Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Jake's retirement consists of beer, brats, watching beach bunnies pass by his patio deck and trading wisecracks with Arlo, his pet chameleon. OK, so it's a one-sided exchange, Jake doesn't mind.That all changes when they are conscripted into service for the Federation of Thirteen...

A nuclear accident ravages a small town outside of Chicago, resulting in a government quarantine isolating it from the rest of the world. A generation later, with the quarantine still in place, strange mutations have affected the minds of the town's children -- mutations...

This book, for the first time, makes available a body of my work that has long remained inaccessible and largely unknown to American readers: the thirty-seven bimonthly columns that I contributed to the British science fiction magazine "Interzone" from 1998 to 2004. For while...

The Blockade Runners and Dr. Ox's Experiment In "The Blockade Runners" Verne again adopts a theme which is, at least nominally, American. In it he gives a very fair view of the British attitude toward our country during that tragic period of our suffering...

After the war with the Night Chasers, the group is left fractured and betrayed. Arjen, Julie, and Captain Williams were abandoned on Wyan, spurned by their former alien allies. Teamed with Amun the Pelosian, Arjen and his team work to repair his ship, hoping...

Orphaned at birth and born with strange, mystical powers, Cassandra Rho finds herself labeled an outcast at an early age. Her ability to fabricate spells using the arcane symbols that only she can see, and her uncanny ability to summon and control ravens only...

Disease, radiation, and violent storms have ravaged the earth, laying waste to all that was civilised and good. Now, it is every man for himself in the struggle for survival against tyrannical despots who would exploit the innocent and vulnerable for their own gain....

Travel to Ebony Island where two lives connect. One is a female Velociraptor and the other is a woman veterinarian named Laura Sinclair. Both find a common bond when the lives they care for the most are threatened. Facing insurmountable odds, like running into...

This product will make you feel emotions even deeper than pain.Author: Brendan M. P. HeardISBN-10: 838947199XISBN-13: 9798389471993Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/21/2023Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d

About the Book "Worlds, the King's Pawn" is an epic battle of good versus evil. The story is written from multiple character's point of view as it follows the journeys of several sentient super beings in the Zynon Galaxy. The characters explore a wide...

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarter-finalist. In the not-too-distant future, in a country covered by state-sized office complexes, one man goes on a dangerous quest ... to find a new office chair. Publishers Weekly (April 2013): Set in the year 2169, this inventive novel takes...

Andre Washington is a streetwise young thug with something to prove and attitude to spare. When he finally decides to step up to the Big Time, he doesn't care who pays the costs. Marshall Hightower doesn't want to make any waves. Finally settled into...

Moon People This story focuses on one man by the name of David Braymer and his adventures from High School teacher to 1st Science Officer on The Lunar Base 1 base station. One of three. This book is based on the turning point for...

Your kind of reality is 'the state of things as they actually exist' for you. They exist in your world because you are consciously aware of them. They are three-dimensional and measurable. But is that the only kind?Author: Steve BennettISBN-10: 1035801809ISBN-13: 9781035801800Publisher: Austin MacauleyLanguage:...

Excerpt from the closing pages of the Time Machine. "One cannot choose but wonder. Will he ever return?" This and a host of other questions have played on the minds of all who have read the Time Machine by H.G. Wells. What happened to...

The absence of an Emperor to lead an Empire will inevitably bring on madness and chaos, the current state of the Imperium proves this to be true. Once a beacon of peace and prosperity, corruption and petty rivalries have now crippled the bureaucracy, while...

Orphaned and alone. Eros Wolf is a brilliant, gifted, but socially awkward, misunderstood young student. Determined to succeed and armed with only sheer will, he learns to control his danger-ous potent abilities before they consume him.Graduating from law school at the age of nineteen....

"Atlas Hugged signals a revolution in the way we see the world and our rightful place within it. Not a violent revolution, thankfully, but an intellectual revolution."With these words, David Sloan Wilson invites readers into a fictional world that mirrors events taking place in...

Since Dawn of time; Man has always been on the quest to find out where we have come from. Up on the quest of a professor, and his old students. Not knowing they will encounter the supernatural being from the past. Coming to light...

Upon neighbouring stones, earth fast, like two islands of an archipelago, in an ocean of heather, sat a boy and a girl, the girl knitting, or, as she would have called it, weaving a stocking, and the boy, his eyes fixed on her face,...

Drew knows there are two rules to using the time portals. One, be precise in thought. Two, never visit the future.On his second practice run, a stray thought of wanting to see life 1000 years in the future lands him, along with Oz, the...

The Fifth Dinosaur Lake Book: The predator dinosaurs, amphibious, land-crawlers, air flyers, small and large, were dead; dead in all the forests, mountains, deserts, towns and cities of America and across the planet. They were still hunted, sought and exterminated when found, and these...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story, The Yellow Wallpaper is a valuable piece of American feminist literature that reveals attitudes toward the psychological health of women in the nineteenth century. Diagnosed with "temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency" by her physician husband,...

Ten years after Dorjan trusted a boy's word over his superior officer's, he and his best friend, Areau, are still living the aftermath--and trying to stop the man responsible. Locked in a careful dance to bring down a corrupt government, Dorjan struggles to balance...

