Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Kate knows what she saw on the satellite footage: the burnt out remains of a town. But she was drunk, the evidence vanishes and nobody believes her.Determined to prove it at any cost and fascinated to know who would want to live hidden in...

Prepare for an out-of-this-world experience in Letters from Another Galaxy. When toolmakers from an outer cluster of the Milky Way Galaxy arrive on Earth, they're in for a surprise. Instead of the aggressive, sex-addicted species they expected to find, they encounter humans with complex...

Author: Piers AnthonyISBN-10: 073881153XISBN-13: 9780738811536Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2000Pages: 208Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.52h x 5.51w x 0.58d

A diverse collection of science fiction authors, characters, and stories, featuring contributions by Neal Stephenson, Paul McAuley, Peter Wat, Brian Aldiss, Nancy Fulda, and Greg Eaton. Originally launched in 2011 by MIT Technology Review, the Twelve Tomorrows series explores the future implications of emerging...

Humanity has united under one government and has started to take to the stars. However, FTL is dangerous, expensive, and still slow. So, a probe is sent out to gather samples and bring them back for analysis. Dr Avery Hutton is one of the...

Author: Dani Kollin, Eytan KollinISBN-10: 8200122441ISBN-13: 9798200122448Publisher: Tantor AudioLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/18/2009Format: CDWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 5.67h x 6.14w x 1.89d

WELCOME TO VIRTUAL CENTRE, WHERE THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE CONVERGE. A collection of science fiction that borders on science possible, Virtual Centre and Other Science Fiction Stories brings to you some brilliant, adventurous possibilities of our tech-dominant lives. "Virtual Centre," the first in...

Anthem is a dystopian fiction novella by Ayn Rand, written in 1937, and first published in 1938 in England. The story unfolds within a society in which all traces of individualism have been eliminated from every aspect of life-use of the word 'I' is...

The summer of 1968 was a turbulent time in the US, yet for two cousins, ages thirteen and twelve, their primary thoughts focused on enjoying their summer vacation by playing baseball and swimming at the neighborhood pool. But their carefree summer plans changed dramatically...

Sturgeon Award winnerNebula and Hugo Award nominee It is the early summer of 1945, and war reigns in the Pacific Rim with no end in sight. Back in the States, Hollywood B-movie star Syms Thorley lives in a very different world, starring as the...

They are called the Keepers, and the thing they guard so jealously is not material in the way that humans understand the word. It has volume but no shape, mass but no size. Classic science fiction from the author of Pavane!Author: Keith RobertsISBN-10: 1880448858ISBN-13:...

Landley, a lower caste member of a society dwelling under the ocean floor, is accidentally associated with a clandestine association whose mission is to ensure tetraped survival. The powerful empire refuses to deal with a critical hazard to its citizens. The paranoid leader views...

The Iron Heel (1908) Set in the future, "The Iron Heel" describes a world in which the division between the classes has deepened, creating a powerful Oligarchy that retains control through terror. A manuscript by rebel Avis Everhard is recovered in an even more...

Tom Patrick was just an ordinary policeman until he tried to pull a naked man off a Texas hillside in the middle of a thunderstorm. In the ten seconds he hesitated to grab Clay Booth, his life changed forever as the man disappeared before...

Penelope is a girl who likes to play with rocks. She loves Earth energy. But some people in her town have their own beliefs about how a girl should be. Enjoy this story about a loving, free spirited individual who embraces who she is...

A TALE OF TIMES - A FUTURISTIC SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL- NARRATED THE STORY OF MACHINE DOMINATED WORLD. The story takes place at a time when the dead are waiting to return to life. The technology of giving back life after repairing one's body, known...

Philip Harrison, a great Embalmer the best in 40 States. red from birth to take over the Family Funeral Home. But, the family has secrets, his wife get's killed in a car crash and the secrets start o reveal themselves. Everyone that lives must...

When Zordyn Kenyapha was a child growing up in apartheid era South Africa, white men came and stole his family's land. His father fought back, and died for his resistance. Zordyn never forgot that day, especially since he promised his mother he would eventually...

A sci-fi adventure about a young Navajo man learning to fly.Author: Allen HingleISBN-10: 1412009359ISBN-13: 9781412009355Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2004Pages: 372Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.77d

On a mysterious green planet regenerated by fire, vibrant communities live in harmony with both its strange ecosystem and each other--until the day imperialist forces arrive.Char and her family are among the nomadic Summer people of Germinal who tend to the rich biodiversity of...

Janey's gonna scream. Her grandmother Kara and her generation got all they wanted out of life. Now they're too old and feeling guilty, so they created this world where sacrifice is the only sport.One...Two...Three... The years are clicking by...What's the world going to be...

A damaged teenage tech prodigy meets an enigmatic waitress in a tiny Tokyo café, sparking an epic journey across Japan that will change everything, forever ... a captivating, masterful novel with an extraordinary mystery at its heart... ' Set against a tech heavy backdrop...

The host, a being who does not know what he is or where he came from, survived for centuries by controlling the bodies of small birds and consuming them.When the host has the opportunity to use a human body, he is overwhelmed by the...

Those that love horror, sci-fi, drama, fantasy, and magical realism, this book is just for all of you.About the AuthorShantia Kent enjoys reading horror, gothic fiction, fantasy, science fiction, and adventure books.Author: Shantia KentISBN-10: 1639370188ISBN-13: 9781639370184Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co.Language: EnglishPublished: 06/08/2023Pages: 20Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.39lbsSize:...

