Fiction - Science Fiction - General

"Brilliant....Stepmothers, stepfathers, stepchildren: all, I think, will find amusement and comfort in its pages."--Nigella Lawson "I really, really loved it."--Marian Keyes You can choose your family--but are you sure you want to? That's the question Samantha Baker poses in The Other Mothers' Club--a fresh,...

"Toni Blake's romances are so delicious, so intoxicating and addictive, a good night's sleep isn't even an option."--New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr A compelling new voice in supremely sexy contemporary romance, Toni Blake carries us to Sugar Creek with a sizzling, emotional...

"A remarkable writer."--Lisa Kleypas"No one can write a book quite like Samantha James."--Catherine AndersonSamantha James is one of the most acclaimed authors in the field--on a par with such luminaries as Julie Garwood, Judith McNaught, and Linda Lael Miller when it comes to creating...

In this amazingly timely story about what the wealthy do when Wall Street lays an egg, the author of Gilding Lily once again delivers a witty and insightful treatment of today's woman, as she explores the sacrifices they make, the bargains they strike, the...

The United States and its Freedom Coalition allies are conducting serial invasions across the globe, including an attack on the anti-capitalist rebels of Northern California. The Middle East--now a single consumerist Caliphate led by Lebanese pop singer Caliph Fred--is in an uproar after an...

A young reporter in 1923, Alma Reed accompanies archaeologists to the ruins of Chichen Itza, where a fortune in Mayan artifacts has been stolen from a sacrificial well. It's believed a curse was unleashed by the theft--yet the career-making story it offers the ambitious...

Armed with trust funds and pedigrees but bent on rebellion, twenty-somethings Alice, Harry, Rose, and Hugo are teetering on the brink of self-destruction. With Manhattan and London as their playgrounds, they chase oblivion--and their next high--through a glittering blur of nightclubs, decadent parties, high...

After exhausting their resources in the slums of Los Angeles, a junkie and his wife settle in London's "murder mile," the city's most violent and criminally corrupt section. Persevering past failed treatments, persistent temptation, urban ennui, and his wife's ruinous death wish, the nameless...

Until that fateful afternoon, Skunk Cunningham had been a normal little girl, playing on the curb in front of her house. Rick Buck-ley had been a normal geeky teen-ager, hosing off his brand-new car. Bob Oswald had been a normal sociopathic single father of...

"Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American--a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville." -- Washington Post"A marvelously written little book, fascinatingly intricate, yet deceptively simple. Well worth reading more...

A new day dawns blood redA master of fire, Mira is the last hope for the world. For centuries she has secretly enforced the history-altering edicts of the Triad. Now she and her unlikely ally--the human vampire hunter, Danaus--have come to Venice, home of...

The nationally bestselling author of The Amen Sisters and Up Pops the Devil, Angela Benson is one of the most exciting voices in contemporary African-American fiction. Her blistering family saga, Sins of the Father, is another glorious demonstration of her superior storytelling prowess. The...

A prototypical child of the sixties, Senator Reuben Castle coasted through his early life on a cloud of easy charisma, leaving behind more skeletons than Arlington: a highly questionable Vietnam record, an abandoned wife, and worse. Now, two decades later, his greatest dream is...

A Hollywood insider draws from his four decades of experience to create a scathingly brilliant and caustically comedic bird's-eye view behind the scenes of comedy television.A wickedly delicious roman-a-clef about the making of a sitcom called My Urban Buddies, this satirical romp of a...

From Nadine Haobsh, aka Jolie in NYC ("The poster child for the blogger generation...you can't help but love her."--New York Post), comes a delectable novel that only a true beauty industry insider could have written!Bella Hunter may be down but she's not out yet--and...

In the deep mountains of Appalachia, the Flints of Leatherwood, Tennessee, spread the word of the gospels by handling deadly serpents and drinking lye in front of large gatherings of the faithful. Believing his ten-year-old son Jacob--called Toad or Spud--to be a prophet, Charles,...

