Fiction - Science Fiction - General

Tachyon Node is a 'Zine Publication. Not quite a Fanzine and not quite a Magazine, but a blend of both. It is a collection of short stories (all genres), artwork, and articles. It is meant to be a bridge, conduit, and gateway to all...

Battle Beyond Earth: Desolation. The eighth instalment in an epic sci-fi series that tells of humanity's desperate struggle to survive in an uncertain and war-torn future. Colonel Taylor's mission to rescue POWs had been a resounding success, but it had revealed horrors beyond his...

Sinister, invisible forces of a secret mental weapon known only as The Dark are threatening the entire Primores galaxy, several transmitting leaps away from Earth. By the time a bizarre Mr. Smith comes to detective Jan Darzek's New York office, whole planets have been...

This is a story about life on Mars. It's been a dream for many years, but what would it actually involve? And for how long would relevant Earth agencies be prepared to keep funding such a project, without a significant commercial return? The story...

'Israel is in a tough neighbourhood.' That is the wry saying of Israelis who live in this tiny strip of land in the Middle East, the nation state of the Jews but a true democracy with an independent judiciary and press freedom which allows...

Greed. Power. Cruelty. These have been the watchwords by which Chatcaava of lesser means have been ruled for generations, and even the most valuable among them, the Slave Queen, has lived the whole of her life beneath their yoke. Only one male in all...

An Eldritch Ambassador began the regeneration of a dragon, a regeneration that nearly ended in the harem of a Chatcaavan worldlord. Rescued before he could die, the Emperor now faces the nearly impossible challenge of assailing an empire intent on conquest while reconciling the...

In a deserted school dormitory, a fourteen-year-old boy is sound asleep. A mysterious old man dressed in a homespun loincloth sneaks in, makes several small cuts on the boy's skin, and disappears. When the boy is woken up by school prefects, he has been...

The young man with his deposits of nineteen and one-half millions-and more to come-troubled the president. With that much cash, Grinnell already was a potential disturber of finance. With much more he could be infinitely worse-to the public and to the great moneyed interests....

The Moon Pool is a fantasy novel by Abraham Merritt (1884-1943). It originally appeared as two short stories in All-Story Weekly: "The Moon Pool" (1918) and its sequel, "Conquest of the Moon Pool" (1919). These were then reworked into a novel released in 1919....

ANCIENT EARTH IS DOOMED... Earth's Sun will explode, not millions of years hence but in mere lifetimes-violently enough to scour Earth clean and leave the Empire of the Hundred Worlds adrift. The Empire's scientists deem that nothing can be done. The age of heroism...

Who answers for Earth? A sci-fi novel about a third-century Dacian, a young girl from year 1111, a modern-day Englishman and a mysterious starship.Author: Diana Sima, Alex DevaISBN-10: 1536910910ISBN-13: 9781536910919Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/06/2016Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.56d

Few, if any, have heard this story-and with good reason. This is not a tale about the future but a chronicle of hushed-up events in the recent past. The events and dates herein are accurately documented, but the names of certain participants and the...

Out of Time's Abyss is a fantasy-science fiction novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third of his Caspak trilogy.Author: Hollybook, Edgar Rice BurroughsISBN-10: 1522910069ISBN-13: 9781522910060Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/24/2015Pages: 146Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

The greatest of treasures awaits... on the deadliest of planets. DANGER AT EVERY TURN... Rikard passed a door and a man came out and fell into step beside him. The man didn't say anything for a while. He was wearing a gun-Rikard didn't know...

Darrell Schweitzer interviews: Vernor Vinge, Paolo Bacigalupi, Paul Di Fillippo, Tanith Lee, Patricia Mckillip, Robert Silverberg, Allen Steele, John Clute, Elizabeth Hand, Maurice Broaddus, James P. Blaylock, Theodora Goss, Ben Bova, Richard A. Lupoff, Jay Lake, William Tenn (Philip Klass), Kim Stanley Robinson, Stanley...