Life had been simple and good for Conrad; enforce the law, break a few heads, and enjoy the local red-light district. Now, within a few days, a rescued girl of questionable virtue was filling his bed and complicating his life; those off-world bastards, the...

Jules Verne's sequel to Poe's classic The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. A captain seeking a lost brother. A sailor obsessed with redemption as he hides a dark secret. A wealthy onlooker intrigued by possibility. Brought together by coincidence, they embark on...

Having escaped the storms of Betelgeuse and the schemes of Jannah's inhabitants, Sandfly and HardCandy make their way back to Earth. They have a message to deliver. A society to free. And A A3 is with them. Their mission is simple, and just. What...

The town of Quarterhill is famous for the strange things that happen in the park. Thousands of tourists venture into the woods year-round, seeking a glimpse of the supernatural. Ru Hadley has lived in Quarterhill all twelve years of her life, but she has...

About the BookThis story is my worst nightmare. A future where freedoms are sacrificed for the common good. It is set in the not too distant future, a time when all individuality is lost, only to be replaced with the comfort of "safety". Follow...

The Shadow of the Torturer is the first volume in the four-volume epic, the tale of a young Severian, an apprentice to the Guild of Torturers on the world called Urth, exiled for committing the ultimate sin of his profession--showing mercy towards his victim.Author:...

I am not a writer but I am a story teller with a tale to tell. This novel is based, to some extent, on things that happened during my years on and around Sullivan's Island, South Carolina. This story is about a mother, her...

A single substance. Oil. The discovery of oil sealed the fate of Earth's fragile geology while sustaining mankind's existence, and its greed. No one could have known of a prophecy that predicted Earth's radical shift to protect herself. No one, except for Amado Vallo....

MARS ... Earth's first colony in Space. Men killed for the coveted ticket that allowed them to go there. And, once there, the killing went on.... MARS ... Ralph Graham's goal since boyhood-and he was Mars-bound with authority that put the whole planet in...

For a professor at Corndog University it's quite acceptable to purchase a robotic doppleg nger and have it teach your classes for you. But how does it reflect on your teaching skills when your doppleg nger murders the whole class? Follow the Dystopian Duo...

First published by The Women's Press in 1985 Diana hears the voice of Moosevan, an entity who inhabits a distant planet, in her head. Her world is threatened and she wants Diana's help. Yuri believes her, though he's usually drunk in charge of a...

A young boy is rescued from the cruelty of the Spanish Civil War. He is able to demonstrate a gift of learning that propels him to achieve high levels of scholarly performance and judicial responsibility at the Vatican, eventually becoming a cardinal. The stress...

Shipwrecked and alone, Edward Prendick is picked up by a passing vessel and brought to mysterious Noble's Island, the home of the strange and unsettling Doctor Moreau. Banished from his homeland for his radical and cruel experiments, Moreau conducts his tests on the animals...

Jenny is a robot. Her creator modeled her after the love of his life. Now she must learn how to walk, how to talk, how to behave. As she struggles to remember the woman she used to be, and tries to become the woman...

Berdan Geanar has had a difficult life. Unsure of himself, and apparently hated by the grandfather he has lived with since the death of his parents, he has no idea of what to do with his life. xxx But when his grandfather abandons him,...

*** 2010 Nominee for the Prometheus Award *** In the 22nd century people have spread into the Solar System. Born and raised in a twentieth of Earth's gravity on the asteroid Pallas, young skater Llyra Ngu is grimly determined to compete and win on...

Rand was a Russian born American author who pioneered the philosophy of "objectivism". Anthem is a futuristic science fiction novella. Man is in a dark age, because of earlier socialistic values. Technology is carefully planned and rarely allowed to advance. Individualism has almost ceased...

"Impressively Imagined" -Kirkus Reviews **** Earth is ruled by three mighty empires: The Saracen-Jewish Empire led by the Caliph of Rome, the Mughal-Arab Empire, ferocious in its determination to destroy its neighbor, and the great Sino-Aztec's Crystal Empire, led by a living God. ****...

More than a 150,000 women have been kidnapped without a trace or any ransom demand in the 'normal' world run by the Federalists and the bureaucracy. But that is not the only problem, because the freedom loving population in the 'alternate' reality of the...

Author: Ray Faraday NelsonISBN-10: 1587151480ISBN-13: 9781587151484Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.07w x 0.55d

Author: Dennis GlaweISBN-10: 158500703XISBN-13: 9781585007035Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1998Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.03h x 5.05w x 0.55d

Love... the grandest experiment of all. Resonance Mates, Book 3 As a young Alvian lab tech, Jaci knows her place in the orderly, emotionless society her race has established on the planet Earth. While preparing a batch of experimental skin patches, she is accidentally...

I lay watching him between half-closed eyelids. "He gave me the idea." "He gave you a nasty concussion," said Hammer. "It was probably the only way to the idea," I answered. "I tell you the cat is a wizard. He did it on purpose....

It was a dark and stormy night. Lord Byron, Mary Godwin (who would soon become Mary Shelley), Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John William Polidori were sheltering inside a Swiss castle reading ghost stories to one another to pass the time. Noting that everyone present...

The book comprises a collection of 20 fast paced, action packed, science fiction and science fantasy short stories. The lead story "Human Hunter" is based on a story arc pod cast on the Beam Me Up Pod cast site during 2014/15. In its desperation...

An unhinged British backpacker meets 'Michi': a desperate, underemployed Japanese 'Freeter' on the communal couch of a dilapidated Osaka hostel. The pair form a close bond while exploring the regular haunts of Japan's 'lost generation, ' but while drifting through the slums of Ho...