"Banks has skillfully used his repertoire of contemporary techniques to write a novel that is classically American--a dark, but sometimes funny, romance with echoes of Poe and Melville." -- Washington Post"A marvelously written little book, fascinatingly intricate, yet deceptively simple. Well worth reading more...

Suzanne Blume has known success and disappointment in equal measure. A respected lawyer who survived two marriages and put two children through college, she now faces the disquieting prospect of her wayward older daughter moving back home. But more troubling still is the news...

Christopher Bram tells the story of Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, a clairvoyant pianist who communes with ghosts, and who finds meaning in his life through a strange love triangle with a righteous ex-slave and nervous white governess. Spanning the years between the...

When thirty-four-year-old Chloe Morgan appears on Hank Oliver's doorstep in Cameron, Arizona, she arrives with more than her old white German shepherd, Hannah, and a rambunctious young horse in tow. Chloe is pregnant with Hank's child, and she's as tough-talking and vulnerable, skittish and...

Harry March is something of a wreck and more than half nuts. Up until now, he has lived peacefully on an island in the Hamptons with his talking dog, Hector, a born-again Evangelical and unapologetic capitalist. But March's life starts to completely unravel when...

Abandoned and alone, the fosterling Ilario grows up as the King's Freak, surrounded by all the pomp, intrigue, and danger of the Iberian court. Fleeing a failed treacherous attack, Ilario crosses the sea to Carthage, where the mysterious Penitence shrouds the sky in darkness....

Meet John Gullivan, age thirteen, obsessed with the moles that dot most of his body. Meet his brother Gully, who can't stop laughing at them. Now meet the brothers ten years later, in the middle of the most ferocious blizzard anyone can remember. Set...

I have been used, abused, lied to, and cheated on, blamed, shamed, screamed at, and ridiculed. I've been scammed and damned, had my ass kissed, my reputation dissed, and my face spat on. All in the name of working as a celebrity personal assistant...

This riveting debut collection of short fiction about women cops comes from the author's real-life experience as a Baton Rouge police officer. In an entirely fresh and unique voice, these stories reveal the humanity, compassion, humour, tragedy and redemption hidden behind the "blue wall."...

In Brooklyn, in the Age of Disco, Valentine Kessler -- a sweet Jewish girl who bears a remarkable resemblance to the Virgin Mary of Lourdes -- has an unerring gift for shattering the dreams and hopes of those who love her. Miriam, her long-suffering...

ContractsBy: Phoenix MaverickNo longer a Master Chief Navy Seal, Alex Jenson is approached by a man named Xavier who offers Alex the opportunity to make money working as a mercenary with five contracts needing fulfillment. These five contracts require Alex to assassinate several individuals...

When a famous physicist finds himself in the worst moment of his life, he decides that the only way to deal with it is to travel back in time and meet Jesus Christ, even though he is an atheist. In this story, the author...

PREPARE FOR A FULL DIVE! The Deity of Demise, Tezcatlipoca, has visited pandemonium upon the Accelerated World and driven Haruyuki to withdraw from Nega Nebulus! Parting ways with Kuroyukihime proves difficult, and harder still is surrendering himself to none other than the White King!...

James Tingly, the modest guy who is 12 and his dad find a time machine under a science museum and James Tingly's dad even finds his old friend who is the builder of the time machine! They set out for an adventure into the...

A diplomat captured as a spy and a sultry songstress flee their enemies on an outlawed planet in this action-packed science fiction romance. Disguised as a trader, Lord Rolf Cam'brii travels to the slave planet Souk on a secret mission to establish contact with...

The crew of the harvesting space vessel Skyward Seven, are bound for Dreganon V--a jungle world with a rich, and highly concentrated oxygen atmosphere. As they extract the planet's dense O2 supply, Katelan Driscoll (Astrobiologist/interplanetary botanist) and crew being to discover that this world...

