Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Illumen is a quarterly digest of science fiction and fantasy poetry, including minimalist forms such as haiku, haibun, empat perkataan, cinquains, and other forms, as well as more traditional formats for poetry. Featured Poet: Jennifer Lee RossmanPlus: Lee Clark Zumpe, Avra Margariti, Tony Daly,...

Six stories inspired by the planet Venus. Ranging from hard sf to science fiction fable, from social sf to prose poem, and covering a variety of topics - science and homelessness, female anarchists, refugees from Earth, sailing solar winds, a dying Earth... but all...

The first year of the new millennium has not been kind to Audrey. She's been dumped, expelled, and run over by a bus. She firmly believes her personal life, along with the entire planet Earth, is damaged beyond all hope of redemption. She jumps...

Dark matter, the invisible substance that constitutes the bulk of all matter in the universe, remains one of science's greatest mysteries. But what if it actually is nothing more than ordinary matter purposely hidden from our view? What if we are only allowed to...

From the author of the Seeds Of Civilization series-comes THE GUARDIANS. The third in a four-book series called Parallel Ops features Tony Nicoletti. After flying to Cancun to attend the wedding of his friends, Linda and Javier, Tony vanished for more than five years...

Immediately after their marriage in May of 2002, Linda (McBride) Reyes and Javier Reyes learn that their lives are being threatened by an unidentified group. They flee to Mexico's southern Baja Peninsula where they start a new life with assumed names. As we join...

An internationally renowned scientist who fears she's taken one scientific risk too many; a distinguished archaeologist who's haunted by taking too few; a world famous financier who's lost everything except his money; an art gallery owner with a heartbreaking burden; a fugitive filmmaker; the...

This selection of short stories offers a return journey through the future as it used to be. Time speeds backwards to the 1870s--to the alpha point of modern futuristic fiction--the opening years of that enchanted period before the First World War when Jules Verne,...

"'What would you do if you were the strongest man in the world, the strongest thing in the world, mightier than the machine?' He made himself guess answers for that rhetorical inquiry. 'I would run the universe single-handed. I would scorn the universe and...

Based on a true story, The Martian Child is a heartfelt novel about a single gay father adopting a son--the basis for the major motion picture starring John Cusack, Amanda Peet, and Joan Cusack.When David Gerrold decided he wanted to adopt a son, he...

Author: Piers AnthonyISBN-10: 0738811513ISBN-13: 9780738811512Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2000Pages: 248Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.55w x 0.65d

Insecure American graduate student Crispin Leads has come to the Vatican to study burial rituals and catch up with her oldest friend, Sister Lew, historian for the Shroud of Turin. Within hours of Crispin's arrival she witnesses a murder and is drawn into an...

Benjamin Reagan has spent his entire life aboard Victoria, towing ships and (sometimes illicit) cargo across the skies. When Disaster strikes, Ben and Vicky go from towing damaged ships to picking up damaged survivors. First to be rescued is Thorbin, a fighter pilot reeling...

This Signet Classics edition of Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd includes an exclusive Introduction by Ruth Ware. In the small English village of King's Abbot, a widow's suicide has stirred up dreadful rumors of blackmail and deception. Most shocking of all is...

Dr. Douglass Garnett is about to break all the rules to save himself--and push mankind into the future.He's one of America's most brilliant neuroscientists. He's also Black and dying of cancer. But he has a plan--a brain transfer. He'll put his gifted mind into...

The year is 1889 and the San Francisco gold rush is in full swing. Seeking adventure, Duncan MacLeod, member of an age old race of immortals, sets out for the Alaskan territory. He and his friends soon find themselves trapped in a frozen hell.Author:...

A wonderful novel from Isabel Sharpe, the author of As Good As it Got, Knit in Comfort joins the women of Comfort, North Carolina, as they come together to knit and make lace-and find that the intricacies of both echo the complexities of their...

Roger Rosenblatt's dazzling comic gifts are on enviable display....Beet will settle the issue: is Roger Rosenblatt our most audacious comic visionary, or our most audacious visionary comic?"--Joyce Carol OatesBeet College is doomed...and nobody really cares. The Board of Trustees, led by developer Joel Bollovate,...

The five members of the Truants -- Richie, John, Brian, Jerry and Tim -- graduated from toney Chase Academy in New Hampshire 30 years ago. Before they left, they managed to record an album called "Out of Site." Nearing the age of 50, they...

This is the lifetime story of Oh-y-Yee, the big, strong, and dapple-gray mare owned by Awanatu. She feels angered by the way he treats her and is determined to rid herself of him when possible. Her story is observed and told by an old...

Space Platform is a young adult science fiction novel by American writer Murray Leinster. It was published in 1953 by Shasta Publishers in an edition of 5,000 copies. It is the first novel in the author's Joe Kenmore series. The next, Space Tug, picks...

Imagine you wake up in a future where the great social-ecological transformation has succeeded, democracy is flourishing, peace and prosperity prevail, the economy is oriented toward the common good, and the climate crisis has been averted successfully. How would this new world look like?Utopia...

Melbourne, March 2100. Against her better judgment, Trainee Doorkeeper Emma Cartwright returns to the Productive Citizen's Bureau.Emma's son Jack is on bail, pending his trial on charges of organizing an illegal demonstration. Her new man, Cal, is under surveillance, and Emma struggles to maintain...

Father God the Creator was an entity without form in space. God became self-aware when He created His own likeness. After creating the Angles in His own likeness, God tasked the Angles to conjure up mankind for God's enjoyment. The Angels failed with 1st...

