Fiction - Science Fiction - General

WHO IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO?Bitcoin is booming. The rulers of the major global nations, under the justification of protecting the people, are carrying through a plan to impose restrictions on cryptocurrencies, which triggers unexpected reactions from parte of the population and hacker groups.Meanwhile, the CIA...

In 1919, a young man, Barker, returns to his family farm in historic South Carolina, near a quince plantation. He is searching for the answers to the pain he feels from the loss of his parents in a tragic accident. Inspired by the legendary...

Five military officers wake up from stasis 200 years into their future to discover that the human race has been enslaved. They soon set out to free humanity from their alien oppressors, finding danger and resistance at every turn.This book is a different kind...

Follow the adventure of Joliette, a teenage girl from Montreal who accepted the offer to go save her dad who is trapped in the future.Author: Gibson PresmyISBN-10: 1664108815ISBN-13: 9781664108813Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/28/2021Pages: 68Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

First Strike: Zero Down follows an epic tale of humanity's fight for survival in the face of an alien race that wants humans exterminated. Humanity's fight is long-fought and bitter sweet.Author: Alton ModlinISBN-10: 1543498280ISBN-13: 9781543498288Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/14/2021Pages: 406Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Ethan has tracked down the sword Excalibur to an ancient tomb now controlled by the orc nation. They will let him see it, but he just has to do one simple task: Talk to a rampaging dragon!Did they forget to mention that the shamans...

The year is 2017. Lucy Pavlov is the CEO of PavSoft Industries, home of a revolutionary operating system that every computer in the world runs on. Her personal wealth is immeasurable, her intelligence is unfathomable, and she's been voted World's Most Beautiful Woman for...

After Richard Garrison lost his sight in a terrorist explosion, he developed vast mental powers that more than compensated for his blindness. He mastered the Psychomech machine, then used it to conquer his enemies and restore his dead love to full and vibrant life....

A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond political utopianism and technological optimism, contemporary Chinese writers conjure glittering visions and subversive experiments--ranging from space opera to...

In the fourth novel of Maya Rodale's tantalizing series, a newly minted duke spends one night with his perfect woman...but can he win her for a lifetimeSome Mistakes...When American-born James Cavendish arrives in London tomorrow, he'll become the Duke of Durham. Some might be...

In her 35th novel, science fiction master Sheri S. Tepper boldly weaves together the storylines of eleven of her previous works--from King's Blood Four (1983) to The Waters Rising (2010).In Fish Tails, two of Sheri S. Tepper's beloved characters--Abasio and Xulai (A Plague of...

From Ross Raisin, the highly acclaimed author of Out Backward--a debut novel Colm T ib n called "compelling, disturbing and often very funny"--comes the moving and story of an ex-shipyard worker's journey of grief and reclamation in the wake of his wife's death. Lyrical...

A wonderful coming-of-age novel from Zoe Fishman, author of Balancing Acts, Saving Ruth tells the story of a fish-out-of-water young Jewish woman, returning to her Alabama hometown after a semester at a "Yankee college," only to discover that life--and she, herself--haven't really changed in...

"A provocative novel that raises fascinating questions about marriage and how to find our way back when love falters. Thoroughly original, highly engaging, and wonderfully tender."--Laura Fitzgerald, author of Veil of Roses"The Transformation of Things is an elegant and involving page-turner....Part mystery, part love...

"A spellbinding treat. . . . Galilee leaps through time and space to reveal an impressively majestic vision told in beautiful prose." --PeopleA classic early work from master storyteller and New York Times bestselling author Clive BarkerRich and powerful, the Geary dynasty has reigned...

Meet five North Carolina women who are about to change the way you think about friendship. For Rhonda, a gritty, fun-loving hairdresser in tight jeans, the sights and smells of Ridgecrest Nursing Center are depressing. But before she can change her mind about working...

The reign of Queen Elizabeth I was a time of war, passion, and spectacular achievement. Elizabeth: The Golden Age finds Elizabeth facing bloodlust for her throne and familial betrayal. Growing keenly aware of the changing religious and political tides of late sixteenth-century Europe, Elizabeth...

What is the next trend -- the next "killer app"? This question is very much on the mind of Ursula Van Urden, a burned-out art student who, after her supermodel sister Ivy's widely publicized suicide attempt, has found work as a trendspotter for Tomorrow,...

James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the Free State of Galveston," who are prospering through illicit pleasures in the midst of the Great Depression. Raised on an isolated...

The future of relationships in a complicated world. As the good ship 'McCarthy' wends its way from the UK to China across troubled waters, Susan and Howard - two employees in a shipping and logistics company - establish an extraordinary friendship in cyberspace. Entrusted...

Flat Tops of East L.A.By: Esteven Antonio MaresFlat Tops of East L.A. tells of the adventures of a cholito named Tiny. Taking on the historical heart of ancient Mexican culture with total regard and respect, Estevan Antonio Mares captures in his work the meaningful...

When evil begins, it grows.Angelic Wars: End of the Beginning is a musical novel where the book's characters sing when the reader activates QR codes in the book.The epic war for Heaven continues. End of the Beginning is the second, full musical novel of...

What if the screens you look at every day we're looking right back at you, monitoring your every move, measuring your performance, and assigning you a social score that dictates the quality of your life?Toffy is a rising star, a successful engineer at J...

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...

In this second installment in Garner's Atlantis series: Earth, we actually have just seen, and witnessed the Lost Continent incredulously having risen again! While growing accustomed to life again, in the grandest sense, the Earth team of Explorers and Atlanteans are intermingling, and are...

