Fiction - Science Fiction - General

A story of two worlds, separated not only by light years but doomed to be always apart socially. The advanced race, though identical to the other, lives in fear. Not fear of extermination but of infection. The infection is sin.Our own history tells us...

Author: Gene DeweeseISBN-10: 0595220479ISBN-13: 9780595220472Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2002Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 8.08h x 5.08w x 0.52d

This novel by Frank Norris explores the complex social and moral issues of early 20th-century San Francisco. The plot revolves around the relationship between a wealthy businessman and an impoverished artist, and their shared affection for a young woman. The book delves into themes...

Every person has stories in their hearts, wanting to be expressed, seen through eyes and letting others know what life is. Maybe through those stories the person reading will be released from their bonds and are free inside to let their own stories come...

The Audible and New York Times best-selling Dispatcher series returns with a brand-new mystery, performed by Zachary Quinto.The world has changed. Now, when someone is murdered, they almost always come back to life--and there are professionals, called "dispatchers", who kill in order to save...

Use Me at Your Own Risk: Visions from the Darkest Timeline by Anuradha Vikram takes place in 2046, a near future where both automation and climate collapse are more advanced. In five provocative sections, Use Me at Your Own Risk confronts the ethical challenges...

The Generations of Hope is the prequel to the Generations Trilogy. It is the story of the generation starship Hope and it's mission to Proxima Centauri to establish a colony to ensure the continuance of the human race. The mission will take two centuries...

"Wait-rewind. I was still a girl back then, before the universes converged."Guided by premonitions and a fateful car ride, a burned-out retail worker stumbles into the grand exit from womanhood. Meanwhile, in a galaxy not so far away, an alien prince goes rogue with...

Set in the near future of 2020, this disconcerting philosophical fantasy depicts an America devastated by a war with China that has left its populace decimated, its government a shambles, and its natural resources tainted. The hero is Ben Turnbull, a sixty-six-year-old retired investment...

A shape-shifter and an errant soul share an unbreakable bond and a curse, and must join together to fulfill an ancient magical prophecy in Nancy Springer's final installment of the Book of Isle When Prince Dair was a small child and still in wolf...

Author: Nancy SpringerISBN-10: 1504069048ISBN-13: 9781504069045Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/12/2021Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.51lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.41d

Minority Report meets Ready Player One as a new investigator hunts down a dangerous criminal capable of high-jacking and controlling cybernetic implants.When your new employer tasks you with investigating the first successful mass shooting in twelve years, it's understandable to be nervous.Fortunately, detective-in-training Cowan...

In the follow-up to the visionary Hospital, Yang Wei discovers that there's more to the mysterious hospital than meets the eye--and none of it is as it seems.Yang Wei wakes to find himself still a patient at the hospital. Somehow, he's aged decades overnight...

"Two Senators, a Governor, a Mayor, three police officers, a first responder, an unarmed man, six armed men, a family of four, a baby, a grandfather, a doctor, two nurses and four high school students were all tragically killed in Washington, D.C. on the...

Steven Spencer paranormal novelist is beckoned to the Branchview Estate after receiving a mysterious message on his computer screen. Once there, he is confronted with some hidden secrets, thereby forcing him to bring Loraine Spencer, his lovely wife, to the estate.Soon after the Spencer's...

Artificial intelligence will never, ever, reach the singularity. Until it does. When that happens, will humans embrace the new "Masters of the Universe", or try to pull the plug? Knowing humans, they will try to do both at once. In particular, the current MOTU,...

Leon has a secret. He was once an angel - a winged warrior sworn to protect Paya, a realm where people live on discs that float in space. He failed. Now Leon's a broken man, trying to forget the past. He thinks he's the...

My name is Finnegan Benjamin Riley. I don't know how I got here or what 'here' even is. I nearly died when I got here, I don't know anyone, the world doesn't look quite right, and a cloud of black smoke covers everything. I've...

Night of the Nyctalope is a collection of 17 stories featuring Leo Saint-Clair, France's premier pulp superhero from the 1920s and 1930s. The title piece is a translation of a rare original tale published in 1944 by the character's creator, Jean de La Hire,...

Reporting on an extraterrestrial sighting and their message for mankind, a renowned journalist clashes with those who oppose the story, unaware that the real battle is for his own soul. After the loss of a close friend, journalist Zach Miller spirals into depression, suffering...

I could not repress a sigh at the thought of the havoc war had wrought in this part of England, at least. Farther east, nearer London, we should find things very different. There would be the civilization that two centuries must have wrought upon...

After being attacked by a friend Sydney notices strange things happening around her. There's Cassie a girl that's been missing over a month that has only one thing to say "Save us" time itself stops completely not to mention the earthquakes and no connection...

It is twenty years into the future, PERCS, J-picts, G-belts, and other prevailing communication devices emit harmful wavicles that threaten to cause a worldwide cataclysm. A group of Americans on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land tries to resist the onslaught of electronic emissions...

Director of The Terminator, Aliens and Titanic, James Cameron's latest movie, Avatar, is the most viewed cinema release of all time, yet to date receives little academic attention. Filling the gap, editor of www.DeepFocusFilm.com, Bryn V. Young-Roberts, researches Avatar's historical and cultural relevance with...

Author: AadgISBN-10: 1469150131ISBN-13: 9781469150130Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2012Pages: 380Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.85d

Follow me back sixty-five million years to a time when Mars was more Earth like. A timeframe that our hapless teen, Toby, visits through the dream state. Not really sure what reality he is in, he runs across a young single mother, Ophelia, trying...

