouraged to improve within the readings of Joanne's compilation of short stories and simple self-help steps. Joanne Silver uses short relatable stories to remind readers that you are not alone in some of the difficulties and pleasures...

Reza Shah Pahlavi introduced policies that altered the lives of Iranian women radically. For the first time, women entered into modern sectors of the economy, family laws were modified, the unveiling was enforced, and the government established public coeducational primary schools. The rapid development...

In this collection from Martin L. Shoemaker, the award-winning author of Today I Am Carey, you'll find stories on the line where human meets machine...* A therapist uses an immersive game to treat a troubled boy.* An injured soldier must convince his battle suit...

Why are the stars of the Milky Way exploding into supernovas, and how can the destruction of the galaxy be stopped?Along with ten elite lightship pilots seeking the answer to this question, Danlo wi Soli Ringess sets out into the blasted, burned-out region of...

In August 1975 a human from India and an alien from the planet Hara are murdered in a jute field near Calcutta. The human corpse is burned on a funeral pyre, but the alien's skeleton lands up in a high school biology class in...

Can a lowly gumpaw hope for love with a girl who rides in a jewel-encrusted carrier? Feline investigator Leon, with opposable thumbs and the ability to talk, is possibly the most dangerous cat in the galaxy. Indentured to the Security department of Gamma Station...

The book is based on a prediction of a more destructive and uncontrollable sort of weapon than the world has yet seen. This metaphysical thriller takes place in a surreal London, where Gabriel Syme is recruited to a secret anti-anarchist taskforce at Scotland Yard.Author:...

THE FIXED PERIOD (1882) by Anthony Trollope is an unusual early science fiction novel, originally published anonymously. It is part utopia, part dystopia, part dark satire, with overtones of modern "steampunk" and quaint technological devices. In this amazing visionary work by the British Victorian...

The setting is a society in which aging has been cured, individuals have indefinite lifespans, and population control is used to limit the population of the United States to forty million. This is maintained through a combination of infanticide and government-assisted suicide - in...

In the mid-21st century, the human race stopped aging. Those who know why aren't talking, and the few who are brave enough to ask questions tend to disappear. To an elite few, The Change means long life and health, but to the increasing masses,...

H G wells wrote both fiction and non-fiction. He worked in many genres including novels, history, and social commentaries. Wells was a leading socialist. Anticipations is a comprehensive study of the future developments in the history of predictive writing. This book is considered an...

The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells - Akasha Classics, AkashaPublishing.Com - The Time Machine was first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two theatrical films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number...

Cory Doctorow burst on the SF scene in 2000 like a rocket, inspiring awe in readers (and envy in other writers) with his bestselling novels and stories, which he insisted on giving away via Creative Commons. Meanwhile, as coeditor of the wildly popular blog...

Here is a collection of some of the finest short fiction penned by one of  "fathers" of modern science fiction. *** These stories were selected (and edited) by his wife Leigh Brackett, an author and a screenwriter. Her screen-writing credits include works on such...

"Interesting, engaging, and believable."-San Diego Union Tribune *** Here is an eclectic collection of science fiction stories (and three short poems) by multiple award winning author Michael Flynn, author of such acclaimed titles as Eifelheim (Hugo nominee) and Firestar, called by the San Diego...

Ex U.S. Senator Gibson Altman rules the prison colony where everyone is expected to live by rules that govern every aspect of their lives. ** The inhabitants of the experimental colony survive in a society plagued by crime, corruption and despair, toiling endlessly at...

" Hogan] once again demonstrates his mastery"-Publisher's Weekly **** "...on the cutting edge of technology...Hogan's talent carries the reader from peak to peak in the story"-Booklist **** "In the grand tradition of the classic super-science stories, but with more exciting science and with better...

"One of the best of the year...a compelling novella about a once-famous actress and her devoted manager who get much more publicity of an unfortunate sort when they inadvertently become embroiled with an act of biological terrorism with potentially world-changing results."-Gardner Dozois, Locus ****Author:...

Winner of the Specturm Award. Often compared to Ursula Le Guinn's ground-breaking "The Left Hand of Darkness," "Dark Water's Embrace" is a fascinating look at issues of human (and alien) sexuality. Stephen Leigh creates a rich world with elaborate care and uses this alien...

A fascinating array of stories from the boundless imagination of Hugo and Nebula winning Alexei Panshin taking the mind on a journey from the near and familiar to the farther reaches of what we must become. ***"A remarkable collection... thoughtful and provocative and, best...

AFTER TWO CENTURIES....The sound came swiftly nearer, rising in pitch and swelling in volume. Then it broke through the clouds, tall and black and beautifully deadly-the Gern battle cruiser, come to seek them out and destroy them. Humbolt dropped inside the stockade, exulting. For...

Sex Toys? Pleasure Creatures? Animals? Humans? ***** Who are the Lani People? Who created them? ***** A classic novel of the future that continues to question our basic value-systems. ***** Please visit www.PhoenixPick.com for more great sci-fi at great prices.Author: Jesse F. Bone, J....

Key Out of Time is a book in the Time Trader Series. Ross Murdock and Arthur Ashe continue their grand adventure across Time and Space. Ross and Arthur are helped by Karara and two trained dolphins on the World of Hawaika, settled by Hawaiian...

Tom Godwin was a 20th century science fiction writer. His childhood was full of family tragedies. Godwin's novel Space Prison was first published under the name The Survivors. The climate was freezing cold in the winter and the two suns made it broiling hot...

