Fiction - Science Fiction - General

A strange voice forces its way into a young woman's head the day she turns eighteen. He tells her that she can touch the stars, transcend humanity, if she jumps off a cliff. He says that he created her world. The scariest part is...

Author: A. D. SuiISBN-10: 1952086795ISBN-13: 9781952086793Publisher: Neon Hemlock PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/16/2024Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.12w x 0.36d

About the BookIt is the year 2643. The earth has been decimated from hundreds of years of war. As a result, the NASS Science Division's secret project has come to fruition, and Dr. Tristan Monterri finds himself risking his life on two criminals he...

A mysterious and highly acclaimed work of esoteric science fiction, geared towards the older reader. Etidorhpa stands for Aphrodite, the host of earth. The story follows the journey of an unnamed protagonist as he descends into the center of the earth, guided by an...

David Hurrelgan seems to have everything anyone could want: fame, wealth, a loving wife, and great friends. However, his life changes dramatically when he gets caught in a mysterious virtual world called "Amintor."In this futuristic place, David is faced with a tough choice: he...

In a near future where artificial general intelligence has been achieved, AIs that develop self-awareness are becoming a problem. Difficult to contain, they are often hunted and destroyed, but a team of exceptional ones has been spared to take down the most dangerous rogue...

A magnetic polar reversal has left a gaping hole in the earth's protective magnetosphere, and harmful electromagnetic radiation from the sun has stricken the unprotected earth. All electronics, including electronics on cars and trucks, have been fried. Even transformers on power lines and batteries...

Earth's first manned mission to the water-covered planet of Inundo is successful. The team of scientists, astronauts, engineers, global security analysts, diplomats, and information technologists dispatched by the World Habitability Project have further confirmed that there is intelligent life beneath its surface.To Len Rivers...

""Lost on Venus"" is an exhilarating science fiction novel penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, acclaimed for its imaginative storytelling and captivating world-building. The story follows the adventures of Carson Napier, a daring Earthman who embarks on an interplanetary journey to Venus. However, when his...

""Pirates of Venus"" is an enthralling science fiction novel penned by Edgar Rice Burroughs, celebrated for its imaginative world-building and thrilling adventures. Set on the exotic planet of Venus, known to its inhabitants as Amtor, the story follows the daring Earthman Carson Napier as...

Author: Catherine AsaroISBN-10: 0451211111ISBN-13: 9780451211118Publisher: Penguin Publishing GroupLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/03/2004Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 7.94h x 5.34w x 0.92dReview Citation(s): Romantic Times 02/01/2004 pg. 107 - Excellent

From a mysterious swamp to a haunted highway, new wishes granted to past lives revisited, 18 Black women writers across the U.S., Caribbean, Africa, and Europe, share tales in which secrets are exposed, mysteries unravel, and the human spirit shines in unexpected, often supernatural...

In this entertaining and imaginative work of fiction, French author Charles Delorme presents the adventures of Charles Thunderbolt, a young man who travels to the moon and encounters a range of strange and wondrous creatures. This book is a classic of 19th-century French literature...

Adrenaline is not for the faint of heart in this forbidden romance action-adventure. Viking Africa is a time of two cultures colliding between greed and violence vs. peace. Klaus, a conflicted Viking soldier, must discover his own path away from his brother, a brutal...

Discover the 'Missing Link' Era of Science FictionThe rise of SF (or sci-fi) as a genre was boosted by a new generation of SF-only pulp magazines from 1926 onwards. But science fiction was published (and popular) in the general run of fiction magazines which...

The Hlutr: immensely old, terribly wise.and utterly alien. Long before life crawled from the oceans of Earth, the forests of the Hlutr stood on a million worlds. Their soundless songs filled space, and their mastery of evolution had brought peace to countless planets. When...

In the spring of 1866, John Carter, a former Confederate captain prospecting for gold in the Arizona hills, slips into a cave and is overcome by mysterious vapors. He awakes to find himself naked, alone, and forty-eight million miles from Earth-a castaway on the...

BEFORE SCIENCE FICTION HAD A HOME The rise of SF (or sci-fi) as a genre was boosted by a new generation of SF-only pulp magazines from 1926 onwards. But science fiction was published (and popular) in the general run of fiction magazines which had...

Comatose follows the lives of four strangers who are trying to cheat death. On the surface, these people - a famous Hollywood director suffering from terminal brain cancer, a budding scientist in Artificial Intelligence whose honeymoon tragically ended with a freak plane accident, an...

Jerrod Northi, pirate and rogue, is desperate for the Craftsman to transform his appearance. It costs 100,000 units, steep for even Northi to pay, but because of his powerful enemies he'll find a way. Since being attacked by deadly leeris, he knows the cost...

A funny and hilarious jaunt through outer space with alien abduction as the method used to get nowhere fast in this short story.Author: Daniel AguilarISBN-10: 1536927066ISBN-13: 9781536927061Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2016Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.11lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.05d

Welcome to the World of Perfect Partners, Incorporated Step into the world of sentient androids. Humans no longer have to woo a human mate or wait for that perfect match...they simply order their heart's desire and live life to the fullest. Called PePrs -...

Three hours on the either side of midnight. This is all it will take for the Realm to change, and all that is needed to destroy what one man knew as the truth.As a favored Blue-Wing, Melagore isn't as obsessed by the Lessor, Livvy...

This is a story of a girl named Alex, who is raised on a planet called Heaven, but it was more like hell. Its a hard life, and when she gets the chance to find a husband, she marries a space trader who turns...

In the exciting continuation of the ONCO series, the entity becomes intelligent While attempting to end world hunger, a group of scientists have developed a product that is, in itself, alive. Though fully capable of fulfilling its designed purpose, this product--this creature--is becoming sentient,...

