Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Station Alpha; a remote Martian research facility isolated by a planet wide dust storm. When one of the scientists is found murdered, it falls to Inspector McKernan to determine which of the remaining twelve people at the station wielded the fatal weapon. But, as...

**This deluxe collection contains five complete novels by Edgar Rice Burroughs, including the original illustrations **Barsoom, a name that has inspired the imaginations of readers for a century. Edgar Rice Burroughs created his vision of a dying Mars to serve as a backdrop for...

A "fast-paced and engrossing" (Publishers Weekly) sci-fi novel that asks the question: What would you do to survive? When the black spheres filled the sky, anyone caught beneath them would vanish in a flash of blue-white light. Huddled indoors, the survivors were unaware if...

"Including work by literary heavy-hitters... the anthology considers the act and weight of watching and being watched... and in Watchlist, these see-to-know quests range from funny to terrifying." --Los Angeles Magazine In Watchlist, some of today's most prominent and promising fiction writers from around...

Superbia is the third book in the amazing Deadly Sins Series by Nicci Sefton. Both Luxuria and Invidia set the stage for the possible marriage of Derrick and Annabell, the never ending conflict between the vampires, werewolves and humans as well as conflicts between...

Shark Sex, mutant cats, and strange sexually transmitted diseases. Over the past few decades, sexually transmitted diseases have evolved in unusual ways. Herpes, AIDS, Gonorrhea; these are all STDs of the past. These days, sexually transmitted diseases are more extreme and bizarre. Not exactly...

In a city ridden with prostitute furries, cannibal cops and warehouse-sized mob bosses, I've got my work cut out for me. My name is Jimmy Plush. I'm a private detective. I'm also a teddy bear. It all started when the original Jimmy Plush entered...

When Dale Alden of the Duxbury Historical Preservation Society awakes on the morning before Thanksgiving, there's a turkey hanging from a tree in his backyard, a duck hanging from a rope in his fridge, an ill-tempered farmer in his bedroom, cops on his doorstep,...

8 Science Fiction Classics by Lester Del Rey - Badge of Infamy Dead Ringer Let 'Em Breathe Space No Strings Attached Police Your Planet Pursuit The Sky Is Falling VictoryAuthor: Lester Del ReyISBN-10: 1935785559ISBN-13: 9781935785552Publisher: Bottom of the Hill PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2010Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Space Pirates, spaceship graveyards, Martian monsters, Vestan mind parasites, these are just a few of the things contained in this collection of stories drawn from the pages of Astounding, Amazing Stories, and Weird Tales. Edmond Hamilton was one of the most popular writers during...

In this continuation of Andre Norton's Time Trader series, a spaceship carrying modern day Apaches is sent in an attempt to colonize one of the worlds revealed by the time agents. But when the ship crashes, the colonists find they must fight not only...

Who controls power controls the Solar System, and Interplanetary Power, through its power accumulators controls power. Spencer Chambers, the president of Interplanetary Power, used that control to rule the Solar System with an iron thumb that allowed no dissent. When Russell Page and his...

This collection of 18 proto-science fiction tales, translated and edited by renowned science fiction writer and scholar Brian Stableford, includes such ground-breaking tales as Charles Cros' An Interastral Drama (1872), about an unlawful love between an Earthman and a Venusian woman, Victorien Sardou's The...

Han Ryner (1861-1938) was a French anarchist, a philosopher and a startlingly original science fiction writer in pre-Wellsian, French scientific romance; he was once voted the Prince of Storytellers by a popular magazine. In The Superhumans (1929), Ryner tells stories of the Time of...

Enemy Force (1903) is a ground-breaking, surrealistic novel about a poet who is locked in a lunatic asylum and who mysteriously becomes possessed by an "Enemy Force," possibly an alien being from a hellish planet orbiting the star Aldebaran. Both tragic and satirical, emotional...

Les Dieux Verts The Green Gods] (1961) tells of the romance of Prince Aran and Atlena during the Emerald Age of the Earth, in the far future, when Man's Empire is on the decline and the world is ruled by the eponymous "Green Gods,"...

In The Young Vampire (1920), a London girl is possessed by an extra-dimensional entity which mutates her body and turns her into a living vampire. The Supernatural Assassin (1923) tells the tale of a murderous wraith. Finally, Companions of the Universe (1934) is Rosny's...

The devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. "All this I will give you," he said, "if you will bow down and worship me." Jesus said to him, "Away from me,...

It all begins innocently enough when the corpse of a London boxer is discovered at sunrise on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. But the man was reportedly seen in London only a couple of hours earlier... A great English detective and France's...

Felix Bodin's The Novel of the Future was first published in 1834. Although it attracted little attention at the time, it has since been solidly established as a landmark work within the canon of futuristic science fiction. As a prediction of life in the...

During an expedition to the North Pole, French aeronauts Jean-Louis de Venasque and Jacques Ceintras stumble upon an alien society of technologically-advanced reptilian humanoids living in a secret enclave that has been isolated from the world for millions of years. Charles Derennes (1882-1930) was...

Of all the authors who followed in the footsteps of Jules Verne, the most important was Albert Robida (1848-1926), a writer-artist who also became the founding father of science fiction illustration. Robida wrote and illustrated his own scientific anticipations, such as The Adventures of...

The stories in F. Brett Cox's debut collection move through multiple genres and many times and places, from the monsters of the 19th century to the future fields of war, from New England to the South to the American West, from the strange house...

This debut collection from Nebula-nominated author Beth Cato brings together works that span history and space, a showcase of vividly imagined speculative stories that range from introspective and intense to outright whimsical. Here you'll find the souls of horses bonded into war machines of...

What would you do if you controlled powers that were once attributed to gods? What if what you had heard was right: sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic? High school student Peter Van Meer finds an impossible treasure that seems too good to...