Three people flee into the mountains after a major terrorist attack brings the country to its knees, but are shocked when strange things begin happening to one of their dogs.Author: Ken BarnesISBN-10: 1601457936ISBN-13: 9781601457936Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/20/2009Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

James Hannibal III never viewed himself as a Black activist, by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, while many were marching for Black liberation, during his college days, he was single mindedly studying to achieve his dream-to become a geneticist.But life has its...

The hero, Robin Audrey, is shocked to discover that his father is leaving the church, a decision which greatly impacts Robin's life, causing him to reevaluate his own life, his values and his future. In the turmoil which follows, Robin must make his own...

The brothers of the Torridon family make their way in the world -- the eldest, Ralph, in service to Cromwell and the youngest, Christopher, in service to God and the Catholic church as a monk in the Priory at Lewes. Their paths carry them...

From the introduction by Ivan Strannik: "The interest of these stories does not lie in the unraveling of an intricate plot. They are rather fragments of life, bits of biography covering some particular period, without reaching the limits of a real drama. And these...

Eye features the startlingly original collaboration ""The Road to Dune,"" a walking tour of Arakeen narrated by Frank Herbert and illustrated by acclaimed British artist Jim Burns. Also included is an introduction by Herbert describing his personal feelings about the filming of David Lynch's...

For centuries, the Bermuda Triangle has been the location of hundreds of mysterious vanishings. Ships big and small, fighter jets, by-planes, and crafts of all sorts have simply gone missing with no explanation and no clues. All kinds of theories have been posed to...

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This is the HARDBACK version. Translated by Edward Baxter; Notes by Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd, Volker Dehs This adventure is for everyone who has thrilled to The Scarlet Pimpernel, A Tale of Two Cities, or Scaramouche. A nobleman, the Count of Chanteleine, leads a rebellion...

It's the 1980's. The Chapel brothers, proud inheritors of a successful bar located in the very small, very dry, and very hot town of Bowling, Arizona, proceed with their everyday lives completely unaware of the impending misfortune silently waiting in the dark viscous unknown....

It began with fragmentary, incoherent psychic messages -- Earth had been found by the inhabitants of not one, but two alternate realities. Before long representatives from both of them had arrived in the suburbs of Washington DC, hoping to recruit aid in their own...

Jules Verne once more gives a sympathetic treatment to the Americans in this tale set during the English blockade of American ports. Originally published in 1871 as "Les Forceurs de Blocus." Translated from the French by Mrs. Arthur Bell. Includes a new introduction by...

_The Leaky Establishment_ is an atomic farce whose author David Langford once worked in the gentle radioactive glow of Britain's nuclear weapons industry, and hilariously satirizes its ghastly bureaucracy from the inside. Black comedy overtakes the unfortunate defence-scientist hero Roy Tappen when a "harmless"...

The world's leading physicist attempts to use string theory to bring his daughter back from the dead. A novel from award winning Maine journalist Mark LaFlamme.Author: Mark LaflammeISBN-10: 1591138531ISBN-13: 9781591138532Publisher: Booklocker.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/22/2005Pages: 276Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.62d

This is the third of an on-going series in the adventures of Jake, the Beer-Belly Kitty. In this episode they realize the underworld has expedited work in their secret laboratories. Also, the fearsome, Savage, Incorrigible, Cat-Creature (SICC) makes his markAuthor: Deborah MidkiffISBN-10: 1591138477ISBN-13: 9781591138471Publisher:...

Prepare to skew your view of the world: where jinni in the clouds of a future Tel Aviv aren't spirits but powerful computer programs; where a suburban garden hiding unrecognizable bones; to a planet colony that outlaws color; or the night when a lonely...

The Warlord of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third of his Barsoom series. Burroughs began writing it in June, 1913, going through five working titles; Yellow Men of Barsoom, The Fighting Prince of Mars, Across Savage...

When government supervision began to strangle him, Tommy made the best run he could to total freedom. Robots had created the utopian city he lived in and anyone could leave, but they said real escape was impossible. He didn't care anymore. Today he would...

In the Doorchusser Constellation, a rock planet hangs in a dark galaxy. Hidden on this world is the Miradoor, the only gateway into the evil realm of Agroanan Manbats, where Alignment Commanders and another are held captive. In the midst of a Huroid Revolution...

The Freaks of Origin is a story involving magic, powers, and alternate, interconnected worlds. Yet despite all that, the main focus consists of growing up under desperate circumstances and how this affects each character. There are several unique characters, and they all have a...

Humans have been intrigued with the sky and what lies beyond since the beginning of time. They looked at the moon, the stars and the planets while wished to unlock their secrets. An unexplainable yearning, a strange homesickness guided their attempt, a subconscious one...

A Little Yellow Cap teaches children the importance of throwing away trash and not littering. It introduces children to the concept of recycling and volunteering to help keep the world clean. Author: June MonroeISBN-10: 1546206965ISBN-13: 9781546206965Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2017Pages: 24Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 11.00h x...

The Wind in the Willows: Large Print By Kenneth GrahameAuthor: Kenneth GrahameISBN-10: 1545593973ISBN-13: 9781545593974Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2017Pages: 138Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.30dLarge Print

Full text.The Coming Race (also known as Vril, the Power of the Coming Race)is a powerful novel that fired the imagination of readers starting in the 1870's. Among the earliest examples of what would become the genre of science fiction, among many authors it...

The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Feminist critic Dale Spender calls it a forerunner of science fiction. It...

No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their various concerns they...