Fiction - Science Fiction - General

The Napoleon of Notting Hill, like so many Chesterton novels, deftly straddles the fence between humor and philosophy. The place is London, in the far-future year of 1984. Inexplicably, not too much has changed since the turn of the century - except that the...

iGod is a science fiction novel with heroes, love, defeat and hope. But it is much more than that. This book aims to explore how societies may develop, given the technologies that we see at present. As Dirk Helbing describes it in his introduction:...

Marie's disciplined and orderly life is turned on its head, as she begins living into a new reality in a strange city, with people she does not know, and new responsibilities she was never taught. In addition to remotely opening and closing resident's doors,...

The Stories Behind the SeriesThough perhaps most famous as a novelist, Philip K. Dick wrote more than one hundred short stories over the course of his career, each as mind-bending and genre-defining as his longer works. Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams collects ten of...

King and Kyron were just average stick-up kids until one day, they stumbled across the lick of a lifetime. The best friends were not into selling drugs and would rather take money from local dealers who made their neighborhood drug infested. The two friends...

The cover on this book represents a vision of the end-time for planet Earth. It is a vision from Zyzie's mind of that upcoming event. In the foreground to the right is our wonderful home planet, Earth. Far to the right is our moon,...

Trylogia Ksiezycowa (The Lunar Trilogy or The Moon Trilogy) is a trilogy of science fiction novels by the Polish writer Jerzy Zulawski, written between 1901 and 1911. It has been translated into Russian, Czech, German and Hungarian, and has been reprinted several times in...

This is a posthumous collection of Blish essays, mostly on science fiction and fantasy. These include studies of Poul Anderson, James Branch Cabell, and the application of Spengler to science fiction. Other pieces range from "Music of the Absurd" (modern music-more fantastic than any...

Ben Bova's universe is always more than the sum of its parts... In TWICE SEVEN, "Conspiracy Theory" reveals the startling truth about those so-called Martian canals and a patch of New Mexico know as Roswell. In "Appointment in Sinai," the technology of virtual telepresence...

A stinging SFnal, futuristic satire on the TV industry, based on Ben's and Harlan Ellison's involvement in a real TV series, THE STARLOST. (Bova dedicates the novel to "Cordwainer Bird", the pen name Harlan Ellison uses when he does not want to be associated...

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, written by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order, free of war, conflict and domination.Author: Charlotte Perkins...

What would you do if you found yourself face to face with: -A computer that you fear may drive you insane? -A mathematical equation that proves you are about to die? -A seductive siren who promises you sex and death in outer space? -A...

The Island of Doctor Moreau By H. G. Wells. The Island of Doctor Moreau is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells. The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing...

A small group of survivors fight to rebuild civilization after the Earth is devastated by a huge solar flare. Cities became ovens. Grasslands became seas of flame. As the touch of dawn swept westward across the spinning planet Earth, its fiery finger killed everything...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a novel written by English author Mary Shelley that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a grotesque but sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was...

In the 19th adventure, Tom is asked for a double-header. Canada wants a version of his bullet train and Europe wants a high-speed cargo transportation system.Both point to similar solutions and each one brings him a new enemy, one political and one deadly dangerous.Canada...

Martha, a British pensioner, is targeted by the North American Mafia, who have teamed up with Al-Qaide to plan a covert war on Western countries, using secret electromagnetic technologies. Martha learns how to turn the tables on the perpetrators, and later discovers how the...

In Stevenson's suspense-filled masterpiece of horror, a shameless, repulsive creature stalks the streets and he's becoming harder to control... The charming Dr Jekyll could not be more different to the violent and depraved Mr Hyde - until, that is, he takes a potion of...

The stranger arrives early in February, one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow. He is wrapped up from head to foot, and the brim of his hat hides every inch of his face. Rude and rough, the stranger works with...

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is the world's most famous gothic novel and the first work of science fiction, with Frankenstein's monster being a symbol of science gone awry. Shelley's masterpiece has inspired numerous films, plays and other books. This, the 1831 edition, contains the author's...

H. G. Wells (1866-1946), alongside Jules Verne, has been given the title "Father of Science Fiction" In 1898 he wrote the War of the Worlds: "Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the...

The Underground City by Jules Verne centers around one of the most important natural resources that was behind the Industrial Revolution: Coal. The events of the story take place among the mining community of Aberfoyle, near Stirling, Scotland. All starts when a superior named...

She was far away, this woman he'd been. He knew her child's and husband's names. He could see their faces. But Natalie was a ghost. Natalie Keller was a happy, attractive woman in the prime of her life: a mother and a wife. The...

When gay becomes illegal: 2037 is a bold look at a future world gone mad, where men and women are jailed for being gay or simply for being different. Join Stephe Stafford as he becomes embroiled in the conflict and, while hoping to preserve...

"I don't enjoy violence. I'm just-" She shrugged. "-good at it."She comes to life in a place she'd never have been caught dead: The stage of a strip club. Aghast, confounded, she turns to bolt, only to find herself staring into a wall of...

Why has Roger Manning suddenly gone dark? Can his pal Tom Corbett really be dead? What caused the strange trouble on Titan-and how is it connected to a rocket race in outer space? These are but a few of the mysteries confounding Captain Steve...

