Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Tom Corbett, Roger Manning, and the big Venusian Astro have triumphed over the perils of interplanetary pirates, rogue reactors, and hostile environments. But when the Polaris is assigned to lead a "wagon train" of ships to colonize a distant world, the cadets find themselves...

Tom Corbett and the intrepid crew of the Polaris race against time to recover a stolen security key that's being used to destroy all law and order within the Solar Alliance. Their mission will take the cadets undercover into the seediest planetary stopovers along...

Should you ever wake up to find a day of the week missing due to a freak abnormality in the nature of space-time, it's probably a good idea not to mention it to anyone. It's definitely a good idea not to mention it to...

FINALIST FOR THE PHILIP K. DICK AWARD "Compelling. His novels take readers to the precipice of disaster." -San Francisco Chronicle Cam Najarro and Ruth Goldman have developed a vaccine to protect Earth's survivors from the Archos plague, but the shattered U.S. government will do...

WIB GET OUT NOW Letter by letter, etched by an invisible hand, the warning formed across the back of the piano before Wib's eyes. People in Amstey say the old Morphy house is haunted, "has been for years. Everybody knows that." Wib, who once...

Eleven of Basil Wells' finest stories, reprinted here for the first time since their original publication in 1950s science fiction magazines.Author: Basil WellsISBN-10: 0993038719ISBN-13: 9780993038716Publisher: Richard SIMMs PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2016Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

Most people know where they belong. As an outcast, even among misfits, I'm not that lucky. It's fine. I don't need them. These walls I've built keep me safe. Until they don't anymore. With the rebellion under way, I have enough on my hands...

Two astronauts travel on the first manned expedition to the planet Venus. When the mission is mysteriously aborted and the ship returns to Earth, the Captain is missing and the First Officer, Harry M. Evans, can't explain what happened. Under psychiatric evaluation and interrogation,...

LIFE CAME OUT OF AFRICA...But now it's death's turn...It spreads like a plague but it's not a disease. Medical science is helpless against the deadly autoimmune reaction caused by the bite of the swarming African flies. Billions are dead, more are dying. Across the...

The Gray ShipA Novel of Time TravelRevised Edition, November 2018"Captain, we have a problem."I hit the reply button on the intercom next to my bed."What is it, Lieutenant?""It feels like we're going aground, ma'am."No, they weren't going aground, but yes, they had a problem-a...

Travel to the planet Mars Explore its geography; confront its terrifying monsters; and meet the ancient Marsian society, from whose culture and philosophy Earthlings may learn much. Written by Charles K. Landis, founder of Vineland, New Jersey, c. 1876, and here published for the...

Volume 2.0 of The Unveiling Series Skull and Bones, the Bilderberg Group and the Council on Foreign Relations: most people know these organizations exist in the shadows. There are also rumors of groups alleged to be pure myth whose intentions, insiders whisper, are dreadfully...

When Daryl McIntyre wins a $30 million dollar grant from the Turing Challenge Committee to make a bold advance in artificial intelligence and prevent environmental collapse, he has no idea his theory will transform humanity. Cataclysmic earthquakes, deadly storms, endless drought and rising seas...

Tzaro Janssen, a seismologist in a next-gen lab in the San Juan Islands, witnesses a meltdown. His girlfriend Therica has become...not herself. Stories like hers are lighting up media around the globe--psychotic breaks, social isolation, explosive violence. And no known cause.A chilling discovery on...

Dare to question the prophecy? Prepare to be terminated. Oracle Prime Leon IXV Courtee disputes the Eternity prophecy at the Conclave of Ninety Nine, the first challenge in the Empire's history. The next morning he disappears. Faced with a prediction that threatens to bring...

Arbitrary Nonsense is a surreal odyssey of the mind. A dark comedy in search of truth in an absurd universe. A dystopian fable of a clockwork future. A story of mythos vs logos, love & revolution, misfit anarchists & the great machine, the midnight...