The Iron Heel (1907) is a novel by American writer Jack London. A groundbreaking work of dystopian science fiction, The Iron Heel was inspired by London's socialist views and belief in an eventual global upheaval. Although his predictions proved wrong for the United States...

Although fifteen-year-old Grummpess Mummpiss has been living with facial disfigurements all his life, he has no idea that he is about to transform into a monster capable of much more than he ever imagined. When the dots on the keloids on his face begin...

Jason Savage is a young, nonconformist college professor in the small town of Kingman in Upstate New York, and he has made an amazing discovery. The revelation of a global universal computer could change life for every person on earth. Never before has there...

Do you wonder anytime about people being crashed into unexpectedly by drunk and drugged drivers? Stop! Stop wondering and read about it! After a brief deep coma and longer semi-coma--supernatural weeks actuality embraced a half physically paralyzed twenty-six year-old wife and mother; along with...

Named a BEST BOOK OF 2021 by the New York Times, NPR, the New York Public Library, Audible, Tor.com, Book Riot, Library Journal, and Kirkus!Longlisted for the 2022 PEN Open Book AwardRiveting...[A] tender, ferocious book.--New York TimesBeautifully fantastical.--NPRMasterful.--Chicago TribuneOne October morning, Laina gets the...

Edmonton, 1995.Six strangers at a coffee shop are caught in an earthquake, but soon learn that no one else in the city seems to have felt it. Over the next few days, they experience strange, inexplicable, and unsettling events.The six soon realize they'll need...

On the island of Ponape in the South Pacific, the cold light of a full moon washes over the crumbling ruins of an ancient, vanished civilization. Unleashed from the depths is the Dweller, a glittering, enigmatic force of monstrous terror and radiant beauty that...

Through the tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, generations of readers have thrilled to the adventures of Lord Greystoke (aka John Clayton, but better known as Tarzan of the Apes). In this biography Philip José Farmer pieces together the life of this fantastic man, correcting...

A classic work of science fiction, this novel was one of the first to explore the world of the atom. The Girl in the Golden Atom is the story of a young chemist who finds a hidden atomic world within his mother's wedding ring....

Time travel, a millennium-spanning romance, and rousing action in modern African jungles and the untamed prehistoric wilderness ignite this classic adventure tale from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. Nu, a warrior from the Stone Age, is buried alive in an earthquake while stalking...

"Oh, I wish I were anywhere but here, anywhere out of this redtape-ridden world of ours! I wish I were in the planet Mars!" Whisked away to the legendary red planet, the intrepid Lieutenant Gullivar Jones is caught up in the adventure of a...

Betrayed by his wife, Stephen Stone spirits his son, Henry, away to a remote tropical island and trains him to be an ideal physical specimen and a perfect gentleman. After years of isolation, Henry Stone is now a young man, standing a full six...

First published in 1897, The Year 3000 is the most daring and original work of fiction by the prominent Italian anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza. A futuristic utopian novel, the book follows two young lovers who, as they travel from Rome to the capital of the...

Nicodemus is a young, gifted wizard with a problem. Magic in his world requires the caster to create spells by writing out the text . . . but he has always been dyslexic, and thus has trouble casting even the simplest of spells. And...

Terrorism. Acts of Oppression. The threat of nuclear war.What if one madman aboard a vessel could end these fears forever? Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the "unsinkable" naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from...

Caught in the crossfire of an interstellar war, our Earth was bombed to flinders--and then repaired. The mysterious alien Benefactors who healed the planet also offered "uplift" to our dolphins and gorillas. The dolphins turned them down. The gorillas said yes. As a result,...

If you want an omnibus of short fiction by Arthur C. Clarke, a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master, then you want The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke. If you're looking for a representative sample of Clarke's short stories, or for some...

Author: Piers AnthonyISBN-10: 0738806927ISBN-13: 9780738806921Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/18/2000Pages: 320Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.33lbsSize: 8.80h x 5.80w x 1.08d

Written at a time when much of the world remained hidden and mysterious - when remote islands, unexplored jungles, and the depths of the ocean still held new and unenvisioned possibilities - these tales combine the everyday with the otherworldly in a way that...

It's 2057 and Zachary Nixon Johnson is the last freelance private investigator on planet Earth. Lucky for him, he's mind-melded with HARV, the most advanced cognitive processor on Earth-so Zach generally does pretty well when it comes to cracking cases. And when a certain...

For too long, readers throughout the Federation have been exposed to The Tragedy of Khamlet, Son of the Emperor of Qo'nos, that classic work of Klingon(TM) literature, only through inadequate and misleading English translations. Now at last, thanks to the tireless efforts of the...

Australia 2040. No child lives in poverty and every child is safe. But at what cost?19-year-old Monica never wanted a baby but the laws require her to give birth twice before she can move on with her life.Now that her first son, Oscar, has...

Sten's boss - The Eternal Emperor - is back and he's ready to reveal his most precious secrets No, not the secret of AM2, you silly clots. There are more important things than the Galaxy's ultimate energy source. We're talking food, folks. A cookbook...

If you have ever wondered if there was more to Red Dwarf than just a television series, then prepare to have your nipple nuts spun, because Total Immersion: The Comprehensive Unauthorized Red Dwarf Encyclopedia has got you covered The quintessential reference guides to the...

Redemption sweeps through the centuries of history and from California to Berlin, Rome, Turkey, and the Carpathian Mountains of Romania in tracing the journey of evil back to its source to tell the entwined stories of the notorious Vlad the Impaler and the reluctant...