A blood delivery ship takes on extra weight. Mysterious words appear across a young woman's body. The door in the forest is getting harder and harder to ignore.Find a safe spot to hide and enjoy 16 tales of weird fiction--the place where science, the...

In the 27th novel of this new series, Tom is now back from his adventure on Neptune and had a small mission to accomplish before he feels the previous one is complete. His small unmanned test submarine was lost on its deep sea test...

Escape on Venus is the fourth book in the Venus series (Sometimes called the "Carson Napier of Venus series") by Edgar Rice Burroughs. It consists of four interconnected stories published in Fantasic Adventures between 1941 and 1942: "Slaves of the Fishmen," "Goddess of Fire,"...

EXTINCTION is the follow-up to The Trail of the Oent'rfazr, a story about time travel and the Johnson family. It takes place along Route 66 in Arizona in the first part of the twenty-first century and is a story about what could happen or...

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Some early editions are titled A Yankee at the Court of King Arthur. In the...

3 enemies... 2 cities... 1 sheriff... BOOM For Sheriff Duke, the danger has reached the final countdown. Captured, tortured, beaten but undefeated, it's sixty seconds to midnight and the only way to save his wife and daughter is through the fugitive he left home...

In book 26 of this new series, Tom Swift is requested to head a consortium of nations in developing and flying a new type of mission into space. He finds himself developing a brand new vessel, one that likely needs to fly into the...

The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. It has been described as an early forerunner of science fiction.Author: Margaret CavendishISBN-10:...

If you could go back in time...and witness any event...where would you go? When Dr. Tom Greenbaum faces that question after successfully discovering the secret to time travel, he knows the time, place and event he will witness: the death and failed resurrection of...

S.P. Somtow's first novel, Starship & Haiku, was awarded the Locus Award and caused a sensation in 1981 with its extraordinary Asian-skewed view of the post nuclear apocalypse. In this novel, only Japan has survived a world-wide holocaust, and Japan's culture has turned inward,...

Gabriel John Utterson and his cousin Richard Enfield reach the door of a large house on their weekly walk. Enfield tells Utterson that months ago he saw a sinister-looking man named Edward Hyde trample a young girl after accidentally bumping into her. Enfield forced...

Samurai Vs. Robots. Progress. Murder. Choice. In 1901, the Meiji Restoration has abolished the old ways and ushered in a cybernetic revolution. Androids integrate into society at all levels, following their programming for the betterment of every citizen, as servants, bodyguards, and bureaucrats. Jinzou...

In The War of the Worlds (1898) H. G. Wells invented the myth of invasion from outer space. Martians land near London, conquering all before them, and ruin the metropolis; the fate of civilization and even of the human race remains in doubt until...

A Shocking Revelation... The Government's Worst Nightmare...An Impossible Rescue... Ryan Webster, a champion swimmer turned fugitive, has kept the promise he'd made to his dying grandfather and rescued a new species of monkey from their burned out home in the Amazon jungle. But the...

Author: David GerroldISBN-10: 1939888484ISBN-13: 9781939888488Publisher: Comicmix LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2016Pages: 226Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Jalian, a silver-eyed huntress from 700 years in the future, travels back to the 20th century in an attempt to save her world from the ravages of nuclear destruction. A stunning tour-de-force of love and adventure sweeping along a timeline of infinitely possible worldsAuthor:...

It is the fifth century, and the Germanic tribes are pushing westward toward the world of Rome. In the forest of the Teutons, Sigfrid works at the forge and runs with the wolves. In the Taunus mountains, Brunhild trains with the Walkyriun, the witch-warriors...

Jessamyn has escaped Earth with food for her starving world, but her troubles are just beginning. She must rebuild her life without Pavel, the Terran whose kiss haunts her. Her success is further tainted by the loss of her beloved brother. Ethan disabled the...

What if the end of man is not caused by some cataclysmic event, but by the nature of humans themselves? In Age of Blight, a young scientist's harsh and unnecessary experiments on monkeys are recorded for posterity; children are replaced by their doppelgangers, which...

'John Blackburn is today's master of horror.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Achieves a delicious sense of nausea.' - The Guardian ' G]iant monsters . . . products of a mutation . . . bubonic plague ' - The Observer 'He is certainly the best...

The Collision is the worst disaster in human history. So far... In the near future, an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider causes an enormous explosion, known as the Collision. The blast flattens a huge chunk of central Europe and punches a massive hole...

Space Force special forces Planeteers are charged with facilitating contact with alien cultures. Planeteer Boris Brazil is assigned to planet Aqua where he must pacify warring tribes. Boris' ingenuity and the Force's technology may just save the day. Next Boris is assigned to Golden,...

Just as the Hudson Valley of New York is beginning to rebuild from the zombie apocalypse, a new threat emerges that threatens to destroy everyone in its path. Dr. Rebecca "Becks" Truesdale must face an old enemy, deal with a crushing loss, and put...

Hut Town is the remnants of the original Martian settlement; a collection of inflatable buildings abandoned by the Trust Authority and the mining corporations and now occupied by those catering to the baser needs of miners and construction workers in for a spree. But...