Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Magic and spaceships combine in this coming-of-age science fiction adventure.Jenny Tripper will die an early death because of a family curse that has already claimed her mother. She lives and works in her aunt's failing fortune-telling shop, and is haunted every moment by a...

Abby is on the run and harboring a dangerous secret, one that could get her killed-or worse-if anybody found out. J.D. is a former agent, still lethal, but not quite what he once was. Their paths cross as Abby's secret comes to light. Only...

Saving a planet is a daunting job, yet that is what Arian must do. She has to find her betrothed. Once she has a hero at her side, she is sure she can wrestle her planet back from General Veral, Orla has been Arian's...

One last chance.Seven years of unremitting war between the invading Naplian Empire and the TerranRepublic has humanity and its allies on the run. There seems to be no stopping theonslaught as the Naplians crush all resistance, no matter what obstacles the Terransand the Briddarri...

The second issue featuring: THE ISLAND OF UNREASON by Edmond Hamilton NEWSCAST by Harl Vincent INVISIBLE by Eric Frank Russell COSMOS (round robin serial) chapter 2 by David H. Keller MD TREASURES OF TANTALUS (part 2) by Garret SmithAuthor: Edmond Hamilton,Harl Vincent,David H. KellerISBN-10:...

After the small town she's visiting is bombed, chaos ensues as Sheila searches for somewhere to go, to hide, to get away from the madness and death in the streets. Armed soldiers raid the area, and things only get worse from there. If not...

E.F. Benson, in full Edward Frederic Benson, (born July 24, 1867, Wellington College, Berkshire, Eng.-died Feb. 29, 1940, London), writer of fiction, reminiscences, and biographies, of which the best remembered are his arch, satirical novels and his urbane autobiographical studies of Edwardian and Georgian...

Four strangers will become intertwined to change the world of Ta'Thaloon forever.Jathalor is just another scrawny, dirty boy eking out a living in the bustling city of Nathalem. Not many know his name and not many would take the time to learn it. He...

All families have hidden secrets...but how can those secrets change one's life? After barely escaping the savage destruction of her village and the murder of her mother, Talia finds herself in the company of a strange woman... A tall woman wearing a long black...

When an alien intelligence attempts to obliterate humankind, Dr. Ian Crangler finds himself facing the biggest challenges of his life: A woman named Delilah and a man named Geoffrey. Delilah is used to getting everything she wants when she wants it. She thinks there's...

State/Craft: Earth @ Stake is a tech-heavy action packed story, set mostly in twenty-second century California. The earth is infested with alien invaders. We are at war, our side fighting for survival and theirs for gain, with the Earth at Stake. So what is...

The Ascendance of Quave continues the story of the world's first Sentient Artificial Intelligence. We begin with the fallout resulting from Quave's arson attack on Marble Streatham Bank headquarters in Manhattan, and his hacking of the X-37B spaceplane. These incidents marked the final day...

In Brightam's Ford, a storm is coming. Ranch owner Jasper Borland and the rest of the townspeople have been rushing to prepare for the months of destructive weather the wet season brings, but with their limited technology, survival can be a struggle in itself....

Wennoc is a forgotten world at the back of the Beyond, colonized long ago from Old Earth. Technology has faded, and life proceeds in bucolic peacefulness - but change is afoot.Micca is grandson of Stennig, twenty-sixth master of Mora - a sprawling collective in...

In this companion novel to the popular Uprising zombie apocalypse series, author Zachary Hill takes us from Utah to Italy where he takes up the fight to purge the earth of undead beasts. If you love zombie apocalypse novels, "Uprising Italia" is a must...

In the stunning conclusion of the epic story of Aron and his post apocalyptic world, Damien poses the threat of a society of his rabid followers bereft of rational values and concerns. He's faced with the impossible in leading the rebellion with primitive arms...

Aron's peaceful life on his father's farm ended abruptly and he struggled with galling captivity in the palace while he formed a fearsome corps of expert fighters. They managed to escape fleeing into the wilds but their new life is tenuous with daily challenges...

Beyond the Rim of Light, Alex Stone -- Captivated by the beauty of the planet Arden, xenobiologist and survey team leader Marissa Latham wants to preserve it and its dominant species, the rheodactyls (rheos). However, a treaty between the Usian Confederation and the Delphian...

Mark of the Cobra, Herbert Grosshans -- When his company sends Peter Hartmann to meet a new prospective client, he is obliged to do more than just sign some contracts. After being arrested for a crime he didn't commit, his violent past catches up...

In 1925, Ernest Pérochon, a winner of the prestigious Goncourt literary award, penned The Frenetic People, a prescient warning against unchecked technology. The novel takes place in our 30th century, the 5th century of the new Universal Era, after a bacteriological war with Asia....

The Xandra: Book 2 Mother of Light By Herbert Grosshans Needing to escape the alien Xandra, Commander Beringer and his 27 marines went into cryogenic suspension, hoping to find safety in the future. One thousand years later they are awakened from their deep sleep...

Held captive in the frozen wilderness, transhuman Chase Sterling almost loses faith that he'll ever be reunited with his bride and with the persecuted souls he's promised to guard. His escape leads to even greater struggles, and discoveries about his own abilities. At last,...

Investigating a murder, cop Olivia Jardan uncovers evidence that the death was an assassination, violating the great compromise between the corporate consensus and the religious Interfaith--the organizations that rule what was once the United States. Jardan knows too much and both sides need her...

Space-four travel was supposed to be safe. Accidents were far between and only happened to strangers, people you never heard of. That's what Gerald Knave thought until he found himself lost in an unknown part of the galaxy with no way to get home...Author:...