Sheena is a vampire from Leeds who works in a call center, and has a dark secret that even she doesn't know about. Her boyfriend has to discover it the hard way, alas. Like the other two vampire stories included in the book, both...

My Best 2012 Short Stories were all written with a purpose. One of these stories will resonate with you, which one? Spirit 101: What happens when one ?wakes up dead What happens when one is still alive in a spiritual state? How does one...

They had captured a Visionary, a white witch, and they meant to sacrifice her at the religious crumbling bell tower of the town. Who would save her? Surely not the crew of the aging ship Thunderbolt 5. They did carry extra help though, an...

What would you consider freedom? For some, it's choosing their way to die.Murder of Crows is based in a not-so-far-flung universe where humanity did not reach the stars but instead found itself mired in corporate takeovers. Since interstellar travel was never developed, asteroids were...

H G Wells Herbert George Wells, an English writer, was born on 21st 1866 and died on 13 Aug 1946. He was renowned for his works of science fiction especially 'The Time Machine'. He is also referred as 'The Father of Science Fiction'Author: H....

The year is 1950 in a parallel universe. Because the British Navy sailed (rather than remained at anchor) out of Spithead Roadstead on a crucial morning in July 1914, both World War I and II never happened. But ever since, Europe, Asia, and the...

The wub stood sagging, its great body settling slowly. It was sitting down, its eyes half shut. A few flies buzzed about its flank, and it switched its tail. It sat. There was silence. "It's a wub," Peterson said. "I got it from a...

It's 2012. Our planet is moving into the last days as prophesized in the Bible. The Mayan Calendar nears its final recorded day of 12/12/12. Compounding the matter and disturbing man and demon alike, scientists discover an enormous object on a collision course with...

The Time Machine is a novella by H. G. Wells, first published in 1895 and later directly adapted into at least two feature films of the same name, as well as two television versions, and a large number of comic book adaptations. It indirectly...

Four veteran male bicycling buddies decide to take on The Death Ride, a one-day bike ride near Lake Tahoe in California. Training over the various popular roads of the San Francisco Bay Area, they encounter steep climbs, bad weather, vexatious wives, flirtatious female bikers,...

"You were once given a helmet." "A helmet?" The Traveler thought for a long moment. "Yes, Soterion-the defender," he affirmed. "You must learn to wear it in battle," instructed the Preacher. "You take so many blows to your soul because your intellect is open...

Included in this volume are historic interviews with Alfred Bester, Robert Silverberg, Brian Aldiss, James Gunn, Gardner Dozois, Norman Spinrad, Gordon R. Dickson, Ben Bova, Ted White, Jack Williamson, L. Sprague de Camp, Frank Belknap Long, Gahan Wilson, and Jerry Pournelle.Author: Darrell SchweitzerISBN-10: 1434409104ISBN-13:...

There was a time when Thera was free... free from tyranny, free from fear, and free from pain. A great evil threatens to destroy the delicate balance between Thera and Earth, and it seems that all hope is lost. Yet, there is a bright...

The northern Warrior Class of Felinoids strives for total domination of the planet Dragu III, opposed by the Spandroms, a southern, black, humanoid race who are peaceful and highly civilized.Author: Adolf FloryanowichISBN-10: 1425111661ISBN-13: 9781425111663Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/03/2007Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

The Adventures of I Don't Know; a tale about an adolescent traveling through a different dimension, (ultimately), searching for he meaning of life. While on his journeys, he is confronted with many strange and curious perceptions, (as well as several perplexing questions.) A book...

SIL, blending science and philosophic idealism, is a self-contained orbital craft providing physical survivability and intellectual stimulation-an example to eco-ravaged Earth of humanity's future. But all is not Utopian in this brave, new world. McVee, SIL's designer, commander and deceitful catalyst, is under siege....

At a point in our future when people use financial credits instead of cash and when journalists double police officers, rancher Fred Furlingame has a radical idea - to breed cattle on an abandoned biosphere on Mars. Fred's plan touches off a classic battle...