When an intruder dies mysteriously in Exeter Cathedral, Detective Inspector Cecilia Cavaliere's investigation becomes anything but routine. Thwarted by her superiors, she finds an unlikely source of help in a family friend: but can a law enforcer believe a priest's stories about an evil...

The Golden Cord: Book One of the Iron Dragon Series: Some bonds can never be broken. A hunter must leave behind the woman he loves, give up all hope of survival, as he is forced to guide his most hated enemies on a suicidal...

Whether set in terrestrial oceans or on far-off space stations, Cat Rambo's masterfully told stories explore themes of gender, despair, tragedy, and the triumph of both human and non-human alike. Cats talk, fur wraps itself around you, aliens overstay their welcome, and superheroes deal...

As Sean digs to the heart of this conspiracy, he learns that a ruthless and clandestine group of Americans known as the Foundation has known for decades about the existence of extraterrestrials and their secret history on the planet, a detailed history dating back...

Everything in ex-Marine Sean O'Connell's life changes in an instant when an unspeakable evil enters a small and secluded Midwestern cottage town during the 4th of July holiday and snatches his wife and son, along with the other residents of the town. This mass...

Almost a year has passed since the Office of Adaptive and Complementary Enhancement Technologies went public. Agent Rachel Peng has settled into her new job as cyborg liaison to the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police, but for Rachel and her team, murder is always just...

It's the 50th century. Socionomics makes the fifty human worlds of the Incatena prosperous and stable, if a bit raucous on Saturday nights. But socionomics doesn't cover crises, such as the dictatorship that's taken over Okura, or the unscrupulous tycoon who's plotting something over...

"Magnificent mansions with dysfunctional diplomats, ruined rock stars and failing families hid their shortcomings behind these structures of supposed strength. Such is life in the District." --Cybil Lewis Cybil Lewis and her inspector-in-training, Jane, are back on the case. Hired to find the missing...

For centuries, adherents of the world's religions have had plenty of fiction to enjoy. Pick up any holy book, and you'll find an entertaining collection of silly fantasies-yet millions of people believe them and base their entire lives around them. It would be funny...

Desperate to escape the tedium of small island life, Florian finds himself drawn to Zar, not realizing how thoroughly her unconventional spirit will challenge his beliefs. The arrival of Emily relieves some of the tension that exists between the two, but hidden agendas provide...

It is the darkest chapter of our civilization. Ten years after the global fallout, teetering on the edge of extinction, a man is fighting for survival. As the threat of inner-city violence spans outward, Miles Stone is left to his own ingenuity, along with...

What happens after The End? As social animals, humans can only be traveling loners for so long; we naturally form communities. These eighteen post-apocalyptic tales focus on the phoenix, not the ashes. After the death of a world, you start to consider the things...

"The Guardener's Tale" is a dystopic novel of the future in which everything is controlled and perfect, from work to sex. Unemployment does not exist. Stimulants and holograms enhance the sexual experience. One man, Thorne, searches for something more. He learns that there is...

Queen of the Oaks, the third book in the "Chronicles of Burnam Tau'roh" pentology, follows Kayleigh Lambert and Lincoln Torres as they travel back in time to discover the origins of Mona Tarok, the Oak Hotel and the mysterious de'Malange.Author: Walter G. KlimczakISBN-10: 0982573235ISBN-13:...

When Galactic Guardian Rhea Hawke investigates the genocide of an entire spiritual sect, she collides not only with dark intrigue but with her own tarnished past. "Outer Diverse" is Nina Munteanu's newest Science Fiction thriller. It is the first of her Splintered Universe Trilogy.Author:...

White Flag of the Dead Book 1: Surrender of the Living. How would you expect the world to end? Would it be in a searing flash of light? Perhaps through the accumulated destruction of natural disasters? Or will it end with a gasp, a...

The Coming Race tells the story of a young American man, who discovers the thriving world of a highly advanced race, living deep beneath the earth. This extraordinary classic is considered to be one of the first Science Fiction novels, and is required reading...

THE JEHOVAH CONTRACT Victor Koman's Prometheus Award-winning novel is back in a new edition A dying assassin is given one final assignment and one last chance for survival. The job: find God Almighty and destroy Him. The payment: eternal life. With the aid of...

