Fiction - Science Fiction - General

For use in schools and libraries only. On Pern, men breed and train great fire-breathing dragons to help them fight the deadly silver Threads that fall from the sky, destroying all life-forms, whenever the Red Star passes near.Author: Anne McCaffreyISBN-10: 0808521209ISBN-13: 9780808521204Publisher: Turtleback BooksLanguage:...

In this new and timely cultural history of science fiction, Roger Luckhurst examines the genre from its origins in the late nineteenth century to its latest manifestations. The book introduces and explicates major works of science fiction literature by placing them in a series...

Set in a bleak consumerist society, The Green Millennium follows the disenchanted Phil Gish as he navigates a world dominated by conformity, surveillance, and hollow pleasures. When he encounters a radiant green cat, his reality shifts-and so does the attention of secretive government agencies,...

What if Ayrton Senna had survived his Imola 1994 accident? What if Gilles Villeneuve hadn't died at Zolder in 1982? What if Stirling Moss hadn't crashed at Goodwood in 1962? What if Alberto Ascari had survived his 1955 testing-accident at Monza? This book explores...

Ever wonder what happened to the rest of the tea party when the saucers went off into space? Here's your chance to find out! What would it be like to go to a club where you could buy an injection of sexiness? To grow...

EVAN STYLES is just an ordinary man. Like the rest of the human race, he exists on Earth, a solitary planet, insignificant in the vast gulf of space. Until now! The events which are to unfold will change the lives of every human being...

Imagine a world where technology has advanced to a point where it is indistinguishable from magic. A few muttered commands from a person and the nanobots in the air come alive and begin constructing or destructing whatever the user wills. Now, the nanobots have...

What happens when Russ, a mercenary politico, teams up with a tech billionaire and his army of geeks to build and run an AI for President? And what happens when it's not just some generic AI chatbot but Abraham Lincoln, digitally resurrected from the...

Chaos. World at war. The World Council of Presidents decreed: A. Delete homelessness. B. Erase garbage dumps. C. Erase prisons. D. Plant gardens in deleted garbage jumps and prisons. E. Make Ashtonville a farm and prepare the Gann Spaceship to receive its 500,000 citizens....

In the seven years since leaving their scavenger planet homeworld with the synchronists, Meri has made a good life for themself in the merchant corps. They like the work, they're figuring out a situationship with way-out-of-their-league diplomat Xavia Tane, and they've made friends among...

Are you prepared for the toll your dreams will take? If you were truly able to make yourself a better life, would you be able to go through all the suffering your dream requires to be realized?In a world of knights and magic, winged...

As earth's new civilization expands and colonizes nearby star systems, a teenage earth girl (Bobbett) comes of age. She is born into an extremely wealthy, albeit psychic family. In this regard, Bobbett must learn to navigate between two opposing worlds: the world of being...

In ESP Pawn Chronicles, author Mike Diaz delivers a thrilling anthology reminiscent of Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, and Amazing Stories. With each pawnshop item holding a captivating backstory of its own, Diaz expertly blends genres to keep readers engaged and craving more. From ancient...

Synopsis: Global Climate DestructionA Notorious MurderA Rogue Diplomatic SchemeJune 2029. An outspoken climate scientist is murdered. Investigators believe she was assassinated to end her forceful advocacy for untested geoengineering techniques that might slow global warming.Frequent extreme storms and rising sea levels are undermining the...

Keep your bones close. Set them in neat lines. The whale bone is connected to the plane bone. The women will not go quietly. The defiant bone is connected to the no bone. The state of things dissolves. A man is remembered by his...

The book content based on life of 2 presidents abrahim lincoin and john .f Kennedy and their coincidence of parallel life and similarities and time travel aura of both.Author: Sulekha GujjarISBN-13: 9798887832869Publisher: Notion PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/11/2022Pages: 36Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.09d

Rose is determined to be happy...Being abducted by aliens was the absolute worst experience of my life. But I got lucky. After their ship was damaged, they dumped me and four other Human women on an abandoned rainforest planet. Here, we're safe. So long...

A Study in Scarlet is an 1887 detective novel by Scottish author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in popular fiction. The book's title...

Two Editions in One VolumeThe enduring tale of Victor Frankenstein and his ill-fated creation, presented with the complete texts of the 1818 and 1831 editions in parallel.Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus was authored by Mary Shelley (1797-1851), who began composing the novel at the...

In the realm of human experiences, the phenomenon of children's past life memories continues to captivate our curiosity and challenge our understanding of consciousness and the nature of existence. Throughout history, stories have emerged of young children who, with unwavering conviction, recount memories, behaviors,...

Motes played.She played because she was play. She played because that was her role in life, because that is just who she was. She played with color, played with life, played with death.She played with fire.Motes played, because how could she not?Author: Madison Rye...

When Jacob Dawes is selected for the Imperial Intellectual Complex as a child, he's catapulted from the poverty-stricken slums of his birth into a world where his status as an unclass is something no one can forget, or forgive. His growing scientific renown draws...

Just what is the connection between the Great Pyramid at Giza, built over 4,000 years ago, and the Roswell incident of 1947? Be assured the answer has nothing to do with aliens, but everything to do with the Egyptian Coffin Text, the Ark of...

It began when Tanya dove into the ocean and disappeared. When David dives in to rescue her, he discovers that the water has transformed into the Golden Mist that forms the doorway into the Lands of the Adoni. Unlike his previous visit, David finds...

In this chilling debut horror novel, a young woman discovering dangerous new powers finds herself lost in the Appalachian Mountains with her first love, the sister she betrayed, and an infatuated stranger bound to her telepathically as a string of vicious murders taints the...