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Historical Section Shawmut College, Boston, December 26, 2000 Living as we do in the closing year of the twentieth century, enjoying the blessings of a social order at once so simple and logical that it seems but the triumph of common sense, it is...

Capable of carrying hundreds of passengers and crew members, the elegant airships have become the preferred method of travel and are the crown jewels in the Airship Ministry. But one of the airships is now a target for greedy pirates. As darkness descends on...

Author: Damon CooperISBN-10: 1441581804ISBN-13: 9781441581808Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/27/2010Pages: 130Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

The years is AD 1147. King Arthur of Britain is still an unseasoned monarch. He has yet to meet his betrothed, Guineviere, and Camelot is still a little more than an idea in his mind. He is visited at the castle by a gentleman...

Dystopian Science Fiction It is a sin to write this. It is a sin to think words no others think and to put them down upon a paper no others are to see. It is base and evil. It is as if we were...

The lord of Erl is told by the parliament of his people that they want to be ruled by a magic lord. Obeying the immemorial custom, the lord sends his son Alveric to fetch the King of Elfland's daughter, Lirazel, to be his bride....

A Most Anticipated Book of Fall at Associated Press, Booklist, Chicago Tribune, Goodreads, Good Housekeeping, Literary Hub, Time, The Week, and W Magazine The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring...

This story, which takes place in the year 2137, may be the only one by this author to veer into science fiction. North and South America forbid travel eastward to ensure neutrality in the conflict that was suffocating Europe. Due to a technical issue,...

Combining the wonder of The Midnight Library, the inventiveness of Ready Player One, and the artistry of Cloud Atlas, this novel by the bestselling author of The Oracle Year and Anyone explores the way we're all connected--and what can happen when we lose our...

In the year 2112, Admiral Hyrcanius recounts the vicissitudes of a tumultuous history that culminated in the victory of Prometheism over Traditionalism.It includes a Third World War, a Second American Civil War, a Coronal Mass Ejection, a pole shift, and other catastrophes that result...

In this second volume of the series, "The Human Struggle," fighters attempt to stave off a reality collapse in a universe contiguous to earth's. The enemy, determined to extirpate humanity from this and all alternate realities, is sacking, burning, conquering and murdering his way...

Help celebrate an iconic indie bookstore For thirty years, Between Books has provided the Eastern Seaboard of the United States with the absolute best in alternate entertainment-speculative fiction, comics, anime, and gaming. While other stores have disappeared, this shelter from the tides of bitter...

What is at the heart of a vast conspiracy that involves very round hedges, something that gobbles, a strange macaroon-headed man, a mysterious parchment and men in horribly striped ties? It's up to Doc Armstrong, the world's most renowned meteographer, the man who took...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy's scorching Billionaire Bachelors Club series continues in this 2-in-1: a fiery romance that refuses to be left at the office, and a wedding to remember! SavorWill this billionaire meet his match in the girl who's been there...

Author: Thomas WardISBN-10: 0984236546ISBN-13: 9780984236541Publisher: Tumblar HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/14/2010Pages: 366Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.82d

And that is exactly what this book is: a varied collection of short stories from the acknowledged British master of Horror, Fantasy and Science Fiction, Brian Lumley, in a single volume of all three domains of the imagination - but more especially the haunts...

*WINNER OF 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL * FINALIST FOR THE NEBULA AWARD, and THE LOS ANGELES TIMES RAY BRADBURY PRIZE "The Mountain in the Sea is a wildly original, gorgeously written, unputdownable gem of a novel. Ray Nayler is one of...

"Delightful. . . logically illogical as only Terry Pratchett can write." --Anne McCaffreyA hilarious mix of magic, mayhem, and Luggage, Sourcery is the fifth book in New York Times bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett's classic fantasy Discworld series.Rincewind, the legendarily inept wizard, has returned...

From Hugo-winning author John Scalzi comes The Dispatcher: Travel by Bullet, which clocks in at over 40,000 words, the longest novella yet in the series. The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life--and there are professionals,...

Enter the haunting world of Frankenstein, a chilling masterpiece that defies the boundaries of science and morality. In this gripping tale of creation and consequence, Mary Shelley weaves a captivating narrative that explores the depths of human ambition and the perils of playing god....

"A chilling ghost story. . . . A decades long, globe-spanning saga of adventure, betrayal, love, and fate [about] one of Welcome to Night Vale's most enigmatic and terrifying characters. . . How these stories converge and how the narrator becomes immortal are merciless...

AFTER THOUGHT is an electrifying and unforgettable dystopian thriller that imagines what society could look like after America's second Civil War. In the wake of unspeakable violence, the United States adopts a technology to ensure everlasting peace. But one woman, Ada, uncovering her family's...

Wet areas got wetter and dry areas got drier. The rich got richer, and the poor got poorer. And they all met in Nineveh. A massive global drought combined with an epic contamination of the world's limited fresh water supply combined with the privatization...

A secret rebellion rages.Generations ago a plague ravaged the world. Grey-Stars rose from the ruins, formed the country of Pangaea, and created a society of peace and order. The caste system maintains this peace, and the Grey-Stars maintain the castes.Now, the lower castes fight...