"She is both dead and alive according to some left brains. But I want to give you the other story learning this by for everyday life and the daily nature plilosophical system. Now what is missing in our culture is an appreciation for the...

1951 Jennifer Stone inherits the home and fortune of Elizabeth Windom White, a famous writer she has met only once. In the house she finds an unknown book called A Place in Time written in 1912 and dedicated to her greatly adding to the...

In this sequel to The Amulet, Jessica and Joshua struggle to create the Crystal Ark, a talisman that has been prophesied would be necessary for their very survival. The dethroned queen Maura, and her ruthless champion, Steevon, have discovered a dark power that threatens...

Based on the legends of the ancient civilization of Lemuria The Lemurian is a fantastic tale about Mya, a successful young professional woman that is thrust into a hidden world of mystery, intrigue and adventure. She knows nothing of her true ancestry, but unexpectedly...

Tired of reading about tough guys that know it all? Mysteries that aren't so mysterious? Maybe it's time to take a tongue-in-cheek break from the norm and get a little abnormal ...The cold war is over, and other than terrorism, SAR's, global warming, weapons...

Tomorrow morning at 7:35 AM, a nuclear holocaust will destroy the planet. Two people carry the keys to survival: Jeremy Edgarton, a 16 year old, tech genius and revolutionary; and Eliana, the angelic, off-world traveler sent to Earth on a mission to prevent her...

Unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson, Karen Joy Fowler, Karen Russell, Jeffrey Ford, and many others Contains stories by the amazing Jeffrey Ford, the fabulous Karen Joy Fowler, the unlikely Kelly Link, the thrilling Nalo Hopkinson, the shockingly...

A vinyl edition of the bestselling audiobook, Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, performed by Cecil Baldwin, Dylan Marron, Retta, Th r se Plummer, and Dan Bittner. Welcome to Night Vale Vinyl features highlights from the audiobook plus commentary from...

Rescued from unspeakable horror, Ishbel Brunelle has devoted her life to the Order of the Coil, a sacred cult that reads the future in the entrails of its human sacrifices. But the Serpent has loftier plans for the archpriestess, and an eerie, eldritch warning:...

When seven people go missing within a month, questions and fear arise among the townsfolk of Hemlock, Virginia. When local authorities discover the body of one of the missing people in a holler close to town, it appears the victim has suffered severe tissue...

When seven people go missing within a month, questions and fear arise among the townsfolk of Hemlock, Virginia. When local authorities discover the body of one of the missing people in a holler close to town, it appears the victim has suffered severe tissue...

In this ambitious novel of madness and release, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Doris Lessing imagines the fantastical "inner-space" life of an amnesiac.Charles Watkins, a Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, has suffered a breakdown, confined to a mental hospital as his friends and...

About the BookODD STORIES ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD.A cloud-herder gathers his flock as he prepares to retire. Meanwhile, the imminent retirement of its most talented singer is sending panic waves through the Weather Department. And a corvid inspector faced with a very tough case...

Ivan Yefremov (1908 - 1972) was a Soviet writer and paleontologist. In addition to introducing a new paleontological field taphonomy - the study of fossilization patterns, Yefremov has written a series of novels and short stories, including science fiction, historic fiction, adventure and drama.Yefremov...

Marie Lauran is a young medical school graduate desperately looking for a job. Just as her savings are about to run out, she lands an assistant position with the famous surgeon, Professor Kern. The terms of her contract are somewhat strange, but the pay...

Antonio Presto had everything - fame, fortune, and prestige. And yet, through a terrible whim of nature, he could not have what he most wanted - ordinary human happiness. One day, he decided to change it all by appealing to one of the strangest...

A strange creature haunts the fishermen and pearl divers of the La Plata Bay. The superstitious local villagers call it the Sea Devil. When a pearl merchant decides to capture the strange being at all costs, the truth turns out to be far more...

Imagine our world long after first contact with alien intelligence, but this contact led to the collapse of civilization and another dark age. What was once thought of as science is now thought of as magic. Global governance is forgotten and feudalism is the...

In the year 2040, Baltimore homicide detective Dan Harper has a perfect case record because the omnipresent computers and surveillance systems always get their perp. But when a murder victim shows up in a quarry one cold, bleak March day, the computers draw a...

In a Post-Apocalyptic future, a single city remains. An Angel powers a city to keep humanity alive. One day, the angel disappeared and humanity felt abandoned. Years, later God comes to a man, letting him know the angel never left; she was captured.Author: Eric...

Echoes of the Arcane is a collection of short science fiction and fantasy stories from Pacific Northwestern author Cody D. Campbell. The places and times range from ancient worlds of magic to distant dystopian futures. They have different perspectives and voices, different magic systems,...

Ready Player One meets The Fault in Our Stars in this gripping blend of science fiction and fantasy about a couple's desperate attempt to hold onto one another against the greatest enemy of all. An experimental new technology called the SynAPP, developed by the...

A young man named Otenfeh did not like living in Kono-the eastern province of Sierra Leone. Therefore, he escaped to the capital city Freetown to join a charitable organisation called Don Bosco. In Don Bosco, he encountered with some white salesians who came from...

Istanbul, 1683: Mehmed IV, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, is preparing to lay siege to Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire, when a mysterious visitor arrives -- naked, covered in strange tattoos -- to deliver a dangerous, world-changing message.Author: Raymond KhouryISBN-10: 1643584863ISBN-13: 9781643584867Publisher:...

This book contains sixty-five old-time bedtime stories Two opposite faces of Tortoise's character are revealed here: the good and the bad. Tortoise, once loved and respected for his kindness, hard work, persistence, patience, wisdom, and super intelligence to dig out and solve the toughest...