The Judges of Origin continues the story of the Freaks of Origin. Fox is dying and in a foreign country. It's a race against the clock to meet his goals. Will he survive? Meanwhile in Origin, people are becoming increasingly aware of powers. It...

Moons Over Terra: Book OneBy: R. J. Harold R. J. Harold has had a lot of twists and turns in his life that brought him to where he is today. He was in the military and then went to college to study architecture and...

Dr. Raisa Ilyushkin invents a device, the SANG, that creates xenoborgs; continent-sized organismsthat incorporate nanobots, artificial intelligence, and robotics into an efficient living machine.Stepan Pavlovich, boss of the Apparat, an international crime syndicate, obtains a copy of the SANGand uses it for his evil...

The world has recovered from a plague that decimated the global population thanks to the efforts of the United Global Coalition (UGC). Now acting as the government, the UGC has set up isolated metros around the world. One of the largest metros is Capital...

A. Merritt's landmark classic of lost world fiction. The tome that influenced H.P. Lovecraft's Call of Cthulhu.Two princesses, one of temptation, power, and naked deceit; one of mercy, trust, and blind truth. Both bound to serve supernatural beings unto death.Both in love with the...

Bobby N. Kowen is living his life to the fullest. He's making friends, he's learning new things all the time, he's falling in love, he's having adventures. He's doing more in a single week than most of us experience in a lifetime.But that's the...

"Chung builds out her stories with imagination, absurdity and a dry sense of humor, all applied with X-Acto knife precision." ―Alexandra Kleeman, The New York Times Book Review "Bora Chung's stories glisten at the border of our weird world, and all our other weird...

Set in the future or in an imaginary present, on Terra or on distant planets, this collection of classic short stories is about war, aliens, governments, space and time travel, reality and the imagination, industrialization, human ambition and intelligent robots. From moral dilemmas in...

In the late 22nd century, in the fight for survival, a race migrated from its dying planet to its neighbor in the solar system, only to find more trouble. Until the true nature of the cause of the problem is found and reversed, they...

Prepare to delve into the darkest corners of the universe with Forbidden Futures: In this issue, JEFFREY THOMAS takes readers on a journey through unspeakable alternate universes in "The Probe," while ORRIN GREY trades in his face for a myriad of "Masks" and MATTHEW...

Pamela Series 13 invites you into the future, a future, where in a perverse reversal of roles, humans are fabricated, programmed, exploited, and terminated by Androids. Only after the main character, Pamela, succumbs to her desperate destiny, is she able to unravel the mystery...

Cannibalism. Murder. Rape. Absolute brutality. When civilizations ends...when the human race begins to revert to ancient, predatory savagery...when the world descends into a bloodthirsty hell...there is only survival. But for one man and one woman, survival means becoming something less than human. Something from...

Above: City is sprawling, technocratic, corrupt, and built hundreds of feet above a bay, resting upon the giant wooden shoulders of Pier. Below: Pier is a seemingly endless maze of stripped sequoia trees with trunks as thick as buildings, branches molded into a complex...

A revolution has taken over the government of the United States and the environment has been saved. All pollution has been banned and reversed. It's a bright, green new world. But this new world comes with a great cost. The United States is ruled...

The pieces of the galactic puzzle fall into place for this prequel in the GwenSeven Saga - a story about family and industry, love and discovery. Faith de Rossi - head of what is quickly becoming the most lucrative and influential company in the...

"A truly excellent novel. . . . The morbidly fascinating little twists of human existence are all here: love, sex, life and death, beauty and horror--the works." -- Chicago Sun-TimesIn The Book of Jamaica, Russell Banks explores the complexities of political life in the...

What do you have if you don't even have yourself?Rory Walsh, born into his parents' brood, has had his entire life documented through the lens of his mother, Nora. Like any mother, Nora wants the best for her son, curating a social profile for...

In a world where only women are allowed to be bards, a young minstryl finds himself in the middle of the Unholy's uprising. Soul-bound to a chaotic harp, Taslor must bring a boy to the mysterious hermit of Mistmarsh to be trained. He must...