Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Welcome to Urban Monad 116. Reaching nearly two miles into the sky, the one thousand stories of this building are home to over eight hundred thousand people living in peace and harmony. In the year 2381 with a world population of over seventy-five billion...

The Seventh Gate is the thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. In this tale of treachery, power, and heroism, Alfred, Haplo, and Marit embark on a journey of death and discovery as they...

From his army of the undead, Xar, Lord of the Nexus, learns of the existence of the mysterious Seventh Gate. It is said that this gate grants whoever enters it the power to create worlds--or destroy them. Only Haplo knows its location--but he doesn't...

"Samuel R. Delany is not only one of the most profound and courageous writers at work today, he is a writer of seemingly limitless range." -- Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours This Stonewall Book Award-winning novel traces the life and unrealized dreams of...

Gillengaria seethes with unrest. In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to a dangerous level, though King Baryn has ordered that such mystics are to be tolerated. It is whispered that he issued the decree because his new wife used...

American heiress Piety Grey is on the run. Suddenly in London and facing the renovation of a crumbling townhouse, she's determined to make a new life for herself--anything is better than returning to New York City where a cruel mother and horrid betrothal await...

Finally returned to print in a beautiful new trade paperback edition, American Appetites is classic Joyce Carol Oates--a suspenseful thriller in which the happy facade of an affluent suburban couple crumbles under the weight of tragedy and scandal.For twenty-six years, Ian McCullough, a demographics...

"One of the finest romance authors of all time."--Julia Quinn" Loretta Chase has] a rare talent for creating crackling sexual tension and characters so fresh and compelling that readers won't be able to forget them."--Susan Elizabeth PhillipsOne of the most beloved authors in the...

Todd Fremde is an author, a writer of police procedurals and criminal mysteries. Invited to the remote island of Dearth, far across the Dream Archipelago, to talk at a conference, he finds himself caught up in a series of mysteries. How can Dearth claim...

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) was the pen name of Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, a Russian-American writer and philosopher known for developing a philosophical system she named Objectivism. The tenets of which are espoused in all of her writings, but especially in her two best-selling novels The...

The Colorado river has run dry. Water supplies are being rationed in cities across the Northern Hemisphere, and political tensions everywhere are running high...In the storytelling tradition of Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy comes a tale of international climate-induced crisis sparked by the hottest...

A dazzling historical novel set in the sixth century AD, from I, Claudius author Robert Graves, and with a new introduction by novelist Lydia Kiesling. The sixth-century Roman Empire is a dangerous place, threatened on all frontiers by invaders. But soon the attacking armies...

From an author with countless beloved science fiction classics, In the Year 2889 is a short work of science fiction that imagines the future. Set in the year 2889, George Washington Smith is a wealthy and ambitious businessman. He possesses a great amount of...

After escaping from their captors in a giant air balloon, five prisoners of the Civil War find themselves stranded on a deserted island. Despite their different backgrounds, they decide to band together and combine their talents to live on the island, which they named...

Timeless Embrace is the gut-wrenching sequel to Timeless Soldier, and part five of the Sparrow's Tears saga. Lin Sparrow is a witch. That's what people say. In her dreams, Lin has a seer's ability to foretell the future from the ashes of the past....

As a college sophomore, Wendy Hyre has carefully crafted a persona as a staunch skeptic with little patience for anything paranormal. She has a good reason, though. Her best friend... is Mothman.After saving her from a childhood accident, Mothman and Wendy are inseparable, forging...

Science Fiction Poetry / comes with free musical audiobook downloadAuthor: Jean-Paul GarnierISBN-10: 1732825734ISBN-13: 9781732825734Publisher: Space Cowboy BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2020Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.10d

COMMANDMENT is an allegory on life, all life, in whatever form and wherever it exists on EARTH or in the vast UNIVERSE. Extrapolating from what we know about life on EARTH, all creatures large and small share similarities: the struggle to exist, propagate, find...

Two lost souls. Two epic journeys. The lone survivor of a plane crash in the remote Northwest, Evan Winslow embarks on a perilous journey for home. Lost and barely alive, he fights to survive in a hostile environment while witnessing inexplicable events. Mysterious lights...

Published in 1901 and ahead of its time, The First Men in the Moon by science fiction author H. G. Wells is a fantastical story of a journey to the Moon which leads to the discovery of a brand new species. A prominent literary...

Ghost of the Gray LionBy: Isabella Banks Grace Ann Collins had everything she ever wanted, a successful career, beautiful home, and a caring husband--until she found him in the throes of passion with another woman. Devastated after her divorce, she retreated from social life...

He's the biggest jerk in the galaxy.I can live with being stuck on the far end of space. I can live with having to spend weeks on an abandoned station in an asteroid belt. Sure, I don't belong, but I've got my book and...

Rustbucket has too many humanlike frailties.That's not a good trait for an almost omnipotent being composed of pure energy.He's managed to lock himself off the surface of the two planets he regulates.Unless he returns, the planets-Montibar and Grabin-could face extinction.To rectify the problem, Rustbucket...

Three short novels by science fiction legends-Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, Robert Silverberg-all inspired by the same theme: What kind of world might exist where the basis of faith is replaced by certain knowledge? What if God proved He exists by stopping the Earth...

Welcome to the genesis of a new world which begins with the colony of Ozarium. Follow along with an older woman who finds out surviving the apocalypse isn't such a good thing. Briefly meet a killer robot clown. Take a trip with Fred, a...

Something is happening in Washington State. In this first book in the Melchizedek series, follow a jaded journalist, a true believer, and a hardened atheist on their adventures through a dystopian future, where some seek to escape society as others try to protect it.Melchizedek...