Author: Kylie WolfeISBN-10: 1616509171ISBN-13: 9781616509170Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/02/2013Pages: 190Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d

The Dominion of the World (1900) represents a transition from classic Vernian anticipation to the pulp serials of the 1920s and 1930s. It is also the only science fiction work that sought to dramatize the "Transatlantic Peril", positing a fundamental difference of culture and...

MUTINY IN SPACE began as a novella entitled "Valentine's Planet," which appeared in the August 1964 issue of Worlds of Tomorrow. "To space opera of the time, the character of the captain was as important as that of the king was to Shakespeare. He...

A brilliant cult classic of literary science fiction--back in print.Author: Suzette Haden ElginISBN-10: 1558612467ISBN-13: 9781558612464Publisher: Feminist PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2000Pages: 320Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 7.76h x 5.06w x 0.94d

The Spy is a novel based on the possibility of what's out there and what the future could look like.Author: Paul T. WhiteISBN-10: 1532028156ISBN-13: 9781532028151Publisher: iUniverseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/29/2017Pages: 178Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Nothing exciting has ever happened to Edmund Roth. But that changes one day when he falls down a hole in his basement and finds himself in the middle of a civilization he never knew existed, with floating balls of energy and a dictatorial government...

College professor and archaeologist Peter Harrigan and his dog Chance are enjoying an early morning hike in the western desert of the United States. As they begin to turn toward home, Harrigan encounters what, at first, seems to be a child alone in the...

"Ben has a shirt that is so special, he wants to wear it every day for the rest of his life." When he wears his shirt, he is as powerful as the Dragon on the front. He can fl y higher than anyone. Yet,...

It was Earth's darkest hour. Weak, backward, prey to attack, it could only be saved by the Vigilantes. Sci-fi writer Thane Smith and his beautiful, adored wife Miribel had the task of discrediting UFO stories. But how could they after they ran up against...

Why should New Morning School, in the year 2004, suddenly attract so much attention? Surely, by this time the Intensive Therapy theory upon which the school has been built has proved to be successful in turning out well-adjusted graduates to help augment the government's...

Paul Heisenberg is mysteriously endowed with the ability to jump through time. Together with thousands of eventual followers, he begins a journey that eventually takes him a billion years into the future. The Earth has been devastated by war with an alien race, and...

This collection contains Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, and even some humor. From the classic Andre Norton's "All Cats Are Gray" to the next generation of authors, we collected an interesting assortment of stories, poems, and images for you to enjoy. Inside you will find...

Not long after the colonists landed on the uninhabited planet, every human-made artifact -- ship, communicators, tools -- disappeared. Even their clothes! Here is an enthralling alien-planet puzzle story from the co-author of They'd Rather Be Right.Author: Mark CliftonISBN-10: 1434473880ISBN-13: 9781434473882Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Ten science fiction stories by master Robert Sheckley! Here are "The Monsters," "Cost of Living," "The Demons," Specialist," and many more.Author: Robert SheckleyISBN-10: 1434470059ISBN-13: 9781434470058Publisher: Wildside PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2008Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d

When Steve, a hapless school teacher, consults a hypnotherapist to solve his personal problems, he "remembers" being abducted by aliens. When he starts attending sessions of Alien Abductees Anonymous (AlAbAn), he sees a pattern in the stories being told, and thinks his own experiences...

Rubion Federation ship HMS Belsus visits a three-hundred-year-old colony planet, and discovers a society near revolution against the rule of a "transfigured being" known as Toth. Commander Michael Queal's crew and ship are immediately threatened by Toth and his followers, including a host of...

In the house with two front doors, Watson Congruent's father sells souvenirs from the long-canceled TV show, The Adventures of Captain Conquer, and is also trying to build an actual "motivator," the device that powered the Captain's huge spaceship. And then one day Watson...

When George is transported to a far-future Earth, he finds himself caught between two very different species of humanity--the Amphibians, dwellers of the deeps, and the giant Dwellers, rulers of the large island that constitutes the major land mass. With the help of one...

A FICTION HOUSE PRESS FIRST EDITION: SUPER-SCIENCE FICTION digest magazine was published from 1956 to 1959, with a total of 18 issues appearing on a bi-monthly schedule. Robert Silverberg, both under his own name and several pen-names, appeared in every issue with as many...

In a world where leaders force-feed their supplicants with lies and abuse, freedom is an illusion. The world lies divided: one half a Utopian prison, the other a ruthless military dictatorship. Two women born to different halves of this disparate future earth must battle...

A mysterious village, hidden forever from war. An Endless Forest, and the exhausted stage manager who dares its challenge. The psychic who'll read your fortune, but only on one day a year. A girl who changes the world around her into a nightmare. Feral...

Dawn, like most teenagers, had many a plan for her life. The heartless murder of her family meant sudden changes. No longer the daughter of the ambassador, roaming the skies and distant colonies, she must settle herself into a far more simplistic life as...

Enter a world where newspapers speak, using magic carpets is a way of life and the deceased have power over the future. Learn about the dangerous magical sport of Levish, how curses really work and what an Igni is. The story follows the life...

Six months have passed since the onset of the Krenaran war, the E.D.F and their Solarian allies have managed to push back their brutal Krenaran assailants, although at a terrible cost. Once proud colonies, stations and facilities now lie in ruins due to the...

"All The World's A Stage" Tamar's back! And this time, she's off the chart and travelling without a map. There are Faeries in the woods and they're not the cute little wingéd creatures from the stories your mummy read to you. Faeries are, at...