Fiction - Science Fiction - General

The Weave brings us a first-contact story in which humans, seeking to exploit the much-needed resources of a system inhabited by creatures they assume are primitive and defenceless, discover their mistake the hard way. Human Caty Sanjuro, a seasoned marine and dedicated xenologist, and...

The Connatic rules the three thousand inhabited planets of the Alastor Cluster from his palace Lusz on the world Numenes. Though his military force can bring considerable might to bear where necessary, the Connatic often wanders among his subjects incognito, intervening to right a...

Edward Prendick finds himself adrift at sea, a lone survivor of a ship wreck. He spends more than a week drifting without food or water. Pendrick consigns himself to death, but fate intervenes and delivers him to an unknown Island. The terrors that await...

The development of "Avatar" technology--the fusion of human awareness consciousness with remote robotic bodies--offers breathtaking advances in medicine, culture, work, transportation, education and imagination. The Avatar project is designed to drive the exponential innovations needed to make General Purpose Avatars an everyday reality. The...

A novella by Brian Herbert & Bruce Taylor. After the Greenland ice cap suffers an abrupt and catastrophic collapse, Earth's climate suddenly changes, turning the planet into a horrendous stormworld. Against this backdrop, men and women in the Cascade Seed Repository valiantly struggle to...

Armchair Fiction presents extra large editions of classic science fiction double novels. The first novel "Transient" was written by Ward Moore, a versatile writer and one of the better sci-fi authors of the 1950s. This is one of the most unusual novels you will...

Armchair fiction presents extra large paperback editions of the best in classic science fiction novels. "The Fourth 'R'" is a great tale by science fiction specialist, George O. Smith. Jimmy Holden was an experiment. He was bright, normal-sized, and enormously curious-just like most small...

Armchair Fiction presents extra-large editions of classic science fiction double novels with original illustrations. The first novel, "Iron Men of Venus," features fantastic robots rising up from the depths of the ocean. They were huge lumbering metal monstrosities, seemingly hell-bent on destroying everything in...

There are mutants living among us. People with golden yellow eyes, extraordinary powers and strange abilities. For centuries they have hidden themselves, fearing persecution. After rising tensions in recent decades, the mutants find new hope in the twenty-first century, with one of their own...

Edward Davis, a rookie of the Time Service, has already made several successful jumps to the past. Now he is given his most important mission. *** Two members of the Service have disappeared in ancient Egypt and Edward Davis's assignment is to locate and...

Lou Colleran is an immortal. But even immortals can be killed. *** For the universe is being threatened by genetically designed creatures called calibans. And the only thing between them and the destruction of the worlds of the Mandala is Lou Colleran. *** But...

A friend of Leo Saint-Clair, Jacques d'Hermont, calls for his help because he and his family are slowly dying from of a mysterious disease. The Nyctalope investigates and discovers a new, deadly foe: Armand Logreux d'Albury, the so-called "Master of the Seven Lights," lurking...

The short stories included in this collection are like bottles thrown into the vast ocean, each containing a fragment of a universe inside... Alf... The Ghostbusters... Hellraiser... Judex... The Nyctalope... Ars ne Lupin... The Black Coats... From Paris in 1925 to Diaspar at the...

Odette Dulac's The War of the Sexes (1926) describes a strangely fanciful sexual biology, combined with insectile analogies and an astrological theory of evolution. It incorporates an idiosyncratic mysticism based on Buddhist and Hindu ideas, filtered through the reinterpretations of theosophist feminism. The result...

This elaborate French utopia, written by Monsieur de Listonai (pseudonym of Daniel Jost Villeneuve) and published in 1761, describes the journey of an inhabitant of the Earth to the hidden face of the Moon which is reached via a flying space galley, complete with...

The Couple (1924) is the concluding volume in Victor Margueritte's trilogy, following The Bacheloress (1922) and The Companion (1923). It features both of the couples formed in the course of the earlier novels-Monique Lerbier and George Blanchet, and Annik Raimbert and Am d e...

In a Thousand Years (1884) is solidly set in the tradition of "euchronian" fiction, arguing that political reform goes hand in hand with technological progress. Calvet paints a ground-breaking picture of a world transformed by prolifically-distributed electric power and aerial transportation, demonstrating an attention...

In The New World, the Arctic Utopian community founded at the end of The Human Microbes by Dr. Ga l, comprised of the victims of tyranny rescued by Captain Josiah and his "phantom brig," is threatened by the evil Judge Roll Wolff, intent on...

The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen,...

The deadly Madame Atomos is a brilliant but twisted Japanese scientist who is out to avenge herself against the United States for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where she lost her family. Opposing her are Smith Beffort of the FBI, Dr. Alan Soblen,...

Published the same year as Jules Verne's classic From the Earth to the Moon and Henri de Parville's An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars, Achille Eyraud's Voyage to Venus (1865) was the first novel to describe an interplanetary rocket-powered spaceship. Eyraud supports his design...

When massive, intelligent aliens from Mars touch down in Victorian England and threaten to destroy the civilized world, humanity's vaunted knowledge proves to be of little use. H.G. Wells's masterpiece of speculative fiction has thrilled and delighted generations of readers, spawned countless imitations, and...

"Time for Patriots is a delightful adventure with marvelously crafted characters so realistic I could swear I knew them." Guillermo Alfonso Calvo Mah , Professor of English and Political Science, International Relations Directorate, Universidad Aut noma de Manizales. "Time for Patriots is a fascinating...

The Case of the Little Green Men is the first book published by Mack Reynolds. Since its 1951 debut it has become highly prized as a collectible. It reveals what goes on behind the scenes at a 50's science fiction convention when murder beams...