Fifteen interviews in which David Langford -- winner of 29 Hugo Awards -- questions other science fiction and fantasy notables: Stephen Baxter, Kristen Britain, John Clute and John Grant, John Clute solo, George Hay, Tom Holt, Terry Pratchett with Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart,...

When people go missing from the Tenderfoot Trail in rural USA, it sparks FBI and Pentagon Security involvement. They become aware it's happening worldwide and often a blue beam from satellites is involved. No evidence can be found against any nation - so thoughts...

Matt and his friends go to a really crazy that is in Cleveland, Ohio and as Matt is at the party they meet really hot girls and Matt and his friends after the party end up drinking & Driving and Matt and his friends...

Two immortal scientists seek to create life to fill their world of empty buildings and deserted cities. They discover the consequences of creating life on psyche, and the very universe itself.Author: Woolley WrenISBN-10: 1092227687ISBN-13: 9781092227681Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/31/2019Pages: 46Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 9.00h x...

Tag Line: How do you maintain humanity without feeling love and hate? Concept: A quest to learn what it means to be human Sage Washington must find a way to change what she believes will be the inhumane future those who seek to control...

Gentle wizard Mikal Novastar's life is complacent and secure as a mystic instructor at the School of the Three Moons in the Great City of Addis. This changes, however, when an extraordinary prophecy urges him to embark upon a heroic and dangerous adventure. Armed...

A string of grisly murders and missing persons cases puts a young police officer at risk of becoming food for worms in "Lot's Crawlers" by Joel V. Kela, the featured story in the Winter 2012 issue of Big Pulp (cover art by Ken Knudtsen)....

ITP: Future Hope is a story of speculative fiction that looks at society today and tries predicts Earth's future. It follows future society's attempts to overcome our declining resources by venturing out into space to find new worlds. There are underlying religious themes as...

A love story, visionary fiction, mysticism, theology and a personal journey, Stan Law's Enigma of the Second Coming offers a world in which the reality of the moon, a remote planet or even a star system light years away is no further distant than...

Driven by her past, Sonya of Shiloh must battle an old enemy to avenge her parents deaths. Her future lies in the hands of four young men. Can they save their worlds or will mankind fall to the Intowe FamilyAuthor: N. D. PelhamISBN-10: 0759659362ISBN-13:...

Author: Mark Caldwell WalkerISBN-10: 0759641161ISBN-13: 9780759641167Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2001Pages: 412Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.04w x 1.07d

The stakes are raised...Sarah Randolph is a member of a unique and secretive community whose existence must forever remain unknown. Her Shift complete, she faces a new challenge when her newfound abilities inexplicably vanish, jeopardizing her chance to save the group she's newly joined....

In this impressive collection, rising talent Scott William Carter showcases his considerable storytelling skills. Whether his tales lead to the edges of known space, to the fringes of understood time, or the wholesomeness of an American farm, time and again readers will find themselves...

The story of the millennium. A New Age thriller which answers the most ancient spiritual riddles-and exposes a coverup that goes far beyond the DaVinci Code. When Adam Zakar, securities broker at a multinational brokerage house, enters into a strangely-profitable real estate transaction, he...

Who was the legendary Queen Lurline? How and why did she enchant the Land of Oz long ago in the forgotten past? These questions launch best friends Ojo and Button-Bright on a perilous journey in time to the beginnings of Oz On their journey,...

With Monty Python's Flying Circus, Eric Idle proved he was one of the funniest people in the world. And with The Road to Mars he reaffirms this with a raucously sidesplitting vengence. Muscroft and Ashby are a comedy team on "The Road to Mars,"...

From a new literary star and acclaimed author of Pawpaw Patch, Necessary Lies and Dark of the Moon comes the haunting and poignant novel of a family in crisis, set in the backwoods of Georgia.Meet the Scurvy family, an impoverished clan who are the...