Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Rest stop: a respite of last resort.This sixth installment of the Spoon Knife anthology brings together genre-bending fiction, memoir, and poetry about road trips, desperation, and solace.Featuring works from 20 authors: Robert Wilf - Matthew Warner - Roo Vandergrift - Richard A. Shury -...

Episode 2.13 A host of new allies...A plethora of advanced technologies...A daring gamble to advance their forces...A chance to retake lost worlds once and for all... The Dusahn have been backed into a corner, barely able to hold the worlds of the Pentaurus cluster,...

Angels is a scrappy pilot and dreamer. Locke is a conflicted ex-mercenary and hardened killer. They've spent half a lifetime together and half a lifetime apart. Reunited, they're gearing up to hunt the galaxy's biggest monsters, so they can chop them up and get...

Why does Pilgrims' Passage matter? Why can greed and deceit still manipulate us? Why do people choose power over family? Working to address these questions and more, Pilgrims Passage: Rebuilding the Past is a journey brimming with adventures through turbulent times during the transition...

Award-winning author of the short story The Stairs concludes her stunning quadrilogy with a bombshell ending you won't see coming! In the wake of spring, new life begins ... Everything they feared about the Confederation is true: if they want to save Dara, they...

Written between 1895 and 1897, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. Filmed numerous times, this science fiction classic retains its power to disturb readers more than...

Written between 1895 and 1897, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. Filmed numerous times, this science fiction classic retains its power to disturb readers more than...

A Fiction House Press FIRST EDITION: The sailing ship Garden City, bound from San Francisco to New York by way of the Horn, has for passengers Bert Livingston and his sister Lily, together with their friends John and Louise Winton. Struck by a severe...

The Black Star Passes - A sky pirate with superior weapons of his own invention. First contact with an alien race dangerous enough to threaten the safety of two planets. The arrival of a dark sun whose attendant marauders aimed at the very end...

by Ralph Milne Farley. John Farley Pease was the great-grandfather of the author, and he was a scientist in the year 2000 A.D., a time far in the future of the writing of this story (1932). Follow the adventures of Pease as he provides...

by Ralph Milne Farley. John Farley Pease was the great-grandfather of the author, and he was a scientist in the year 2000 A.D., a time far in the future of the writing of this story (1932). Follow the adventures of Pease as he provides...

Ethereal started out as a joke. A response to some kidding around on the Internet.I started telling a story to entertain my friends, and -- well I guess I got carried away with it.Couldn't get it out of my head, except maybe by bleeding...

War and conflict surround the world of Aalam. Emerald finds that she can no longer stay neutral to this as her parents have and now is forced to choose between sides.Author: Hope ConteISBN-10: 1329831969ISBN-13: 9781329831964Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/25/2010Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

Our solar system seems relatively peaceful from our perch here on Earth, however, that is far from reality. The star at the center of our existence has witnessed battles over planets and moons since the early stirrings of life on most of the planets...

Jodie is a recent college grad who's finally lined up an interview for a job in her field, not knowing that she's never going to make it there. While riding the subway to get downtown, a mysterious blue substance falls from the sky, encasing...

The Rymellan series is back with more lesbian science fiction and romance. Decisions (Rymellan 4) contains three new stories and one story available in print for the first time. LOVE DISMISSED When Sheila was accepted into the fighter pilot program but Ruth wasn't, they...

History is a slippery thing. While it pretends to provide a somewhat clear picture of past events, the veracity of written and oral histories is suspect as not being entirely complete nor true and faithful in reporting what actually transpired in the past. The...

After the horror the Cobra unleashed upon Metro City, Paul Sanderson has recuperated, regained his strength and focus, and the city has been rebuilt while its citizens have slowly started to regroup and move forward. Into this relative calm marches Ma Tzi, the Hong...

A silent solar wind charged towards earth, while a group of unsuspecting passengers was comfortably flying in a Boeing 737 over Hudson Bay. When this force of nature reached the earth's outer layers of protection, most of it was harmlessly reflected off. Unfortunately, the...

QUEEN OF THE BLACK COAST-A weird story of Conan the barbarian, and a savage white woman who captained a pirate ship, and a ghastly horror in the jungle. THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK CIRCLE-A stupendous story of Conan the barbarian soldier of fortune, and...

A stunning achievement in speculative fiction, A Voyage to Arcturus has inspired, enchanted, and unsettled readers for decades. It is an epic quest across one of the most unusual and brilliantly depicted alien worlds ever conceived, a profoundly moving journey of discovery into the...

Wolf Streak Beta: AlienationBy: M.G. BrownOne Blue Jay spacecraft destroyed yesterday! Two of the crew killed! Survivors stranded on alien world in solar system afar from Homeworld across galaxy! Past friendships strained, perhaps lost! Yet to survive, trust & loyalty must renew! But will...

The Night Land " - this fantasy of a night-black, dead planet, with the remains of the human race concentrated in a stupendously vast metal pyramid & besieged by monstrous, hybrid & altogether unknown forces of darkness, is something that no reader can ever...