College students Neil Carpenter and Mark Hudson set out to create "The Triumvirate," a comic book about a vampire, a werewolf, and a zombie who resist their evil natures and hunt their own kind. When Neil learns hypnosis in his Psychology class, he proposes...

The Vampires of Malibu High is the first collection of Chris Bunch's short fiction. We've gathered the very best of his stories published in magazines such as Absolute Magnitude, Fantastic Stories, Dreams of Decadence, and Realms of Fantasy. Each story is a polished gem...

When a plague wipes out most of humanity, fifteen-year-old Eric sets out to find his father. Sixty years later, Eric starts another long journey in an America that has long since quit resembling our own, but there are shadows everywhere. Shadows of what the...

It's the final day of the season for the annual Punktown Fair and excitement is high. For the couple in charge, Del and Sophi Kahn, it's a bittersweet day of transition. Little do they realize the trials they will face and how severely this...

Author: Arnould Galopin, Jean-Marc LofficierISBN-10: 0974071110ISBN-13: 9780974071114Publisher: Hollywood ComicsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2003Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.10h x 6.22w x 0.63dReview Citation(s): Asimov's Science Fiction 10/01/2004 pg. 235

So I travelled, stopping ever and again, in great strides of a thousand years or more, drawn on by the mystery of the earth's fate, watching with a strange fascination the sun grow larger and duller in the westward sky, and the life of...

Meet Joe, the ill-fated tour guide at the center of a story that beings with the death of Abraham Lincoln, at Joe's hands. There are strange happenings going on at Dactyl, Inc., the world's first and only time travel tourism company. So strange that...

This startling erotic story is Kyle Stone's last novel. The Hidden Slave explores the dangerous a d hazy boundaries between fantasy, desire and reality. What happens when your fantasy comes true? And can you ever get back to real life again and find some...

Raised in a secret convent in Area 51, young Maggie is caught up in alien plans for global warming in this hilarious satire of political correctness featuring Amelia Earhart, J. Edgar Hoover, Elvis Presley, Jimmy Hoffa, Joseph Smith, Harry S. Truman, D.B. Cooper, Howard...

From the New York Times Bestselling author of the DUNE series comes a spectacular science fiction novel: Billy Jeeling is the greatest hero in the history of mankind, the scientific genius who designed and built Skyship, an immense flying city that has been cleansing...

Where are the symbols coming from? What do they mean? Why have they appeared in an Egyptian tomb, a Peruvian palace, and a shape created by a fakir's snakes? Could they be related to the astounding disaster at Stonehenge? Dr. Gatsby Donovan's work at...

A dictionary-style guide to the science fiction worlds of Jack Vance. A souvenir of the worlds you have visited in the past A planning guide for your next excursion off world A handy survival manual for unexpected occasions A reference work on the science...

A dictionary-style guide to the science fiction worlds of Jack Vance. A souvenir of the worlds you have visited in the past A planning guide for your next excursion off world A handy survival manual for unexpected occasions A reference work on the science...

Arnold Enright has been a prisoner for the past six years, confined to a cell not of his own making. Sentenced to viewing his world's reflection in a mirror and with little hope of escape, he is a man whose whole existence can be...

Flatland, see Flatlandblends three genres - the annotated novel, the parallel novel and the reimagined classic - into a fantastical editionof the 1884 science fiction novellaFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensionsby Edward Abbott Abbott. Twelve designers collaborated to produce areading experience that is both...

A GRIPPING NEW SCIENCE FICTION THRILLER NOVEL SET IN 'NEW LONDON' 2049 AD, IN THE MIDST OF NANO-TECHNOLOGY. WE LIVED IN THE DIGITAL AGE, FUTURE WARS WOULD BE FOUGHT THROUGH TECHNOLOGY. NEW LONDON'S ARCHITECTURE KEPT GROWING; THEY BUILT BUILDINGS OUT OF NOTHING. FOREIGN ENTITIES...