*** The Phoenix Science Fiction Classics series has been designed for the convenience of students. Special margins provide liberal space for students to take notes. *** These distinctive trade paperbacks have also been priced to make them one of the most affordable critical series...

Mirans are desperate to escape their volatile home-world and bring a gigantic fleet to conquer Earth. Gresth Gkae leads the attack force in which each of their hundreds of ships is larger than Terrestrial spaceports. Nothing stands in the way of the invincible Miran...

Originally published in 1976 as Ace Science Fiction Special number 1, second series, From the Legend of Biel has become a cult classic with 5 star reviews on Amazon.com as recently as 2004.Author: Mary-John StatonISBN-10: 1604020911ISBN-13: 9781604020915Publisher: Imaginal Fiction PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2007Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight:...

In the book, Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time. The Crome of this novel's title is an English Country House in which most of the action occurs.Aldous Huxley's first novel, Crome Yellow, was published in 1921, and, as a comedy of...

Gladys Fleming had her doubts. Enough at any rate to engage Colonel Jefferson Davis Rand--better known just as Jeff--private detective and a pistol-collector himself, to catalogue, appraise, and negotiate the sale of her late husband's collection.There were a number of people who had wanted...

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - ON February the First 1887, the Lady Vain was lost by...

THE NIGHT LAND -- William Hope Hodgson's brilliant but ultimately flawed masterpiece -- presents a view of the world billions of years in the future, after the death of the sun. In a dead world, the last vestiges of humanity cling to life in...

If Lions Could Speak is the first collection from Paul Park, acclaimed author of The Starbridge Chronicles, Coelestis, and The Gospel of Corax. Subtle, stylish, at once forthrightly simple and ingeniously complex, the pieces gathered here are compelling and penetrating explorations of cultural difference...

Karl Krabbe and Boris Bouche, partners, explorers, interstellar chancers, don't care much for the law. They don't care much for anything -- except profit. Their staff bondman nuclear engineer, Roncie Northrop, doesn't care much about anything either, except that he's already tried to abscond...

Author: John ChristopherISBN-10: 1587153955ISBN-13: 9781587153952Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.74h x 5.56w x 0.73d

Author: Lin CarterISBN-10: 1587153416ISBN-13: 9781587153419Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2001Pages: 164Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.48h x 5.54w x 0.43d

Author: Robert SilverbergISBN-10: 158715241XISBN-13: 9781587152412Publisher: Brownstone BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.81lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Author: Robert SilverbergISBN-10: 1587152401ISBN-13: 9781587152405Publisher: Brownstone BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2000Pages: 184Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.63lbsSize: 9.08h x 6.02w x 0.47d

Author: Stanton Arthur CoblentzISBN-10: 1587151685ISBN-13: 9781587151682Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1966Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.05w x 0.50d

Author: Ray Faraday NelsonISBN-10: 1587151464ISBN-13: 9781587151460Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.51d

Author: Lloyd Jr. BiggleISBN-10: 1587150549ISBN-13: 9781587150548Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/1999Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.56h x 5.58w x 0.59d

This new collection of H. Beam Piper's classic short stories includes: "Crossroads of Destiny," "The Return," "He Walked Around the Horses," "The Mercenaries," and "Time and Time Again."Author: H. Beam PiperISBN-10: 1557429529ISBN-13: 9781557429520Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2006Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x...

Five of H. Beam Piper's classic science fiction stories are collected here, including "Graveyard of Dreams," "Genesis," "Operation R.S.V.P.," "The Answer," and "Flight from Tomorrow."Author: H. Beam PiperISBN-10: 1557426643ISBN-13: 9781557426642Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2006Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.27d

The Sea Lady is a fantasy novel written by H. G. Wells that has some of the aspects of a fable. It was serialized from July to December 1901 in Pearson's Magazine before being published as a volume by Methuen. The inspiration for the...

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster is a recurring ctional character in the Jeeves novels of British author P. G. Wodehouse. An English gentleman, one of the "idle rich" and a member of the Drones Club, he appears alongside his valet, Jeeves, whose intelligence manages to...

This story is about a boy named Abel and his favorite stuffed animal turtle and best friend, Clark. Grab your favorite stuffed animal toy, and join them as they embark on an adventure together. Don't forget to use your imaginationAuthor: Sofiya BabinovISBN-10: 1543451276ISBN-13: 9781543451276Publisher:...

According to Filipino island folklore, every life has two stages of destiny-hardships endured as a caterpillar that ultimately guides one's flight as a butterfly. Teesa Paruparo's family needed rescuing. Her father Manny's journey began in a cold and rundown orphanage in Carigara at the...

According to Michael Tombs, "To prove murder, you have to prove intent. And you must prove intent not by the laws of today but by the laws of the time." The collapse of the economic, financial, and political structure in the North African and...

Celeste Marchand, unhappy daughter of a clown in a small traveling circus, runs away with the fire eater's son, Billy. They each find temporary destinies on the streets of Massapequa, Long Island, New York. At seventeen, she earns money as an exotic dancer, turning...

It's happened. Their worst fears have come true. A tumbling meteorite named Cupid 23 comes barreling to earth, wiping out the tiny German town of Spangdahlem. Millions of tons of earth are thrown up into the atmosphere and the sky turns a dirty brown....

A Crystal Age is a utopian novel/ Dystopia written by W. H. Hudson, first published in 1887.The book has been called a "significant S-F milestone"and has been noted for its anticipation of the "modern ecological mysticism" that would evolve a century later. William Henry...