Set in a distant past on the planet Natar/Inanna in the Pleiades. Star Child is a story of the descendants of the House of Ohr where it was prophesied that a Star Child who would lead the people into a new age of planetary...

"Graham Downs opens the door to a fantasy world in his short story, A Petition to Magic, a world of emotions, trust, self-searching and enchanted characters that will definitely leave readers wanting more." Queen Celeste rose to the throne of Virdura a month ago,...

When the unthinkable happens, not everyone is ready. Not everyone knows what to do. It is a very rare occasion that Abby Miller travels into the city, but an errand that can only be done in town prompts her to make it a girls'...

Pursued by Government agents, Troy Eastman and a group of dedicated scientists are in a race against time to unravel the mysteries of an alien species and save the planet.Author: Brian MatlackISBN-10: 130468623XISBN-13: 9781304686237Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/05/2013Pages: 724Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.66lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

To help Meredith Moore and her brothers deal with the changes in their lives, their grandfather began telling them rich stories about their ancestors, who were advisers to kings in a magical and far-off land. Their grandfather stopped telling stories, however, when their grandmother,...

The lines have been drawn. Sides have been chosen. The seal is breaking. Every challenge since Eden first discovered her powers has led her to this. For her, it is now a race against time, to lead an invading force into the demon realms,...

Aeternum Ray is a sweeping, yet intimate story of mankind's next renaissance. The novel is a collection of emotional personal letters written by 240-year-old William Babington to his newborn son Ben. Having lived a full life, William has experienced everything from death to his...

Are you a student of Esperanto? Are you looking for something contemporary and interesting to read in Esperanto but not ready to take on a full length novel? The creators of Short Stories in Esperanto can take you to the next level with Esperanto...

The first modest publication of A Voyage to Arcturus sold fewer than six hundred copies. Since then, the book has been reissued by more than a dozen trade houses and translated into at least six languages. It has significantly influenced such writers as C....

Juan looked away, not wanting his friend to see the tears forming in his eyes. "I know, Juan. I know. But I'm sure that Elena is very proud of you, even where she is today." Even where she is today? In different circumstances he...

USA 2040: Animal agriculture has drastically changed the climate and the way people live. Drinkable water is scarce, the population is suspicious and isolated, and animal rights activists are all but extinct due to threats by the agribusiness industry.Bray Hoffman isn't an activist, but...

Rabbi Gershom takes you where no rabbi has gone before! You don't have to be Jewish to enjoy this well-researched and reader-friendly journey into Jewish themes, actors, writers, in-jokes and subtexts in the Star Trek Universe. Inspired by a class he taught at the...

On a dare, Gian Carlo Spallanzini set out to discover the deepest darkest secret of a person picked at random. He had no idea what he was getting into. Even a fat, bearded know-it-all ought to know better than to leap before you look....

Author: Susan C. EavesISBN-10: 0557356016ISBN-13: 9780557356010Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2010Pages: 132Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Author: John ConroeISBN-10: 1300070269ISBN-13: 9781300070269Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/14/2012Pages: 306Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Amelia Gravis, a brilliant young woman just beginning to tap her potential, finds a problem that just cannot be ignored. As she struggles to be heard, she finds the voice of a teenager is easily ignored when profits are on the table. This novel...

"The Lion Carving" is a book of short stories. The first short story called The Lion Carving is about a woman who purchases a slave against the slaver's advice who tells her he is a demon, but she does not listen.... The second short...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Traveling to many different lands, Melinda took time to jot down different things that she saw at different occasions that she was able to experience. She felt that this would be a good way of documenting what she saw. She never intended anyone of...

The Rainbow Connection is a sexy Sufi narrative related in the style of a second person gamebook, an affectionate pastiche of the original Choose Your Own Adventure series. The book is not a normal book: it is a tree with multiple branches and endings....

The Divinity ProtocolBy: Berkeley Johnson and Kristin JohnsonThe murder of Ben Samson's daughter at the hands of jihadists provokes profound grief, propelling him to take extraordinary measures in the desperate hope of changing humanity's future. Assembling teams of experts in disparate disciplines, Ben plans...

Fill your dreams with sugarplums and hard sci-fi. Get out the eggnog and elf hats, because weird fiction is coming down the chimney. Prepare to meet the real Father Christmas, survive the winter cannibal train, join the immortal caravan, see the future of pod-dwellers,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

In The Jesus Incident Herbert and Ransom introduced Ship, an artificial intelligence that believed it was God, abandoning its unworthy human cargo on the all-sea world of Pandora. Now centuries have passed. The descendants of humanity, split into Mermen and Islanders, must reunite ......

When the choice for the future must be made. On a sunny August weekend, a mother, a schoolkid, a leader of exoplanet pioneers and a conscript face the consequences of poor leadership as a power-hungry AI wants to decide who may live and who...

During my last year in college I chose to leave Facebook for reasons which I'm sure you all understand. I felt like going on Facebook had no added value for my life, and in fact I felt worse the more I used it every...