"It's actually very easy to time travel; you just have to go fast enough."What good is a time machine if human beings can't survive time travel? Evidently, there is one answer; it becomes the most effective way in history to dispose of a dead...

Explore three worlds in which three brave women push against the external structures of their strange worlds that almost work the same way as ours. Not all is as it seems but courage, wonder, and preservation abound.Author: Nikia ChaneyISBN-10: 1947240323ISBN-13: 9781947240322Publisher: Bamboo Dart PressLanguage:...

Translated into 36 languages, winner of the Norwegian Bookseller's Prize, and the most successful Norwegian author of her generation, Maja Lunde returns with a heart-wrenching tale, set in the distant past and the dystopian future, about extinction and survival, family and hope.Mikhail lives in...

Author: Rachel BachISBN-10: 0356502368ISBN-13: 9780356502366Publisher: OrbitLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2014Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.82lbsSize: 7.81h x 5.06w x 0.79d

The chilling dystopian novel that influenced George Orwell while he was writing 1984, with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood and an essay by Ursula Le GuinIn a glass-enclosed city of perfectly straight lines, ruled over by an all-powerful Benefactor, the citizens of the...

First published in Great Britain in 2001 by Gollancz.Author: Gwyneth JonesISBN-10: 1473230209ISBN-13: 9781473230200Publisher: GatewayLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2022Pages: 432Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 7.72h x 4.96w x 1.10d

Ed Bentley's wife has left him and he's been dropped by his publisher. Still, it's not the end of the world. All he has to do is ghost-write a science-fiction novel for Tuppy Cotton, a YouTuber young enough to be his daughter... When Ed...

The Soul of Lilith (1892) is a novel by Marie Corelli. Published at the height of Corelli's career as one of the most successful writers of her generation, The Soul of Lilith combines science fiction, spirituality, and romance to tell a cautionary tale of...

The Secret Power (1921) is a science fiction novel by Marie Corelli. Published toward the end of Corelli's career as one of the most successful writers of her generation, the novel combines romance, fantasy, and science fiction to tell a story of discovery and...

"Cridge ridicules the cult of domesticity by exposing its contradictions, made especially glaring when enacted by men." -Carol Farley KesslerMan's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? (1870) is a feminist utopian novel by Annie Denton Cridge. Written during the early stages of the...

A scientist whose experiments have rendered him invisible veers into madness when he cannot change back in this thrilling and influential cornerstone of science fiction. A mysterious visitor to an inn, bundled up from head to toe and with his face covered in bandages,...

Stranded on a distant planet that abounds with fertile farmland, human colonists appear to be in paradise. But all the native animals communicate by telepathy, projecting images that drive humans mad. Only Nighthorses stand between civilization and madness. When a flare of human emotion...

"When my brother disappeared in 1984, I began to see myself in the third person as if my life were a story being told to someone else."Abigail Schiller lives a seemingly normal childhood in a rural Catholic commuinity in Wisconsin. But that life is...

Return to L. Frank Baum's wonderful world of Oz with this illustrated children's book series. The old Gnome King attempts to capture the Emerald City and regain his magic belt, much to the horror of Peter, the Philadelphia boy who returns on a flying...

Prepare for a full dive Seiji Nomi's scheming from his position atop the school social hierarchy has ceased. Sky Raker has returned to the Accelerated World, and upon joining Nega Nebulus, she and Kuroyukihime have become a force to be reckoned with. But one...

Prepare for a full dive Seiji Nomi is a mysterious new student whose skillful use of Brain Burst abilities in the real world has boosted him to astonishing heights of achievement (not to mention astonishing heights of jerkitude). When Haruyuki's wings are stolen by...

As the Byzantine and German emperors plot war against each other, Venice's future rests in the hands of three unwilling individuals: The newly knighted Sir Tycho. He defeated the Mamluk navy but he cannot make the woman he loves love him back. Tortured by...

Before there was WATCHMEN, there was SUPERFOLKS.... David Brinkley used to be a hero, the greatest the world had ever seen--until he retired, got married, moved to the suburbs, and packed on a few extra pounds. Now all the heroes are dead or missing,...

An American heiress and an English earl fight against the conventions of society -- and their attraction to each other -- in the second book in the Dary to Defy series by USA Today bestselling author Syrie James.Madeleine Atherton is no typical American heiress,...

Now back in print to coincide with the publication of his new novel, 86'd, Dan Fante's Spitting Off Tall Buildings is the story of aspiring writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante, who leaves sunny Los Angeles for cold, hard New York City. Falling into...

In Los Angeles, struggling telemarketer-writer and part-time drunk Bruno Dante is jobless again. The publication of his book of short stories has been put off indefinitely. Searching the want ads for a gig, he finds a chauffeur job. When Bruno calls the number in...

From out of the East they came riding like a merciless plague--destroying kingdom after kingdom and the sovereigns who had previously mocked the warlord Loethar and his barbarian horde. Now only one land remains unconquered--the largest, richest, and most powerful realm of the Denova...

Shortly before his death at a tragically young age, author Thomas Wolfe presented his editor with an epic masterwork that was subsequently published as three separate novels: You Can't Go Home Again, The Hills Beyond, and The Web and the Rock.The Web and the...

"Beverly Jenkins has reached superstardom."--Detroit Free Press Beverly Jenkins enthralls romance readers once again with Midnight--a heart-soaring African American historical romance novel set during America's turbulent Revolutionary War. A story of passion and dangerous intrigue, Midnight unites a beautiful undercover spy--the notorious "Lady Midnight"...