In this thrilling interplanetary adventure, a team of explorers ventures beyond the known universe and stumbles upon an astonishing civilization orbiting a distant sun. As they navigate the wonders and dangers of this alien world, they soon realize that survival depends on more than...

In this 1915 utopian novel, Charlotte Perkins Gilman describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination...Author: Charlotte Perkins GilmanISBN-10: 1541028651ISBN-13: 9781541028654Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage:...

THE WORLD SET FREE was written in 1913 and published early in 1914, and it is the latest of a series of three fantasias of possibility, stories which all turn on the possible developments in the future of some contemporary force or group of...

The cult hit novel set in the not-too-distant future about a reluctant rebel's defiance of his role in a bar coded society. "Bells clanging, lights aflash, the plot's ball bangs and rebounds.... A wonderful and wonderfully funny book." -James Sallis LA Times "Writing with...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Moving the Mountain presents a vision of social transformation grounded in reason, cooperation, and the reorganization of everyday life. Set in a reimagined future shaped by deliberate reform, the novel explores changes in labor, education, gender roles, and social structure, offering...

Mr. Bedford Meets Mr. Cavor at Lympne As I sit down to write here amidst the shadows of vine-leaves under the blue sky of southern Italy, it comes to me with a certain quality of astonishment that my participation in these amazing adventures of...

How many ways are there for driving someone mad? You could take him out of his time and propel him into another era. You could pluck him from his home and drop them in the middle of primitive jungle. You could pull him off...

Author: John D. MimmsISBN-10: 1497662893ISBN-13: 9781497662896Publisher: Open Road MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/08/2014Pages: 310Format: Paperback

In MARGINS OF PHILOSOPHY, while discussing the challenge before phenomenology, Jacques Derrida speaks of the "ground of signification" and the "pedestal of silence," but his two very apt phrases also apply to the ENTIRE human project of understanding ourselves and the multiverse-the aim of...

'Sent' is a collection of eight short science fiction stories, which have emerged out of the most fascinating scientific discoveries in the world. The book has several dimensions with regards to concept, stories and characters that keep reader wired. Each story describe exciting situation...

The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing-World, better known as The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. It has been described as an early forebearer of Science Fiction. Margaret Cavendish,...

The seventh issue of ADVENTURE TALES presents more classic tales from the pulp magazines -- this time focusing on Mack Reynolds (with 6 stories and 2 essays), plus stories by Frank Belknap Long, Rafael Sabatini, Greye La Spina, David H. Keller, M.D., and many...

Moving to Chincoteague has been hard for Alison Grossbard and her younger brother Arnold. When Dad lost his job as a reporter in Baltimore after speaking out against the High Ones - big, blue starfish from space that now rule the Earth -- he...

Mark and Jimmy are "astrological twins" born on the same day, but they have completely opposed personalities. Even so, when they met at university in the 1980s they formed a close friendship, which even survived a crisis point when the reckless Jimmy, having persuaded...

"On Prison Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams and Alex Dzarny use their telepathic gifts to make criminals face the fears that drive their heinous crimes. They've been a great team, but now, Alex has left the Planetoid and Jaguar, grief stricken over the death of...

"Before Isaac Asimov's first novel Pebble in the Sky, there was "Grow Old Along with Me," its original version lost in a library vault for nearly 40 years. Before Sir Arthur C. Clarke's masterpiece The City and the Stars there was Against the Fall...

The Timelines Keep Trying to Realign! Our neighboring timeline also had its 20th-century warfare. But Act II of their Last Great War, 1939-1945, lined up somewhat differently, with Russia, India, Spain, and Japan versus England, France, Germany, and the Reformed States of America. Now,...

Returning from the planet Lemnos, Burk and his Guardian girlfriend Milliya find themselves in mortal danger. The corrupt Terran Government, the ruthless Imperial Council and a sinister revolutionary movement are battling for control of the Empire, and the dark secrets that Burk and Milliya...

Hear the Voice of Fear On Prison Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams and Alex Dzarny use their telepathic gifts to make the worst criminals face the fears that drive their heinous crimes. But now they face a criminal unlike any they'd met before. Springer Todd,...

"Isaac Newton was a shy, quiet boy growing up on a farm in England 300 years ago. He was not a very good student and nobody paid much attention to him. Nobody that is, except the school bully. One day the bully punched Isaac...

For more than 30 years, fans have been waiting for the definitive guide to the monsters, vehicles and aliens in the Star Wars universe. Some of them may find that this collection of essays by Andrew Rilstone passes the time while they carry on...

Unlike most girls, Heather January had yet to outgrow her tomboy phase. Startled to find herself so quickly on the cusp of womanhood, she still desires to work with the cogs and machinery used to power her world, even though such things are forbidden...

A Sci-fi comedy Grunt RX-10 is a story of a neurotic machine who is so depressed by being a metallic item without a soul he becomes a renegate in the world of machines. While escaping the High computer's servants, he snatches a female machine...

Author: Thomas Neil NeubertISBN-10: 1441539247ISBN-13: 9781441539243Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/12/2009Pages: 332Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d

The Cat in Grandfather's House is a children's mystery story written in the early twentieth century. Hortense, a little girl who is living with her grandparents in a large, old-fashioned house while her parents are in Australia, begins to wonder about the highly intelligent...

Trapped in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942, teenager Rachel Zilber escapes the horror by writing about the adventures of Zap-Gun Jack and Princess Anya of Mars. When her parents are captured by the Nazis, Rachel's transported into her make-believe world, but the danger is...