On the planet of Irustan, one woman is fighting back... Zahra IbSada is a talented medicant, and sees much of the joy in the lives of the women she heals-and much of the pain. She sees a wife brutally beaten, a prostitute suffering at...

In the constant apocalypse nobody cares if your skull is made of wood or your friends are flying ants. Corrosive phantoms are two-a-penny in such a high-res environment. Minotaur Babs improves the shining hour by snogging horses and has a style pedal attached to...

Punktown's health agents are charged with keeping the public safe from infectious disease. Between inter-planetary travel, super-mutant strains of bacteria and criminal genetic manipulation they certainly keep busy. But for health agent Montgomery Black work is about to consume his life. The problem is...

All Natasha Ionadis wants is to serve the Goddess as a Temple Guard, and she volunteers eagerly for a dangerous mission to infiltrate a band of renegade warriors and imprinters. But, once away from the temple, the issues are no longer so simple and...

In the late 20th Century, unprecedented immigration changed completely the cultural foundations of the United States . As new majorities took over, a counter migration began as Americans moved back to ancestral countries. By 2038 the country had a new demographic make up, so...

Praise for the gypt sequence: "With Little, Big, Crowley established himself as America's greatest living writer of fantasy. gypt confirms that he is one of our finest living writers, period."--Michael Dirda"A dizzying experience, achieved with unerring security of technique."--The New York Times Book Review"A...

Ren, born to rule, made one fatal mistake. Sentenced to virtual solitary confinement, she comes out a changed woman.Author: Kelley EskridgeISBN-10: 1931520100ISBN-13: 9781931520102Publisher: Small Beer PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/18/2011Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.62w x 0.83d

In a near-future New York subject to an increasingly hostile government, Laek, a non-conformist history teacher, and Janie, an activist lawyer, struggle to lead good and useful lives. After Laek is badly injured in a brutal confrontation with the police, they are forced to...

Chill out. It's only the technological singularity. Blake Given's web-enabled fridge has pulled the plug on the Internet, turning its owner's life - and the whole world - upside down. Blake has modest ambitions for his life. He wants to have his job reclassified,...

When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on Iceland, where they enter...

A hurricane brews in the Pacific, grounding all military aircraft. The storm awakens an ancient predator from a decades-long slumber, a Kaiju bent on ravaging Tokyo. Storm conditions and a treaty banning nuclear weapons hinder offensive capabilities. A Joint Task Force turn to U.S....

Gerardo, formerly Bishop of the city of Nessuna in medieval Italy, writes his memoirs as he listens to the muezzin's call to prayer in the city of Lamakan. Exiled by his boyhood friend, Pietro, who has to power in Nessuna, Gerardo knows details of...

A novel of Interstellar Contact, Virtual Worlds, and the Essence of Humanity. Earth is empty of humans. This surprising observation stymies Rome and his shipmates, crew of the starship come to re-establish contact from the colonies. What could have happened in the 500-years of...

What could a depressed soldier, a bloodthirsty journalist, a strange dog, a writer in the making, a depressive commissioner, a hitman, a stripper and a poet possibly have in common? Well, they all live in Babylon, a city where everything is possible, including the...

Hunter Hawk is a quirky, ambitious inventor who invents a device that enables him to turn living matter into stone and reverse the process when he wishes. When he meets the lovely Megaera, who teaches him to turn stone into flesh, they head for...

This is Metropolis, the novel that the film's screenwriter -- Thea von Harbou, who was director Fritz Lang's wife, and a collaborator in the creation of the film -- this is the novel that Harbou wrote from her own notes. It contains bits of...

The world for some comes to an end, while for others it is a new beginning. Tam, who loves her privacy and hates children has her world interrupted by its ending. Faced with children with no parents and no one to look after them,...

Have you ever wondered just How Damon Swift went from the older Swift Company to having the mega-complex, Swift Enterprises?Well, the story is told in this new novel about his initial dream and announcement he intends to build a facility four miles on each...

Scuba diver Eric Rayner disappears while diving at Dean's Blue Hole in Long Island, Bahamas. Atlantis researcher Allison Chandley is approached by Italian billionaire Sergio Franca. USGS political liaison Walker Reade is studying a report by a young seismologist detailing a possible eruption of...

The recent reports of the twenty Americans in Cuba, in China too, who have suffered the effects of temporary concussions from audio and microwave signals reminds me of the telepathic hit I received in the 1960s. I've thus drawn the following conclusions: Telepathic controls...

In this book is the power of real magic No joke, no tricks. It's a game you can never lose if you learn the secret. Join me, Prometheus, as I take you on my lifelong journey in the search for real magic. I found...

What is terrorizing a nature preserve near a small town in rural Idaho? Half the town believes it's the Lake Lowell Ghost and the rest are convinced it's a diabolical beast. With no end in sight, they need help. Enter Special Agent Winifred Ford,...

Barnabas Collins and the Mysterious Ghost (January 1970) Collinwood is plagued with a series of menacing events when a ballet troupe arrives there to perform for the summer tourists. One girl in particular, the beautiful Diana Samson, whom Barnabas has come to love, is...

Beautifully made speculative fiction.The complete May 2018 issue of Metaphorosis magazine.Table of Contents Calm Folk, Come Forth - Adan Berkowitz On the Scales of Dragons - Kathryn Yelinek Suzy's Friend - David Hammond Chasing the Light - Gloria Wickman Cover art by Candra Hope.Author:...

Lieutenant Leah Samuels catches the first homicide case of the new year 2235, and a monster blizzard is obscuring the evidence. The Murder Scene Investigators find only blood and microscopic pieces of flesh and bone of an estimated twenty-plus people. With a winter that...