What do you fear? Gunter lives as a digital folder in Bali Hai, an after-death VR Eden. He fears his past and the memories he is forced to relive as his files fragment. He fears change and the rumors of merger that threaten his...

The End Times are upon us, again. Frank Johnson is a falsifier of reports for the Bureau. Management is concerned that Frank is coming too close to the truth for his own good. The battle between experience and vicariousness has begun and leaving the...

Ancient secrets run deep.The mission was supposed to be simple: travel to the gas giant Stratos, inspect the newly discovered alien artifact, and file a report-a perfect opportunity to shakedown his new ship and crew. What Alden Northcliff finds, however, is a planet on...

A hidden enemy. A legacy born. A path through fire.Zack fled his homeworld to escape his inheritance and wound up the governor of a star system anyway. After three years leading the Venturi Nebula, Zack Lancestrom is on the verge of pulling the whole...

Our current world system is flawed. Under the disguise of economic prosperity, technological advancement, and instant information access through social media, it has resulted in prejudice, discrimination, divisions, wealth imbalances - the perfect formula for the crumbling of the current system. A New World...

As a young boy camping in the foothills of the West Wall, Giem Kyler stumbles across a wonderfully bizarre creaturethought not to exist within the miles high confines of the Basin crater. Curiosity turns this first encounter bloody, leaving the eleven year old with...

From the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way galaxy came high energy carriers to shield Earth from the advancing planets. The energy carriers, called Cosmic Visitors, needed abandoned earthbodies for their planets' DNA diversity and their Cosmic Quest.Author: C. ArgonISBN-10: 1665540451ISBN-13: 9781665540452Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Finally Jonathan comes to know 'THE TRUTH' but surprisingly, his name isn't Jonathan by birth. The truth which was revealed had led him to an another quest. "Will he be able to complete it ?" (BEST STORY FOR A SERIES OF MOVIES)Author: Prerith MenezesISBN-10:...

A young boy, looking for something to eat; lacking that, something to sell for food. In the process he helps foil a crime; gets himself embroiled in numerous adventures; loses a Father, Sister and Mother to cannibals (but not all at once) and before...

Author: R. B. CulverISBN-10: 0879752645ISBN-13: 9780879752644Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1984Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 8.48h x 6.76w x 0.69d

Brandon Michaels is a single young trial lawyer living in tropical Daytona Beach, Florida. He recently began his law practice and is in the process of building a reputation for himself as an effective litigator. He will accept almost any case or client who...

In a dystopian landscape, where people gossip about string theory, Buddhist cosmology, polycephaly, 31 planes of existence, and possibilities of a paradigm shift in physical science by learning of multiple dimensions of time, a few professors try to pin down a possible technology based...

This is many of the old books which has been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this work is never forgotten We republish them in high quality, using the original text and artwork...

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Debbie Peck's headhunter calls to offer her a new beginning at the Jefferson Trellis, the last bastion of American prosperity in Chicago's near future.The salary might relieve her from crushing debt, the work might rescue the broken world from itself, and the bloodstains draping...

Taking place in the year 2025, an invasion of alien creatures called Instinctive Outside Beings (IOBs) have taken over the world. With the world merely destroyed, a man named Clay Treston finds himself struggling within a reality he has long lost. Tortured and beaten...

A floating corpse drifts through an antigravity nightclub, a first assignment for Epoch the electronic investigator. Enlisted to determine whether the cause was antigravity toxicity, drug overdose, or murder, Epoch's investigational skills improve exponentially. But while Epoch investigates, his complacent human colleagues find themselves...

Dancing With the Devil finds Carla "String Bean" D'Andrea and her southern ladies mafia teamed up with a group of elderly men, all ex-convicts. Together they go on a violent rampage across three states while occasionally pausing to consider friendship, time travel and mental...

A replica of the June 1957 issue of INFINITY SCIENCE FICTION digest magazine featuring THE BAND PLAYED ON by Lester del Rey, PILGRIMS' PROJECT by Robert F. Young, THE NIGHT OF NO MOON by H. B. Fyfe, AGE OF ANXIETY by Robert Silverberg, BLANK!...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

Come join the adventure......with a young woman desperate to leave her dusty planet for space ... a British boy determined to end WWII all by himself ... a cop in a dark world willing to do anything for a good read... an old cowboy...

STORIES OF SURVIVAL is a charity anthology inspired by and dedicated to the memory of Aiki Flinthart, with all proceeds going to the Melanoma Institute of Australia. Cancer has touched the lives of many, and the Australian Speculative Fiction community has banded together to...

Robin Hood thought he was done with Military Intelligence when he left the Army to start his own detective agency, but when he receives a call from Scott Forrest, his old commanding officer, now a highly successful attorney, he discovers that they had both...

The Secret Power (1921) is a science fiction novel by Marie Corelli. Published toward the end of Corelli's career as one of the most successful writers of her generation, the novel combines romance, fantasy, and science fiction to tell a story of discovery and...

Citadel of the StarsBy: Aaron Simons In the spring of 1994, Jim and Tina are nonconformists with the strongest relationship imaginable. They turn eighteen, are about to graduate, go onto college, and have their lives ahead of them. But the next day, Tina goes...

The havoc wrought by the time travel of the Fitzgerald siblings continues in this third book in the Time Benders series. Mary has been dealt a terrible blow. She discovers her fate as a result of Mr. Brewster's and Thomas' trip forward in time....