Author: R. Norman JohnsonISBN-10: 1410709698ISBN-13: 9781410709691Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/19/2003Pages: 396Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.10w x 0.97d

The Chameleon Sagas, Book IMan is not at the top of the food chain and hasn't been for a very long time.Shipton-under-Wychwood is a sleepy English village where Kate Henson arrives to study at theatre school. She meets the son of the local peerage,...

LOVE JAMAICAN STYLE is an exciting and very original manuscript which will be enjoyed greatly. The author has presented an unusual novel which centers around the life and experiences of a young man, Merv. Although Merv already has a woman, a classmate of his...

Octopus Pirate is a time-travelling steampunk tale set in the Victorian period. It's the story of a foundling who discovers he has unusual talents, such as camouflage, squishing into small spaces and the ability to communicate with octopuses As a baby, the hero of...

The Wonderful Visit is an early work by H. G. Wells, published in the same year as The Time Machine. It takes a gentle, semi-comic approach to some of Wells' social concerns by using the device of an angel fallen into our world from...

The Chameleon Sagas, Book IIIn the home of the Council, anything can happen.Then... Shipton-under-Wychwood is the sleepy English village where KateHenson arrived to study at the theatre school. It was also where she made friends, fell in love, and discovered a secret, hidden world...

About the BookVanishings are occurring in the land of Ardf dlyn, and the mortal authorities who oversee the investigation of the disappearances cannot hope to unveil who or what may be the source of them. And so, the great task of revealing the perpetrators...

In the third book of the Daedalus Rimes Saga, it's been four years since the Korlah arrived. Earth is reeling from the infusion of alien technology as preparations are made to defend the planet from an impending invasion. The great leap into space has...

Judtson Kent is a professional skeptic. In fact, he has made millions writing books debunking the myths and ridiculing the proponents of everything from Illuminati conspiracies to alien abductions. Then one day he is confronted with evidence...undeniable proof even he cannot refute. His world...

Sixteen years ago, a plague wiped out nearly all of humanity. The Company's vaccine stopped the virus's spread, but society was irrevocably changed. Those remaining live behind impenetrable city walls, taking daily doses of virus suppressant and relying on The Company for continued protection....

The latest short fiction from bestselling, award-winning science fiction and fantasy author Carrie Vaughn revels in and subverts beloved tropes of the genre. What happens when the city's new supervillain turns out to be your high school sweetheart? Your punk-folk band saved Faerie -...

Author: Martin MacInnesISBN-10: 1786493454ISBN-13: 9781786493453Publisher: Atlantic Books (UK)Language: EnglishPublished: 02/06/2020Pages: 320Format: HardcoverAbout the AuthorMartin MacInnes was born in Inverness in 1983. He has an MA from the University of York, has read at international science and literature festivals, and is the winner of a...

TimeLock stole twenty years from Morgan Eberly's life. A terrifying new version of the radical technology might just end it. Two years after the events of TimeLock, a new and unhinged president of the United States approves an immoral and illegal plan to develop...

-The power is out-Amy Golden has trouble getting over boys and can't help but notice the new one hanging around her part of the county. She has no idea this young man will soon save her life in a fight against ancient horrors lurking...

April Kek and James Wallace have each other--and not a hell of a lot else. Each the only one who understands the other, they're bound together by a friendship that endures everything the future can throw at them: horrific family lives, war, mental illness,...

Abdul is a kid who is not satisfied with anything about his life. He wishes that he could become a king. One evening, he finds a magic gold-blue ring on some railroad tracks and puts it on. Poof! He becomes a king. After one...two...three...

Bold and daring adventures continue, with Capt. Theremin, the Hermaphrodite King and Android Susie. Lt.McGonagal has romantic relations with three lovely girls, completely human with prehensile tails (our Lt. is suspended by his ankles, and whipped with prehensile tails!) Capt. Theremin fulfills his long...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

It all starts with the radio. Dorothy's husband, Fred, has left for work, and she is at the kitchen sink washing the dishes, listening to classical music. Suddenly, the music fades out and a soft, close, dreamy voice says, Don't worry, Dorothy. A couple...

Born With the Dead (the novella) was nominated for every major science fiction award when it was originally published in 1974, winning the Nebula and Locus awards. *** The author now revisits the classic story with Australian author Damien Broderick. BrodAuthor: Robert Silverberg, Damien...

Freefall (Vol 1 of the Amalie Noether Chronicles) concluded with Elle renouncing any ties to the community at First Landing. She dreamed of setting out on a great trek to explore their new planet - and is utterly prepared to start the trek on...

Not only is Ella different, she is dangerous.Abandoned as a small child, Ella has grown up ignorant of her true origins. She has always felt out of place, but when she questioned why her hair, her eyes, her gut-wrenching hunger were unusual, her "mother"...

The plot revolves around three beautiful women, Mary Jean, Emily, and Galatea-perhaps the three most beautiful women in the world-who were unfortunate to be born in the slums of Detroit. This is their story. It is one of hopelessness and loss, wishes, love and...

Falling in a Black Hole kills you. Falling in a Time Hole kills others.The Moon has many riches, but mining them is a hazardous affair. Deedee and Arno, two lunar generalists, find perils beyond what they signed up for when traveling on the lunar...